It's just a tank

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I also don't know if it matters, there was a black ring under the torches flesh. My other one had a pink ring. Figured it's normal.

 

[najer]

But, having a tang with hlle and waiting for what will heal, I was stubborn to add carbon.

Can you get a pic of the scopas, if you are rinsing and using hard carbon I would add some, I need to see how bad the hlle is but my guess is that it is recovering well, my rescue was a one inch baby that was not eating and had really bad hlle, her scars are about as healed as they will get, my punk fish!

 

[Just a Wrasse.]

Equipment in use
Lights Orbit marine IC led (I hate these things)
SCA skimmer 302
SCA sump made as a fuge
return pump sca something. Its just all so generic. Jabaeo 4000 return pump. Very very quiet. I have had it for 6 months now.

Livestock
Emperor Angelfish - powder blue tang - melanurus wrasse - one spot foxface - 2 clown fish - 2 firefish

Random hammer corals - 2 torches - Birdsnest - Gonioporas

My aquarium is boring.

Edit: There has been a lot of live stock changes. The emperor and Powder blue needed new homes.
Powder blue was just too aggressive, emperor was just massive.
I have since added
scopas tang
Atrosalarias holomelas
Carpenter Wrasse



Currently

Cool tank!

 

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It was worse when I got her from the fish store.
Wont keep still on this side. This side has healed up a lot.

looks to be scarring now.

When I got her. Looked awful.

 

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Cool tank!

Thank you

 

[najer]

Rinse the carbon well and add it imo, I'm currently running carbon with three scopas in the tank.

 

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Did that, a bit late. i wonder if I should get some chemiclean? I don't think anyone else is sick.

 

[fishguy242]

i would not do chemi clean, cipro if worried,also @MERKEY ,what were you using again ,sorry i forgot ,again...

 

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Whatever it is, is in main display. Cipro is a death sentence to many things if i went dt.

 

[fishguy242]

@F i s h y @Eagle_Steve ,cipro death sentence ??

 

[F i s h y]

Whatever it is, is in main display. Cipro is a death sentence to many things if i went dt.

Cipro shouldn't kill anything in your DT. I use cipro in my fully stocked tanks when needed. If it's killing things it's not being used correctly. If you are concerned about the residual effects of carbon in your DT causing HLLE then I would recommend large water change. I know there is a lot of anecdotal evidence that carbon causes HLLE but I use a high quality activated carbon in my tanks with tangs and have had no issues. I think a large part of HLLE may actually be caused by collection chemicals and rough handling (stress) during shipping. All of this is only opinion. A heavy healthy diet and stress free environment are the keys to success for a tang with a chronic issue like HLLE.

Also. Cipro is an antibacterial. It won't help HLLE as I understand it.

 

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Cipro shouldn't kill anything in your DT. I use cipro in my fully stocked tanks when needed. If it's killing things it's not being used correctly. If you are concerned about the residual effects of carbon in your DT causing HLLE then I would recommend large water change. I know there is a lot of anecdotal evidence that carbon causes HLLE but I use a high quality activated carbon in my tanks with tangs and have had no issues. I think a large part of HLLE may actually be caused by collection chemicals and rough handling (stress) during shipping. All of this is only opinion. A heavy healthy diet and stress free environment are the keys to success for a tang with a chronic issue like HLLE.

Also. Cipro is an antibacterial. It won't help HLLE as I understand it.

I am not trying to treat hlle. The tang is on selcon, nori, no garlic. I never seen any benefit to garlic, other than to trigger a feeding response, works on people too.

No, just worried a bug is roaming around in water killing indo torches. Seems to be a problem of mine.

 

[F i s h y]

I am not trying to treat hlle. The tang is on selcon, nori, no garlic. I never seen any benefit to garlic, other than to trigger a feeding response, works on people too.

No, just worried a bug is roaming around in water killing indo torches. Seems to be a problem of mine.

Oh lol... I misread what I was responding to then sorry @Mibu

As for torches. If you can remove and dip them I recommend it if you are losing them a head at a time. I have had some success lately with removing them and placing in a heated 5 gallon bucket of saltwater with cipro in it.

 

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It is long dead. I only had 1 indo I bought a month ago from poto. Oh well.

 

[ying yang]

How can tell if indo or aussie torches?

The green one not looking as good as once did.had a power head break and while waiting for replacement and lots excuses as covid and can't get them.i ended up getting refund and only just got new controllable powerhead other day but can't mount it just as yet.
Bought a cheap low gph none controllable one and faced it at other in tank but torch gone downhill a bit since ,lots spirobid worms all over green torch and even on Skeleton at top.
Other torch on sand bed looks much more healthy

 

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How can tell if indo or aussie torches?

The green one not looking as good as once did.had a power head break and while waiting for replacement and lots excuses as covid and can't get them.i ended up getting refund and only just got new controllable powerhead other day but can't mount it just as yet.
Bought a cheap low gph none controllable one and faced it at other in tank but torch gone downhill a bit since ,lots spirobid worms all over green torch and even on Skeleton at top.
Other torch on sand bed looks much more healthy

Those are probably indo, aussie are shorter and fatter tentacles.

 

[ying yang]

Ok thanks mibu.
As you can see here in video from August the flesh is around the skeloton and green torch looks much better .
I may try my best to add this power head tonight and move cheaper lower gph one lower down in tank and get bit more random flow around green torch .
See these spirobod worms.can I scrape them of body of torch without damaging body of torch or best to just leave them?
I read threads of people handling them and cracking body open you see .

 

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Ok thanks mibu.
As you can see here in video from August the flesh is around the skeloton and green torch looks much better .
I may try my best to add this power head tonight and move cheaper lower gph one lower down in tank and get bit more random flow around green torch .
See these spirobod worms.can I scrape them of body of torch without damaging body of torch or best to just leave them?
I read threads of people handling them and cracking body open you see .

Those torches look like indos for sure.

I never touch the worms to be honest. But my indos never had them growing on them, my aussie is caked with them. If you don't like the look, you can remove them. But, it seems when touches indo torches, they get very upset.

I also love how fat that cbb is!

 

[ying yang]

Ok will leave them worms alone then.the look doesnt really bother me and knowing my luck if try scrape them off,I would crack the torch wide open lol.

That video from August so cbb had 3 meals a day plus what he picks from rocks so little beefier now 2 months on but would like him bit more beefed out but he a good eater of anything shellfish but won't touch any frozen cubed food now at all

 

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Some good growth going on here. But not on my sps.
While it pains me that my slimer is no longer green, the color has grown on me. I just worry soon it will bleach. I either wait out for noopsyche, or i rush order some t5's.

This guy has gotten very large.

mouth is still not centered.

Hasn't looked this nice in a long time. Still recovering from trauma.

This was back in June. The powder blue really tore this one up.



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