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Dan's 150 Rebuild

Sobo's Reef

Sobo's Reef

Well, just woke up to an angel fish being tossed around by my powerhead. He's not looking good and I have no idea why. He was eating fine. No signs of anything wrong. Ughhh
 
Sobo's Reef

Sobo's Reef

Mike S said:
How did you acclimate it? Was there a significant difference between the salinity in the store water vs. your qt?
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I did temp acclimation for like 20 mins in my actual tank. Then I dripped him for a little bit. Maybe 10 mins. Then dumped him in. Im not sure what aquarium center has their tanks at to be honest. I just did a quick water change to see if that helps but I doubt it. There's goes $50 :( and off to work I go
 
dnov99

dnov99

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I always test the water the fish was in at the store. For all you know they keep it at .015, which I have seen before. 10 minute drip time is absolutely useless and would have done nothing. You have to know what salinity it was kept at in order to determine the length of time to acclimate...
 
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dnov99 said:
I always test the water the fish was in at the store. For all you know they keep it at .015, which I have seen before. 10 minute drip time is absolutely useless and would have done nothing. You have to know what salinity it was kept at in order to determine the length of time to acclimate...
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That's what I'm going on. Poor acclimation job by me. Darn it, darn it, darn it.
 
jgraz

jgraz

None of that water from aquarium center made it into you main tank did it. I know they used to run medicated tank there. Not sure if they still do.
 
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Mike S

Im guessing osmotic shock due to a salinity change. Fish generally cant handle rapid increases in salinity (> 0.002). Salinity and temperature seem to be the most important parameters when it comes to acclimation. I killed a few fish early on not paying attention to salinity. I also fealt that ive lost a number of fish due to long drip acclimations. Anymore when I looking to get a new fish I set my qt around 1.018 to 1.020. While Im floating the bag for temperature I test the store water salinity and adjust down if necessary. Then if it is coming from a local store I might do a quick 30 minute acclimation. If it was a mail order and sitting in the water overnight, I ussually end up scooping it right out and place it in the qt. Ammonia becomes your enemy then once the bag is oppened.
 
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Mike S said:
Im guessing osmotic shock due to a salinity change. Fish generally cant handle rapid increases in salinity (> 0.002). Salinity and temperature seem to be the most important parameters when it comes to acclimation. I killed a few fish early on not paying attention to salinity. I also fealt that ive lost a number of fish due to long drip acclimations. Anymore when I looking to get a new fish I set my qt around 1.018 to 1.020. While Im floating the bag for temperature I test the store water salinity and adjust down if necessary. Then if it is coming from a local store I might do a quick 30 minute acclimation. If it was a mail order and sitting in the water overnight, I ussually end up scooping it right out and place it in the qt. Ammonia becomes your enemy then once the bag is oppened.
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Yeah that's what I'm leaning towards too :/ I'm so mad at myself for not doing things properly. Between this, my light breaking, my algae sort of returning, and a few of my SPS frags dying. I'm about to pull the remainder of my hair out!
 
dan_k

dan_k

Gotcha
I was thinking of doing the same I really don't get a lot of sand blowing around but I need to add couple more power heads let me know how you make out buddy
 
JRWOHLER

JRWOHLER

Sobo's Reef said:
Seriously considering going bare bottom, any thoughts?
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This is one of the great debates. You have 4 options bare bottom, deep sand bed, shallow sand bed, or the one and only crushed coral with underground reverse filter that PaulB uses. Since Paul is probably the only person to pull off his version stick with one of the other three. Anyways I have a 4-5 inch oomite sand and I don't have any blowing around. I think with the correct bacteria growth it just sticks. Now I can make a mess of it but generally I don't have a problem. For some fish you need a bed of some sort, wrasses, shrimp gobies, etc. It is really your preference IMHO you just have to make each one work for you.
 
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