Jon's 90 SPS dominant reef

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Originally Posted by nanomano

nice tank!! I'm getting a cube! I'm so EXCITED I have to figure out a nice unique aquascape!

Thanks for the compliment

Originally Posted by Leah

Wow Jon,

Love the new fish! Is the rabbit as teeny tiny as he looks and angel is just gorgeous.

The Rabbitfish is a little bigger than a credit card. Favourite fish in the tank right now, mainly because he ate all of the grape caulerpa that hitchhiked in.

I was really hesitant to put in the angel, but the wife kept begging for him. So happy he isn't a polyp nipper.

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well. Had a really crappy run of things lately.
Cliffs notes:
-wanted to try tweaking coral colour a little bit so i started ZEO.
-stopped dosing prodibio, took gfo offline as required.
-started to notice some good coloration and increased growth.
-Started getting some cyano, and hair algae
-started losing fish
-hair algae and cyano exploded to epic proportions.
-removed zeo, started doing bi-weekly water changes, and replacing gfo weekly.
-hang head and mourn the loss of five fish.



Moral of the story... If it ain't broke, don't fix it...



I am going to be upgrading my return pump in a little bit to help with water turn over through the sump. i was also debating on swapping out the dosing pumps for a calcium reactor. In the last two months i have had my ago pump water into my alk container, and two hose clamps come undone and pump ca and alk into my stand for a few days.

Since i've been focused on training for the cross fit open, it doesn't help that i have not been paying as close attention to the tank as i guess i suppose i should be.

[fishytime]

that sucks Jon.....sorry to hear about the losses.....what did you loose?

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the two bar rabbit fish, two semi-picasso clowns, dragon faced pipefish, and potentially a flavivertex dotty back.

Its kind of weird that non of the corals or inverts are being affected by whatever is in there. seeming like its some sort or pathogen or something. no signs of ich, no cloudy/pop eyes.

I am brainstorming on whether i should pull the fish out and put them though hypo salinity or some broad medication or (more likely option) leave them in there and just keep them fed with vitamins and garlic.

We have another tiny two bar rabbit fish at the shop. I am debating buying him and putting him in with my seahorses. He would eat back my calurpa problem in there and since he can crazy to his hearts content probably would not contend for food with the ponies

[Rice Reef]

Jon, again sorry to hear of your losses. Have you tried using a UV sterilizer? I don't have one but have been considering getting one...

[Aquattro]

If you want to set up a Q tank, I can give you some chloroquine to try...

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Originally Posted by Aquattro

If you want to set up a Q tank, I can give you some chloroquine to try...

Thanks Brad. I'll do some reading on it. I was following your thread on Velvet. Does it linger in a tank like copper does?