Lance's 225 gal tank

[Lance]

MRFish55 has offered me the use of his empty 180 gal. (Thanks Dave) So, I`m going to set it up tomorrow in my garage and move all the fish over. Starting to make up SW right now. I wouldn`t move them if I didn`t have adequate space for them, but a 180 is plenty big enough. I`ll put a bunch of PVC pipe for them to hide in and I have an extra skimmer, so I think this is the right thing to do.

[marie]

Originally Posted by Lance

MRFish55 has offered me the use of his empty 180 gal. (Thanks Dave) So, I`m going to set it up tomorrow in my garage and move all the fish over. Starting to make up SW right now. I wouldn`t move them if I didn`t have adequate space for them, but a 180 is plenty big enough. I`ll put a bunch of PVC pipe for them to hide in and I have an extra skimmer, so I think this is the right thing to do.

I agree. It's not easy to get nice fish up here in PR so when we do get them we have to try and make sure they stay alive

[Lance]

Originally Posted by marie

I agree. It's not easy to get nice fish up here in PR so when we do get them we have to try and make sure they stay alive

Now I just have to catch them all!

[marie]

Originally Posted by Lance

Now I just have to catch them all!

When I had to catch all my fish out of the big tank. I drained all the water out rather then have to rearrange the rock work.
It took 6 large rubbermaid tubs and 3 maxijet 1200 powerheads but I had all the water out, the fish in the quarantine tank and the water pumped back in within an hour and a half and not 1 rock had to be moved

[Lance]

Originally Posted by marie

When I had to catch all my fish out of the big tank. I drained all the water out rather then have to rearrange the rock work.
It took 6 large rubbermaid tubs and 3 maxijet 1200 powerheads but I had all the water out, the fish in the quarantine tank and the water pumped back in within an hour and a half and not 1 rock had to be moved

Yup, that's exactly what I'm going to do. Corals in a tub and then all the water out.

[Lance]

One of my guests just noticed something strange. The ich infected SF Tang was hovering amongst the school of Chromis who were pecking at him just like a Cleaner fish. I hadn't noticed it until now. I googled Chromis and they are indeed a cleaner fish. Huh?

[GreenSpottedPuffer]

Oh man that sounds like so much work!

Hope it all goes well.

I am starting to worry about my guys now too. Its getting really bad. I don't have the choice to Qt though. I could do one fish at a time but no room in my condo for a proper QT.

In the very beginning I was going to stock my 200 with just a pair of Crosshatch Triggers and nothing else. They would outgrow it though so I scratched that idea. Then I had kind of decided just a pair of Blue Throats. Scraped that idea though as you can see

All this was because I didn't want to deal with ich again!

Feel your pain man.

[marie]

Originally Posted by Lance

Yup, that's exactly what I'm going to do. Corals in a tub and then all the water out.

I never even moved any of the corals, just pumped water out, retrieved fish off the bottom and pumped the water back in.

Don't forget corals are out of the water for hours at a time at low tide

[GreenSpottedPuffer]

Originally Posted by Lance

One of my guests just noticed something strange. The ich infected SF Tang was hovering amongst the school of Chromis who were pecking at him just like a Cleaner fish. I hadn't noticed it until now. I googled Chromis and they are indeed a cleaner fish. Huh?

Yeah I knew that actually but never heard of them doing it in an aquarium! Cool! Well kind of....I guess cool would be not having ich right now

[Lance]

Originally Posted by marie

I never even moved any of the corals, just pumped water out, retrieved fish off the bottom and pumped the water back in.

Don't forget corals are out of the water for hours at a time at low tide

Yeah I know but I'll have to move a few rocks anyway because the fish can get right underneath them and I won't be able to get at them. The corals on those rocks will have to be moved. The rest can stay.