Lance's 225 gal tank

[andestang]

Tank is looking good. Glad your winning with the HA. How are your peppermints doing with your Falco ?

[Lance]

Originally Posted by andestang

Tank is looking good. Glad your winning with the HA. How are your peppermints doing with your Falco ?

Thanks. Peppermints aren't in the display; they're in the fuge. 'Cuz if the Falco didn't get them the newly arriving Tuskfish surely would.

[BlueAbyss]

Lookin good That tang is beautiful.

[Lance]

I spent too much money on this guy, but he's worth every cent. My new Aussie Harlequin Tuskfish.




He's about 6" long and already cruising the tank and eating. The other fish were a little freaked for awhile, but have since calmed down. He's not bothering anything so far; has left the snails alone. No shrimp in this tank, keep them in the sump.




Unbelievably colourful. He is definitely the showpiece fish in this tank. Look at those teeth.

[Mrfish55]

Cool, I may just have to set up my 180 so I can keep pace with you! The wife really wants an Emperor Angel so that should be an easy sell Any more additions planned or is this going to be it for livestock?

[Lance]

Originally Posted by Mrfish55

Cool, I may just have to set up my 180 so I can keep pace with you! The wife really wants an Emperor Angel so that should be an easy sell Any more additions planned or is this going to be it for livestock?

After I move the Coral Beauty and SF Tang from the 90g over and the Chocolate Tang from QT, that's it for awhile.

[Lance]

Dammit! I knew I was looking for trouble and I found it. My new Harlequin Tuskfish has Ich and he's in the main tank.

I had been looking for an Aussie Tuskfish and a Chocolate Tang, and had put the word out to several suppliers. As luck would have it, two different suppliers came up with the two fish within days of each other. I didn't want to quarantine two large fish in a 20 gal QT at the same time, (figured that was asking for trouble) so I decided to put the Tang in the QT and the Tusker in the display. I was uncomfortable with this as I always quarantine new fish but Tuskfish are supposedly quite hardy, and I thought it was the better choice of the two, as Tangs are such Ich magnets. He looked great, nice colour, fat and healthy with no signs of disease. So now I have a $200 fish with Ich in my tank! In hindsight, I should have turned down one of the fish but I felt guilty refusing one after they brought them in specially for me.

There's far too many fish to remove and quarantine. I've just done a 25% water change and siphoned most of the substrate out. I'll run a diatom frequently and up the dosage of garlic and Selcon. He only has a few spots on him and none of the other fish show signs yet. Hopefully I get through this without any casualties and just live with Ich in the tank. What do you guys with large tanks and lots of fish do when Ich appears? I could hook-up a UV sterlizer I guess. If worst comes to worst and the Ich becomes a real problem I'll have to buy a larger QT and remove all the fish. Suggestions? Anything else I can do?