Shamus
Active Member
OK - my place of work has a 90-gallon that needs some help. I've offered my services (all 7 months of experience along with it ) to help the tank out. I'm hoping to use this thread to get some advice from the wonderful people of RS!
I haven't gotten a chance to run any tests yet (this will be done next week) and still need to familiarize myself with the setup (livestock, equipment, etc.) so I know that this thread is a bit premature, but some of the glaring issues in the tank right now are extremely brown water and an absolute outbreak of some sort of worm (my amateur eye thinks it's a bristle worm, and I know without a pic it's hard to say what it is...). Here are my thoughts on trying to salvage this situation immediately - after running the appropriate tests
1. Water changes, and hefty (50% changes over the next few weeks)
2. Running some carbon (I don't believe they are running carbon right now)
3. Checking to see if the filtration is sufficient
4. Checking the livestock in the tank and seeing if they are overstocked (I don't think this is the case - I only seemed to recall seeing a couple of clowns (don't know what type yet) and a Foxface).
I would appreciate any additional input anyone might have - I'm really hoping I can be of some help and can use my experience (again all 7 months of it) and more importantly, the experience of the members of RS, to help this tank, and the inhabitants, along.
Thanks in advance for the help everyone! I'll keep everyone informed as to the progress and hopefully this will get resolved in short order.
I haven't gotten a chance to run any tests yet (this will be done next week) and still need to familiarize myself with the setup (livestock, equipment, etc.) so I know that this thread is a bit premature, but some of the glaring issues in the tank right now are extremely brown water and an absolute outbreak of some sort of worm (my amateur eye thinks it's a bristle worm, and I know without a pic it's hard to say what it is...). Here are my thoughts on trying to salvage this situation immediately - after running the appropriate tests
1. Water changes, and hefty (50% changes over the next few weeks)
2. Running some carbon (I don't believe they are running carbon right now)
3. Checking to see if the filtration is sufficient
4. Checking the livestock in the tank and seeing if they are overstocked (I don't think this is the case - I only seemed to recall seeing a couple of clowns (don't know what type yet) and a Foxface).
I would appreciate any additional input anyone might have - I'm really hoping I can be of some help and can use my experience (again all 7 months of it) and more importantly, the experience of the members of RS, to help this tank, and the inhabitants, along.
Thanks in advance for the help everyone! I'll keep everyone informed as to the progress and hopefully this will get resolved in short order.