Scratch’s Reboot..The never ending Itch

[Scratch08]

And then…the first sign of trouble…

the the aptaisia started showing up and taking over as well as vermetid snails…

A lot of my corals started declining, cyano, gha and who knows what started over running the tank, the more I did to prevent the worse it got…

ended up losing most of my corals and fish, what I was able to save, with exception of 4 fish, was transferred to a IM 25 lagoon that I got from @Dolelo96

it’s inhabitants are the pair of O’s and a bicolor blenny, and the surviving/recovering corals from the 75…my Tomi Tang, a pair of Black Bar Cardinals and my Saddle Back Puffer are in a 40 breeder…to be continued…

 

[WirelessMike]

Dang! Sorry to see it go sideways like that. Following along to see the rebound!

 

[Scratch08]

Yeah it was a bummer and was almost ready to give up all together, but because of some wonderful enablers I’m gonna give it another go…thanks for following and hopefully it won’t disappoint

 

[Goaway]

It wont

 

[Crabby48]

Why the fish losses?

 

[JoshH]

I absolutely LOVE this stand!

I know right?!? It looks AMAZING with no doors doesn't it @Dolelo96

 

[Scratch08]

Why the fish losses?

So, after several months of battling the gha, cyano and what not, I finally figured out my RO membrane was blown out, so I’m not sure if that was a contributing factor to the fish loss or not, but I lost all of my anthias 1 by 1. I know they are susceptible to illnesses due to stress and wonder if my water quality was a contributing factor. I lost my lawnmower blenny and neon dotty back during one of the scrub downs of the 75…never did figure out what happened to them, no bodies were found. My clowns forced my coral beauty to commit suicide…he went carpet surfing behind the 25 lagoon…I know, the lagoon was too small for him, but was only going to be temporary until the 40 breeder was up and running.

 

[Scratch08]

And fyi, water tests never showed an issue with water quality, with exception of high-ish PO4…so no clue realy

 

[sfin52]

Lol, I didn't even get mentioned! Guess I haven't been posting enough lately!

 

[JoshH]

Oh and Third? THIRD on the list?!? Oh boy you're going to regret that one

 

[JoshH]

I think we have all been guilty of that

 

[sfin52]

I think we have all been guilty of that

Or husband/ dad / male syndrome.

 

[sfin52]

I think we have all been guilty of that

Any pics of that gorgous sump

 

[JoshH]

Or husband/ dad / male syndrome.

We get busy with these little handfulls all the time

 

[sfin52]

We get busy with these little handfuls all the time

Hes gotten so big

 

[JoshH]

Any pics of that gorgous sump

Nothing in a long while, sump rooms been a bit of a disaster since we demo'd the basement

 

[JoshH]

Hes gotten so big

And he really has, quite the chatterbox too

 

[Scratch08]

And he really has, quite the chatterbox too

Huh…just like his dad

 

[Crabby48]

We get busy with these little handfulls all the time

Seems like yesterday we celibates the birth

 

[Scratch08]

Oh and Third? THIRD on the list?!? Oh boy you're going to regret that one