check out the new upgrade thread as this tank has been tanken down

well the hair algea is almost gone tank looks good coriline algea is growing comes in as a red velvet looking algea and turns to coriline algea. I also have some cool feather dusters like a black one and one that kind of looks purpe they are farly large ones. I'll try and get good pic's once macro lens and adapter come in. peramiters are still good PH 8.3 ammonia , nitrite and nitrate are all 0.0 silinity is 1.024 -1.025 skimmer dosn't pull as much out of the water in the sump as it di in the main tank as a hang on. BTA decided to jump into a power head and killed it's self. It was a cheepo as it did not look good when I got it I just wanted to get nice and healthy again and pass on the saving to someone else that may have wanted a BTA I guess it was just too far gone. I have read many instances where a BTA has moved right on to a power head and in alot of them the BTA was not doing so good. I think they know they are done for and want to end it so they do what anyone in a terminal situation would do if given the chance. Anyways my other nem's are doing just fine one has up and sunk it's self into the sand and seems to like it there. Probably just anouther way to hunt for the little pink bristel worms, get them as they run over you. There is about 2" or more sand on the bottom of the tank. corals seem happy some doing better than others but all are healthy 2 type star polups, a few different type of zoes, a candy cane and frog spone and a couple of hammer corals also a frag of waving hands that the flame angle seems to eat once in a while or maybe the bright purple dottyback. the flame angle had a few white spots when I got it but they seemed to have droped off and he has been in the tank for a little bit and a couple of spots came back but with garlic extreem in the flakes and treeting the water with it they seem to be almost gone again. so that should be that for them.

Well I have not been in here and updated for a while. Since last time I have been layed off slowdown at work. So as a couple of you know I lost the Flame Angle It would eat ok but that was slowly subsiding and it would have some white on it in the morrning and after the lights were on for a while the white would be gone. If you looked close you could see ridges under the scales. Resurch I figure it to be one of two things Flukes or ancker worms. Other fish started showing signs also cought (1-1.5 hrs off and on) the Flame angle and QTed her treeted for Ick as that is how it looked. Bad idear Flame Angle was dead in the morrning I think that catching her was to much. So with this knowledge in hand I decided after a ton of resurch and reading forums to dose my tank with PraziPro. I hated doing it but if you have egg laying flukes that are non speices specific then you either have to dose the tank or empty the hole tank and get rid of your sand and put rock in anouther container and cook it. cooking may kill the domit eggs and may not I have not found evidence that would say that 100% that it will kill dormit eggs.

Here is a example of eggs that can be reisilent to temperitures. Painted turtles eggs get burried in sand right so they heatup and stay worm durring the night. well if they don't get worm enough they will not hatch and can go dorment and hatch the following year. I found this out when I lived in Manitoba We took in some wild life talk at Grand Marie Beach one summer while visiting relitives. Now I know fist hand that Manitoba winters can be very cold. Winter 2003 when I moved back there it went down to -54 degrees celcus without the wind chill. I heard it in the radio when driving home one early morrning in December I believe it was about 3:00am.

So I dosed the entire tank I did however dose 4ml/20g insted of 5ml/20g and added 1ml ever other day for the entire 7day treatment, they recomend 5-7 days. I watched very carfully and went down and checked the tank right before bed time at 12am - 1am. I have not lost any fish, corals or snails and I have seen copods running around on the rocks large and small ones so they are still reproducing. I may have lost a couple blue leged hermit shrimps. But I am not sure, as I have one that was going around and killing its rivels; that would climb on it's rock. So the fish have all cleared up I can conclude from the end result that the infestation was a parisite. I figured it came in on either the Flame Angle or sea hare it never ate that much. it would eat for 5-20 mins and then go and sleep for 2-3 hrs. The flap on its back never completely opened and it never finished the job that I borowed it for. Water cemitry has stayed very good the whole time I treated the tank. So now I don't need the lecture about QTing when you get a new fish because I do. I figure I just didn't wate long enough I should have thrown anouther rock with green hair algea on in the QT tank instead of cutting it short. Well I have added anouther true percula clown and a week latter went back and purchesed the carpet nem the percula was hosting. Almost as soon as I put the carpet nem in the tank The new percula was over there giving it a nuge with it nose. I am hoping this will spur the other two perculas into hosting the nem I moved the seabe in to my 20g kids tank and I will move 1 of the perculas which ever is the odd one out. It seems that the original pair may split and the new percula will ba mated up. This was not my goal but nature will do what nature does. The other to perculas have shown interest in the carpet nem after watching the new percula for acouple hrs.

Well got to go,

Bill

Hi I have not done much else but I have bought a couple of corals a orange monti cap and some cabage coral.
Bill
I removed pics posted for Leah so I have space to post other pics.

[argan]

Looking good!

THanks for the comment I am going to post a paneramic shoot from a few weeks ago and now when I can figure out how on here. I have space with my provider but it does not show up here. Will have to try a couple of other things.

Bill

[jimbo222]

yep lookin good
need some pictures for sure!!

[Leah]

How is Mrs Potter?