The official 65g FOWLR diary thread

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I have my RO unit! I set it up, but the pure RO water was coming out of the red tube, or waste tube. My waste water was coming out of the blue tube, or pure RO tube, so I switched them. :) I left it on overnight and ended up wasting 20 gallons of pure RO water. :( But now, I have it all figured out, so it's all good! Happy New Year everyone! :):)
 
Blinky said:
Thank you :)
Today wasn't fun. I caught Sam using a plastic fish bag on an old net frame and put her into the 5.5g. She's pestering the gobies, and I'm fed up with her behaviour - I know it's her nature, but if she kills another fish I'll lose my mind. These guys are a pair, it would break my heart if one of them was killed and the other just pined away. Whatever is going on with her skin isn't getting worse or better, and no one else seems affected so I've got my fingers crossed. I've researched oodinium and brooklynella, it looks like both and neither at the same time. I thought it might be brook since it was only her affected, but it's been three days and she's still eating - if it was brook she'd likely be dead or dying. The thing is, they both have such different treatments, I have no idea which to go with. Tomorrow I'll give her a FW dip and see how that goes, but if she gets better I don't know what to do with her. I think she's already turning into a murderer, I love her but don't want to dedicate an entire tank to her alone. Ugh. Just thinking out loud here, that's sort of what these diaries are for. I'm sure a solution will present itself soon enough.
Happy 2006 all :)
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I know what you mean, I got rid of one tank and now am at 2 (both over 60g). My daughter said to start up the empty 30g with more s/w fish. LOL I said, no to that...um ya well..we'll see.
Anyway. I would consider trading Sam should she recover. We don't have enough space for multiple tanks. I think Blinky, your high rise is similiar to my lower duplex sizewise.
Also how useful is maracyn, should this be a fungal infection? Just a thought. Must of been a job cathching Sam..omg!
 
KobeSumo, congrats ;)

SF actually, she was pretty easy to catch - I made a contraption that works well for me. I took an old net frame without the netting, put a plastic fish bag in it and rolled the edges over the frame, then used an elastic to secure it to the handle - basically it looks like a net with the bag in place of the fabric. At first I tried coming up from underneath, but she took off. She retreated into a hole, I put the 'net' on the sand in front of her and spooked her from behind. Bam! She was in the bag before she knew what was happening.

I have NO idea what's going on, but after a night in the 5.5g, which is filled with water from the 30g reef at the same SG and temp as the 65g (I didn't want her going into raw, new water or staying in the 65g water if it was irritating her skin somehow), she's FINE. Fine, I repeat. Ticked at being confined, but her skin is clear, breathing is normal, and she ate like a horse this morning. I'm stunned.
As for Maracyn, I love that company's products and recommend nothing else to customers where I work. I've used Maracyn II to cure some nasty bacterial infections, by soaking food in it and feeding the affected fish. I've never had to use Maracyn myself but have no doubt it would work as well.

So after stressing a lot and talking to my husband, I think I've decided to do what I said I wouldn't. I'm going to trade her in. I feel like a heel, she's my pet, but she's a beast. I looked this morning and saw a C shaped bite out of one of the goby's tails, so not only was she harassing them yesterday, she was actually biting them. Poor girl, she just wants a big tank to herself.
 
I know that was a tough decision Blinky. I origionally wanted a pair of cinnamons. When I first saw them at the lfs, I thought they were the cutest fish. But after I did some research, I decided to go with a pair of oscellaris.

My angels use to be my favorite fish in my 75g planted tank. But, they would not stop eating my plants. I feed them zuchenni, spanish, squash, lettuce, peas, green beans, turnip greens, just about any vegetable that I buy to cook, but yet they still ate my plants and still ate like a pig during feeding time. So, after 1 1/2 years of plant eating, I took them out and gave them to my sister. She has artificial plants in the tank that they are in.
 
I have to say, things in the 65 are much more relaxed today. Poor Sam, I was watching her to make sure she was doing all right in the little tank and she was wiggling away at me, like her old sweet self. To look at that face, you'd think she was as sweet as a little kitten. It's going to be awfully hard to give her up, but I can't have her tearing up everything in sight.
 
I know what you mean. I have done what I always said I wouldn't do, I overstocked my new 65g by buying the prettiest fish I ever saw. Yellow tang. I read on various sites, including vivid aquarium (sponsor of reefcentral) A good beginner fish, hardy, requires a 50g tank....lalalala. A few others like live aquaria say 50g minimum. The guy who I got it from (a gift) said 50g minimum. The I asked on reefcentral about tank size and virtually got blown out of the water. Still hurting lol.
Now I can't part with him can I? A real character. Looking at me with those bubbly eyes. And the yellow, who knew this color existed?
So now what? A bigger tank? Hmmmmmmmm maybe nesxt year.

D'oh don't feel bad. Its for the sake of the common good. Sucks though I know. I had to take a stray cat to the humane society last Friday. Cute little thing too. That sucked too. I hope she gets adopted, as does Sam.

Ms. Dorothy I still have my planted tank and enjoy it also but its getting neglected these days lol. Seems like it gets prettier if I don't tinker with it thouh. Maybe there's a lesson here lol :)
 
I know what you mean about it getting neglected. So is mine. One of my planted tanks needs pruning. The plants has gotten to big. I have 4 planted tanks, 2 oscar tanks, a q tank that I just set back up, and a 29g on my back porch that I may make into another saltwater after I have some success with the 65g. I finally got around to doing a water change on my tanks yesterday. It had been 2 weeks.

Blinky, Sam is trying to sweet talk you into keeping him/her with all of those innocent looks.
 
SF you should know better than to ask about how much space a tang needs over at RC, those guys are fanatical lol. I agree that some of the big guys do need huge tanks, but lots of people manage yellows in 50-75g tanks just fine.

My planted tanks are severely neglected too, something about these SW tanks just makes us ignore them. If I don't do something soon I won't be able to see my bettas, their 10g is filling up with Java moss. The fish are running out of swimming room, but the shrimp seem to love it :)

I just got off the phone with the LFS, they'll take Sam. I know they treat their fish very well, and I'll make sure they know she's probably best on her own - they have some smaller tanks where they might be able to isolate her so she doesn't kill anything. I still feel bad, but then again she bit me this morning when I moved something in her tank so I don't feel THAT bad ;)
 
Blinky said:
Thank you :)
Today wasn't fun. I caught Sam using a plastic fish bag on an old net frame and put her into the 5.5g. She's pestering the gobies, and I'm fed up with her behaviour - I know it's her nature, but if she kills another fish I'll lose my mind. These guys are a pair, it would break my heart if one of them was killed and the other just pined away. Whatever is going on with her skin isn't getting worse or better, and no one else seems affected so I've got my fingers crossed. I've researched oodinium and brooklynella, it looks like both and neither at the same time. I thought it might be brook since it was only her affected, but it's been three days and she's still eating - if it was brook she'd likely be dead or dying. The thing is, they both have such different treatments, I have no idea which to go with. Tomorrow I'll give her a FW dip and see how that goes, but if she gets better I don't know what to do with her. I think she's already turning into a murderer, I love her but don't want to dedicate an entire tank to her alone. Ugh. Just thinking out loud here, that's sort of what these diaries are for. I'm sure a solution will present itself soon enough.
Happy 2006 all :)
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:( That happened with my Percula clownfish. One of them died, so the other one lost his colors and pined away.
 
Well, Sam is fine, no skin trouble at all, so I guess it wasn't a parasite. I have NO idea what was going on there. I returned her to the LFS today, and warned them about her killing spree. They were smart and put her in a tank with no other fish, hopefully they'll warn the person who wants to buy her that she's a terror.
 
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