Tank Journal Archive

[aussieant32]

Ours just hides & only comes out at dinner time.
Cool little buggers tho,

Mine attacks everything, even took a chunk out of my tang

 

[Synodontis]

Hmmm,

Perhaps that is why we have only half a pajama swimming around in the corner! :confused:

 

[aussieant32]

he is horrible. Only thing he is scared of of the blenny, shats himself when it comes near him :P

 

[aussieant32]

ok so looks like the osmolator wasn't stuffed, was the sump issue causing the problem, this is fixed now, osmolator has run 2 days with no issues.

Now, tank is back to being fully happy again, still the odd coral sulking but thats no drama, they will come good.

So now I want to concentate on really getting the colours out, I am very cautrious of using zeovit as if I go away they tank may crash, any other suggestions to get a really good coral colour?

Current stock
6-7 hammers
3 torches
4 cats
morphs
few rics
trachy
duncan
goni
leathers

 

[aussieant32]

also made a purchase, Was worried about a clam cause of the cost but have had one in there for about a year and always looked happy.

 

[Buddy]

Nice clam! So what ended up being the problem with the sump?

 

[aussieant32]

I added an elbow at the top of my standpipe to reduce some noise, I forgot I did it but this was causing the water to stay really high as opposed to being an over flow.

 

[aussieant32]

ok, so kind of journalling an issue I am having.

Sunday morning tank was really cloudy, 2.5 deep and could not see the back wall, no idea what happened. Changed about 180L and it cleared quite a bit, but the tangs were really struggling, yellow was flat on its side and the sailfin sitting on bottom breathing heavy.

All I really had was GFO so started running it, didn't really do anything, but today water is 80% clearer again, fish now not eating. I mean no fish at all. Obviously a problem.

@NiCd gave me some carbon to try pull as much out of the water as possible, have just started running it, will see how it goes. Also skimming as wet as I dare :)

 

[Miller]

Ohhh no
Hope everything pulls up ok
Nothing worse then looking at the tank and having that sinking feeling knowing there is something massively wrong happening

 

[aussieant32]

at the moment thinking a mix of bacterial bloom and something freaking out and releasing a toxin

 

[Elias]

sounds like a bacterial bloom Ant, and if it's that extreme that you can't see to the back of the tank, it will strip the oxygen out too which would explain the fish on their side. If it's coming good then just keep an eye on it and have water ready for another smallish change. The fish are only off their food coz they're stressed. They will recover, just keep offering small parcels of food now and then. They'll be fine.

just my $0.02

 

[aussieant32]

they are looking better this morning, hard to say for aure with the lights on moonlight though. plenty of water available, dont want to change too much more though. I am hopeful they will be ok, much more hopeful than Sunday anyway

 

[RobbieMVFC]

Oh God , hope everything is ok Ant.
Q did you add Rowa , ? That can sometimes make your water cloudy but it won’t harm anything.
Also I run carbon all of the time . It IMO provides so many benefits to a reef tank including keeping your water clear

 

[aussieant32]

no, the cloudiness came on all of a sudden, nothing was added to the tank.

Carbon can also make your water too clean for lps so its a fine line

 

[chimaera]

Crap mate, hope it all pulls through.

 

[aussieant32]

everything crossed :(

At least I feel I have done all I can, just up to the reef gods now

 

[MTG]

no, the cloudiness came on all of a sudden, nothing was added to the tank.

Carbon can also make your water too clean for lps so its a fine line

Hope all goes well. I've never had issues with carbon and lps tho!

 

[aussieant32]

bit random but ok? :confused:

thanks lol

 

[Elias]

On hopefully a more cheerful note, how's your new inhabitant going Ant?

 

[aussieant32]

probably the only one so far that looks uneffected!