Merediths 75g upgrade

melypr1985 · Oct 4, 2015

I haven't found anything so far that says i should take the mugs out of the tank. I'm hoping i can still use them after this. hmm. What's cool though is that each fish (except for the clowns and cardinal and the wrasse) have adopted a mug of their own. Its like they each have their own mug apartment while their home is being cleaned of parasites. My husband thinks i'm weird for thinking its cool. I told him, its not like they are hiding behind the mugs, or under the mugs, or ignoring them completely. They each go inside of their own mug at night to sleep. I think it's pretty funny and I'm assuming they like it because the ends are closed and make them feel more secure. Anyway that's my update! Have a good night!

Daniel@R2R · Oct 7, 2015

@Randy Holmes-Farley might be able to help on the mug question. Good luck!

Paul B · Oct 8, 2015

I would never put mugs in my tank or anything not "fishy", That just wouldn't work

melypr1985 · Oct 8, 2015

Paul B said:
I would never put mugs in my tank or anything not "fishy", That just wouldn't work

Your so funny Paul! So far i dont see anything wrong with either the cups or the fish, so I'm just going to leave them in there for now. Besides they seem to each have their own "apartment" of a cup and I'd hate to take their temporary home away.

Paul B · Oct 9, 2015

melypr1985 said:
I never knew just how tiny the bbbs are

They never knew how big we are either.

melypr1985 · Oct 11, 2015

My tankbis looking better. Seems like everything is going to make a comeback. It will take a month or more to really start getting color back in my montis but there is progress. I broke the dead pieces off the red monti and havent seen any more tissue loss on it. There is a green monti with blue polyps that lost all its color, but the polyos are staring to regain thier blue color so im hoping the rest will follow suit. Im still not happy with the aquascape, but I really want to let everything settle a little more before messing with it again.

Ahruk · Oct 11, 2015

Just give it some time, stuff will definitely color back up

melypr1985 · Oct 11, 2015

Thanks. I have the ability to be patient but I find it's really difficult to practice. lol I'm trying though and trying to let everything in there settle down. I'm also going to switch salts now that I have pretty much used up an entire bucket on my daily water changes on the QT. I'm going to switch to Seachem's Salinity. My friend has a 200g bucket that I'm going to buy from him for like 70 bucks. Why change? Well I was using Fritz Pro simply because i won a bucket for free and I already had it. The more I think about it, the more I'm suspecting that salt for messing up my SPS. It tested (brand new Salt still in the mixing bucket) at 11DKH for Alk. That's crazy high!! Fritz is kinda expensive and doesn't print what their salt should read for the different nutrients and what-not. Seachem does and the bucket i looked at should produce 8 or 9 dkh (i can't remember) which is WAY better.

This is why I've started thinking that the Fritz salt was the reason my tank went all haywire. I must have had a major ALK swing. It kills me because i did a water change with it, then put the prazipro in the tank, then did 3 more water changes, then one more - all 10 gallons each. So now i know why my alk ended up so darn high and my corals looked like doo doo. Well, hopefully i'll get the new bucket this coming weekend so I'll give that a shot and see what happens.

Paul B · Oct 12, 2015

I buy whatever salt is on sale and have never had a problem. I make sure the fish don't see the name on the bucket and they don't complain. What they don't know, don't hurt them. It's like the very expensive "Koi" I have in a pond in my yard. They are really 10 cent goldfish but I tell the neighbors they are expensive Koi so they think I am rich and extravagant.

melypr1985 · Oct 12, 2015

Paul B said:
I buy whatever salt is on sale and have never had a problem. I make sure the fish don't see the name on the bucket and they don't complain. What they don't know, don't hurt them. It's like the very expensive "Koi" I have in a pond in my yard. They are really 10 cent goldfish but I tell the neighbors they are expensive Koi so they think I am rich and extravagant.

lol. sounds like something i would do too. I know i wont be using this fritz pro anymore. I'll stick to the more known brands that are cheaper.

melypr1985 · Oct 19, 2015

I redid my scape the other day. Im still not happy with it, but its better than it was. It will never be like i had it originally. Maybe it will grow on me. Eh. So here is some pretty bad cell phone pics of a few corals.

Ryan15236 · Oct 19, 2015

Aquascape looks pretty good to me. Actually very similar to mine. I have a similar asymmetrical island scape on my 125. Looks like your starting to acquire some corals. Will look great as it fills out!

Tahoe61 · Oct 19, 2015

I feel your pain, having to move my tank in a couple weeks. I know I will never get it back the way it is. :-(

Yours looks to be recovering nicely though, the corals look great..

melypr1985 · Oct 19, 2015

Thanks to both! I dreaded my upgrade and i didn't have to move my fish farther than a few feet. I can't imagine moving my tank to another home! Good luck to you, I'll pray for a good outcome for you @Tahoe61 .

Ryan yes I have acquired quite a few corals. They need to grow out some and I'm hoping that they will start doing that again now that things have settled down. I'm scared to add any more right now since i could be introducing parasites into the tank again via the new corals. I've found quite a few acros that i can afford and want badly also. My LFS finally started carrying them after months of my complaining about it lol.

Ahruk · Oct 19, 2015

Looking good. Love the montipora digitida

melypr1985 · Oct 24, 2015

Its probably really hard to tell by my crappy cell phone pics , but the color is coming back in my corals! Growth is happening again. Everything looks really good , so Im pretty happy today.

joshkirkland83 · Oct 24, 2015

melypr1985 said:
Its probably really hard to tell by my crappy cell phone pics , but the color is coming back in my corals! Growth is happening again. Everything looks really good , so Im pretty happy today.

Good to hear!!

Pfisherman · Oct 24, 2015

I just read this entire thread. My current tank is a 40b and i have a 75 in my garage, i want to upgrade at income tax time. Was it worth it in terms of space?

Are your fishes doing well in qt?

melypr1985 · Oct 24, 2015

Pfisherman said:
I just read this entire thread. My current tank is a 40b and i have a 75 in my garage, i want to upgrade at income tax time. Was it worth it in terms of space?

Are your fishes doing well in qt?

Yes it was totally worth it! My fish didn't know what to do with all that space. They got used to it and seem to really enjoy it. Plus i got to have more!

My fish are doing really well in QT. Thanks for asking! The clowns look to be starting the mating ritual that precedes laying eggs. I've seen it before, but never in a QT with copper. I'm hoping they will hold off until they get back in their home. Everybody is eating well, staying fat, and looking pretty.

Pfisherman · Oct 24, 2015

melypr1985 said:
Yes it was totally worth it! My fish didn't know what to do with all that space. They got used to it and seem to really enjoy it. Plus i got to have more!

My fish are doing really well in QT. Thanks for asking! The clowns look to be starting the mating ritual that precedes laying eggs. I've seen it before, but never in a QT with copper. I'm hoping they will hold off until they get back in their home. Everybody is eating well, staying fat, and looking pretty.

One more thing, how many tangs do you have? I have a yellow which is similar to the purple of course i would like to add a bristletooth and a powder blue or brown after upgrading