Recent content by Patterson333

Hmm, I might ask around some more, but it's looking like it might not be the best of ideas. The weather's gotten more pleasant now though, and we're finally breaking out of the endless summer, so it might be feasible. I'm thinking of doing a "dry" run (or in this case wet run lol) with just...

I have a spare heater, so I'd probably be able to maintain a steady temperature, albeit a high one. So would keeping a constant temperature of say 85 or 84 be very detrimental in a QT?

Alright everyone, I've got another question for you. If I end up setting up that 55G as my QT, it might have to be in my garage. The weather's getting cooler, but the temperature in the garage is still probably going to be in the 80s. When I was curing my live rock in there, the max temp was...

Lol yea I noticed a little smudge of of coralline on one of my non-coralline rocks and it made me all happy too. Though I have a feeling that soon enough we'll be overrun with the stuff. It's funny how we get so excited about these little things when we're first starting off. Two weeks ago...

Well, came home to find the clown attached to the filter intake. He was gasping really heavily, color was pretty much gone. Eyes clouded, upside down, fins all mangled. There's absolutely no way he would've pulled through, so instead of letting him slowly die out I prepared a little cup of ice...

I just read through that thread of yours. So nice and simple, good work! :thumb: Unfortunately I don't really have the space for a gravity operated system. My original plan was to buy a pair of float switches and have one of my engineer friends help me out with the setup. But so as to not...

Thanks everyone, before starting this project I had kept FW tanks for about 3 years, so I've had quite a few fish die on me (especially in quarantine). I try to do the best I can to treat them, but when a fish dies I don't beat myself up about it (when I first started I kind of did lol). In...

I went out earlier and picked up a garlic supplement. I also got some cupramine, just to keep on hand. It's been my experience that it's usually a good idea to keep some of these meds handy. Unfortunately, it seems I was too late for the smaller of the two clowns. When I came home from dinner...

Yea I'm thinking I might need to pick up some garlic supplement if they continue with their hunger strike lol

I did another water change and brought down the SG from 1.015 to 1.011. I'll try to do another small one tomorrow to bring it down to the 1.009 I'm aiming for. I must say though, the clowns weren't looking too good to me. Not eating, clamped fins, fading color, I'm a little doubtful that...

Well, that's a good question, but unfortunately I don't really have a good answer for you. Hopefully someone else will lol. I wouldn't imagine heat would be too much of a problem, I'm down in Miami, and I cured my live rock in the garage with water temperatures around 87, with no negative...

First off, you definitely do not want to put that uncured live rock in a tank with fish. The die-off will cause an ammonia spike which might kill your fish. You're gonna want to put the rocks in a holding tank of some sort. It doesn't even really need to be a fish tank, just as long as it...

Good to know. I used to use this QT tank for freshwater a while ago, and I never had a substrate for that same purpose.

It looks like you're being really diligent in your process of building this, maybe once you've finished you could make a nice little write up with pictures and such, detailing your project, maybe even including whatever specs and measurements you've recorded. That way someone else might...

Nope, no sand or gravel in the QT. I keep it really bare, though I might toss a piece of PVC in there just so that the fish have another little hiding spot.