thetermite
09-11-2009, 1:14 PM
Hey all, Its been a while since i've posted. so i think you all deserve at look at my 2 meter tank!
took me a while to decide to upgrade to this one. actually, it was just a matter of finding the right one for my livin room.
just a quick equipment list:
600 liter tank!
6 x T8 bulbs (2x 3 feet blue actinics, 4 x 4 foot white bulbs)
3 x powerheads
Oceanrunner 2500 protein skimmer
1x JBL 900 canister filter
1x JBL 1500 Canister filter
Livestock:
approx 60 Kgs of live rock
2 Percula clowns
3 Yellow Tangs (getting along very nicely, no bullying)
2 Cardinal
2 Cow fish
1 foxface
1 orange spotted Gobi
1 psychedelic Mandarin
1 sea cucumber
1 juvenile lionfish (adopted it from a friend who dropped out of the hobby, GORGEOUS FISH)
1 Regal tank
1 lipstick
1 carpet anemone
big cluster of watermelon mushroom corals
cluster of 3 hammer corals
big cluster of leather mushroom corals
1 aptesia (that bugger just WONT DIE!!!)
clean up crew
1 brown starfish
pics!
the bad news is:
I got back from work yesterday only to find that the regal has got a bad case of whitespot! not having a quarantine tank setup (kid broke the old one), i rush to ACE and picked up 2 big buckets to use as QTs. made new water, put in the Waterlife Cuprazin solution, filter, aerator...and....i cant catch any of the fish! i got a maze of live rock ! no way in hell im gonna take all the rock out and catch em! so i asked a buddy of mine (who owns the biggest and most reliable LFS here in dubai...not a bias opinion...i promise!) for some advice...he said there are 4 things you can really do
1: drop the salinity to around 22 and hope for the best
2: sacrifice the live rock, corals and inverts by treating the main tank with medication
3: get 5 or 6 cleaner wrasse and shrimp which "could" do the trick. worked for his home tank
4: take out all the rock and catch the damned fish!
and maybe 5:
use 1 and 3...if they fish dont make it...let the tank sit for a few weeks until the ich dies off...and he'll replace the stock.
hmmmm....im quite attached to my fish actually!
pics!!
took me a while to decide to upgrade to this one. actually, it was just a matter of finding the right one for my livin room.
just a quick equipment list:
600 liter tank!
6 x T8 bulbs (2x 3 feet blue actinics, 4 x 4 foot white bulbs)
3 x powerheads
Oceanrunner 2500 protein skimmer
1x JBL 900 canister filter
1x JBL 1500 Canister filter
Livestock:
approx 60 Kgs of live rock
2 Percula clowns
3 Yellow Tangs (getting along very nicely, no bullying)
2 Cardinal
2 Cow fish
1 foxface
1 orange spotted Gobi
1 psychedelic Mandarin
1 sea cucumber
1 juvenile lionfish (adopted it from a friend who dropped out of the hobby, GORGEOUS FISH)
1 Regal tank
1 lipstick
1 carpet anemone
big cluster of watermelon mushroom corals
cluster of 3 hammer corals
big cluster of leather mushroom corals
1 aptesia (that bugger just WONT DIE!!!)
clean up crew
1 brown starfish
pics!
the bad news is:
I got back from work yesterday only to find that the regal has got a bad case of whitespot! not having a quarantine tank setup (kid broke the old one), i rush to ACE and picked up 2 big buckets to use as QTs. made new water, put in the Waterlife Cuprazin solution, filter, aerator...and....i cant catch any of the fish! i got a maze of live rock ! no way in hell im gonna take all the rock out and catch em! so i asked a buddy of mine (who owns the biggest and most reliable LFS here in dubai...not a bias opinion...i promise!) for some advice...he said there are 4 things you can really do
1: drop the salinity to around 22 and hope for the best
2: sacrifice the live rock, corals and inverts by treating the main tank with medication
3: get 5 or 6 cleaner wrasse and shrimp which "could" do the trick. worked for his home tank
4: take out all the rock and catch the damned fish!
and maybe 5:
use 1 and 3...if they fish dont make it...let the tank sit for a few weeks until the ich dies off...and he'll replace the stock.
hmmmm....im quite attached to my fish actually!
pics!!