Here is where the fight begins: The death of so many fish compounded by my in ability to remove all the bodies has created a nitrate/phosphate pool.
I know have so much algae all over the rocks, sand, and glass that if the few corals were not doing as well as they are this tank would have become a fresh water amazon cichlid tank.:mad2:
Following is my plan of attack:
30 to 40 gallons of water change every other day with RO/DI water mixed with IO salt.
Changing gac weekly.
Changing gfo at 3 weeks.
Light cycle changed to 5.5 hrs. blue LEDs, 4 hrs. white LEDs
No food is entering the tank. (Perhaps this will aide in the capture of the yellow coris)
Have I missed anything?
Bit of history of what led up to this stage..
As most of you guys/gals now I had an accident with a batch of "Bayer" dip that wiped out just about all my fish leaving me with the Tailspot Blenny that I got from GeorgeG.
I was able to get some replacements at Maximum Reefs, and a few more fish from Coral Theory about two weeks ago. I was really happy.
Now here is the start of the downward spiral. I have a black cabinet on the left side of the tank. This created a mirror effect which drove the PBT crazy. He stressed out, and got ICH. Just a couple of spots on it's pectoral fins.
As it was still eating, and I had put a piece of white plastic between the tank, and the cabinet removing the mirror effect I thought the fish would be okay.
I felt that trying to remove it to a small QT (20g) would only cause more stress.
I kept a close eye on the PBT watching for the ich spots to spread or disappear. PBT continued eating, and behaving as normal as ever. Then came the second stage where I started losing fish. Once this began I set up the 20g for "Hyposalinity Treatment" not wanting to ruin the only other tank I have for those un-wanted corals.
By then I had 4 fish left out of 12.
I was able to catch 2 out of the 4 that day. The YT & Yellow Coris Wrasse proved to be much more difficult to catch. Following morning the YT was dead. Yellow Coris is still to this day in the DT. I have tried several different foods in the bottle trap to no avail.
BTW, "Hyposalinity" did not work. Three or four days later I lost the other two.:sad1:
I am staying the he!! away from Tangs...
I know have so much algae all over the rocks, sand, and glass that if the few corals were not doing as well as they are this tank would have become a fresh water amazon cichlid tank.:mad2:
Following is my plan of attack:
30 to 40 gallons of water change every other day with RO/DI water mixed with IO salt.
Changing gac weekly.
Changing gfo at 3 weeks.
Light cycle changed to 5.5 hrs. blue LEDs, 4 hrs. white LEDs
No food is entering the tank. (Perhaps this will aide in the capture of the yellow coris)
Have I missed anything?
Bit of history of what led up to this stage..
As most of you guys/gals now I had an accident with a batch of "Bayer" dip that wiped out just about all my fish leaving me with the Tailspot Blenny that I got from GeorgeG.
I was able to get some replacements at Maximum Reefs, and a few more fish from Coral Theory about two weeks ago. I was really happy.
Now here is the start of the downward spiral. I have a black cabinet on the left side of the tank. This created a mirror effect which drove the PBT crazy. He stressed out, and got ICH. Just a couple of spots on it's pectoral fins.
As it was still eating, and I had put a piece of white plastic between the tank, and the cabinet removing the mirror effect I thought the fish would be okay.I felt that trying to remove it to a small QT (20g) would only cause more stress.
I kept a close eye on the PBT watching for the ich spots to spread or disappear. PBT continued eating, and behaving as normal as ever. Then came the second stage where I started losing fish. Once this began I set up the 20g for "Hyposalinity Treatment" not wanting to ruin the only other tank I have for those un-wanted corals.
By then I had 4 fish left out of 12.I was able to catch 2 out of the 4 that day. The YT & Yellow Coris Wrasse proved to be much more difficult to catch. Following morning the YT was dead. Yellow Coris is still to this day in the DT. I have tried several different foods in the bottle trap to no avail.
BTW, "Hyposalinity" did not work. Three or four days later I lost the other two.:sad1:
I am staying the he!! away from Tangs...
