400 gallon project

[untamed]

We lost power up here on Westwood Plateau today for about 4 hours. Believe it or not, this the first power failure I've had since the tank started. It was a pretty nice day today, so it is odd...

The tank seemed just fine throughout. The power failure happened just before lights-on, so the tank was at it's lowest daily temperature. Over the four hours, temp dropped about 2 degrees....from 78 to 76. No fish showed any signs of distress, but I think the starfish seemed to be out-and-about a bit more than normal.

I got my generator out and ready and was probably another hour or so from firing it up when the power returned.

Then, a few hours later, Buster (the white cheek tang) had some kind of accident during lunchtime feeding. I'm not sure if he got slashed by someone or just ran into a piece of coral. He was already not doing really well as he has been fighting some kind of infection/parasite of late. Now, he's going to have to recover from this wound. I hope he makes it.

So far, he continues to behave normally. I think time will tell if this wound becomes infected or not.

[Pan]

Originally Posted by untamed

We lost power up here on Westwood Plateau today for about 4 hours. Believe it or not, this the first power failure I've had since the tank started. It was a pretty nice day today, so it is odd...

The tank seemed just fine throughout. The power failure happened just before lights-on, so the tank was at it's lowest daily temperature. Over the four hours, temp dropped about 2 degrees....from 78 to 76. No fish showed any signs of distress, but I think the starfish seemed to be out-and-about a bit more than normal.

I got my generator out and ready and was probably another hour or so from firing it up when the power returned.

Then, a few hours later, Buster (the white cheek tang) had some kind of accident during lunchtime feeding. I'm not sure if he got slashed by someone or just ran into a piece of coral. He was already not doing really well as he has been fighting some kind of infection/parasite of late. Now, he's going to have to recover from this wound. I hope he makes it.

So far, he continues to behave normally. I think time will tell if this wound becomes infected or not.

Looks like a slash from a tang to me and Lymphocytis.

http://www.chucksaddiction.com/
Links left sidebar to info-links---->disease. Scroll down to lymphocytis

[JDigital]

That slash looks NASTY... Ouch!! Hope he recovers. I love White Cheeks..

[marie]

Every year (for the last 7 yrs) at this time my tank goes through a cyano cycle as well. In the past I've tried to fight it aggressively to no avail, this year I'm going to let in run its course to see if it will clear up on its own in the same time frame as the other years.

[Snappy]

Good luck with that fish, I hope it makes it.

[banditpowdercoat]

Originally Posted by marie

Every year (for the last 7 yrs) at this time my tank goes through a cyano cycle as well. In the past I've tried to fight it aggressively to no avail, this year I'm going to let in run its course to see if it will clear up on its own in the same time frame as the other years.

Ive been battling what I think is Cyano, or Dino's for about a month now. Wonder if its related????? Every 2 days my rocks and sand are covered with red/brown. Turkey baster gets it off easy though.... Makes me mad

[untamed]

My "one day of darkness" experiment continues...It has been almost three weeks since the single day of darkness and my cyano has not yet returned to where it was. The tank was extremely clean for 1 week...much, much better than usual for the 2nd week and still very good by the 3rd week.

It would seem that a single day of darkness will last me about 1 month to keep cyano under control.

[untamed]

It has been 10 days since Buster got slashed (I now presume by the Achilles). It would seem that he will recover completely within 2 weeks.

Dec 31


Jan 10