688s 100g Thread

Well I postponed my weekly water change because after taking a close look at my fish I seen signs of ich on the larger ones. Lets talk about stress catching 2 tangs and an angel was enough to stress me after playing games and tricks for an hour I was faced with a moral dilemma is it worth it to catch them or just let the shrimps clean them up it took me just a few seconds to decide. So I begging the adventure I removed 120 pounds of live rock from my tank so I could catch them and that I did I dipped the angel in hi concentrate of copper for 20 mints and 15 on the tangs. They mediately looked way better almost like the spots fell off right in the copper bowl. a few points to be made wile trying to catch the fish they sustained some injuries so in the future if I need to dip I guess its remove the rock first and interesting thing on of my shrimps was caught in a power head so i reversed the flow and he flew out and was fine. Now I'm thinking about treating the tank with melafix for the rock scrapes on the fish.

 

But I am getting the watter ready tonight for change tomorrow 15gal

 

New Rock Setup

 

Well weekley water change is done. And today is day 2 of melafix treeded food water tests will be done tonight and posted WISH ME LUCK =).

 

Just a followup on the illness of my fish they are showing no signs of sickness today however they been taxing the shrimps all day glad I have 4

 

The new rock looks great, did you glue it down with anything?

 

Thank You I like this new look as well and think its going to be permanent as far as glue no but i have become an expert over the years with stacking rocks I'm lucky enough to have some very large ones that I build at the bottom there is always concern for avalanche abut it has not happened to me in years

 

NO3 is back up 50+ I'm hopping this is due the suturing up crap when i pulled all the live rock to do the copper dip and the melafix treatment I been doing today is day 4 of 7 I'm sure there was die off from some of the rock being out of water almost 30min .

 

shifting the rocks in my tanks I've usually noticed a NO3 spike in the following days, I wouldnt worry about it to much

 

Thanks that is what i was hopping.