i was having a hell of an algae battle. was using a salifert phosphate test kit was showing a slight amount in the water trid rowaphos in the rear chambers and didn't really help. i got my water checked at my lfs and it was way off the chart. went down the reactor road and never looked back.
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I took my tank down last night.
It's outside under a tarp ready to be sold!
First time without a tank for as long as I can remember.
Decided that we need the space more now with the kids growing up.
Gave away the last of my stock to a chap at work who was very grateful to receive them.
Kind of sad, but I think I will leave the hobby till the kids leave home or maybe when I retire and build a huge plywood/plexi tank in a big fish room
It's outside under a tarp ready to be sold!
First time without a tank for as long as I can remember.
Decided that we need the space more now with the kids growing up.
Gave away the last of my stock to a chap at work who was very grateful to receive them.
Kind of sad, but I think I will leave the hobby till the kids leave home or maybe when I retire and build a huge plywood/plexi tank in a big fish room
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Seems my curse continues.
My tank came down with brook over the weekend. My clown fish pair started showing it friday morning, by friday aftrrnoon when i got home they were both dead.
Over the weekend had to rush together a qt tank from a clear plastic box and some fresh sw and spare heater etc etc
Had to rip my rocksape apart to catch the remaining fish but despite moving them all to a medicated qt tank and giving them a daily bath ive now lost
Royal gramma
Kole tang
Both clown fish
My flame angel (devastated about this one)
Also my cleaner shrimp has died (no idea about this one maybe cooincidence as brook doesnt affect inverts)
Only fish left this morning were my yellow tang and my orange spot goby. Wont be home till after 7 so am hoping they have made it thru the day
Tanks empty of fish and will stay fallow untill the middle of january
Absoutly gutted
:,(
Edit :- just got home, yellow tang and goby still alive. Not showing any signs of being ill just a bit stressed out
My tank came down with brook over the weekend. My clown fish pair started showing it friday morning, by friday aftrrnoon when i got home they were both dead.
Over the weekend had to rush together a qt tank from a clear plastic box and some fresh sw and spare heater etc etc
Had to rip my rocksape apart to catch the remaining fish but despite moving them all to a medicated qt tank and giving them a daily bath ive now lost
Royal gramma
Kole tang
Both clown fish
My flame angel (devastated about this one)
Also my cleaner shrimp has died (no idea about this one maybe cooincidence as brook doesnt affect inverts)
Only fish left this morning were my yellow tang and my orange spot goby. Wont be home till after 7 so am hoping they have made it thru the day
Tanks empty of fish and will stay fallow untill the middle of january
Absoutly gutted
:,(
Edit :- just got home, yellow tang and goby still alive. Not showing any signs of being ill just a bit stressed out
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Right well im at.. 3 and a half weeks (i think). Second waterchange done today as i was a little concerned were my nitrates was heading.
I am in the middle of what is im suspecting still a diatom bloom as its sticking to glass and sand only. My rocks beginning to get purple algae on it too which is nice but its still covered in the brown algae's too as my hermits being lazy.
At what point is best to be looking at adding a cleaner shrimp in to help these out? My snails are useless too.. Must 100% admit that
I am in the middle of what is im suspecting still a diatom bloom as its sticking to glass and sand only. My rocks beginning to get purple algae on it too which is nice but its still covered in the brown algae's too as my hermits being lazy.
At what point is best to be looking at adding a cleaner shrimp in to help these out? My snails are useless too.. Must 100% admit that
Why is my female carpenter's wrasse playing dead? She just lies on the sand not moving, at first thought she was just sleeping as she was in the corner and only doing it at night after the lights were off, but came home today and she was lying in the middle of the front of the tank, thought she was dead, but as soon as I went near her with the net she shot up and started swimming around as if everything was completely normal!
Is this something to be concerned about or is it just normal behaviour for a mentally challenged fish?
Edit: all the other fish are acting normal, water params seem fine, she's feeding ok, but as soon as the food was gone she's straight back to the same spot on the bottom
Don't really have the facility to set up a hospital tank atm, have an empty 19l with a filter & heater, but it wouldn't be cycled - is it worth setting it up for her anyway (If I can even catch her!)
Is this something to be concerned about or is it just normal behaviour for a mentally challenged fish?
Edit: all the other fish are acting normal, water params seem fine, she's feeding ok, but as soon as the food was gone she's straight back to the same spot on the bottom
Don't really have the facility to set up a hospital tank atm, have an empty 19l with a filter & heater, but it wouldn't be cycled - is it worth setting it up for her anyway (If I can even catch her!)
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Bah, came down this morning and she was dead 
Popped her in a bowl of fresh water and a few things that looked like possible flukes came off, so I'm now off to find some treatment!
The male wrasse looks like he's on his way out as well now, despite being absolutely fine last night
Popped her in a bowl of fresh water and a few things that looked like possible flukes came off, so I'm now off to find some treatment!
The male wrasse looks like he's on his way out as well now, despite being absolutely fine last night
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Get some red Sea nopox great for reducing nitrates.Right well im at.. 3 and a half weeks (i think). Second waterchange done today as i was a little concerned were my nitrates was heading.
I am in the middle of what is im suspecting still a diatom bloom as its sticking to glass and sand only. My rocks beginning to get purple algae on it too which is nice but its still covered in the brown algae's too as my hermits being lazy.
At what point is best to be looking at adding a cleaner shrimp in to help these out? My snails are useless too.. Must 100% admit that
After resetting my skimmer up to actually pull a bit better, a small 20% change and full clean out of filters and replace of floss I seem to of pulled it down somewhat. 20ppm roughly. Can see why pressurised canisters are not a reef keepers friend they are actual nitrate dispensers even after 1 week or 2. I'll just keep on top of it with weekly sterilising of all media's within it.
Added a wave maker today, ended up with an aps 4000 wave maker (controllable model) got it running at 50% at moment which is making the tank sway nicely much more natural. I'm going to be adding a clown from Tuesday all being well and debating a nem too with the idea to just sell the nem and replace it as it grows too large for tank. But unsure if it will knock corals over or trash my tank in general.
Excited for my first real fish for it. The itch is beginning I have been looking at red sea tanks again today
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Really sorry to hear this mate, did the Brook come from a new addition?
Hope the remaining fish stay healthy!
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Bah, came down this morning and she was dead
Popped her in a bowl of fresh water and a few things that looked like possible flukes came off, so I'm now off to find some treatment!
The male wrasse looks like he's on his way out as well now, despite being absolutely fine last night
Wrasse can stress quite easily, and really need a more settled tank. How is the male doing now?
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Please reconsider the anemone idea, having a fish in a tank that small is already pushing your luck. Look at the problems people have been having lately in this thread. Anemones should only go in much larger tanks, that have been set up and run without problems for about 1 year. I'm not saying this to spoil things for you, I know your excited. Just wait until you have a lot more experience, there are plenty of things you can put in the tank you have. This isn't a hobby where things can be rushed.
He didn't make it either unfortunately, put him in a bowl of tap water after fishing him out, and lots of little sesame seed looking things fell off after a couple of mins, looked exactly like "Neobenedenia" under a magnifying glass, so treated the tank with praziquantel. So far no ill effects to anything else, and the other fish all appear fine
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I really wish I had space for another marine tank, seeing all of these is making me jealous
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No. Nothing has changed in my tank other than a new skimmer.
No idea where it came from unless it was always there and just appeared
Iv already reconsidered. The clown will be it. I aint even doing that yet either right now. Im a week into what im hoping won't be a bad diatom bloom but apart from just waiting it out can i manually intervene or is it not worth it? Its growing all over rocks now too and getting quite a big thing. Im seeing a lot of bubbles its producing too (Nitrogen?)
how big is the tank?
just over 5 gallons. Its very small, It isn't permanant though as once my redsea gets ordered it will all be moved over of course and my nano will be shut down and sold.
Got rid of a aiptasia today too (took rock out pulled and scrubbed it off as i didn't want the spores to make it worse)
Loading some seachems purigen and seagel into my filter tonight too and see if we can pull excessive silicates out the water and nip the bloom in the bud. Iv seen some beautiful frags today and im now wondering if i even want a clown or just make a full hammer and mushroom tank :O Theyre amazing.
Im going to do far more research over the coming days before dropping any fish in. Snails and hermit will continue doing stuff for now until iv decided on my route
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You're in Essex right? Where do you get your livestock from?
I mainly used H20aquatics for fish and AAC in Harlow for frags. Never got any diseases, just had the odd sudden unexplained death. And green Chromis killing each other.
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Really glad you changed your mind!
Have you seen this guys tank?
I think it looks stunning. Rock anemones are a lot easier to keep than normal nems... And it looks OK with just one fish in. Mushrooms would look good too also!
Ahh yes the good chromis killing each other untill there one left, it's like the raft stuck at sea story and only enough water for one person to survive