Lance's 225 gal tank

marie · #1 03-10-2009, 12:32 AM

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Originally Posted by GreenSpottedPuffer

My older brother is a marine biologist and has told me.

The choice at the time was to lose him within hours or treat, I'm still glad I treated

GreenSpottedPuffer · #2 03-10-2009, 12:37 AM

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Originally Posted by marie

The choice at the time was to lose him within hours or treat, I'm still glad I treated

Oh yeah it unavoidable sometimes. I wasn't insinuating that you did the wring thing. Sorry if it came across that way.

I was just warning Lance to be careful and not use copper unless necessary like in your case. Velvet kills within a day sometimes and does need rapid and aggressive treatment. I would would have done the same.

Lance · #3 03-10-2009, 01:26 AM

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 · #4 03-10-2009, 01:29 AM

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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 · #5 03-10-2009, 02:16 AM

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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 · #6 03-10-2009, 03:16 AM

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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 · #7 03-10-2009, 03:31 AM

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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.