Heartbreak hotel

[Aquattro]

Originally Posted by Joe Reefer

This is funny.

Um, not really. Maybe I just don't get the funny part.....

[Phanman]

I think he was implying to the fact you used the medication on your fish tank instead of yourself.

[Joe Reefer]

Originally Posted by reef_raf

Um, not really. Maybe I just don't get the funny part.....

The "I used all the meds on the tank" part.

[danny zubot]

Originally Posted by reef_raf
Um, not really. Maybe I just don't get the funny part.....
The "I used all the meds on the tank" part.
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Such a selfless act.

Tony, what is your light power output and cycle on that tank anyway? I think there might be something to Canuckgod420's suggestion that there is too much light. The only reason I might think this is valid is because I say a local reefer's tank that blew my mind, and he was running his lights for only 8 hours a day. I always thought that a reef needed minimum 10-12 hours to thrive, but I thought I'd try reducing my photo period and see what happens. Bam, within a week my SPS gained more color. So I increased my photo period to 10 hours from 8 recently just to see what would happen, and my SPS lost color. Go figure!

Of course, I have 400 watts over my tank which might play a huge roll in my experience. Anyway, free advice is worth what you pay for it. Lots of good theories in this thread anyway.

[Delphinus]

Well now that is very interesting. I run my halides for 10 hours over my 75g and the tank this coral was put in is run 12 hours (because there is no dawn/dusk cycle). The light is a single 250W halide. That is a really interesting observation...

[Aquattro]

Originally Posted by Joe Reefer

The "I used all the meds on the tank" part.

Ok I thought it was stupid, not funny, I could have been in trouble, medically speaking. Would I do it again? Oh yea! I'm seein' the funny part now....

[Joe Reefer]

I know this is not on topic but I can attest to the halide theory. I am down to 8 hours a day. Color is ok.

[Quagmire]

Originally Posted by reef_raf

As I said offline Tony, every time I put my hand in the tank, I'd get heavy infections in any open wound. I spoke with my doctor who agreed it could be a strain of vibrio (not flesh eating disease ) and that the broad spectrum antibiotic could help. Being the idiot I often am, I used all th emeds on my tank instead of me, and the tank did clear up after treatment. I also stopped getting infections from scratches on the rockwork. Vibrio?? Who knows, but the antibiotic did resolve whatever was sloughing my acros. No science here, just experience...

So Brad did you notice any sort of cycle after treating the tank? I curious what effect the antibiotic would have on the bacteria in the rock.

UV sounds like a good idea,it would clear up any free floating bacteria or viruses,maybe stop it from spreading.

[Aquattro]

Originally Posted by Quagmire

So Brad did you notice any sort of cycle after treating the tank?

No, can't say that I "noticed" one, but I never tested anything. Everything was doing much better than before treatment, so that was good enough.

[Delphinus]

Buh ,, ... so, just in case anyone was wondering ... Zeovit wasn't the saviour I hoped it would be. 5 frags down the tubes this week, same thing, starts with a loss of colour, then recession from the tips. Seen this before so I know what's next.

I've changed my signature to include a nice little Haiku-ish poem for now.

Ugh,.. this has been going on for far too long. I hate that I can't grow SPS anymore.