seriousreefer
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Tank looking awesome
Rod's Gyre flow, Natural light, SPS dominated Reef
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majesticangelfish
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Looking great as always mate! Thanks again for the frags today!! That pink plating acro really popped under the Fijis... :thumbsup: I think you need to come around sometime to have a look at both tanks! Maybe Sat, after hitting up Rickys?
Rod the Reefer
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Thanks for all your kind words everyone.
No worries Josh.
Thanks for having us around on Saturday. Both tanks are looking great!! I bet your Dad is impressed with the way his is turning out.
Hey Mike,
I happen to know that Josh's Majestic Angel has died.
Mine though has caused no problems at all. It hasn't nipped at a thing. (You can be lucky I guess)
Rod. :thumbsup:
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Thanks for all your kind words everyone.
No worries Josh.
Thanks for having us around on Saturday. Both tanks are looking great!! I bet your Dad is impressed with the way his is turning out.
Hey Mike,
I happen to know that Josh's Majestic Angel has died.
Mine though has caused no problems at all. It hasn't nipped at a thing. (You can be lucky I guess)
Rod. :thumbsup:
Rod the Reefer
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Ok, a few more for you;
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Rod the Reefer
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Thanks Vince.
No I hadn't thought of that, but it sounds like a great idea.
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No I hadn't thought of that, but it sounds like a great idea.
Rod. :thumbsup:
Rod the Reefer
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Ok, I've had a huge challenge, a massive Cryptocaryon out break 
I've always quarantined all my new fish. My latest addition was a powder blue which was no exception. All I can think of is I've picked it up off a new coral or a frag or something. I have added a fair few corals/frags recently from various sources.
I must admit that my knowledge in this area was a bit limited. After much reading I knew I couldn't just do nothing.
I was thinking of hypo salinity as my treatment, but after researching I decided to use quinine.
The thought of catching 16 fish out of my reef was rather daunting. Until I came up with the idea of getting all the fish up the right hand end of the tank (which is where I feed them, so that shouldn't be too hard) and then sliding a sheet of clear acrylic down between the main rock work and stag island.
So, I set up the hospital tank and made the trap door. My wife started to call vets to get a script, but they weren't very helpful. I found my Mandarin dead.
I caught up with a friend of mine who just happens to be a doctor and his wife keeps fresh water fish. He understood and wrote me a script. I found my black & White Occi and a Coral Goby dead.
I sprang into action, enticed all the fish up the end, but a few didn't go. I sprung the trap anyway and caught 8 fish. Later that night I caught two more. At 1am I came out with a torch and found the clown pair asleep at the right hand end and got them! Only one to go.
Today my wife trapped the last remaining fish and picked up the Quinine. When I got home I found my Powder Blue and Singapore Angel dead.
All the remaining fish are now in QT and the tank is fishless for the next 72 days.
The deaths are devastating, needless to say from now on I'll be quarantining EVERYTHING.
Rod. :thumbsup:
I've always quarantined all my new fish. My latest addition was a powder blue which was no exception. All I can think of is I've picked it up off a new coral or a frag or something. I have added a fair few corals/frags recently from various sources.
I must admit that my knowledge in this area was a bit limited. After much reading I knew I couldn't just do nothing.
I was thinking of hypo salinity as my treatment, but after researching I decided to use quinine.
The thought of catching 16 fish out of my reef was rather daunting. Until I came up with the idea of getting all the fish up the right hand end of the tank (which is where I feed them, so that shouldn't be too hard) and then sliding a sheet of clear acrylic down between the main rock work and stag island.
So, I set up the hospital tank and made the trap door. My wife started to call vets to get a script, but they weren't very helpful. I found my Mandarin dead.
I caught up with a friend of mine who just happens to be a doctor and his wife keeps fresh water fish. He understood and wrote me a script. I found my black & White Occi and a Coral Goby dead.
I sprang into action, enticed all the fish up the end, but a few didn't go. I sprung the trap anyway and caught 8 fish. Later that night I caught two more. At 1am I came out with a torch and found the clown pair asleep at the right hand end and got them! Only one to go.
Today my wife trapped the last remaining fish and picked up the Quinine. When I got home I found my Powder Blue and Singapore Angel dead.
All the remaining fish are now in QT and the tank is fishless for the next 72 days.
The deaths are devastating, needless to say from now on I'll be quarantining EVERYTHING.
Rod. :thumbsup:
Rod the Reefer
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Thanks guys.
I quarantined the powder blue as I have always done in the past, 6 weeks in an isolation tank. Bare bottom, couple of PVC pipes, no medication.
After the 6 weeks, if there's no signs of pest or disease and they are eating well, into the DT they go.
That's what I have done for the past 7 years, but from now on I will be treating with quinine as if they are infected.
I was talking with a fish importer here in Aus who said he has seen fish that were carriers of white spot and he treats every fish now with quinine.
I will also be dipping all new corals in Melafix and then Qting them for 3 months, in case there are any eggs on them.
I never want to go through this again!
Rod. :thumbsup:
I quarantined the powder blue as I have always done in the past, 6 weeks in an isolation tank. Bare bottom, couple of PVC pipes, no medication.
After the 6 weeks, if there's no signs of pest or disease and they are eating well, into the DT they go.
That's what I have done for the past 7 years, but from now on I will be treating with quinine as if they are infected.
I was talking with a fish importer here in Aus who said he has seen fish that were carriers of white spot and he treats every fish now with quinine.
I will also be dipping all new corals in Melafix and then Qting them for 3 months, in case there are any eggs on them.
I never want to go through this again!
Rod. :thumbsup:
So no hypo even? So it's safe to say that your fish might have had ich from day dot and then something happened to stress the tank out and boom, the explosion. Many people say that medication/hypo is not needed and that all you have to do is provide a stress-free environment and your fish will be fine and that is very true. Until something happens that inserts stress into the tank (chemical changes, temp changes, fish aggro etc). And then you have to deal what you're dealing with.
