New Member, Large build Copper Quarintine

[G Santana]

Welcome to the Reef

 

[REAQUA]

Welcome! Glad you joined.

Have you considered starting your build thread? I found its a great place to document my tank's evolution for myself. I started tank first then joined, so I'm still finding myself going back collecting pictures & updating historically as well as current state. Once you create your first post in your thread and link it to your account, they will give you build badge (look left, under my ID). Perhaps build thread is what you were implying by your above info sharing offer.

This might help you find people local to you:
https://www.reef2reef.com/forums/local-reef-club-discussion.516/
If NOVA is N.Va (I used to live in Tysons), then also:
https://wamas.org/forums/home.php/https://reefbuilders.com/2022/08/13...on DC Area Marine,first Living Coral Biobank.
This is a good reference book type online article I still review:
https://www.reef2reef.com/ams/the-supreme-guide-to-setting-up-a-saltwater-reef-aquarium.84/

Thanks! This is all very helpful and yes, NOVA is N.Va.

 

[REAQUA]

Welcome and big decision and sounds like it came out ok!

So far so good but it will all be judged based on whether I have a clean disease free tank after the live rock, sand and inverts are reintroduced. I’m beginning to wonder whether it would have been better to just dry out the rock and let it sit in the sun for a month rather than having gone fallow.

 

[Tuan’s Reef]

Welcome to Reef2Reef!

 

[jsker]

Hello, welcome to R2R!! :)

 

[BluTang85]

Hello and welcome to Reef2Reef!

 

[ReefRondo]

 

[REAQUA]

Welcome to R2R! I would have thought that pulling the rock and sand would be just as stressful as pulling the fish. Interesting concept.

I was worried about the same; however, I have previously pulled all fish to take smaller (90 gallon) tanks into fallow periods. Pulling fish and separating them into hospital tanks led to increased aggression on reintroduction which could also lead to tank deaths. This method allowed for the fish to maintain their established hierchy.

 

[Big Smelly fish]

 

[REAQUA]

Just an update

 

[Ocean_Queenie]

Hello & Welcome

 

[Fish Styx]

Greetings and welcome to the reef!

 

[CasperOe]

Welcome to R2R! :cool: that's an interesting build you have going on there, keep it up and best of luck!

 

[Pvtgloss]

 

[1112-425XL]

Looking Good!

 

[Sharkbait19]

Welcome to the forum!

 

[Buckster]

Hello and Welcome to R2R! Dealing with quarantine is always a lot of work. I had to do something similar when I lost some fish due to disease. Always a Bummer!

 

[Gman83]

Looks like everything went well for you in your QT.

 

[dstockwell]

Welcome to the Reef

 

[REAQUA]

Looks like everything went well for you in your QT.

Looks like everything went well for you in your QT.

Everything went relatively well the first time around (last year). I added coral without quarantining it and had a ich outbreak. At that point I had to pull all of the fish and take the display fallow. Two days before the end of the fallow period I had a power outage and I lost five of my fish. Things have been stable since.