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Originally Posted by lcstorc  Very good plan. There is no real hurry right now. Mr Firefish and herme look quite content in their temporary digs.
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Yeah, all my little guys in the QT seem to be doing great. I did a water change yesterday and cleaned up detritus with a turkey baster. How in the heck do I get
detritus with ONE FISH? I only feed 1/4 of a cube of mysis a day! (And the floss in the HOB filter was kind of brown too before I rinsed it.)
I've been reading that several people suggest
rinsing the thawed mysis cube and I'm going to try that to keep from getting so much detritus on the bottom of the QT.
You guys would be proud that for the first time ever I've been using an
airstone on the new water before I put it in the tank. I noticed that the last time I did a water change firefish looked like he was breathing heavily and I worried that he wasn't getting enough oxygen in the freshly mixed water. Lesson learned! (and fortunately not the hard way because he bounced back a few minutes later with 3 airstones, a powerhead, and a HOB filter flowing)
Oh, and lastly, do you guys think Hermes needs some
replacement shells in the QT? How often do they move shells? There isn't a lot of extra room in the 10 gallon with my 7 lbs. of liverock in there. He's already molted once since I got him a month ago. And I can't find any shells that are close to his size. All are substantially bigger or smaller.