72x30x18 DIY build thread

[Jay Hemdal Verified Community Expert]

Hopefully diet and orp increase will do them well

If it is ich and you decide to try and "manage" it, you will need to use some other techniques as well. I discuss that here:
https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/ich-management.1028274/

 

[Stang67]

It's weird though because I run uv 24/7.

New bulb?

 

[Nate Chalk]

New bulb?

maybe... ill look when i got it.

Sitting here thinking about having to get all of the fish out of the tank, and then also try to keep them from killing eachother while keeping them mildly poisoned in a 90g or something.

For 75+ days

actually seams impossible

 

[Nate Chalk]

uhhh 1 yr ago exactly it was replaced

which looks like it should likely be replaced.


55w bulbs orderd

 

[Nate Chalk]

If it is ich and you decide to try and "manage" it, you will need to use some other techniques as well. I discuss that here:
https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/ich-management.1028274/

Jay,
First thanks for the time. Appreciate it.

I've been reading some of your responses on other threads about the in tank treatments from Ruby Reef. I dont see you endorsing them highly, but I am considering it as an option. I see others highly endorsing them. Man its really hard to make heads or tails. What are your concerns specifically with these treatments (other than mine where it seems too good to be true)

I've re upped my uv bulb due tomorrow and am re establishing excellent water quality and adding to diet.

Im really not set up to pull 20+ fish and house them in a separate tank for 75 days.

 

[Stang67]

uhhh 1 yr ago exactly it was replaced

which looks like it should likely be replaced.


55w bulbs orderd

I stayed at a holiday in Express last night ;)

 

[Nate Chalk]

I stayed at a holiday in Express last night ;)

Wait what lol

 

[tbrown]

Wait what lol

Plank

 

[Nate Chalk]

Plank

No thank you

 

[Nate Chalk]

LOL

 

[Jay Hemdal Verified Community Expert]

Jay,
First thanks for the time. Appreciate it.

I've been reading some of your responses on other threads about the in tank treatments from Ruby Reef. I dont see you endorsing them highly, but I am considering it as an option. I see others highly endorsing them. Man its really hard to make heads or tails. What are your concerns specifically with these treatments (other than mine where it seems too good to be true)

I've re upped my uv bulb due tomorrow and am re establishing excellent water quality and adding to diet.

Im really not set up to pull 20+ fish and house them in a separate tank for 75 days.

I’m just not a fan of using rally pro against ich, it is such a mild medication. It does have use in slowing down cases of brooklynella.

 

[Nate Chalk]

So. Paul B , mentioning management. Reading he uses a diatom filter . (1micron) To limit parasites.

I'm wondering how strong of swimmers ich would be.

Do they end up in the sump to get filtered out (they are 30-50 microns) my socks are 5 micron.

My intake for uv is in the last chamber of my sump. So if they don't make it down it won't help.



I believe the oxydator i have that's way oversized will help. Somewhat.

 

[Jay Hemdal Verified Community Expert]

So. Paul B , mentioning management. Reading he uses a diatom filter . (1micron) To limit parasites.

I'm wondering how strong of swimmers ich would be.

Do they end up in the sump to get filtered out (they are 30-50 microns) my socks are 5 micron.

My intake for uv is in the last chamber of my sump. So if they don't make it down it won't help.



I believe the oxydator i have that's way oversized will help. Somewhat.

The trouble with Cryptocaryon theronts/tomites is that they are released from the resting stage tomonts in the early morning. They can attach to fish sleeping on the bottom of the tank without ever going through a UV or diatom filter. Both of those devices are best suited for removing parasites from water going from one tank to another in a system, not as a sidestream on a single tank.

 

[Nate Chalk]

Well efforts to manage are in place.

Replacement Uv bulb installed
Oxydator topped off with h2o2
Diet upped to regular
5 micron socks deployed

Fish looking better. Though lifecycle could be at that point. Will continue observation.

 

[Nate Chalk]

And I haven't seen another one of these ugly freaks of nature again yet.

 

[Stang67]

Any better today?

 

[Nate Chalk]

Any better today?

Yep, improvement still.

First uv bulb blew up , replaced with the other. Weird.

Continued diet and management as I had going on.

 

[Nate Chalk]

and thee spots are back, same amount or so

LAME.

suppose thats how the lifecycle would work....

 

[Nate Chalk]

Merry holidays to my #Cronies

From my ich-y reef. Just cleaned glass , power heads

 

[tbrown]

Merry Christmas! Sorry you're having trouble with the fishes!