Starting 90g Reef Tank Build... Finally!!!

[Tswifty]

Originally posted by capn_hylinur
T.J--drain the tank down quicklyabout 3/4 of the way into plastic garbage cans and then you can catch the fish.
Pump the water right back and it shouldn't affect the corals ect.
If you have to remove some of the live rock then just put it in the plastic pails also.

Let's hope I won't have to resort to this...

But I agree, and think this may be the only way to catch them if I had too... even then, then never stray to far from their burrow, and tearing my rockwork apart to get them is not something I am willing to do.

I'd rather wait out the 34 reproduction cycles, and not add fish for a year than tear everything apart.

[tmz]

Well if it's just the gobies and they are highly resistant the ich may not host them and perish while the other fish are gone. Maybe but a big maybe.

[melev]

Mine looked about the same as what you pictured yesterday.

[Aquarist007]

Originally posted by Tswifty8
Let's hope I won't have to resort to this...

But I agree, and think this may be the only way to catch them if I had too... even then, then never stray to far from their burrow, and tearing my rockwork apart to get them is not something I am willing to do.

I'd rather wait out the 34 reproduction cycles, and not add fish for a year than tear everything apart.

Are you really prepared to wait a year

[Aquarist007]

T.J have a look at the last of this thread--esp with what PaulB is posting about different kinds of ich and their treatment

[Tswifty]

Originally posted by capn_hylinur
T.J have a look at the last of this thread--esp with what PaulB is posting about different kinds of ich and their treatment

Which thread Scott?

I think you forgot the link... I think there are 2 main ich threads going on right now that I am aware of... downhillbiker's & Moostache's. I'm guessing you mean one of those, so I will take a gander.

[Tswifty]

Originally posted by tmz
Well if it's just the gobies and they are highly resistant the ich may not host them and perish while the other fish are gone. Maybe but a big maybe.

That seems like the answer right now to everything... maybe... I guess that's what you get though when there are over 7,000 strains of it though.

I'm going to try and not jump to any decisions right now, wait this out for a few days, and then decide how to proceed.

Any tricks to establishing a QT quickly? I guess I could fill it with water from the display since I will be medicating it if it comes to that anyway?

[Tswifty]

Originally posted by melev
Mine looked about the same as what you pictured yesterday.

Ok well that's good news... I think.

How long did it take for your purple tang to fight it off?

[Tswifty]

Originally posted by capn_hylinur
Are you really prepared to wait a year

Hopefully it won't come to that, but I really, really, REALLY don't want to go digging around and pulling out rocks.

I'm guessing I would just about have to pull everything out to get those guys. They sit out in front of their burrows for most of the day, but they never travel more than an inch or two from them even at feeding time.

[Aquarist007]

Originally posted by Tswifty8
Which thread Scott?

I think you forgot the link... I think there are 2 main ich threads going on right now that I am aware of... downhillbiker's & Moostache's. I'm guessing you mean one of those, so I will take a gander.

oops

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/sh...4#post12771114

[Aquarist007]

Originally posted by Tswifty8
Hopefully it won't come to that, but I really, really, REALLY don't want to go digging around and pulling out rocks.

I'm guessing I would just about have to pull everything out to get those guys. They sit out in front of their burrows for most of the day, but they never travel more than an inch or two from them even at feeding time.

here is a bucket of tricks to try

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/sh...5#post12527315

[melev]

I think it was about 4 days until it was clean of infestation.

[Aquarist007]

Originally posted by melev
I think it was about 4 days until it was clean of infestation.

Marc:
hope you got the pictures this time---I tried sending too many I guess and it was rejected by your server for the second time.
The third attempt I just sent 4 and it seemed to go through?

[kudora]

swift and capn, i got my refractometer in today(mentioning it here since we were talking about it), bought the pin point calibration fluid but i had to really twist to get the scale to zero using the fluid, then when i tested my DT water it stayed at zero, any advice?

[NanoGurl]

Awww... sorry to hear it came back

[Aquarist007]

Originally posted by kudora
swift and capn, i got my refractometer in today(mentioning it here since we were talking about it), bought the pin point calibration fluid but i had to really twist to get the scale to zero using the fluid, then when i tested my DT water it stayed at zero, any advice?

I believe the pin point solution is set to give you a reading of 35 ppm on the refractometer. You adjust your refractometer to to get a reading of 35 ppm

[kudora]

....ok that makes sense....omg...i ...nm

i bought distilled water between posts.....

thx capn, thus i read the boards all day long, for advise like that

[Tswifty]

Originally posted by kudora





....ok that makes sense....omg...i ...nm

i bought distilled water between posts.....

thx capn, thus i read the boards all day long, for advise like that

Yeah you want to adjust your refractometer's output to read 35ppm which is 1.0264 SG when using the solution. Then test your DT.

You only zero it when calibrating with distilled water, which will get you in the ballpark, but you should really use the calibration solution to make sure it's accurate.

[Tswifty]

Originally posted by NanoGurl
Awww... sorry to hear it came back

Thanks NG. All I can say is... welcome to the soap opera that is my tank

[NanoGurl]

TNT up in here! =)

[Tswifty]

Ok so I managed to accomplish nothing today since I decided to lay down for a bit after work today, and just woke up... almost 6 hrs later

Anyway... I need to go feed the tank, hook up the new filters on the RO/DI unit, and I would like to test the water parameters before I head back to bed, as I didn't sit down and do it this past weekend.

[new2sw776784]

Originally posted by Tswifty8
Ok so I managed to accomplish nothing today since I decided to lay down for a bit after work today, and just woke up... almost 6 hrs later

Anyway... I need to go feed the tank, hook up the new filters on the RO/DI unit, and I would like to test the water parameters before I head back to bed, as I didn't sit down and do it this past weekend.

man oh man what a slacker. LOL

[NanoGurl]

lol

[kudora]

got it now thx guys



over slept huh swift, i was wondering were the afternoon posts were lol

[Tswifty]

Back to 0 TDS water finally... all the new membranes plus the additional anion installed.