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Very nice.. corals and pretty fishs.
็How did you feed the multibar angel eat?
็How did you feed the multibar angel eat?
Ryan's 300 Gallon Starfire Journal
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I do a week of conditioning, 4 weeks cupramine and prazi, and then a week off and repeat. I plan on starting to treat with praziquantel orally. All the fish when though Qt but I had an out back of ich with a few fish that I had with some live rock I was curing when I first started the setup. Unfortunately i believe the rock carried the ich over to the new system.
roktsintst
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Thanks man! You've got an awesome tank yourself.
I've got a trio of multibars in there that are very cool. I was lucky enough to get them from divers den where they were conditioned extreamly well. This made it very easy. I also quarantined them and socially acclimated them so their transition was seamless... I've had a much harder time with venustus actually.
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Thank you. It is now just one year old and has a long way to go but im very excited as well.
roktsintst
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Yeah, I wish I would have left my tank fallow when I first set it up. How will you catch all your fish?
Now why are you planning to dose the prazi orally? I've heard it can be dangerous. Why not just dose the tank?
I have a fish trap that I use to catch my fish. Never had a problem getting any fish out that i wanted to.
I plan to treat orally in addition to prazi pro. While prazi pro is a great product with not shake will the praziquantel tend to stay at the bottom. A good friend recommended that I treat with both so I plan to give it a try. If dose correctly there shouldn't be a problem.
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Thanks much! Will do. Im just waiting until christmas to enjoy it again.
stunreefer
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Everything looks great Ryan! Love the new additions :thumbsup:
roktsintst
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Thanks bud 
Just read through your thread, beautiful tank, I love all the angels. Am I understanding your setup correctly that you only have SPS in the display tank, and that all of your LPS are in the frag tank? You mentioned the conspic was chomping on the SPS a few pages back, are any of the other inhabitants as well?
roktsintst
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Thanks man.
Yes, i have all sps in the display as well as a few favias the angels dont touch. every once in a while i get the urge to throw all my lps in the tank, but the angels go right to workpicking at them so i pull out half eatten corals. oh i do have a frog spawn in there too. the conspic definitly eats coral but just about all the other angels do some picking, but no real damage...
Cool, I like the strategy. I've been reading some folks lately who are negative on using a CL for water circulation, seems like maintenance is the major issue. Are you still pleased with your decision to use the CL? Do you have anything else creating water flow in the tank? I didn't see any power heads in the early build section.... I'm debating the CL since they look so much cleaner, but also am worried about the hassle factor. Thanks for taking the time to answer questions on your build, makes it really helpful for those of us trying to learn.
Also, you seem to always be scheming, what's the next fish in the plans?
-Matt
Also, you seem to always be scheming, what's the next fish in the plans?
-Matt
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Matt, I bought the tank with the CL already built in. It works good but I get more flow from bottom to top, vs, side to side. I have a vortech on each side of the tank now and a tunze 6205 on the right side and the wavy sea on the left fed from the return. I also have a wavebox, but i think im gonna take that out. It give a nice wave, but doesn't move enough water for me. I would need quite a bit of tunze's to get the flow I do so im ok with the CL. I think It may have been better on the sides fo the tnak instead of the bottom. As far as maintenance... I havn't done any maintenance on mine yet. I really should but havn't done it yet. All the plumbing has true union ball valves to make maintenance easier...
I Am looking for a few fish now. I wont have all my QT tanks empty until Christmas which will be nice, so nothing until then. I think im gonna add maybe 4 more Resplendent Anthias and 8 Evansi anthias. The way they look in Luc (TOTM) tank has sold me!
Then im looking for a Maze, and a Tinkeri Pair! Then an Interruptus pair when RCT Starts selling. And I'd love to find a Nahacky pair, Hooded pair, Johnsoni pair, Flame Trio, and a nice Lineatus to start!
I Am looking for a few fish now. I wont have all my QT tanks empty until Christmas which will be nice, so nothing until then. I think im gonna add maybe 4 more Resplendent Anthias and 8 Evansi anthias. The way they look in Luc (TOTM) tank has sold me!
Then im looking for a Maze, and a Tinkeri Pair! Then an Interruptus pair when RCT Starts selling. And I'd love to find a Nahacky pair, Hooded pair, Johnsoni pair, Flame Trio, and a nice Lineatus to start!
roktsintst
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Thanks Guys!!!
I have been laying low for a while. Well, I've been on RC all day every day but I just havn't been posting in my thread. I decided around october to fallow the tank for 8 weeks and pulled all the fish out and in doing so did a rescape. I wanted to see how thing turned out before I posted anythign. Well now that it is over, Im ready to update a little.
The fallow/fish treatment was a miserable experience. Since this setup, I've QT'd every fish into the tank, but the fish transfered from the old tank were never treated so some ich moved over. Well there was no problem for year but my UV bulb went out and I waited too long to order a new one and saw ich pop up. Well I didn't want to worry about a pesky parasite so I fallowed. Long story short, after adding the fish back to the display, ich popped back up in a week! Terrible! I did everythign more than I was supposed to. 5 weeks of cupramine and 8 weeks fallow and 2 round of Prazi. I had 4 QT tanks going including QT tanks in my entryway!
So it ended up being an expensive, stressful time consuming experience that I wont do again. The fish still have some spots here and there but htey are all super healthy and eating great. Im not worried about them at all I just didn't liek seeing it.
In the process, I lost my Rhomboid pair, and flame angel, my blue tang, and my Goldflake angel ( he had a paralysis issue alraedy and was on his way out) not to mention a TON of salt and meds! My Male Blond Naso got a bacterial infection as well as my scribble that was treated too. Sooo stressful and I hated the tank at the time. It was just no fun to watch anymore.
But now that is over and I love the tank again. Everyone is happy and healthy. My multibar trio is still doing great but they still dont come out as much as they did before the Quarantine which sucks. They were doing the mating dance at night and now I hardly ever see them.
I just purchased a Ventralis Pair and a Flame Wrasse trio that shoudl be in next week and I have a few other wrasses in QT right now.
Oh, another incredibly depressing loss. Around Christmas I finally found a beautiful chirrhilabrus cf lanceolatus! I bought it immediatly but it came in floating! I threw in the the QT tank right away and thought it was a gonner. Well after a few days he was swimming around and eating. He went through a round of prazi and was doing excellent. I was sooo excited. I'd been looking for this fish for a long time. Then one morning i went into the fish room to feed the tank and he had been sucked up into the maxijet 1200 filter screen!!! I was/ still am crushed! I dont know if I'll ever find another. he was absolutly perfect and Im still depressed about it!
I have been laying low for a while. Well, I've been on RC all day every day but I just havn't been posting in my thread. I decided around october to fallow the tank for 8 weeks and pulled all the fish out and in doing so did a rescape. I wanted to see how thing turned out before I posted anythign. Well now that it is over, Im ready to update a little.
The fallow/fish treatment was a miserable experience. Since this setup, I've QT'd every fish into the tank, but the fish transfered from the old tank were never treated so some ich moved over. Well there was no problem for year but my UV bulb went out and I waited too long to order a new one and saw ich pop up. Well I didn't want to worry about a pesky parasite so I fallowed. Long story short, after adding the fish back to the display, ich popped back up in a week! Terrible! I did everythign more than I was supposed to. 5 weeks of cupramine and 8 weeks fallow and 2 round of Prazi. I had 4 QT tanks going including QT tanks in my entryway!
So it ended up being an expensive, stressful time consuming experience that I wont do again. The fish still have some spots here and there but htey are all super healthy and eating great. Im not worried about them at all I just didn't liek seeing it.
In the process, I lost my Rhomboid pair, and flame angel, my blue tang, and my Goldflake angel ( he had a paralysis issue alraedy and was on his way out) not to mention a TON of salt and meds! My Male Blond Naso got a bacterial infection as well as my scribble that was treated too. Sooo stressful and I hated the tank at the time. It was just no fun to watch anymore.
But now that is over and I love the tank again. Everyone is happy and healthy. My multibar trio is still doing great but they still dont come out as much as they did before the Quarantine which sucks. They were doing the mating dance at night and now I hardly ever see them.
I just purchased a Ventralis Pair and a Flame Wrasse trio that shoudl be in next week and I have a few other wrasses in QT right now.
Oh, another incredibly depressing loss. Around Christmas I finally found a beautiful chirrhilabrus cf lanceolatus! I bought it immediatly but it came in floating! I threw in the the QT tank right away and thought it was a gonner. Well after a few days he was swimming around and eating. He went through a round of prazi and was doing excellent. I was sooo excited. I'd been looking for this fish for a long time. Then one morning i went into the fish room to feed the tank and he had been sucked up into the maxijet 1200 filter screen!!! I was/ still am crushed! I dont know if I'll ever find another. he was absolutly perfect and Im still depressed about it!
bullitr
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Sorry for the loss Ryan
I feel your pain. Ick is very expensive
Since I set up my tank last year and multiple attempts of going fallow and I QT all my fish I still lose this much fish
7 emperor angel including my favorite orange tail
1 asfur angel
1 giant macolusus angel
2 queen angel
1 Koran angel
Yellow angel
4 clown tang
8 yellow tang*
2 purple tang
4 blue tang
2 vlamingi
3 powder brown tang
7 yellow coris wrasse
Maybe 6 pairs of different clownfish*
Clown trigger
Niger trigger
3 Blue jaw trigger
Few damsel and chromis
To name a few.
I feel your pain. Ick is very expensive
Since I set up my tank last year and multiple attempts of going fallow and I QT all my fish I still lose this much fish
7 emperor angel including my favorite orange tail
1 asfur angel
1 giant macolusus angel
2 queen angel
1 Koran angel
Yellow angel
4 clown tang
8 yellow tang*
2 purple tang
4 blue tang
2 vlamingi
3 powder brown tang
7 yellow coris wrasse
Maybe 6 pairs of different clownfish*
Clown trigger
Niger trigger
3 Blue jaw trigger
Few damsel and chromis
To name a few.
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