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Welcome! You are in the right place.... and bigger is not always better. (giggle)I've already posted my algae (maybe?) problem but wanted to say hi and I knew this wouldn't be easy! I have had freshwater most of my adult life and decided I really wanted that reef tank. Talked hubby into this nano 15g (not knowing bigger is better in this hobby) to prove I am worthy of that larger tank!
Experiencing my first serious outbreak of something (suspect: dinoflagellates). So glad a place like this exists for people like me.
LOL thanks. Gives me hope. Thought I was doing so good. Then BAM and my tank is ugly and my poor critters are not happy. Just hoping I don't lose anyone. Started with cheaper stock but even the cheap stuff isn't cheap!Welcome! I'm at the one year mark on my 13 gal and it's just starting to get past the ugly's. My 20 is only 6 months, deeply, deeply ugly...
Last night I was wondering about the success rate of going to hubby and explaining the need for a hospital tank LOL. I'm not giving up. I'm going to persist. There is SO much to learn.Welcome! You are in the right place.... and bigger is not always better. (giggle)
These days I have 1 180g tank but at one point I had 5 'normal' sized tanks... there are advantages in being able to move fish and corals into completely different tanks that only come from HAVING different tanks. I think you are starting off great, and everything you learn will help your future tanks, too
my favorite QT is just 5 gallon tank from Petco that came with most everything. My advice, don't get round/bow front but go traditional shape. Think the curve freaked out fish and also made it hard to see the fish in quarantine. Currently I'm growing red ogo for my tangs in QT, because I used Vibrant to treat bad bubble algae and it also ate my macro algae. Then, using Reef Flux to treat for a type of hair algae, my yellow tang seemed to start dying! (Yellow tangs are the coal mine canary equivalent in reef tanks IMO) Fortunately my QT was already up and so over in there he went.... Now in there 2+ weeks able to eat all the Red Ogo he can... sure he thinks he went to heaven... though I'm making plans to move him back to display tank. I finished my Reef Flux treatment this weekend, 20% water change and running charcoal, so everything else looking good in my main tank. Not going to move my yellow too fast back, as there is stress just moving so don't want to move there only to have to take back out... Having another tank is handy. When I don't use my QT tanks, I store them next to my WFH desk in corner out of sight. NOTE: if you get that 5g Petco combo tank setup they sell, and want to grow macro algae, you will need a different top & light (but its only a few who will do what I did... when I can move the ogo back to my sump when Vibrant is over, then my QT will go back to being a real QT)Last night I was wondering about the success rate of going to hubby and explaining the need for a hospital tank LOL. I'm not giving up. I'm going to persist. There is SO much to learn.
So do you just keep the QT tanks ready to go? What, if anything, do you keep in them all the time? Thanks for the bowed tank advice! And im headed over to petco.my favorite QT is just 5 gallon tank from Petco that came with most everything. My advice, don't get round/bow front but go traditional shape. Think the curve freaked out fish and also made it hard to see the fish in quarantine. Currently I'm growing red ogo for my tangs in QT, because I used Vibrant to treat bad bubble algae and it also ate my macro algae. Then, using Reef Flux to treat for a type of hair algae, my yellow tang seemed to start dying! (Yellow tangs are the coal mine canary equivalent in reef tanks IMO) Fortunately my QT was already up and so over in there he went.... Now in there 2+ weeks able to eat all the Red Ogo he can... sure he thinks he went to heaven... though I'm making plans to move him back to display tank. I finished my Reef Flux treatment this weekend, 20% water change and running charcoal, so everything else looking good in my main tank. Not going to move my yellow too fast back, as there is stress just moving so don't want to move there only to have to take back out... Having another tank is handy. When I don't use my QT tanks, I store them next to my WFH desk in corner out of sight. NOTE: if you get that 5g Petco combo tank setup they sell, and want to grow macro algae, you will need a different top & light (but its only a few who will do what I did... when I can move the ogo back to my sump when Vibrant is over, then my QT will go back to being a real QT)
GOOD LUCK with getting your QT!
Normally, no I don't have a QT ready to go. Normally, QT lives out of sight in corner. When I'm getting ready to buy something, I setup QT and get it running for a while, then new fish comes in, goes into QT for observation. Once new fish has been in QT 2-4 weeks (others will say longer), I move it from QT to main tank. I wash QT and store it. Purpose of quarantine is keep anything bad from getting into main tank, because it is much harder to treat main tank than little tank... and there are more things in main tank that might not like treatments...So do you just keep the QT tanks ready to go? What, if anything, do you keep in them all the time? Thanks for the bowed tank advice! And im headed over to petco.