Rutrag
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I hadn't updated my original build thread in quite a while, and the forum won't let me add to it becasue it's so old. You can find the beginnings here if you care to read it:
http://www.aquariumadvice.com/forums/f11/75-gallon-build-174883.html
Lots of bad news between my last post and now. Either the royal gramma or the exquisite wrasse brought in a case of ich and I lost everything except for the blue sided wrasse, the ochre-striped cardinal and the foxface. That was somewhere around July 17. I had pulled everyone back to a 10 gallon quarantine, but the clown succumbed. While I let the display go fallow, I had to travel on business and I think the foxface just starved while I was gone. The wrasse and the cardinal went back into the display around August 24.
At some point I lost my umbrella polyp for reasons unknown. It seems like it puked its guts out and then disappeared.
My yellow polyps also vanished. I have two polyps left that moved off of the original rock still with me.
I went on vacation from August 25 through September 2. I think I knocked the lights of the timer the night before leaving, and I only realized my error the afternoon of September 3. My birdsnest bleached out completely. Some polyps were still alive, but they were snow white. The colony died within another week. The forest fire montipora also bleached, but not quite as bad. It's still hanging on - barely. My pink zoas, Green Bay Packer zoas, and eagle eyes lost a lot of color, but I think they are going to be okay. The LPS and mushrooms pulled through just fine. On a more positive note, this solved my cyano / dino problem.
So I (who should have known better) have learned my lesson the hard way about quarantining fish. Each new fish spends at least 14 days in quarantine from now on.
I've begun to restock. Here are shots of some of my newer arrivals:
Melanarus wrasse:
A pair of Ocellaris clowns
A new acan frag
Green cap monti
Green elkhorn
Green birdsnest (this variety looks a little different from the other I had):
Blue birdsnest (what remains of the forest fire montipora are in the foreground):
Some pink xenia (you can see some of my first acan coloy on the right):
I moved this deresa clam from my 37 becasue I bought a carpet anemone I was afraid would sting it:
I think this is blue tip staghorn. I forgot to ask what exactly it was when I bought it:
http://www.aquariumadvice.com/forums/f11/75-gallon-build-174883.html
Lots of bad news between my last post and now. Either the royal gramma or the exquisite wrasse brought in a case of ich and I lost everything except for the blue sided wrasse, the ochre-striped cardinal and the foxface. That was somewhere around July 17. I had pulled everyone back to a 10 gallon quarantine, but the clown succumbed. While I let the display go fallow, I had to travel on business and I think the foxface just starved while I was gone. The wrasse and the cardinal went back into the display around August 24.
At some point I lost my umbrella polyp for reasons unknown. It seems like it puked its guts out and then disappeared.
My yellow polyps also vanished. I have two polyps left that moved off of the original rock still with me.
I went on vacation from August 25 through September 2. I think I knocked the lights of the timer the night before leaving, and I only realized my error the afternoon of September 3. My birdsnest bleached out completely. Some polyps were still alive, but they were snow white. The colony died within another week. The forest fire montipora also bleached, but not quite as bad. It's still hanging on - barely. My pink zoas, Green Bay Packer zoas, and eagle eyes lost a lot of color, but I think they are going to be okay. The LPS and mushrooms pulled through just fine. On a more positive note, this solved my cyano / dino problem.
So I (who should have known better) have learned my lesson the hard way about quarantining fish. Each new fish spends at least 14 days in quarantine from now on.
I've begun to restock. Here are shots of some of my newer arrivals:
Melanarus wrasse:
A pair of Ocellaris clowns
A new acan frag
Green cap monti
Green elkhorn
Green birdsnest (this variety looks a little different from the other I had):
Blue birdsnest (what remains of the forest fire montipora are in the foreground):
Some pink xenia (you can see some of my first acan coloy on the right):
I moved this deresa clam from my 37 becasue I bought a carpet anemone I was afraid would sting it:
I think this is blue tip staghorn. I forgot to ask what exactly it was when I bought it: