reidcrandall
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They will tell you that you're not experiencing what you think you're experiencing... and they think you'll believe it!
Reid's 120g Oceanic Tech Build
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reidcrandall
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Went down to take a new FTS, and wouldn't you know it? the card was full. So here I am, sharing some of the shots from the past week or so...
First the crab removal:
Here is one of the rocks that I had to remove:
I hated to take apart the rock work, but I'd rather get it over with now, than wait until I had a bunch of corals in there. All in all, it turned out fine.
Crab capture #1:
Crab capture #2:
Now, all I can do is hope that I've gotten them all. I have been watching very, very closely.
Here's a show of Winston (CBB) and the clowns:
Clowns still haven't taken to the RBTA. Must have patiece...
And I added the Purple Tang to this mix this week. The hole in head issues cleared up within a day of putting her in there. My sister, who bought her for me, named her Penelope.
I should have cleaned the glass before taking these, I suppose.
She has really taken to following Winston around. She doesn't show any aggression, she just follows. Follows. Follows. Every once in a while, he turns around and looks at her, and then keeps going.
Now off to try to get a decent FTS!
First the crab removal:
Here is one of the rocks that I had to remove:
I hated to take apart the rock work, but I'd rather get it over with now, than wait until I had a bunch of corals in there. All in all, it turned out fine.
Crab capture #1:
Crab capture #2:
Now, all I can do is hope that I've gotten them all. I have been watching very, very closely.
Here's a show of Winston (CBB) and the clowns:
Clowns still haven't taken to the RBTA. Must have patiece...
And I added the Purple Tang to this mix this week. The hole in head issues cleared up within a day of putting her in there. My sister, who bought her for me, named her Penelope.
I should have cleaned the glass before taking these, I suppose.
She has really taken to following Winston around. She doesn't show any aggression, she just follows. Follows. Follows. Every once in a while, he turns around and looks at her, and then keeps going.
Now off to try to get a decent FTS!
Catastrophi
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What kind of camera are you using for these pictures? They look great!
reidcrandall
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I am using a Canon Xsi body with a Tamron 17 - 50mm lens. I really love both. Now I just need a macro lens to get some good coral shots when they go into the main tank.
reidcrandall
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Bad news...
There is something wrong with the tank. I am working on asessing it now, but am not finding any answers yet.
Last night, everything was doing well. I didn't have a chance to check this morning, but I just went down for the nightly feed, and, while all fish are fine, and seem to be behaving normally, all of the corals and anemones look horrible. I have already lost the Hawkins Blue.
Here are the params as they just tested out:
Salinity: 1.025
Temp: 78.6 (usually fluctuates between 78 and 79.5 throughout the day.
pH: 8.0
Ammonia: 0
Nitrite: 0
Nitrate: 2.5
Alk is within normal range. About 10.
This is irritating.
There is something wrong with the tank. I am working on asessing it now, but am not finding any answers yet.
Last night, everything was doing well. I didn't have a chance to check this morning, but I just went down for the nightly feed, and, while all fish are fine, and seem to be behaving normally, all of the corals and anemones look horrible. I have already lost the Hawkins Blue.
Here are the params as they just tested out:
Salinity: 1.025
Temp: 78.6 (usually fluctuates between 78 and 79.5 throughout the day.
pH: 8.0
Ammonia: 0
Nitrite: 0
Nitrate: 2.5
Alk is within normal range. About 10.
This is irritating.
reidcrandall
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I've had snails and hermits (I have none in this tank, actually) die before in much smaller water volumes and not seen anything like this before. Usually my serpent star eats them before I know anything about it and I just find and empty shell.
crvz
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I had something like that happen recently with me, but there was a lot more stress induced on the system a few weeks prior (I relocated it). Your tank should be large enough to handle 1 or 2 snail/crab deaths without blinking. I might consider something outside the system; do anything that may affect air quality of late (paint, use other products like cleaning, somehow affect CO2 concentration or O2 content in the water?).
reidcrandall
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I haven't done anything different in the house. No painting. No projects of any kind really. If something were affecting the O2 content, wouldn't the larger animals likethe fish be affected first?
Marc, I havn't been dosing anything. The load is light enough right now that water changes are plenty. I have been soaking food in Selcon, but have have been doing that since there have been fish in the tank. No changes there.
luther1200
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Do you have an earlier Alk test to compare to? Maybe you had an Alk swing somehow. Do you dose kalk or 2 part or anything like that?
reidcrandall
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AC is on, but the pH has held steady at 8.0. I have the lighting on each of the tanks cycles thus that there is photosynthesis going on somewhere in the sytem at all times to help stabilize as well.
I don't think that there has been an Alk swing. It has been pretty steady at around 10 for a while. It will have had to swing and then come back very quickly if there was one. The most recent was last Sunday before the issues showed up, and that was right at 10.
I will try to get some pics today. I did a 40g water change yesterday and started running carbon. Will probably do another change tonight.
reidcrandall
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Update
Update
I'm still alive, and the tank is still going well. I am still looking for work, so there hasn't been anything but feeding and algae scraping for quite a while.
I lost the CBB randomly about a month ago. He'd been doing great, eating frozen mysis soaked in selcon and cyclopeeze, and was fat when he died. I am not sure what happened, I just came down one morning and he was laying on the bottom of the tank. It was very sad. My wife and I really loved him.
Oh, and I had my first ever flood... and then another one two weeks later. I have been keeping tanks since 2000, and had 9 years of no flooding, and then two in a two week span. It was stupid stuff... The first time, I got distracted and left the refill hose from the RODI on, overflowing my mixing tub. Clean water wasn't too bad. But the second, I had my skimmer sitting too close to the edge of the sump, and it went haywire, dumping nasty skimmer water everywhere for about 2 hours, I estimate. My wife was not pleased.
Update
I'm still alive, and the tank is still going well. I am still looking for work, so there hasn't been anything but feeding and algae scraping for quite a while.
I lost the CBB randomly about a month ago. He'd been doing great, eating frozen mysis soaked in selcon and cyclopeeze, and was fat when he died. I am not sure what happened, I just came down one morning and he was laying on the bottom of the tank. It was very sad. My wife and I really loved him.
Oh, and I had my first ever flood... and then another one two weeks later. I have been keeping tanks since 2000, and had 9 years of no flooding, and then two in a two week span. It was stupid stuff... The first time, I got distracted and left the refill hose from the RODI on, overflowing my mixing tub. Clean water wasn't too bad. But the second, I had my skimmer sitting too close to the edge of the sump, and it went haywire, dumping nasty skimmer water everywhere for about 2 hours, I estimate. My wife was not pleased.
