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My two 230g tanks and 80g add on
Since I never did do a tank journal for either of my 230g tanks I figured now was a good time and I would update everyone on my situation.
A few of you may remember that a few weeks ago I had some sort of illness go through my tank, I did loose a bunch of fish, some to the illness and some during treatment (skunk clowns, checkerboard and solaris wrasse :cry:) and some fish died after the treatment. Flame angel went MIA a few days after treatment, even though he seemed to be doing ok :cry: Anyway when I first started treating the whole system a friend of mine took my corals for me to hold them for me and after I treated my reef fish (with a formalin dip, which killed some of them :cry:) he took the rest of the fish. Unfortunately the tank he had my sohal tang and my corals in crashed last night and now my GBTA & corals are not doing well/almost dead and my sohal tang is dead :cry: Some of my lps (frogspawn) I have had for 4 yrs and grew from a few heads to about 10-12 :cry: I had thought about selling one of the 230g tanks (the fowlr one) but it seems Doug (fishytime) has some plans for that tank (so we'll see what happens) and I guess I'll be keeping it for now. I QT'd my fowlr fish and I am doing hypo salinity on them now so the fish I have left from the fowlr tank are: King/passer angel (thank god because even though she's mean she's my fav.) lunare wrasse, toby puffer (who never caught the disease so I have him in a 10g QT tank on his own), blue line trigger, foxface, maroon clown and bursa trigger. The reef fish I have left that I'd like to keep are my juvi red corris wrasse, cleaner wrasse, yellowhead sleeper goby and 6-line wrasse. The reef fish that are still alive but don't think I'll keep (I will sell them once I know they are totally healthy) are my female Ocellaris Clownfish, yellow watchman goby and pink spotted watchman goby. Also debating on selling the foxface since my king picks on him all the time, however the king doesn't do to much damage to the foxface and the foxface is pretty good at holding his own against her so I don't know. Also not sure how my lunare wrasse would react to the other wrasse I have but since they are much smaller then him I am hoping he'd be ok with them. I unfortunately still have to catch the red corris wrasse from the reef tank :twised: We had the tank totally empty and had caught all the other fish but since I hadn't seen the red corris for a few days prior, I figured he was dead and we had all the fish out so we (or I should say Doug and Steve from Red coral) put the rock back in. Of course 2 days later there he was still in the tank! :twised: I have Bob's fish trap but haven't had too much time to stand for hours holding the trap door up to catch him. I will try again later on today. So far the red corris is fine and eating and looking perfectly healthy so I still can't quite figure out what on earth my fish caught. So I need to figure out which tank to put the fish I want to keep back into and which one to keep empty. I think I'll put my fish in my 230g reef tank since it has the nice rock work stand on it and it is hard to place corals in it because it's so tall with the cap on it and I'll figure out what to do with the 230g fowlr tank later on down the road. Also the timing of all this really really sucks as I just went from a dual income (a few months ago) to paying all the bills on my own, which means my reef budget is now going to mortgage payments and I am very broke :sad: |
If you decide to sell your mushroom rocks I want dibs lol I can see those being a good addition to my new tank:) lmk if you decide to sell ut out:) thanks Laurie sorry to hear the holding tank crashed last night.
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Wow sorry to hear :(
It seems as though this hasn't been a great summer for a lot of tanks.. Mine included! Let me know if there's anything I can do to help. |
I feel bad for a lot of reefers lately. Hope things pan out in the end Laurie...stick with it!
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Good luck. On the positive side, at least your tanks did NOT break and release 230g of sw all over your carpets:redface:
Hope you sort this stuff out soon. I know some of what you're going through. It has been a tough year for several of us reefers but hopefully the worse is behind us and our tanks will all be better than ever. Chin up:wink: Anthony |
You already know my take on the whole situation Girly, the easy thing to do would be to pack it in, but that is what makes us all reefers.....we are all gluttons for punishment.....you know you have to keep on truckin.....you are NOT shutting down:wink:
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as hard as it may be, i have seen your tanks Laurie and they are beautiful. you'll bounce back and they will be even better!!! there is no way we are letting you pack it in!!!
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Ya you cant quit now! I feel really bad about the Sohal and your corals/nem.....like i said it will all be covered. I know there was an attachment to them as you have had them for years but it is the best i can do in the mean time....
Give me a shout anytime this week if you are bored and we can sit down and plan your comeback tanks over pool if you would like! Steve |
Thanks everyone and you're right Anthony at least my tanks didn't break, that definately would of been worse! I felt bad for you when I heard yours did :sad:
Steve you were helping me out and doing me a favor, what happend sucks, so thanks for being good about eveything and willing to replace them. PS plan on getting your butt kicked at pool! :lol: |
Dunno what really to say here other than good luck. Focus on onwards and upwards and you'll find your stride again!
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Thanks to the encouragement from others and with the help of my boyfriend Doug (aka fishytime) I have decided to keep both tanks. They are now both nicely aquascaped (thanks to Doug) and the fish that survived are all back in the tanks.
Fish in the 230g FOWLR are as follows: King/passer angel bursa trigger blueline trigger blue spotted toby puffer cleaner wrasse niger trigger Only other fish I might add: target/spotted mandarin flame hawkfish checkerboard or dusky wrasse Fish in the 230g Reef: One spot yellow foxface Female? (large) maroon clownfish red corris wrasse (never was able to catch him out of the reef :neutral:) sixline wrasse Fish I want to add regular/striped mandarin goby red scooter blenny starry blenny blonde naso tang clown tang purple tang flame angel emperor angel cleaner wrasse also might try to add a small male? maroon clown in the hopes they pair up and I am going to get an anemone for the clownfish. Thanks to working a few hours at Red coral in Edmonton and babysitting my friends kids (to make extra money) and Doug bringing me stuff for my tanks, I am able to keep both tanks up and running and set up the way I like them. As for the teaser part, I have some pic.'s but they're at home so I'll have to wait until later to post them :twised: |
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Full tank shoots
230g reef before pic. July 2010 http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...e/IMGP4483.jpg 230g reef after pic. Nov. 2010 http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...f/PA310751.jpg 230g fowlr before pic. Jan. 2010 http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...k/DSC_1392.jpg 230g fowlr after pic. Nov. 2010 http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...r/PA310761.jpg I have lots more pic.'s to add but no time now, so they'll have to wait until later. Thanks again Doug (fishytime) for your awesome aquascaping skills :mrgreen: |
your very welcome Girly......Im just glad I can help and you are happier with the tanks these days:wink:
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Your tanks are looking good Laurie! The new aquascaping looks great. Although I liked the reef 'scape better before, the fowlr is much improved! Hehe. Damn me, huh? :p
Oh I've said it before but I love love love the stand under the reef! Oh, and all the triggers...they are uber cool, but the Angels are sweet @$$ uber noice! |
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The only angel I have now is my King angel, the others either died in the tank crash or in the weeks after when my friend was looking after them. I also only have 3 triggers now, my bursa, my blue line and my new niger. |
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left side of reef tank
http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...f/PA310733.jpg http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...f/PA310734.jpg right side of reef tank http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...f/PA310731.jpg |
One spot foxface and his buddy maroon clownfish both of them were in the 230g fowlr tank but because they always got picked on I moved them to the 230g reef. Unfortunately I think the split in the top back fin of the maroon clown is now permanent. Also the maroon is a lot smaller then the foxface but the way the pic. was taken they look almost the same size.
http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...f/PA310749.jpg red corris wrasse http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...f/PA310758.jpg Also have a 6-line wrasse and a red scooter blenny but so far they are faster then my camera skills :redface: "Ummmm....excuse me mister snail, but you're in my way!" http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...f/PB020777.jpg |
So people what does this rock remind you of :question:
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230g fowlr tank
http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...r/PA310759.jpg http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...r/PA310760.jpg King angel http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...r/PA310762.jpg Cleaner wrasse http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...r/PA310768.jpg Toby puffer http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...r/PA310770.jpg |
Bursa trigger
http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...r/PA310767.jpg Blue line trigger http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...r/PA310765.jpg Niger trigger http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...r/PA310769.jpg "Yummy Doug fingers" http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...r/PA310764.jpg |
So there has been a few changes since the last time I posted. I got a few new fish in the past 2 months and I got a pic. of my scooter blenny however my 6-line is still to fast :twised: I shut down my 20g cube tank and moved the corals and filefish into the reef and added a 80g refugium tank that has rock and my fu man chu lionfish on one side and my mangrove pods and chaeto on the other. I'll start the update with fish pic.'s
red scooter blenny http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...p/PC260836.jpg Purple tang (got it from Bob aka the codfather) http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...p/PC260824.jpg Powder blue tang (also got it from Bob aka the codfather) http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...p/PC260827.jpg 2 cleaner shrimp "sharing" a piece of krill http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...p/PC270843.jpg Marjorie ? wrasse http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...p/PC260816.jpg |
One of my absolute favorite fish in this hobby my longhorn cowfish. I was always a little bit scared to get one but a few people I know have had them and they have never had any issues with theirs so I went ahead and got one for myself :mrgreen: I keep a close eye on him and I make sure no one is stressing him and so far so good he gets along well with everyone and no one bothers him :biggrin:
http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...p/PC190799.jpg "Are you lookin at me PUNK!" :lol: http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...p/PC190797.jpg "pucker up baby" http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...p/PC300857.jpg |
Also added a beautiful rose bubble tip anemone which my maroon clownfish hosted in as I was placing it in the tank :surprise: Thankfully it didn't move around much from where I first placed it and it's doing really well :biggrin:
Shortly after I placed the rbta in the tank http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...p/PC190802.jpg About 5-6 hrs after I put the rbta in the tank http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...p/PC190813.jpg What it looks like now a couple of weeks later http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...p/PC300855.jpg http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...p/PC260821.jpg http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...p/P1010861.jpg |
My spotted mandarin dragonet
http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...p/PC290847.jpg My new orange/red spotted blenny which I got on boxing day and he stays out in the open and is eating like a pig. http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...p/PC270842.jpg http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...p/P1010865.jpg |
Coral pic.'s
The 1st 2 pic's are frags I bought during boxing week http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...p/P1010862.jpg http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...p/P1010863.jpg http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...p/P1010864.jpg http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...p/PC260839.jpg http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...p/PC190808.jpg |
Tanks are looking great Laurie!
Loooove your cowfish! |
Awesome looking fish, i find that purple really stunning. Amazing pattern on it.
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My new 80g refugium/extra rock/lionfish tank which Doug set up and plumbed into the rest of my system. I have more rock to add but I don't want to add to much rock at once so I am doing it slowly, also would like to add even more rock but I will have to wait until I get extra money before I can do that. I think once everything is established and all the rock I do have is added I might get a pipefish or 2 and add them into this tank.
All plumbed in http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...p/PC290852.jpg All set up and running http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...p/P1010867.jpg http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...p/P1010871.jpg http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...p/P1010869.jpg Fu man chu hiding in the rock http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...p/P1010868.jpg I will take some more pic.'s and a new fts of the reef tank later on. |
Looks great!
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looking great Laurie, and Thanks to Dougy for helping ya what a swell guy.
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some pretty sweet pics there Girly.....especially that last cowfish one!:biggrin: |
Ok it's been awhile since I last posted. I took a bunch of pic.'s this weekend and I will share all the pic.'s over the next few days.
I'll start with a FTS of the reef (still working on getting a decent fts of the fowlr) http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...g/P4020919.jpg The cowfish in the previous pic's mysteriously died after 2 months of it doing well :noidea: However they are one of my absolute favorite fish so I ended up getting another one. This time I put the cowfish into my 80g tank were there is less flow and and slower moving fish. I'm hoping that helps. I have had him just over a month, he eats like a pig but he does have some ich on him. I just hope he lives and does well in the 80g. He lives with my fu man chu lionfish, my matted filefish and my orange spot blenny who a couple of weeks ago decided to take a trip down the reef tank overflow and now lives in the 80g. fts 80g http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...g/P4020942.jpg New cowfish http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...g/P4020925.jpg http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...g/P4020937.jpg Orange spot blenny http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...g/P4020939.jpg Fu man chu http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...g/P2090887.jpg |
Ha ha ha blennies. They're so comical.
Great colour on the Fu Man Chu. You must have a lot of fun with water changes at your place! :lol: |
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I've had the fu man chu for just over a year now, he still eats like a pig (mysis and krill) and I do love his colouration. Water changes are a minor PITA. I have a mixing tank that takes awhile to fill with RO and I pour the salt in until I get the salinity right, but I have a pump in there to mix it with and after I drain the water out of the main tanks, I pump the newly mixed water back into the tanks fairly easily. I have to watch the water levels in the sump and unplug pumps at the right time as I pump the old water out into the floor drain while I am doing the water change, but overall not to bad. I would be killer if I had to carry buckets around to drain the tank, TG it's set up to drain into the floor drain. left side reef tank http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...g/IMG_0001.jpg right side http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...g/IMG_0026.jpg Cool new shrooms Doug surprised me with from red coral :biggrin: http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...g/IMG_0031.jpg http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...g/IMGP5210.jpg http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...g/IMG_0034.jpg http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...g/IMGP5215.jpg |
Really missing my nikon DSLR camera, but here's an ok pic. of the 230g fowlr tank. Ignore the HA :redface:
http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...g/P4030945.jpg Shrooms in the fowlr http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...g/P4030947.jpg http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...g/IMGP5224.jpg and gsp http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...g/IMGP5223.jpg So in my fowlr tank I lost my cleaner wrasse due to carpet surfing and my cat :evil: I would of been able to save the cleaner wrasse off the carpet (was in the tank when I fed it five minute earlier) but unfortunately my cat saw it on the floor before I did and when I came downstairs (literally what must of been minutes after it jumped) I noticed my cat tossing something up in the air and catching it, when I went to check out what he was playing with, much to my dismay it was my cleaner wrasse :cry: That night Doug almost got his wish of me not having a cat anymore :twised: On different days awhile ago I also found my 6-line wrasse and mandarin in the overflow. So I moved them to the reef tank were they both have settled in nicely. The red corris wrasse leaves the 6-line alone and my scooter blenny could care less about the mandarin, so moving them worked out well :biggrin: |
Yesterday when Doug and I went to the lfs I saw this beautiful chocolate mimic tang at AI. The tang had been bought 3 yrs ago at AI as a juvi and was recently brought back to AI from it's owner. It got jumped in a bit by my other tangs but he's a bit bigger then them (he's about 5") and stood up for himself fairly quickly. About 4 yrs ago I had an opportunity to get a chocolate mimic (which I think is a beautiful fish) but the owner had two of them together and did not want to split them up and at the time I had a 120g and I did not want add two of the same tangs in it. Since then off and on I have been looking for a chocolate mimic that looked as nice as the one I remembered from all those yrs ago, happy to say I finally found one :mrgreen:
http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...g/P4020909.jpg more of a truer colour pic. http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...g/P4020941.jpg 3 amigos http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...g/P4020913.jpg |
love the powder blue Laurie
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