Tank birthday, 55+ years

[tbrown]

I don't know why and I have heard you say the same I always have to search to find this thread. I usually go to my posts to do it

There are a number of reasons posts get missed. Periodically I'll go through my watched threads to see if there are any with new/missed posts.

Anything bold has new posts.

 

[tbrown]

I won one and wondered what their for . I guess ? That it saves you from chasing them with a net if there is a problem but is that not just as stressful as QT ? I won one here Its big and really nice Quality

Yeah. It keeps the fish separated and you can have them get used to each other with separation just in case.

 

[atoll]

Spleens, kidneys, all kinds stuff. Orcas are bullies.

They are worse than bullies they are murderers. They will kill a whale pup by drowning it.

 

[Turbo's Aquatics Verified Sponsor]

There are a number of reasons posts get missed. Periodically I'll go through my watched threads to see if there are any with new/missed posts.

Likely emails gong to junk/spam. That was my issue. If R2R changes their email method, whatever you did in the past is irrelevant. When your email provider changes their system, same thing.

 

[Paul B]

However how do you introduce them to the Tank ?

I take the fish out of the bag and put it in a small container. I test the salinity and temp in the container. If it is the same as my tank. I just add a little tank water to the container and in 5 minutes, net the fish and put it in my tank.

If the temp or salinity is different, I keep putting tank water into the container about 5 minutes apart until those parameters are almost the same. Then put the fish in. I don't remember ever having a problem.

Yes, sometimes the new fish will get chased, but usually it will hide for a day or two, then the fish will get used to it and ignore it.

It never takes me more than half an hour to put in a new fish.

 

[Freenow54]

Thanks what do you do if it shows disease symptoms after a while . that is my biggest concern

 

[MikeyZo]

I float the fish either in the bag or in a specimen container for 15-20 minutes and then scoop them into the tank.

I do the same

 

[tbrown]

Thanks what do you do if it shows disease symptoms after a while . that is my biggest concern

For me, usually depends on the disease but usually nothing.

 

[Paul B]

Thanks what do you do if it shows disease symptoms after a while . that is my biggest concern

Remember, I keep my fish immune so they never show any disease symptoms. The fish come to us fine, then we allow those diseases to take over because of our silly methods and wrong foods.

 

[Freenow54]

Remember, I keep my fish immune so they never show any disease symptoms. The fish come to us fine, then we allow those diseases to take over but our silly methods and wrong foods.

That was not my intent to question that. I just assume that no matter how diligent you are about choosing your fish that they could be carrying something but the symptoms have not shown yet.

 

[Paul B]

I just assume that no matter how diligent you are about choosing your fish that they could be carrying something but the symptoms have not shown yet.

It doesn't matter. They are immune so never get any communicable disease and if they are carrying it, it just disappears on it's own. My fish have not acquired any of those silly diseases in probable 45 years. I have never heard of almost any of those diseases except on these forums and have never seen them in the sea in my almost 350 hours I spent underwater.

Most tanks are not immune for a variety of reasons. One is feeding dry foods, a big No No to me. Another is not feeding food with living bacteria or not having enough, "natural" tight hiding places so the fish feels safe. But, what do I know?

 

[atoll]

Lots of discussion around reefscapes from walls of rock to the latest craze for minimalistic reefscapes which I am.not a fan of.

Everybody will have their own ideas of what reefscape suits them best but do the suit the fish we are putting in them?

IMO plenty of rock can be used and still have plenty of swimming space. Not just at the front of the reefscape of course but in amongst the reefscape and behind it giving plenty of water movement all round your reefscape. This is most important I find.

When I set up a tank I do so with a good idea of the fish I am going to house in it taking in their requirements. Also, we must remember if we are housing corals that reefscape will change as they grow. Figure in that into you're reefscape design. Access to equipment like powerheads and wave makers need to be considered.

There needs to be plenty of thought into the reefscape you are trying to achieve. What it is not is simply dumping in a load of rock any old how, no wall of almost solid rock. For instance, it was suggested my rock is piled up against the back glass. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Although I do have some rock against the back glass most of the rock isn't at all. There is plenty of space for my single tang, copperband and black leopard wrasse to explore in and around my reefscape. Hangovers caves nooks and crannies as well as open areas are all there.

Water movement is also a consideration. EG I have 2 Tunze 6040 wave makers you will struggle to see on the rear back corners providing plenty of pulsed flow around the back. I also have a Jebao gyre near the waters surface and a Ecotech MP 40 half way down on the side glass. Add to that a Jebao 8000ltr an hour return pump.

We then consider lighting our reefscape but that is for another time and thread really.

All the above that I have achieved is based mainly on experience with over a dozen reef tanks, studying not just my own aquariums but that of others along with diving and snorkeling in the Red sea.

Finally, I try to mimic nature as much as is reasonably possable (you will have to put you're own idea of reasonsble) Mother nature has the answers just ask and follow her teachings again as much as is reasonably possable and you won't go far wrong IME.

 

[jsmkmavity]

Good morning Paul. Hope you got to see the sun on your walk today. We have a pretty nice sunrise this morning by the 5th deepest lake in America , but nothing like being near the ocean. That is a lot of dive hours! I probably have less than 1/3 of your dive hours. I started late in life.

 

[Paul B]

Very little of my rock is touching the bottom of my tank. It is all suspended up on smaller "stantions" that I built from PVC pipe covered in cement.

This 30" "rock" is ther backbone of my reef and is built from a few large pieces of real rock cemented together.



That is shown up- side-down. Here is another piece that holds up the other side of my 6' tank



You can't find rock like that so you have to build it from real rock.

Here is one piece that is helping hold up my reef above the bottom. You can't see it in my tank













My 40 fish can traverse the entire length of my tank and I will never see them. I know we want to see our fish, but they want to be able to hide if they feel like it, that's why I can't count my fish or be able to list them. Most of the time, I can't find them.

Bad for us, healthy for the fish.

I posted an article on R2R on how to build those rocks and aged bottles.

 

[Paul B]

Good morning Paul. Hope you got to see the sun on your walk today. We have a pretty nice sunrise this morning by the 5th deepest lake in America , but nothing like being near the ocean. That is a lot of dive hours! I probably have less than 1/3 of your dive hours. I started late in life.

Good Morning. Usually I walk before the sun comes fully up. Today was very foggy.

I did my first dive in Australia in about 1970 in Australia while I was on R&R from Vietnam.

I got certified in about 1974 and bought my own equipment and boat. My best friend also had a boat, and we got certified together. Every week for probably 20 years, we went lobster diving here in NY with 14" visibility.

All our vacations were dive vacations because our wives are also certified as is our Daughter.

My Daughter in Mystique, a private Island.

 

[jsmkmavity]

Diving in vis so low you can barely see your cluster or computer doesnt sound like much fun until you add the word "lobster"! I had my hands on a spiny almost 2' long in Roatan but couldnt get him out of the rock. Also saw a puffer with a head almost as big as mine.

 

[jsmkmavity]

Does Greta have any interest in diving with her mom?

 

[Paul B]

Diving in vis so low you can barely see your cluster or computer doesnt sound like much fun until you add the word "lobster"!

18" was a fairly good day. Usually it was less but never more than about 5'. Of course I dove all over French Polynesia, Hawaii and most of the Caribbean and Bahamas so I know clear diving as well.

So far, Greta has shown no interest of diving but she is only 13. She was just in Taiwan for 10 days, then back to Manhattan for 3 days, then they went to Scotland.
Here they are in Scotland

 

[Paul B]

Yesterday I made 5 quarts of Jumping Juice for my wife.

 

[atoll]

You have to be careful of the Scott's Thats why the Romans built a long wall stretching from one side of England to the other to keep them out. The wall is called Hardian's wall and much of it is still there today still trying to keep.them out