Fish Kill

Thank you very much. We love it (me a bit more than the wife). I am slowly adding more LR to the back section (where the filter was). I took out all the mechanical filter material (sponges) and the bio stuff (ceramic disks and bioballs... dried those out and put them in my FW canister filter... they are nice stuff). I plan on getting some micro algea to put in the back along with live rock and some sponges, etc. Kinda like a cryptic zone refugium type thing. I am hoping that the copepods will dig living in there as well. It is 24 gallons of fun. Would love to have set up a bigger tank, but the cost of live rock would have killed me, lol (and live rock round here is reasonably priced in most places it is around $4/lb.)
 
DSR said:
Had to turbo snails but must have got a bad batch as they died off within 2 days. I am going to try some black foots this weekend I think to round out the cleaning crew for now.
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Just an FYI most inverts are very sensitive to water parameter changes so it is pretty much required that you drip acclimate them before putting them in your tank. Fish can handle the change much better than inverts for the most part.
 
Thanks again. I did drip acclimate them, but I think I may have shorted the amoutn of time. I was going by the water volume (tripple what they came in). However, I have since read other sources that recommend going by time regardless of amount in bag. So now I do 2 hours for corals and will do three hours for fish with a much slower drip rate. I had never even heard of drip lines before I started this SW tank. it makes so much sense. will do that for anything that goes in my tank from now on.
 
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