My 29 gallon QT/Hospital Tank - Page 4

Woodstock · 10-29-2007, 11:25 AM

LOL.. Thanks

Woodstock · 10-29-2007, 11:27 AM

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Originally Posted by Gina

Nice quarantine tank! Do you prefer using this way of cycling?

I think so. It allows for many cycles each time you add ammonia. I am VERY confident that there are a LOT of bacteria just waiting to do their job

Woodstock · 10-29-2007, 07:00 PM

All fish in and accounted for.

I will begin the copper treatment tomorrow evening if the water parameters are good.

They will be able to return to the reef Christmas Eve! That will be a full 8 weeks of fallowness

Gina · 10-29-2007, 07:04 PM

It's like a Christmas present for your fish! LOL
Hope the treatment goes well!

Woodstock · 11-02-2007, 10:06 AM

All is well in my hospital tank so far. For the last few days I have been getting the copper up to .5 ppm. Although the tank is barebottom and there is no substrate, the copper level has been slowly dropping during the day.

I test the hospital tank at LEAST 3 times (6am, 6pm, 10pm) for the following to make sure the water is good:
Ammonia
NitrIte
NitrAte
Copper

Alkalinity is tested every few days.
Constant PH readings with a Reefkeeper 2
Constant temperature readings of 79.3 - 80.1

I have had a horrible time finding a Seachem copper test kit that works. I went to two different lfs but bot kits showed zero with the test solution

I am currently using the API copper test kit and will be ordering Salifert as a backup today!

The achilles tang seems the most sensitive to the copper; he darts around when I add copper (from .25 - .5ppm). The achilles and the copperband butterfly have stopped eating but the other fish (damsel, citron goby, 2xneon gobies, 2xclownfish) are acting and eating as normal.

Woodstock · 11-02-2007, 08:14 PM

Click photo for a slideshow...

Everyone is doing okay. The larger fish have been much slower to relax than the smaller ones but they all are finally chilling out. The PVC is working out GREAT! They all have their favorite 'hiding spot'.

BigAl07 · 11-02-2007, 08:16 PM

I LOVE Neon Gobies

They are one of my FAV fishes

Keep up the good work girl!!

Woodstock · 11-02-2007, 08:21 PM

Thanks for the encouragement Allen

BTW... Seachem is sending me new reagents for their copper test kit

I will then have two (seachem and API) to test against each other!

cracker · 11-02-2007, 08:52 PM

Miss Donnie You have the coolest fish, What type of clowns & whats the kinda peach colored fish with the big head & blue stripes thru the eye? The slide show was nice.Thanks.

Woodstock · 11-02-2007, 09:43 PM

Glad you liked it

The clowns are ORA bred "picasso" percula clowns and the cute peach colored fish is a citron goby.

cracker · 11-02-2007, 11:22 PM

Thanks!

Woodstock · 11-06-2007, 08:48 AM

All is well!

The copper is staying right at .5 ppm now with no adjustments needed (except for water changes). Copper additions were only needed during the first few days but have leveled off now.
The larger fish seem to be adapting and are even picking at food now. The CBB is eating a bit of homemade mush and the achilles is eating the diatom algae off of the PVC (still will not eat nori or mush yet) but seems more relaxed and is not 'pacing' the glass.
The smaller fish are all little piglets and have their favorite dens

No sign of ich

Gina · 11-06-2007, 10:23 AM

Glad to hear that all is going well with the treatment!
Good news is always great to hear!

Woodstock · 11-06-2007, 10:28 AM

Thanks Gina

Me too!
I am very nervous about all 'my eggs being in one basket'. I feel like a paranoid mother hen taking care of them

Woodstock · 11-15-2007, 02:16 PM

Today is the last day of the 14 day Cupramine treatment!
Tomorrow morning I will begin removing the copper from the system

All fish are doing fine

10-29-2007, 11:25 AM	#46 (permalink)
Woodstock The Wand Geek was here. ;) Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: North Carolina Posts: 25,501 View Gallery Karma Komment Add yours!	Re: My 29 gallon QT/Hospital Tank LOL.. Thanks __________________ ~Doni Marie~ *GOT ICH???* *My Victorious Battle with ICH* 120 Reef Chronicle ~ *Breeding Picasso Clownfish~* *Massive 300 gal growout~* *My Anemone & Picasso Tank ~* *Picasso & Snowcasso for sale~* "Energy and persistance conquer all things." Benjamin Franklin __________________________________________________ ______________________________________________

10-29-2007, 07:00 PM	#48 (permalink)
Woodstock The Wand Geek was here. ;) Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: North Carolina Posts: 25,501 View Gallery Karma Komment Add yours!	All Aboard!! All fish in and accounted for. I will begin the copper treatment tomorrow evening if the water parameters are good. They will be able to return to the reef Christmas Eve! That will be a full 8 weeks of fallowness __________________ ~Doni Marie~ *GOT ICH???* *My Victorious Battle with ICH* 120 Reef Chronicle ~ *Breeding Picasso Clownfish~* *Massive 300 gal growout~* *My Anemone & Picasso Tank ~* *Picasso & Snowcasso for sale~* "Energy and persistance conquer all things." Benjamin Franklin __________________________________________________ ______________________________________________

10-29-2007, 07:04 PM	#49 (permalink)
Gina Moderator Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Indiana Posts: 8,842 View Gallery Karma Komment	Re: My 29 gallon QT/Hospital Tank It's like a Christmas present for your fish! LOL Hope the treatment goes well! __________________ Gina and Mark's 75 Visit Our Sponsors Gina's Cube Gina

11-02-2007, 10:06 AM	#50 (permalink)
Woodstock The Wand Geek was here. ;) Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: North Carolina Posts: 25,501 View Gallery Karma Komment Add yours!	Re: My 29 gallon QT/Hospital Tank All is well in my hospital tank so far. For the last few days I have been getting the copper up to .5 ppm. Although the tank is barebottom and there is no substrate, the copper level has been slowly dropping during the day. I test the hospital tank at LEAST 3 times (6am, 6pm, 10pm) for the following to make sure the water is good: Ammonia NitrIte NitrAte Copper Alkalinity is tested every few days. Constant PH readings with a Reefkeeper 2 Constant temperature readings of 79.3 - 80.1 I have had a horrible time finding a Seachem copper test kit that works. I went to two different lfs but bot kits showed zero with the test solution I am currently using the API copper test kit and will be ordering Salifert as a backup today! The achilles tang seems the most sensitive to the copper; he darts around when I add copper (from .25 - .5ppm). The achilles and the copperband butterfly have stopped eating but the other fish (damsel, citron goby, 2xneon gobies, 2xclownfish) are acting and eating as normal. __________________ ~Doni Marie~ *GOT ICH???* *My Victorious Battle with ICH* 120 Reef Chronicle ~ *Breeding Picasso Clownfish~* *Massive 300 gal growout~* *My Anemone & Picasso Tank ~* *Picasso & Snowcasso for sale~* "Energy and persistance conquer all things." Benjamin Franklin __________________________________________________ ______________________________________________

11-02-2007, 08:14 PM	#51 (permalink)
Woodstock The Wand Geek was here. ;) Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: North Carolina Posts: 25,501 View Gallery Karma Komment Add yours!	Picture time! Click photo for a slideshow... Everyone is doing okay. The larger fish have been much slower to relax than the smaller ones but they all are finally chilling out. The PVC is working out GREAT! They all have their favorite 'hiding spot'. __________________ ~Doni Marie~ *GOT ICH???* *My Victorious Battle with ICH* 120 Reef Chronicle ~ *Breeding Picasso Clownfish~* *Massive 300 gal growout~* *My Anemone & Picasso Tank ~* *Picasso & Snowcasso for sale~* "Energy and persistance conquer all things." Benjamin Franklin __________________________________________________ ______________________________________________

11-02-2007, 08:16 PM	#52 (permalink)
BigAl07 Do I look as lost as I am Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Waynesville, North Carolina Posts: 21,547 View Gallery Karma Komment Add yours!	Re: My 29 gallon QT/Hospital Tank I LOVE Neon Gobies They are one of my FAV fishes Keep up the good work girl!! __________________ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~ *Live Rock Rubble will do the SAME thing as Bio-Balls and is NOT a suitable replacement for BIO-BALLS in a Reef System! It's ALL gotta go!!* Nitrate (NO3) reduction is directly proportional to percentage of Water Change. Allen's home-made formula...currentNO3-((%WC.01)currentNO3)=finalNO3 (thanks Luukosian) This means if you change 50% of your total water volume (That's EVERYTHING) you'll get a net reduction of (NO3) somewhere around 50%. Ask me about how to increase your REEF budget without going without FOOD!!* Big Al's 10g Julie's (BigAl's Gal) 6g NanoCube Gone but not forgotten BigAl's Slow 90g Tank Chronicle Allens OFFICE 12g Nano-Reef

11-02-2007, 08:21 PM	#53 (permalink)
Woodstock The Wand Geek was here. ;) Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: North Carolina Posts: 25,501 View Gallery Karma Komment Add yours!	Re: My 29 gallon QT/Hospital Tank Thanks for the encouragement Allen BTW... Seachem is sending me new reagents for their copper test kit I will then have two (seachem and API) to test against each other! __________________ ~Doni Marie~ *GOT ICH???* *My Victorious Battle with ICH* 120 Reef Chronicle ~ *Breeding Picasso Clownfish~* *Massive 300 gal growout~* *My Anemone & Picasso Tank ~* *Picasso & Snowcasso for sale~* "Energy and persistance conquer all things." Benjamin Franklin __________________________________________________ ______________________________________________

11-02-2007, 08:52 PM	#54 (permalink)
cracker Acropora Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: North East Florida Posts: 1,789 View Gallery Karma Komment	Re: My 29 gallon QT/Hospital Tank Miss Donnie You have the coolest fish, What type of clowns & whats the kinda peach colored fish with the big head & blue stripes thru the eye? The slide show was nice.Thanks.

11-02-2007, 09:43 PM	#55 (permalink)
Woodstock The Wand Geek was here. ;) Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: North Carolina Posts: 25,501 View Gallery Karma Komment Add yours!	Re: My 29 gallon QT/Hospital Tank Glad you liked it The clowns are ORA bred "picasso" percula clowns and the cute peach colored fish is a citron goby. __________________ ~Doni Marie~ *GOT ICH???* *My Victorious Battle with ICH* 120 Reef Chronicle ~ *Breeding Picasso Clownfish~* *Massive 300 gal growout~* *My Anemone & Picasso Tank ~* *Picasso & Snowcasso for sale~* "Energy and persistance conquer all things." Benjamin Franklin __________________________________________________ ______________________________________________

11-02-2007, 11:22 PM	#56 (permalink)
cracker Acropora Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: North East Florida Posts: 1,789 View Gallery Karma Komment	Re: My 29 gallon QT/Hospital Tank Thanks!

11-06-2007, 08:48 AM	#57 (permalink)
Woodstock The Wand Geek was here. ;) Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: North Carolina Posts: 25,501 View Gallery Karma Komment Add yours!	Re: My 29 gallon QT/Hospital Tank All is well! The copper is staying right at .5 ppm now with no adjustments needed (except for water changes). Copper additions were only needed during the first few days but have leveled off now. The larger fish seem to be adapting and are even picking at food now. The CBB is eating a bit of homemade mush and the achilles is eating the diatom algae off of the PVC (still will not eat nori or mush yet) but seems more relaxed and is not 'pacing' the glass. The smaller fish are all little piglets and have their favorite dens No sign of ich __________________ ~Doni Marie~ *GOT ICH???* *My Victorious Battle with ICH* 120 Reef Chronicle ~ *Breeding Picasso Clownfish~* *Massive 300 gal growout~* *My Anemone & Picasso Tank ~* *Picasso & Snowcasso for sale~* "Energy and persistance conquer all things." Benjamin Franklin __________________________________________________ ______________________________________________

11-06-2007, 10:23 AM	#58 (permalink)
Gina Moderator Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Indiana Posts: 8,842 View Gallery Karma Komment	Re: My 29 gallon QT/Hospital Tank Glad to hear that all is going well with the treatment! Good news is always great to hear! __________________ Gina and Mark's 75 Visit Our Sponsors Gina's Cube Gina

11-06-2007, 10:28 AM	#59 (permalink)
Woodstock The Wand Geek was here. ;) Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: North Carolina Posts: 25,501 View Gallery Karma Komment Add yours!	Re: My 29 gallon QT/Hospital Tank Thanks Gina Me too! I am very nervous about all 'my eggs being in one basket'. I feel like a paranoid mother hen taking care of them __________________ ~Doni Marie~ *GOT ICH???* *My Victorious Battle with ICH* 120 Reef Chronicle ~ *Breeding Picasso Clownfish~* *Massive 300 gal growout~* *My Anemone & Picasso Tank ~* *Picasso & Snowcasso for sale~* "Energy and persistance conquer all things." Benjamin Franklin __________________________________________________ ______________________________________________

11-15-2007, 02:16 PM	#60 (permalink)
Woodstock The Wand Geek was here. ;) Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: North Carolina Posts: 25,501 View Gallery Karma Komment Add yours!	Re: My 29 gallon QT/Hospital Tank Today is the last day of the 14 day Cupramine treatment! Tomorrow morning I will begin removing the copper from the system All fish are doing fine __________________ ~Doni Marie~ *GOT ICH???* *My Victorious Battle with ICH* 120 Reef Chronicle ~ *Breeding Picasso Clownfish~* *Massive 300 gal growout~* *My Anemone & Picasso Tank ~* *Picasso & Snowcasso for sale~* "Energy and persistance conquer all things." Benjamin Franklin __________________________________________________ ______________________________________________

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