The Official Asylum Reef Tank Thread

Just upgraded to a 125 its about half full of water right now waiting on plumbng to fill her up.

Originally Posted by darb85

Just upgraded to a 125 its about half full of water right now waiting on plumbng to fill her up.

took the shots with too fast ISO so lots of noise, but Ill have more soon!

My Maxima clam just died. Maybe of old age. Maybe the Xenia growing on it toxified it. It was about 7 years old and made it through a few tank crashes. Everything else is fine. ???

[shilala]

I finally got a pic of the new 90 gallon tank. I'm uploading a video, too.
Here she is...

[Blueface]

Originally Posted by shilala

I finally got a pic of the new 90 gallon tank. I'm uploading a video, too.
Here she is...

Sweet!
That is nice Scott.

Good luck with that Rock Beauty.
I call them "dispose-a-fish".
The are so, so tough to have them adapt to captivity.
I see them all the time in the wild when I have gone diving but heck if I have ever had one more than 6 months.

[shilala]

Originally Posted by Blueface

Sweet!
That is nice Scott.

Good luck with that Rock Beauty.
I call them "dispose-a-fish".
The are so, so tough to have them adapt to captivity.
I see them all the time in the wild when I have gone diving but heck if I have ever had one more than 6 months.

Which one is the rock beauty, Carlos?
I've been killing fish for years, it really doesn't phase me anymore.

[Blueface]

Originally Posted by shilala

Which one is the rock beauty, Carlos?
I've been killing fish for years, it really doesn't phase me anymore.

The yellow and black Angel.

[shilala]

Originally Posted by Blueface

The yellow and black Angel.

It's an old girl, she was in the kid's tank for a couple years. She has ich bad. I have to start medicating the tank in the next couple days. I'm not looking forward to it. Everyone else is doing better, but she isn't. Good eater, though. I may just keep waiting it out. If I could catch her, I'd just dip her and set her loose.

[shilala]

Here's a video of the new tank.

I love the Sailfin tang. Mine has a personality. It pays attention to what is going on outside the tank.
I can't even see inside my tank right now. I think I'll go clean it...

[Wolfgang]

Just set up my little 24 gallon again. Its looking good so far.

[shilala]

My salt is up around .025 right now, Carlos. I'll have to swap out a couple buckets of water in the morning.
She's really not in bad shape at all. I should probably not screw with it real fast. I'll bring the temperature up slowly and lower the salinity slowly. I need some water changes anyways, so I'll start making RO water in earnest.

[OLS]

Originally Posted by shilala

My salt is up around .025 right now, Carlos. I'll have to swap out a couple buckets of water in the morning.
She's really not in bad shape at all. I should probably not screw with it real fast. I'll bring the temperature up slowly and lower the salinity slowly. I need some water changes anyways, so I'll start making RO water in earnest.

I can also suggest, that if the fish is not flashing, you can leave it alone.
When I have a tang that is getting ich, I do a couple of things. I get some real macroalgae for it to
eat, I let my tank go to **** and try not to put my hands in the water at all, or even go into the
room for that matter. I go in for feeding and that is it. MOST fish can beat the outbreak if they
have less or no stress. That said I lost a Hepatus tang with this method, and I watched a yellow,
pictured above, beat it cold. I find the stress of catching and quarantining fish pushes them over
the edge. Especially given how we have to catch them with all the rock, coral etc. Many die the
first nite of qt.

[Wolfgang]

the hypo salinity should do the trick. Cranking temperature in the tank isnt shown to help mush with marine ich. Freshwater raising the temp works winders though.

[Wolfgang]

You should be aiming between .013 and .017. for true hypo treatment.

[Blueface]

Originally Posted by shilala

My salt is up around .025 right now, Carlos. I'll have to swap out a couple buckets of water in the morning.
She's really not in bad shape at all. I should probably not screw with it real fast. I'll bring the temperature up slowly and lower the salinity slowly. I need some water changes anyways, so I'll start making RO water in earnest.

.025 is too high for what you have.
Fear not about slow transition. I have taken them down in one water change. Does not hurt them. In fact, I have often times taken a fish out of one environment, into the other, without any acclimation. My son's shop did it all the time also.

Originally Posted by Wolfgang

the hypo salinity should do the trick. Cranking temperature in the tank isnt shown to help mush with marine ich. Freshwater raising the temp works winders though.

Everything I have read indicates both salt water and fresh water ich are affected by temperature. Lower extends life cycle while higher temperature speeds it up. I have never done temperature alone or salinity alone so can't really tell if one is better than the other. However, note that most outbreaks occur when heaters go bad and temperature drops rapidly. The other outbreaks occur when introducing infected fish. Conversely, high temperature must have an effect also.

Originally Posted by Wolfgang

You should be aiming between .013 and .017. for true hypo treatment.

An oceanic institute published a study with a large Angel where he was kept at .012 for well over two years with no issues. While .013 to .017 may do it, the lower you go, the faster the fresh water mixture penetrates and blows up the cysts. My tank runs at around .016 to .017 year round. Note I have seen many outbreaks on folks around .017 so I won't therefore trust that as a safe level for no ich. Saltwater ich cannot survive in fresh water but it is due to their single cell composition blowing up. The sooner you can get those critters off their bodies, the better the survival rate and better chance of not contracting bacterial infections. Sometimes the latter sets in and kills them before the ich suffocates them.

[Wolfgang]

I agree Carlos. It becomes tougher when there are corals in the tank. They are not too fond of the lowered SG.

http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2003-08/sp/index.php

[Blueface]

Originally Posted by Wolfgang

I agree Carlos. It becomes tougher when there are corals in the tank. They are not too fond of the lowered SG.

http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2003-08/sp/index.php

No doubt.
I noted he had no corals in that picture and threw that idea out as such.
With corals, ich is a whole new world.
I frankly am not too fond of taking a reef with nice corals down too low on salinity.

[shilala]

Originally Posted by Blueface

No doubt.
I noted he had no corals in that picture and threw that idea out as such.
With corals, ich is a whole new world.
I frankly am not too fond of taking a reef with nice corals down too low on salinity.

I have a big field of red ones, Carlos. Good thing I didn't change water yet? I also have some small other corals in different places, as well as sponges, snails, and every other thing you can imagine.
Tons of feathers, and my live rock is stellar, and full of clams and sh!t.