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September 18, 2020
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Reef Tank - Aquariums - A tour of my little slice of the reef...

A tour of my little slice of the reef...

Posted: 17 Sep 2020 01:36 PM PDT

Our 75 peninsula reef build progression

Posted: 17 Sep 2020 07:38 AM PDT

A pair of Boom Booms in a field of blues

Posted: 17 Sep 2020 02:20 PM PDT

Bowser frag

Posted: 17 Sep 2020 03:13 PM PDT

I’m ashamed of my tank...I’ve been working on this thing for almost 6 months and can’t figure out what to do.

Posted: 17 Sep 2020 05:14 PM PDT

Mount euphyllias army grows in number!

Posted: 17 Sep 2020 10:33 PM PDT

Finally back in the game!: Set-up and Cycling

Posted: 17 Sep 2020 01:28 PM PDT

1 year since I last posted a pic of my tank....this time, a video...with music.

Posted: 17 Sep 2020 02:34 PM PDT

SHAI-HULUD (�� on)

Posted: 17 Sep 2020 05:15 AM PDT

Frog spawn splitting into two heads

Posted: 17 Sep 2020 09:43 AM PDT

My long-spined urchin preying upon limpets

Posted: 17 Sep 2020 01:01 PM PDT

Have done no maintenance aside from refilling the ATO on this 10 gallon nano for about 4 months... some cool hydroids are starting to grow in.

Posted: 17 Sep 2020 08:27 PM PDT

165 gallon mixed. Trying to live my best reef life but phosphates are tough.

Posted: 17 Sep 2020 12:02 PM PDT

Started with 10 Nassarius snails and 1 Trochus snail, now I have hundreds and they're litterally everywhere!

Posted: 17 Sep 2020 01:46 PM PDT

Losing every fish to every ailment... feeling defeated

Posted: 17 Sep 2020 06:56 PM PDT

I just need to vent. So sad and frustrated. I'm brand new to this hobby but I've done nothing but obsess about learning everything I can. My first batch of fish were healthy thank god, I lost 2 anthias because they weren't eating and a carpenters wrasse due to a broken jaw. The rest of my fish (only 2 tiny clownfish, an anthias, a firefish, and a yasha goby) are thriving, fat, and happy. That's my only solace.

I bought 6 new fish, put them in quarantine and did everything by the books. Every single one is dead or dying. First, they all broke out with ich. Immediately ramped up copper treatment and spots were gone, queue short period of feeling accomplished.

Next, my royal gramma develops a spot - thought it was no big deal, started treatment immediately with metroplex and Kanaplex, but several from R2R confirmed uronema. Ok big deal. They were right, fish died less than 12 hrs after seeing the lesion. Not at all common in grammas, but Murphy's law I guess. The next morning after he died, my favorite flasher wrasse has a lesion in the same place. Another anthias in the tank has 2 small red sores. They are ok for now, and I'm still treating everyone, but chances of surviving at this point are slim to none.

That leaves me with a blenny and a fairy wrasse. Noticed all the fish in the tank flashing... but there are so many meds in the tank, it'll go away right?! No.. just get worse.. every fish is infested with flukes on top of it all. Did freshwater dips on all the fish and an enormous amount of BIG flukes came off, especially the blenny, but I can't treat with prazi due to the copper and other meds in there, it would absolutely kill them. FW dip alone stressed them out immensely and didn't even get rid of all the visible flukes.

So I'm about to lose all of these fish to something that never dies, never goes dormant, typically only affects fish I don't have, and hope I can sterilize the hell out of everything so I don't somehow introduce it to new fish or my DT.

Sorry that was long, just wanted to vent and share my shitty experience. PSA, TLDR: uronema doesn't just affect chromis and it really, really sucks.

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Help pls! Is the thing between the polyp an anemone? If not anyone know what it is?

Posted: 17 Sep 2020 11:33 PM PDT

Just a heads up, the Instant Ocean SeaClone 100 protein skimmer are on clearance for $30 at petco

Posted: 17 Sep 2020 10:45 AM PDT

Well, that’s one use for it...

Posted: 17 Sep 2020 12:28 PM PDT

Darth Maul Porites

Posted: 17 Sep 2020 07:22 AM PDT

How to get cyano off frag before it spreads?

Posted: 17 Sep 2020 11:56 AM PDT

Could I have an id, please? Pardon the dying xenia and this coral's location next to cespitularia. Will be moving after it adjusts for a bit.

Posted: 17 Sep 2020 01:55 PM PDT

I shared this on a FB reef keeping group, thought people would enjoy it here! Here’s my ORA Zombie Clown pretending she is dead after I let a hair algae outbreak happen recently. ��Clowns are seriously the goofiest fish

Posted: 17 Sep 2020 09:38 AM PDT

Marine velvet - fun times and also F*** marine velvet

Posted: 17 Sep 2020 08:51 PM PDT

TL;DR: Please get isolation/quarantine tanks and don't let my story be your story.

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So I'm very new to the hobby and have learnt some painful lessons over the last four days. I'll look for any advice or helpful links you guys have in the comments if that's ok.

I managed to get my fish up to a level that I was happy with... although it seems maybe 1 or 2 too many. I had 7 fish (3 left as of now and for now) for a 125 litre tank (screw freedom units/imperial system). I never isolated anything prior to putting them in, didn't think bad stuff would happen to me and I had never heard of marine velvet until about 2 days ago. I noticed my labouti wrasse had gone into hiding about 3 days ago and I and rainfords gobies had jammed themselves into rocks or were being very lethargic at the back of the tank. That day and a few days prior I had started adding a few corals (two hammers, devils finger and a zoanthid, prior to this green star polyps) and prior to that inverts (1 shifting sand starfish, 1 red line cleaner shrimp, 1 turbo snail and my friend gave me 1 trouchus snail).

The following day I could not find my wrasse and I could only find one goby. Thinking they were hiding due to new corals I wasn't really worried. The following day still no wrasse and one of my kids said that a clown fish had white spots on them. My heart sunk, i thought I had white spots disease. I called my friend, he brought over an isolation tank and I isolated that fish in the tank. He also suggested Medic by polylabs which is reef safe. As it seemed really hard to catch the other fish I decided to try this medic thing. This, was probably the biggest mistake after not having a proper isolation/quarantine regime. I began medicating with medic, crossing fingers that it would work.

The following day I dug around the rocks and found the body of the wrasse, I was devastated (i really love animals). Thinking I had still had white spot I begun think about what to do and went to an aquarium for advice, purchasing more copper supplies and a testing kit as well as a little fan for the iso tank (as we're going to start getting hot here in summer). I came back, watched the fish and saw the goby... swimming.... but not swimming, actually really creepy. I also saw my bicoloured blenny (my favorite fish and the most gut wrenching loss) had no longer a blue/black head... but rather grey and mottled. I went and watched this video: https://youtu.be/m5jEwHIPilg (this video was blunt and too the point and what I needed to see)

Here I learnt about marine velvet. Still not thinking I had it, I transferred my fish over to the iso tank (that was bloody difficult) but euthanized the last goby... I was unable to find the corpse of the first one. Cu was at the appropriate levels to deal with the threat but not kill the fish. Thinking I had dealt with the threat... I carried onto today.

This morning my Blenny died, I almost cried (its stupid in a way... its just a fish but I really cared about that little guy he had so much character). And I realised I had velvet. This nasty disease that wipes out tanks.

So now i'm down to three fish, two black clowns and 1 royal gramma. These fish seem to be ok, still have white spots but I think are going to pull through. They may not, and I realise that. And also now, my tank is fallow and will be for 3 months (as I am 99% sure it was velvet I cannot rule out white spot).

I guess I'm posting this as a way to deal with my grief but also as a warning for others. Get isolation tanks. I'll say it again, get bloody isolation tanks and if you didn't hear me the first and second time... bloody well get isolation tanks. Make room, find the money, do something! It isn't worth it, and now in my humbled opinion its irresponsible for the lives in your care to not. I for one will have separate iso tanks for corals and fish so I can have a low level of copper in the fish one.

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