RealWorld
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Hi all and Happy New Year to all:
I just joined the forum, but have been reading your posts for a while now. I will be purchasing a shoal of 11 Lyertail Anthias in the next couple of weeks and was wondering where to post my question for some input. The background and my question is as follows:
Hi everyone, I’m new to this forum. While I have been reading many posts here and learning from the vast amount of knowledge and experience of the participants here, this is my first post/question.
DT INFO:
I have a 2.5 year old 350G FOWLR DT with a 75G sump filled to 60% capacity with an 18G run-through (attached) QT. Salinity is 1.021, PH of 8.2-8.4, temperature of 78-79 F.
CURRENT TANK OCCUPANTS:
NINE blue-green Chromis,
ONE 7-in. Bird wrasse,
ONE. 7-in. Red fermosa wrasse,
ONE 6-in. Naso Tang,
ONE 5-in. Majestic Angel, and
ONE 5-in. Candy stripped squirrel fish.
I really like the grouping of blue Chromis and thought a group of small orange/red fish would really add a popping color to the DT, so I recently ordered 11 female Lyertail Anthias from my LFS, which arrived yesterday (thinking that one of them will turn to male over time). The LFS owner is a good friend and is kindly holding all of them for me for a couple of weeks after I return to town from the holidays.
QUESTION: I am a firm believer in putting the fish I buy in QT for 4-6 weeks before going into the DT, but given the relative small size of my QT (18G), and assuming that none of the fish don’t show any signs of disease and are eating well at the LFS after 2 weeks, would it be advisable to put them all (11) in such a small QT? My options are as follows:
A) put them all in the 18G QT (which will be isolated from the DT, which currently gets incoming water from the sump, with outgoing water to a UV sterilizer, which then goes back to the sump. I will have to do 30-50% water changes daily to keep the bio load down, and attach a hanging sponge filter with auxiliary air pump for aerating the QT.
B) get another 20-Gal container, splitting the group of 11 and repeating the above. This would be a lot of work, so not my fav option.
C) assuming all 11 Lyertails are doing well and eating well after 2 weeks at LFS, just acclimate and put directly into DT (scary thought for me, but nevertheless an option)
D) any other options you guys can think of.
As of now, my plan is to go with option A unless you guys think there is a better approach. Thank you so much for your suggestions and HAPPY NEW YEAR to all of you. Attached are pictures of the Lyertails currently at the LFS.
I just joined the forum, but have been reading your posts for a while now. I will be purchasing a shoal of 11 Lyertail Anthias in the next couple of weeks and was wondering where to post my question for some input. The background and my question is as follows:
Hi everyone, I’m new to this forum. While I have been reading many posts here and learning from the vast amount of knowledge and experience of the participants here, this is my first post/question.
DT INFO:
I have a 2.5 year old 350G FOWLR DT with a 75G sump filled to 60% capacity with an 18G run-through (attached) QT. Salinity is 1.021, PH of 8.2-8.4, temperature of 78-79 F.
CURRENT TANK OCCUPANTS:
NINE blue-green Chromis,
ONE 7-in. Bird wrasse,
ONE. 7-in. Red fermosa wrasse,
ONE 6-in. Naso Tang,
ONE 5-in. Majestic Angel, and
ONE 5-in. Candy stripped squirrel fish.
I really like the grouping of blue Chromis and thought a group of small orange/red fish would really add a popping color to the DT, so I recently ordered 11 female Lyertail Anthias from my LFS, which arrived yesterday (thinking that one of them will turn to male over time). The LFS owner is a good friend and is kindly holding all of them for me for a couple of weeks after I return to town from the holidays.
QUESTION: I am a firm believer in putting the fish I buy in QT for 4-6 weeks before going into the DT, but given the relative small size of my QT (18G), and assuming that none of the fish don’t show any signs of disease and are eating well at the LFS after 2 weeks, would it be advisable to put them all (11) in such a small QT? My options are as follows:
A) put them all in the 18G QT (which will be isolated from the DT, which currently gets incoming water from the sump, with outgoing water to a UV sterilizer, which then goes back to the sump. I will have to do 30-50% water changes daily to keep the bio load down, and attach a hanging sponge filter with auxiliary air pump for aerating the QT.
B) get another 20-Gal container, splitting the group of 11 and repeating the above. This would be a lot of work, so not my fav option.
C) assuming all 11 Lyertails are doing well and eating well after 2 weeks at LFS, just acclimate and put directly into DT (scary thought for me, but nevertheless an option)
D) any other options you guys can think of.
As of now, my plan is to go with option A unless you guys think there is a better approach. Thank you so much for your suggestions and HAPPY NEW YEAR to all of you. Attached are pictures of the Lyertails currently at the LFS.
