194G IPI tank build

[carey]

It's looking really great! Is the blue painted on the back or was it an added acrylic panel?

 

[leftyfish]

It's looking really great! Is the blue painted on the back or was it an added acrylic panel?

It is blue acrylic, so is the coast to coast so it blends well, at least without any lights on the tank yet!

 

[leftyfish]

Started dosing ammonia yesterday, added a little more today to bring it up, will test in four days for trites. Using Dr. Tim's aquatics method.

 

[carey]

Nice, may you have a speedy and solid cycle!

 

[leftyfish]

FTS to date, waiting on some Tonga branch from BRS to almost finish the scape. The rock my RBTA is on will be put in also, somewhere near the middle.

Under the hood...I have my AI controller, wave maker and ACJR in the hood. Still need to organize the cords.

 

[SWSCJ]

Looks like a acrylic panel

 

[leftyfish]

Looks like a acrylic panel

Yep, the whole tank is acrylic. I am waiting on my acrylic mag float to clean it!

 

[leftyfish]

Okay we are cycling...high trites, ammonia going down, according to Dr. Ts I wait until they are both zero and dose ammonia again to 2 ppm and keep doing that until it only takes 24 hours for both to disappear.

Question, it says to keep dosing until you add fish, is adding coral the same? Will coral make enough ammonia to keep the bacteria happy?

Calibrated my pH probe today.

 

[Gti_Leo]

thats alot of nitrate being added if it tells you to dose until you add fish. i mean in a way its good to build the colony but if you don't add enough fish to build that ammonia level then you won't sustain that bacteria colony and it will eventually just die off so i don't see it being worth it to do that

 

[leftyfish]

I may be cycled! I dosed ammonia this am and will check tomorrow.

 

[leftyfish]

Added engineer goby yesterday, he swam around the tank for the whole day/night. Now he made a home under a rock. Added the kole tang and foxface from my QT. Will wait another week to add Bonnie and Clyde and their RBTA. Tomorrow hopefully the rest of the coral and my clam.

Picked up a powder brown and a yellow tang. They are in QT, going to start hypo tomorrow and prazipro pro once hypo is at 1.009. I have yet to buy a tang without ich, so I'm not waiting a month to find out.

He really grows on you....

 

[carey]

My engineer goby is a real sweetie! My yellow clown goby sleeps with him at night. So cute!

Your tank is coming right along! It will be soon enough that you will have a whole tankful of fish to show us! How about a tank shot to get us by?

 

[leftyfish]

Here's a FTS...

 

[carey]

Stunning, it really is beautiful. Thanks!

 

[SWSCJ]

With stress comes ich. I've got 9 tangs in my tank that I keep an eye on. Your tank is looking great !

 

[leftyfish]

Both tangs in QT are eating off the clip, yeah! So I will start hypo in the next few days for 4 weeks, then 4 week observation.

I'm trying to figure out if I could build a container that the fish would live in when I put them in the tank so no one would hurt if there is aggression at first.

Fox face and Kole tang are loving the tank! The engineer goby hides all day and swims around the tank all night. He has quite the den made under one area of rock.

 

[FTMMWS]

With stress comes ich. I've got 9 tangs in my tank that I keep an eye on. Your tank is looking great !

This is not an accurate statement..I can go stress the heck out of my tank and no ick will affect my fish..If you keep it out ,it won't just appear out of nowhere


Lefty,love the nice open look,,tank and fish look great

 

[leftyfish]

This is not an accurate statement..I can go stress the heck out of my tank and no ick will affect my fish..If you keep it out ,it won't just appear out of nowhere

Lefty,love the nice open look,,tank and fish look great

Thanks! I do have my sump full of rock for bio filter, but it was important to me to have a minimalist/open look in the DT. Now if it will fill in with SPS.

I lost my tank to ich because I didn't know to quarantine. I just treated the foxface (as a new purchase) for 3 months in my QT to get rid of ich he had and the kole tang was a pitty buy, covered with ich and a bacterial infection. Both are doing great and the ich is gone, finally.

I decided after losing my pets to be prophylactic in treating for ich and flukes, etc. I had to also treat the bacterial infection with furan-2 while they were in hypo. I do a 10 day dose of prazipro once I see they are eating and I get hypo to 1.009. The tank crash made me be proactive instead of reactive.

The kole tang has hlle from either the stress of all the disease or the 20g QT, but I'm hoping it starts to get better now that it is loving the big tank. I give it green, brown, red and purple nori/algae so diet wise I think it is okay.

 

[FTMMWS]

The kole should start to recover from HLLE in the DT,but you can also add vita-chem to its diet and some formula 2 frozen cubes,,not the flakes...Also try peas,,my fish really like them..

 

[SWSCJ]

We give the Yellow Tang a ** (Two Star) Care Rating Level. It is a hardy, strong fish and is fairly easy to care for. However, it is a fish that is prone to contracting saltwater Ich diseases (Whitespot forms and Blackspot) and possibly HLLE (head and lateral line erosion). The Ich factor makes it a less than ideal choice for a beginner just starting or cycling a tank, because stress is greatly related to these diseases. By Stan and Debbie Hauter. They have been working in the aquarium fish field since 1989.

Pulled from one of the many articles on ich. Keeping your fish healthy and happy makes a difference with fish that have a tendency to carry low levels of ich at all times.