Rebirth - 1500l
- Thread starter Alex Costa
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vikinglord13
New member
I actually find that interesting. I've heard chromis are great for schooling fish
Alex Costa
Member
Glad to hear you've got some corals back again Alexit'll be no time before your tank is pumping again! Sorry to hear about the sump issues but I'm happy you got through it and are still going along!!
Thanks Dom....
Now I need some patience....a looot of patience, in fact......
Yes....they are.....but, the school will last?
Try to search a scholl of 10 chromis that are togheter and alive for, lets say.....5 years....
Try the same for anthias.....
Alex Costa
Member
Some new photos....
ORA Blue Green
frog green rose tips....a common coral but one of my favs....
some polyps
One of the first fishes.....One of my favorite, for sure....
A FTS:
In a 1 year or 2 it'll look like a reef.....for now, it's just an aquarium....
ORA Blue Green
frog green rose tips....a common coral but one of my favs....
some polyps
One of the first fishes.....One of my favorite, for sure....
A FTS:
In a 1 year or 2 it'll look like a reef.....for now, it's just an aquarium....
DiscusHeckel
Acropora Gardener
One of the first fishes.....One of my favorite, for sure....
A FTS:
In a 1 year or 2 it'll look like a reef.....for now, it's just an aquarium....
This fish is also one of my favourites. Does it harm feather duster worms or cox worms? Looking at its long nose, I bet it would eat my worms straight away.
Your tank will no doubt be one of the best on here.
Alex Costa
Member
Hi Bulent,
I wouldn't put it together with any feather....plus, it's a risk some meaty lps like brains, scolimias, etc and I would avoid them...
Regards
I wouldn't put it together with any feather....plus, it's a risk some meaty lps like brains, scolimias, etc and I would avoid them...
Regards
DiscusHeckel
Acropora Gardener
Thanks Alex. That's a shame. Sadly, feather dusters and coco worms are the only invertebrates that provide movement in my tank except perhaps some overgrown bryopsis (doh). I would love to have that cutie fish in my tank.
Alex Costa
Member
I love coco worms, but I love longnoose/cooperband the most.....rsrsrsr
I had "some" brown hair algae on rocks right now giving a plenty of movement to the reef.....:mad2::mad2::mad2:
Hi saf1
My overflow it's an internal box, and it occupies the right half of the back panel...it's "impossible" to show it on photos.
My circulation now resumes to the MP40, showed on photo and a Gyre 150 on the back panel, in the opposite side of the Vortech.....that's only it...
Regards,
Alex Costa
Member
The good news: the brown algae is almost entirely gone.
The bad news: the fishes are almost entirely gone.
Ich kill my longnoose, my fridmanii and a couple of ocelaris. The 4 Green Chromis is all that has left and it'll be this way for 2 or 3 months.
Some progression shoots:
Green Slimer:
12/10/16
25/10/16
14/11/16
22/12/16
Regards,
Alex
The bad news: the fishes are almost entirely gone.
Ich kill my longnoose, my fridmanii and a couple of ocelaris. The 4 Green Chromis is all that has left and it'll be this way for 2 or 3 months.
Some progression shoots:
Green Slimer:
12/10/16
25/10/16
14/11/16
22/12/16
Regards,
Alex
Euler Kernighan
The "DIY Guy"
Alex, am so sorry to hear on your fish loss but happy to know that you are back in the game.
Btw, good progress on the coral growth, can we say +1" in just two mth?
Keep it coming!
Btw, good progress on the coral growth, can we say +1" in just two mth?
Keep it coming!
DiscusHeckel
Acropora Gardener
Alex,
I am really sorry to hear this bad news. I feel for you.
I am really sorry to hear this bad news. I feel for you.
Alex Costa
Member
Hi Euler,
That's it...about 3 cm in 2 months ....but....the yongei is a very fast grower.
I think the most important thing about the sps untill now is that I didin't lost anything.....a plus is that the colors are very good and the corals are growing
Uggg... I just lost a couple fish to ich as well! And may lose more..
SUCKS!!!
It really sucks.:thumbdown:thumbdown:thumbdown
The fish was ok for about a month...swimming....eating by my hand....then, suddenly, was covered with dots.
As I said, now is time to give the tank a little time.
The corals are very well so, I'll keep with them for now.
Regards,
Alex
Alex Costa
Member
Some more:
milleporas pink and green 14-10-16. The day that both arrived.
Mille green 25-10-16
Mille green 22-12-16
Mille pink 25-10-16
Mille pink 14-11-16
Mille pink 22-12-16
Regards,
Alex
milleporas pink and green 14-10-16. The day that both arrived.
Mille green 25-10-16
Mille green 22-12-16
Mille pink 25-10-16
Mille pink 14-11-16
Mille pink 22-12-16
Regards,
Alex
vikinglord13
New member
Man that is so weird that the fish randomly got ich like that. Sorry for your loss Alex
Alex Costa
Member
Some new sticks:
loripes blue
efflorencis yellow
ultimate blue
formosa blue sky
loripes blue
efflorencis yellow
ultimate blue
formosa blue sky
CrayolaViolence
New member
Ich/velvet in a reef tank is a b*tch. I've had both happen, even with quarantining. Even letting a tank sit fallow for 90+ days afterwards. Considering how long it can lay dormant in a fish, 30 days quarantining doesn't really do much. Treating during that 30 days will increase the odds, but even then a lot of the parasites are bullet proof until they leave the fish.
One thing I have found, that I use long term as a preventative, is ick shield food. I put some in a tiny bit of water, turn it to mush then soak mysis shrimp in it. Then during the day 3-5 times a day, I drop tiny minute amounts into the tank and let the fish eat it. They seem to gobble it up like this. Even my copper band butterfly. I do this for three weeks. If I see so much as a spec on a fish I begin treatment again. So far, this seems to have worked. Although without correct diagnostic tools I cannot even say for sure if the fish ever had ich or marine velvet to begin with. And thats the biggest issue with treating disease. Without proper diagnostics we have no idea what it is the fish has. We can observe and make a logical guess, but it's still just a guess.
The more I read on ich, velvet and other nasties the more I am convinced there are people who have had disease in their tank and people that will have disease in their tank. You can take appropriate steps to prevent it, but it's not fail safe.
Didn't mean to hijack your thread. It just breaks my heart every time I see people lose stock to this crap and I am left wondering how, in this day an age, we cannot have some type of in home diagnostics, a vaccine, or a 99.9% treatment that's reef safe, invert safe, and even fish safe.
One thing I have found, that I use long term as a preventative, is ick shield food. I put some in a tiny bit of water, turn it to mush then soak mysis shrimp in it. Then during the day 3-5 times a day, I drop tiny minute amounts into the tank and let the fish eat it. They seem to gobble it up like this. Even my copper band butterfly. I do this for three weeks. If I see so much as a spec on a fish I begin treatment again. So far, this seems to have worked. Although without correct diagnostic tools I cannot even say for sure if the fish ever had ich or marine velvet to begin with. And thats the biggest issue with treating disease. Without proper diagnostics we have no idea what it is the fish has. We can observe and make a logical guess, but it's still just a guess.
The more I read on ich, velvet and other nasties the more I am convinced there are people who have had disease in their tank and people that will have disease in their tank. You can take appropriate steps to prevent it, but it's not fail safe.
Didn't mean to hijack your thread. It just breaks my heart every time I see people lose stock to this crap and I am left wondering how, in this day an age, we cannot have some type of in home diagnostics, a vaccine, or a 99.9% treatment that's reef safe, invert safe, and even fish safe.
Benson0219
Member
Very nice tank! Sorry to hear about your fish. Hope you get the ick under control.
Alex Costa
Member
The 4 Green Chromis showed no sign of ich....never.
Even the Yellow longnoose was healthy and feeding a lot in one day and then, the next day, was sick.
As I told before, I'll give the tank a break to balance itself.
Rush never worked to me before and didn't work this time too...
Even the Yellow longnoose was healthy and feeding a lot in one day and then, the next day, was sick.
As I told before, I'll give the tank a break to balance itself.
Rush never worked to me before and didn't work this time too...
