How many fish in a 50?? :)

[Madmak]

Originally Posted by subman

Oh they are real and they are watching right now!!

Do they have a Mandarin division? Cause if they do I'm screwed!

[gregzz4]

Brad, if you're going to do 50% weekly, maybe you should split it and do bi-weekly changes. That's what I'd do anyway to avoid swings. And I'd probably use stress guard too. And a shorter lighting period may help with aggression.
Are you gonna do a hypo or such?

[Aquattro]

Originally Posted by gregzz4

Are you gonna do a hypo or such?

I was going to, but decided no. The goby that took longer to catch seemed immune to the velvet. Once I caught it, I added it to the remaining fish in the q tank, and re-infected a couple of fish. Last night they didn't look great, but after treating with chloroquine, they're fine tonight and back eating. So I'll just use the CP to treat and run salt at about 1.022ish. Temp near 75 to enhance O2 saturation and lots of water movement.

[gregzz4]

Good to hear the infection is under control.
I like the temp idea. Something to store for future needs.

[Lance]

Brad, I don't think the aggression will be too bad as they won't really have their own space to defend. Numerous daily feedings and two nori stations at opposite ends of the tank will help. Maybe a little Texada Timewarp mixed in with the nori can't help but mellow those guys out.

[George]

With so many big fish in such a tank, ammonia, oxygen, and aggression will be an issue. However those things can be dealt with easily. For ammonia problem, get yourself some prime or simiar ammonia binding thingy. For oxygen, buy a big airpump (they are cheap , less than the price for one fish). For aggression, get some egg-crate and make some tank dividers so you can separate the aggressors.
Good luck.

[Aquattro]

Originally Posted by George

With so many big fish in such a tank, ammonia, oxygen, and aggression will be an issue. However those things can be dealt with easily. For ammonia problem, get yourself some prime or simiar ammonia binding thingy. For oxygen, buy a big airpump (they are cheap , less than the price for one fish). For aggression, get some egg-crate and make some tank dividers so you can separate the aggressors.
Good luck.

The tank is fully cycled with half a dozen fish now, then adding the rest later this week, if I get time to pick them up. I've added some more rock, will arrange it to provide lots of different mini territories, the aquaclear really agitates the surface and I can add more pumps. The biggie is managing interfish relationships. Worst case I can add dividers to section off fights.