RDNanoguy's 165 gal Reef Upgrade

[RDNanoGuy]

Hey Josh! you still got that nice 165 or did you sell it?

[RDNanoGuy]

Time for more Pics!

Cutting an access hole for the Piping:



All the Pipe threaded through and glued up:



Tank with the light bar and LED's in place and the overflow cover siliconed in:



Now for the fun part.... Aquascaping! I decided to go wih two mini lagoon outcrops plus an island in the middle for my GSP:



And finally, the inhabitants are in!



Here's the 3 Amigos waiting for their lunch:



More about the sump build coming up!

[fishoholic]

Looks good, I like how you did the aquascape.

[riceboy]

ya dude sweet job on the aquascaping very clean looking, always a fan of the less rock look

[RDNanoGuy]

Originally Posted by riceboy

ya dude sweet job on the aquascaping very clean looking, always a fan of the less rock look

Funny because it's the same amount of rock that was in the old tank minus some small rubble bits. Amazing how much difference 6" wider makes to aquascaping makes!

[RDNanoGuy]

What a terrible Easter weekend I've had!

Woke up on friday morning and went to feed the gang. Bluey (Powder Blue Tang) wasn't acting like himself, he was just hanging around one of the powerheads and notreally joining in on the morning Chum Storm (PE Mysis).
I had a goood look at him but I couldn't see anything amiss. I made a note to check again later. When I returned he was breathing fast and sitting on the bottom so I quickly scooped him out and isolated him in a 10 gal of tank water with an airstone. An hour later he was dead.

Checked all the other fish which all looked fine, doing thier normal things, eating, etc. To be safe I added a good dose of Prime, checked all my param's, and cleaned the filter socks and added some fresh carbon. Then it was off to my mothers for Easter Dinner.

So I got back home this afternoon, went to check the tank only to find with horror that Everyone had been struck with the dreaded Marine Velvet! NOOOOO!!!! All the fish were covered to various degrees. some were still acting ok but alot were hanging around the cleaner shrimp hoping to get some relief.

I have moved all the fish to a 55 gal I had lying around, gave each fish a freshwater dip, and started copper treatment. Fingers crossed!

[Aquattro]

Crappy news!! Hope that works out for you. What kind of filtration have you got on the treatment tank? I lost half my fish from a poorly planned treatment tank...

[RDNanoGuy]

Hospital tank is set up as follows:

55 gal tank 50% tank water 50% new aged SW
Filtration is a magnum HOB cannister filled with filter floss and
A sponge filter I keep in my sump for emergencies.
200 watt heater set to 82'.
Also I've got a remora nano HOB skimmer on there, not to skim really just to oxygenate the water more.
A few chunks of dry Marco rock as hiding places.

Currently I'm mixing more SW so I can do small daily water changes too.

[RDNanoGuy]

Well a bit of an update.

Day 2 of copper treatment and no deaths! The fish looked a little better today and they all ate some food. Mixed up a custom nutritional mush for them consisting of seafood chunks nori algae wafers selcon and garlic.

Total deaths so far:

Powder Blue Tang (aka Bluey)
2 domino damsels

I will be keeping the fish in quarantine for 8 weeks to let all the cysts in the display die off. It looks so quiet!

[Aquattro]

Originally Posted by RDNanoGuy

I will be keeping the fish in quarantine for 8 weeks to let all the cysts in the display die off. It looks so quiet!

that part really sucks. I'm at week 5 now...