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[Myka]

How's your tank doing Travis? Got some updates?

[Seth81]

Hopefully my Queen is doing well over there! I already miss the little guy

[travisc]

@seth81 your queen is doing great! @ Myka adding a few new pics and updates. Tank was in limbo for 2 months after an outbreak of ich crashed my tank
Was a very disheartening lesson to learn. But hopefully I have learned from my mistakes and an more knowledgeable now (and a little more patient ). Thanks to my buddy Jim and unfortunately him having to shut down his tank I got to adopt all his fish and got a few others.
I have gotten better lighting thanks to @ lastlight and added 4 radium 250w. Also adding a calcium reactor and UV sterilizer right away! [IMG][IMG][IMG][/IMG][/IMG][/IMG]

[travisc]

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[travisc]

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[Myka]

Originally Posted by travisc

@ Myka adding a few new pics and updates. Tank was in limbo for 2 months after an outbreak of ich crashed my tank
Was a very disheartening lesson to learn. But hopefully I have learned from my mistakes and an more knowledgeable now (and a little more patient ). Thanks to my buddy Jim and unfortunately him having to shut down his tank I got to adopt all his fish and got a few others.
I have gotten better lighting thanks to @ lastlight and added 4 radium 250w. Also adding a calcium reactor and UV sterilizer right away!

Yes, patience is a virtue when it comes to saltwater tanks that's for sure. It's certainly not recommended to add as many fish as you did in less than a month. Poor fish. With a tank the size of yours you really should consider a quarantine system. It only takes one fish to wipe out the entire tank (as you've already learned), and even if you take all the time in the world that last fish could easily be the Marine Velvet vector you really don't want. You think Ich is bad? Try Marine Velvet. Many a tank on Canreef has been lost due to MV.

That's great you're pimpin Radions! Nice upgrade!

[travisc]

I do have a quarantine tank now.... but with a tank my size it would be next to impossible to get an infected fish out of the tank. I don't know if I had ick or marine velvet. Everyone says it was ick but I'm not sure. All I know is that within a couple days all my fish were dead. I'm adding a UV staralizer and hopefully that will help with any parasite.

[travisc]

Ick or velvet?[IMG][/IMG]

[Myka]

I vote for Marine Velvet since the fish were wiped out so quick - the easiest way to tell is while the fish is still alive to give them a FW dip and see if the spots come off or not. Ich won't come off in a FW dip.

Here's a good comparative source. http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/sh....php?t=2119086