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If you're still with me, hey there! I'm Dave. I'm 34 and live outside Annapolis, MD. I do HVAC by trade and dabble in a bunch of other stuff for fun. I've been reefkeeping since late summer 2016. I had a 55g and 2 fluval evo 13.5g tanks. I ended up giving my sister and her daughter one of the evos about a year ago. Things were going great in my 55 and evo until January 2018....
Even though I'd been quarantining all new fish since early 2017, I wasn't doing it for coral or inverts. Unfortunately, I ended up with velvet and prazipro resistant flukes from ~20 new snails and hermits. I had, between the two tanks, 15 fish. I'm currently down to 7 but I am thankful that I was at least able to save them. I have a very small home... I'm talking 700 sq ft! In order to treat my fish I had to break down both dts to setup 4 qt tanks. I gave my oldest niece and her fiance my 55 knowing they'd run it fallow a few months before adding fish of their own. I gave them the entire setup minus my light fixture.
Anyway, the surviving fish are all doing great and have been post copper for a few weeks now. We're ready to rebuild. Here's to a new and hopefully more successful start!
If you're still with me, hey there! I'm Dave. I'm 34 and live outside Annapolis, MD. I do HVAC by trade and dabble in a bunch of other stuff for fun. I've been reefkeeping since late summer 2016. I had a 55g and 2 fluval evo 13.5g tanks. I ended up giving my sister and her daughter one of the evos about a year ago. Things were going great in my 55 and evo until January 2018....
Even though I'd been quarantining all new fish since early 2017, I wasn't doing it for coral or inverts. Unfortunately, I ended up with velvet and prazipro resistant flukes from ~20 new snails and hermits. I had, between the two tanks, 15 fish. I'm currently down to 7 but I am thankful that I was at least able to save them. I have a very small home... I'm talking 700 sq ft! In order to treat my fish I had to break down both dts to setup 4 qt tanks. I gave my oldest niece and her fiance my 55 knowing they'd run it fallow a few months before adding fish of their own. I gave them the entire setup minus my light fixture.
Anyway, the surviving fish are all doing great and have been post copper for a few weeks now. We're ready to rebuild. Here's to a new and hopefully more successful start!