I was hesitant about making a tank thread.
I’m usually quite organized, have personal debates with myself, and think about 20-30 different ideas before I settle on something.
With that said, the perfect storm happened to my tank end of 2017 early 2018.
My reef was doing great! Goregous fish, an abundant amount of life, my corals we’re starting to grow before my eyes!
One morning I see some nasty green snot on the rocks and at that moment I felt Mike Tyson throwing a right punch to my midsection! I tried everything, lights out with a wrapped the tank, products recommend to me by my LFS, and eventually borrowed a UV from a buddy that was using it for ick management..
WHAT A MISTAKE!
After a few weeks of no more Dino’s, my sailfin tang is covered with ick, next day I lost 5 anthias, and then everything started to get ick..
Luckily, I was able to save my purple tang and yellow tang donated my clowns and went fallow. About 3months later I added the Tang’s back into the tank, after I lost a bunch of corals during that 3 month fallow period.
Then my basement springs a leak.........
what the fish!
Well 3 years later I’m back in business!
February 10, 2020 I added some salt and began my cycle!
stay tuned for more updates!
I’m usually quite organized, have personal debates with myself, and think about 20-30 different ideas before I settle on something.
With that said, the perfect storm happened to my tank end of 2017 early 2018.
My reef was doing great! Goregous fish, an abundant amount of life, my corals we’re starting to grow before my eyes!
One morning I see some nasty green snot on the rocks and at that moment I felt Mike Tyson throwing a right punch to my midsection! I tried everything, lights out with a wrapped the tank, products recommend to me by my LFS, and eventually borrowed a UV from a buddy that was using it for ick management..
WHAT A MISTAKE!
After a few weeks of no more Dino’s, my sailfin tang is covered with ick, next day I lost 5 anthias, and then everything started to get ick..
Luckily, I was able to save my purple tang and yellow tang donated my clowns and went fallow. About 3months later I added the Tang’s back into the tank, after I lost a bunch of corals during that 3 month fallow period.
Then my basement springs a leak.........
what the fish!
Well 3 years later I’m back in business!
February 10, 2020 I added some salt and began my cycle!
stay tuned for more updates!
. My best advise these days are - have a social distance between your hands and the aquarium as much as possible - a new version of the old HYHD (KeepYourHandsDry)
