Lance's 225 gal tank

Lance · #1 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 · #2 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 · #3 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.

Lance · #4 03-10-2009, 03:40 AM

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 · #5 03-10-2009, 03:43 AM

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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

GreenSpottedPuffer · #6 03-10-2009, 03:42 AM

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.

Lance · #7 03-10-2009, 03:59 AM

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Originally Posted by 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.

As I do yours. Good Luck! Hope your fish beat it.

GreenSpottedPuffer · #8 03-10-2009, 04:07 AM

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Originally Posted by Lance

As I do yours. Good Luck! Hope your fish beat it.

Me too

A few of them are absolutely COVERED in ich right now (Hippo, Powder Brown, Tusk). Its never been this bad. But they continue to act normally. I am quite surprised.

If it gets much worse, I will have to do something. Most likely will mean QTing and selling them or finding free homes with people who want to QT them. Hope it doesn't come to that though.

marie · #9 03-10-2009, 03:42 AM

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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

Lance · #10 03-10-2009, 03:57 AM

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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.