vowelmovements
Aquarium Advice Apprentice
- Joined
- Mar 18, 2006
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- 13
Well...
I picked up a heater for my guys per forum advice (100w). Temp was reading on an independent coral-life probe at 72.. I cranked it up to 74 and left it. Next day, 75. Left it for three days then upped it to about 76.. figure ill increase it one degree every week as it gets closer to summer.
My fish were not big fans of the temp change. I had a zebra damsel become snack food for my big hermit crab. My yellow tail damsel and other zebra damsel now have ich which my skunk crab is doing his best to contain. Tiny damsel cleaned by same size shrimp is fun if it was not such a morbid signal.
I've stepped up feedings to every day instead of every other day to try and help them out.
My water is testing fine, I am going to do a water change with RO/DI water this weekend.
I got my power compact! 2x65w bulbs. On a 29 gallon this equals roughly 4.5 watts/gallon. I am sure the diatoms living in there now will love it.
I guess my two remaining fish are doomed so i've planned to try and help them but if they go just leave the whole setup fishless for 6 weeks to kill baby ich and build up some more cleaning crew and maybe a few other anmeones.
Any suggestions to help the fish? If they die what can I do to help keep the bio-load from crashing? And how do I run a dawn-day-dusk setup? Acitinic (sp?) for a few hours then daylight bulbs then just the acitinics?
Thanks again for all the help.
(right now I have two sick damsels, a big feather duster, a skunk shrimp, a rock anmeone, a big red hermit crab, little blue crabs and a turbo snail)
I picked up a heater for my guys per forum advice (100w). Temp was reading on an independent coral-life probe at 72.. I cranked it up to 74 and left it. Next day, 75. Left it for three days then upped it to about 76.. figure ill increase it one degree every week as it gets closer to summer.
My fish were not big fans of the temp change. I had a zebra damsel become snack food for my big hermit crab. My yellow tail damsel and other zebra damsel now have ich which my skunk crab is doing his best to contain. Tiny damsel cleaned by same size shrimp is fun if it was not such a morbid signal.
I've stepped up feedings to every day instead of every other day to try and help them out.
My water is testing fine, I am going to do a water change with RO/DI water this weekend.
I got my power compact! 2x65w bulbs. On a 29 gallon this equals roughly 4.5 watts/gallon. I am sure the diatoms living in there now will love it.
I guess my two remaining fish are doomed so i've planned to try and help them but if they go just leave the whole setup fishless for 6 weeks to kill baby ich and build up some more cleaning crew and maybe a few other anmeones.
Any suggestions to help the fish? If they die what can I do to help keep the bio-load from crashing? And how do I run a dawn-day-dusk setup? Acitinic (sp?) for a few hours then daylight bulbs then just the acitinics?
Thanks again for all the help.
(right now I have two sick damsels, a big feather duster, a skunk shrimp, a rock anmeone, a big red hermit crab, little blue crabs and a turbo snail)