Or you get what you (don't) pay for.
Quick version:
I keep a look out on craigslist for saltwater related stuff and someone was getting rid of a 20G waterbox (moving out of state). They were asking $alot, I offered to take it if they had no other buyers. Covered in hair, cyano and a couple algaes I don't recognize, they had no other buyers.
So I drove down yesterday, packed it all up, drove it home, set it up and did a first pass at clean up:
Not bad, fish in reasonable health if a bit on the thin side and a couple white spots on the black clown.... Bed time.
This morning, couple more spots. Not a surprise, they were going to be quarantined anyhow. I started digging through the box o' crap that they got rid of and two bottles of reef safe ich "treatments". So clearly they knew. I did the proper application: poured out on the driveway.
Later today, the clowns will be moved into a 5G bucket and we'll be doing the TTM to get them cleaned up. This box will be fallow, and when my QT is freed up in 2 weeks they'll go there for observation. Once the fallow period is over, the tank will be completely reset and will become the coral/invert QT/fishless nano.
Note to self: I have a very understanding wife. Though she's starting to wonder: with 4 tanks, why are they going into a bucket?
Quick version:
- 20G waterbox cube
- AI Prime 16HD
- Hydor Koralia 425gph
- Black ocellaris female, premium snowflake male
- Cleaner shrimp
- 3 peppermint shrimp, one might be a camelback but I haven't gotten a good look yet
- Snails
- Hermits
- Blue tux urchin
- Mostly dead frogspawn
- Misc softies: xenia, gsp, some zoas and maybe cloves, hasn't opened yet.
- Ich.
I keep a look out on craigslist for saltwater related stuff and someone was getting rid of a 20G waterbox (moving out of state). They were asking $alot, I offered to take it if they had no other buyers. Covered in hair, cyano and a couple algaes I don't recognize, they had no other buyers.
So I drove down yesterday, packed it all up, drove it home, set it up and did a first pass at clean up:
Not bad, fish in reasonable health if a bit on the thin side and a couple white spots on the black clown.... Bed time.
This morning, couple more spots. Not a surprise, they were going to be quarantined anyhow. I started digging through the box o' crap that they got rid of and two bottles of reef safe ich "treatments". So clearly they knew. I did the proper application: poured out on the driveway.
Later today, the clowns will be moved into a 5G bucket and we'll be doing the TTM to get them cleaned up. This box will be fallow, and when my QT is freed up in 2 weeks they'll go there for observation. Once the fallow period is over, the tank will be completely reset and will become the coral/invert QT/fishless nano.
Note to self: I have a very understanding wife. Though she's starting to wonder: with 4 tanks, why are they going into a bucket?
