The Rebuild Begins!!! - Page 33

Geoff · 09-24-2007, 09:27 AM

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Originally Posted by tdwyatt

Geoff, talk me into taking a trimp down to Myrtle or Sunset Beach, we can net them around the pilings this far north still... or we can do a road trip nd bait some traps for them, but we'll have to sort them out from the crabs

no way really!! i thought they were further south. how far north do they go? i was just around Wilmington earlier this year, could i have hunted them there? i am going to be annoyed if i wasted that opportunity to get some larger peps.

Zac-great to see you lurking around!! How is married life treating you!!

G~

jennmac415 · 11-13-2007, 03:28 PM

Wow... Geoff... I have always wanted to read this entire thread... I sortof just jump around in it...... your tank looks awesome...how about an updated pic. Did i see that at one point you had 2 blue jaw triggers in there? do you still have them... i love those fish, I know they are considered to be one of the only "reef safe" triggers... how did they do in there...

Geoff · 11-13-2007, 08:05 PM

my tan was wiped out by that darn internal parasite/cyanide. i have just a few fish left.

my goldrim tang is super fat and happy, so is my ruby headed fairy wrasse. i have only 2 flagtails left. they are kinda skinny, but doing fine. they eat like pigs so i think that they have the same internal parasite problem the other critters had.

i have a super fat and healthy male blue jaw in my sump right now. he has been at the LFS since August. i finally decided he is a good buy. if he has lasted that long then it is not cyanide caught and eating. i will move him up into the display later this week or next.

i have a horrendous aiptasia problem right now. i have a whole heard of peps coming tomorrow to see if i can get a handle on these things.

this is why the trigger is staying in the sump. i am pretty sure the trigger would go for any freshly released shrimp i put in the water column. i am hoping that if i give the shrimp a few days time to find hiding spaces and get comfortable then the trigger would not be as interested. the previous triggers i had were only interested in food in the water column. they did not bother crabs/shrimp on the rocks.

i also have a pretty bad bubble algae problem. the gold-rim/white cheek tang loves the red bubble, so this is not a problem. the obnoxious small green bubbles is what is really being problematic. they have managed to get a hold inside a few of my SPS so they are killing them from the inside out.

those growth inhibitors are really annoying. i am getting a heard of emeralds tomorrow also to see if i can get a handle on their population. i will be fragging the corals in peril to get them back growing again.

i will see about getting an updated pic. the corals/clams that are not affected by the bubble/aiptasia are growing great!!

thanks for wondering.

G~

tdwyatt · 11-14-2007, 04:50 PM

[quote=Geoff;1192739]my tan was wiped out by that darn internal parasite/cyanide. i have just a few fish left.

hispital tank w/ metronidazole

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... have only 2 flagtails left. they are kinda skinny, but doing fine. they eat like pigs so i think that they have the same internal parasite problem the other critters had.

let the tank lie fallow for a month, pretreat incoming specimens from this source in the hospital tank for a week with metro... Once they are in the tank and have a host, they will stay there untill you starve them out for a month. A few anthelmenics that will affect the worms only if you feel you HAVE TO treat the tank, but they will affect ALL THE WORMS in the tank, PM me for more.

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...the previous triggers i had were only interested in food in the water column. they did not bother crabs/shrimp on the rocks.

Heh, good luck on this

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i also have a pretty bad bubble algae problem. the gold-rim/white cheek tang loves the red bubble, so this is not a problem. the obnoxious small green bubbles is what is really being problematic. they have managed to get a hold inside a few of my SPS so they are killing them from the inside out.

those growth inhibitors are really annoying. i am getting a heard of emeralds tomorrow also to see if i can get a handle on their population. i will be fragging the corals in peril to get them back growing again.

... ROAD TRIP!~!!

We'll all bring tweezers.

Physical removal is not so bad when you have a group working on it...

Just curious, what are your water parameters for nitrate now (re: Ventricaria agagropila ) and are the small bubbles singular or little aggregates?

Geoff · 11-14-2007, 07:42 PM

Tom- the problem is that most of the LR is epoxyied in place.

kinda hard to fit a bunch of people up on the mantle with tweezers picking bubbles out of the tank.

for a while there i was dosing the tank every week with Metronidazole, at twice the recommended dosage. i did this for a month. it did not seem to help. it could very well have been cyanide. not sure. i feed the tank pretty heavily, so i do not think that it is lack of food. i feed a variety of food also.

you, or anybody is welcome to a road trip!!

G~

gitsumpottery · 12-16-2007, 02:30 PM

hey geoff, any updates?

Ratpack · 01-24-2008, 09:44 AM

Geoff, I was reading your thread again and was wondering where you got the dry rock from and is there anything special to look for? I think I would like to aquascape a little prior to putting my tank in place but definitely do not want to pay for LR and then have to hold onto it in a holding tank until the time to set up comes.