Pretty sad night...almost. Got home from the hockey game tonight to find my Harlequin Tusk on the ground! I knew right away it couldn't have been too long since he was flipping around a bit and in a puddle of water. I grabbed him and dropped him back into the tank--within 10 seconds he was begging for food.
I NEED to get my new mesh top built tomorrow. I am going to do what I have done in the past. Aluminum window screen with window framing. The top goes on all night until light on. I will take the top off when the lights go on if I am home. I work from home (beside the tank) and am home most of the day. If I go out, the top goes on. When I come home, it can come off. Not ideal but loosing fish to jumping is not an option.
I have no idea what happened but he gets super freaked out for a few seconds at lights out. He darts around and he has splashed a few times. I am pretty sure this is what happened.
Anyways...he seems fine. I don't think he was out of water more than a 2 minutes max. The lights had turned off less than 2 minutes before I got home. Thank god we didn't for that extra beer after the Canucks big win
On another note, I tested nitrates and got 0. Had to test again since I didn't believe it. Tested 4 times. LOL. 0 each time.
I have been feeding 5 times a day heavily to deal with ich and am shocked I have 0 nitrates. I think I am a real believer in ZEO now.
25 well fed, fat fish (8 large ones) in a 200G tank, no refugium, VERY minimal LR and 0 nitrates. Gotta be the ZEO! Corals are starting to look pretty nice too the past week
03-08-2009, 07:51 AM
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