Smaller place, bigger tank...My 200DD build

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Ordered:
2 porcelain crabs
10 coralline encrusted margarita snails
10 peppermint shrimp
20 nassarius snails
1 Mexican turbo snail
4 cleaner shrimp
 
The invert order is scheduled for delivery on Tuesday. I'm thinkin on Friday I'm going to swing by one of my LFSs and pick up 5 more frags and a bottle or two of pods.
 
Currently in QT:
1- 5" Naso tang
1- 4" PBT
1- Flame angel
1-midas blenny
1-firefish
5-lyretail anthias

It's a heavy bioload for a hypo QT, but I do 5 gallon water changes on it every morning. There are still signs of ich, not surprisingly on the PBT, so the countdown hasn't started yet. I'm hoping hypo will be done in 5 weeks because I'm leaving for Bermuda.

In the meantime, I think I'm going to get the QD drivers for my VorTechs and use them in conjunction with the Gyre.
 
Wowza, I haven't updated this thread in a long time...

I nearly sold the tank. I battled long and hard against dino's on a daily basis for months and finally the tank is dino-free. I siphoned off the rocks every day, quit doing water changes, changed salts when I resumed water changes, raised the pH, black-out after black-out with increasing durations, etc.. I recently switched from using a Kati/Ani to a Water Saver RODI and changed my water storage containers...

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...haven't seen any type of bloom since I made those changes. Yesterday I also added my two VorTech MP40wES to the system to supplement the flow from the Gyre. The tank is finally seeing progress for now.

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I had a bunch of fish in QT, all of which died except the PBT that is STILL in there. I had a heater malfunction and the temp approached 100*F and really injured the fish...

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...it's looking much better now and will see the DT in about two weeks.

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For now, I'm going to let the DT rest and continue to do water changes. After the PBT goes into the DT I think I'll add a flame angel and midas blenny but I'm not going to make the mistake of adding too many fish to the QT again. I was doing daily 5g water changes and that got old, fast.
 
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