Myka's 90 gallon build & 3 province move (Pics Feb 6) - Page 22

lastlight · #**211** 09-11-2009, 04:48 PM

Drop the brown? I thought you were above that sort of toilet humour Mindy =)

karazy · #**212** 09-11-2009, 09:52 PM

looks good. when are you adding the jawfish?

Myka · #**213** 09-12-2009, 01:34 AM

Thanks Mark!! Well, I started leaning more towards SPS again since I am around the tank all the time so I am consistent enough for SPS, plus none of my LPS can be in the upper half of the tank because the lights are too bright.

How are those SPS frags doing that I gave you last year?

Brett!!

karazy (is it Eli?), the Jawfish are actually arriving tomorrow.

There may also be a Perc and female Bangaii to make pairs with my existing fish. The Jawfish will go into QT for awhile though.

karazy · #**214** 09-12-2009, 01:36 AM

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Originally Posted by Myka

Thanks Mark!! Well, I started leaning more towards SPS again since I am around the tank all the time so I am consistent enough for SPS, plus none of my LPS can be in the upper half of the tank because the lights are too bright.

How are those SPS frags doing that I gave you last year?

Brett!!

karazy (is it Eli?), the Jawfish are actually arriving tomorrow.

There may also be a Perc and female Bangaii to make pairs with my existing fish. The Jawfish will go into QT for awhile though.

col. sounds good. oh, and my name is Evan

Myka · #**215** 09-12-2009, 01:52 AM

I knew it was an E word.

Myka · #**216** 09-14-2009, 12:59 AM

Woohoo! I received a live order from The Reef Shoppe today!

I received the 4 Pearly Jawfish today! I was going to put them in QT for a few weeks so I could deworm them, and get them used to eating from the turkey baster. However, they came in looking VERY healthy and Kelly assured me they were eating well before he sent them, so I decided to put them straight into the tank since the other side of the argument is that Jawfish do notoriously poor in QT due to being easily stressed. I'm hoping I made the right decision.

Two of the Jawfish are happily making burrows already, one is just hiding behind a lone piece of live rock, and the fourth is MIA. The fourth might be in the same burrow as one of the others though since I put two in the same general area. I'm crossing my fingers and stressing out about these fish as I have had poor luck with them in the past. My whole sandbed and part of the rockscape were designed around the Jawfish, so I'm hoping my idea of a good habitat is the same as theirs!

So...that means the True Perc and (hopefully female) Bangaii Cardinal that I also received are in my QT since I didn't want to add 6 fish at the same time. The True Perc is gorgeous, I can't wait to add him.

I've started dosing more ZEOvit lately as per suggestions on the ZEO forums...

Monday: Coral Vitalizer (3 drops)
Tuesday: Lugol's (1 drop), Coral Snow (4 mL)
Wednesday: Coral Vitalizer (3 drops)
Thursday: B-Balance (4 mL)
Friday: Coral Vitalizer (3 drops), Coral Snow (4 mL)
Saturday: Lugol's (1 drop)
Sunday: B-Balance (4 mL)

Van-rookie · #**217** 09-14-2009, 02:58 AM

Delphinus · #**218** 09-14-2009, 04:15 AM

I think you made the right decision not to QT. Not whatsoever influenced by the profound failure of my last QT attempt but because I think you nailed it, jawfish just won't do well in a typical QT setup. Not unless the QT was setup exactly like your jawfish biome anyhow.

You do have a cover right? They will be incredibly apt to jump. I found that as they get comfortable in their new home this gets considerably better but you can't prevent the odd sort of random startling so IMO it's better to have a setup where if they do jump, all that can happen is that they fall back in.

Myka · #**219** 09-14-2009, 01:14 PM

Thanks Tony.

I do have the QT setup with the Jawfish in mind, so I hope I don't end up having to medicate the Perc and Bangaii!

It's more like a temporary home than a QT.

The tank isn't covered, but I lowered the water level, so they shouldn't be able to jump out. I do have a canopy "wrap" in the plans, but it will be open in the back for airflow...maybe I will put up some egg crate in the back, but I doubt that would keep them in.

As of this morning the one is still MIA (but could be in the big burrow with one of the others) and the other three have borrows made.

Oh, on Saturday I changed my f'ugly Coralife 10,000K halide bulbs to PlusRite 20,000K. All of these bulbs came with the fixture I bought. The Coralife's only had 3 months use on them (then I used them for 5 months), and the PlusRite had been turned on, but not used (until now). So I figure I may as well use the bulbs. I'm sooo sick of the pee-yellow Coralife's though which look as yellow as the 6500K bulbs I have on my freshwater planted tank! So I'm done with those awful Coralife's. Not sure what kind of PAR the PlusRite have, but even being 20,000K they seem brighter than the Coralife's (although eyes often lie). I don't think the PlueRite are showing a true 20,000K though, I think they are closer to 16,000K. The tank looks much nicer with the PlueRite...way more crisp.

andestang · #**220** 09-14-2009, 04:47 PM

Well just read through your whole thread. Glad to see that everything has turned out so well.Tank is looking awesome. I would also agree that you did the right thing with the Jawfish. The little buggers do stress very easily. If you are going to head a little more into the SPS side using some Zoevit products, you may want to also try the Extra in rotation with your CV. I got some good results with it.