184g basement 8ft reef

[Roskoreef]

Originally Posted by Skimmer King

you added all this within 1 month of starting up a new tank. with a tank that large its extremely hard to get your parameters to balance out. Even if you did get this sorted out it takes a long time for this body of water to level its self out. Having said that once you started adding all the fish the bio in the tnak is climbing and climbing the ammonia , nitrites and then to nitrates would build fast unless you are changing the water super fast. What about the sand bed new sand I don't see it taking 1 month to completely alive and working taking away the NO3. But with a tank are you not running a QT tank. you have a lot of nice stuff on there. but however have a UV light. its great and all but you need to source the ick from the start with a QT tank and then run UV light. nice tank BTW. but have the ick and the flat worms its a lot to deal with.
If you can get some flatworm EXIT I would use that.
as for the ick well lots of garlic if you cant take the fish that are infected out. if not I know a few people of tried draining the tank down to nothing hardly and taking the fish out that way Aquattro has done this and it worked .

that is a really nice tank and good luck my friend. I know what its like having a huge tank I myself had a240 gal 8 footer.

Yes i moved fast. like really fast....guilty, The cycle took about 12 days, as I cured dry rock in DT, then 100% Water change, added all live sand, live rock and a ton of cured pukani, plus Start Up and zeovit system. I know a few others who have setup tanks this way in this short amount of time. I beleive adding fish earlier on, with a bio digest/bioptim regiment has helped. My parameters have never been bad exept for during the initial cycle when i added live sand, rock and dry rock. Im pretty sure the ich came from the PB Tang, now long gone his legacy remains...

update - upon further reading on polyp labs medic, it seems in most cases the fish will either perish during treatment and succomb to ich or they will be ich free long term. I beleive this is what has happened so far, the weak immune system fish have died, all others seem to be ich free. Im going to be using medic for at least 10 days to be sure. As for flatworm i only suspect because my Clown Tang has had increasing black spots since i turned off the UV for medic treatment and 2 of my smaller acros have perished. I used the UV for a few hours yesterday and will for a few this week till done the treatment, the clown already seems happier..

[Roskoreef]

i found what i think is a baby snail? it kinda looks like a nudibranch, either a hitch hiker or offspring anyone know what this is??




another wild one changing to reddish maybe, different time of day but the colour is getting more vivid and brighter... i need to get a real camera soon, this cell phone is driving me crazy.

before:


now:


i dont know what exactly this one is, a euphyllia of some sort.



The LPS and Softie side is doing really well:



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[Roskoreef]

feeling frustrated....set up a permanent quarantine.

[Roskoreef]

also.. thank you sand bed for being dirty and disgusting=====you will not be missed, going to bare bottom/rubble slowly during manual water changes.

[rishu_pepper]

Sorry for the loss. Learning from experience is valuable.

What will you put in the QT?

[Roskoreef]

it sure is.. depends if i see any more ich on any fish, all that remain have no ich at all. If any get it again, straight to the QT. Im going to continue this medic treatment of my DT for 20 days total to be sure. All new fish and corals will live in there for a while too , prob 6 weeks... getting rid of the sand, too much challenge for its value.

[rishu_pepper]

Hope it all works out for you and the livestock will be happier in the long run.

[Roskoreef]

all i can say is, never buy sand with small shells in it.... takes forever to syphon out witout using a 1" hose and sucking up everything.

some of the hard lessons learned so far:

-Quarantine
-Sand makes me crazy
-ich is no joke

here is a leaf wrasse,



he will live in QT until DT goes through 12 week fish free soon here....i hope my red coris wrasse and him will get along in here once i can catch him going under the sand... i may have to setup another QT...palm to forehead