My 3 month old reef tank

[lis9090]

Hey guys

 

would just lik to share on my new reef tank(5 ft 106g) which use about 3 month old. Havent gottwn any coraline yet unfortunately.

 

But glad to see my fishes survived the qt with copper treatment a few months back and corals seems to be doing good with the new maxspect light i bought too

 

i m really loving this hobby as my mood just lightens up whenever i come home from a day of work and see my tank !!!

 

Not a lot of corals yet but slowly and surely will be adding more in the near future as who would complain having too much corals they are too pretty !!!!

 

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[lis9090]

Just find my blenny'expression so cute

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Shifted positions for some corals

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[harvin6]

nice tank. glad to hear abt the fishing survive ich. 

[lis9090]

nice tank. glad to hear abt the fishing survive ich. 

Thanks.. They didint have ich but I just add copper anyway to quarantine them at least reduce the risk of introducing ich into the main display. Just glad they made it thru the copper treatment.. As one of my naso unfortunately did not


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[harvin6]

10 hours ago, lis9090 said:

Thanks.. They didint have ich but I just add copper anyway to quarantine them at least reduce the risk of introducing ich into the main display. Just glad they made it thru the copper treatment.. As one of my naso unfortunately did not


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oh boy, how big was your naso. im going to do same for my tangs. Hopefully they will be ok. How long did you qt them with copper and what was your procedures? 

did you put copper first day? or waited few days?

[lis9090]

oh boy, how big was your naso. im going to do same for my tangs. Hopefully they will be ok. How long did you qt them with copper and what was your procedures? 
did you put copper first day? or waited few days?

Do u alrdy have a running qt tank? If not I would prefer to wait at least 2 weeks for the qt tank to cycle before adding copper to the tank. As I would like to wait for my filter to seed more beneficial bacteria. As copper stuns beneficial bacteria growth which might be harmful to the fish as nitrites or ammonia might start rising. Best is try to test the parameters in the qt tank a few times a week. If the levels are pretty much in the desired range can start adding copper. My naso is about 4 inch.. Poor guy. And please add a air pump. Copper really stresses them so need better oxygen circulation to aid the process of survival.

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[harvin6]

1 minute ago, lis9090 said:

Do u alrdy have a running qt tank? If not I would prefer to wait at least 2 weeks for the qt tank to cycle before adding copper to the tank. As I would like to wait for my filter to seed more beneficial bacteria. As copper stuns beneficial bacteria growth which might be harmful to the fish as nitrites or ammonia might start rising. Best is try to test the parameters in the qt tank a few times a week. If the levels are pretty much in the desired range can start adding copper. My naso is about 4 inch.. Poor guy. And please add a air pump. Copper really stresses them so need better oxygen circulation to aid the process of survival.

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Yes my qt has been running for more than 1 month and fully cycled no issues on that. Just worried on the fishes making thru coppers. how long did you administer the copper treatement?

[lis9090]

Yes my qt has been running for more than 1 month and fully cycled no issues on that. Just worried on the fishes making thru coppers. how long did you administer the copper treatement?

Ic tats great.. Usually I will use my copper test kit to slowly raise the level to the recommended 0.5.. Takes about 1 week to reach tat level usually. Den I just leave the fishes in for 2 weeks. Didn't change water jus top up water for evaporation.

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[harvin6]

On 1/16/2018 at 2:35 PM, lis9090 said:

Ic tats great.. Usually I will use my copper test kit to slowly raise the level to the recommended 0.5.. Takes about 1 week to reach tat level usually. Den I just leave the fishes in for 2 weeks. Didn't change water jus top up water for evaporation.

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icic.. but if you take 1 week to raise the copper to therapeutic levels (0.25 above) then dont you think the ich wil start to form cryst and multiply and the qt process will be much longer because it takes around 7-28 days for it to hatch and goes free swimming again. 

[lis9090]

icic.. but if you take 1 week to raise the copper to therapeutic levels (0.25 above) then dont you think the ich wil start to form cryst and multiply and the qt process will be much longer because it takes around 7-28 days for it to hatch and goes free swimming again. 

The thing about copper is that.. When the ich hatch out from cyst and go free swimming.. It will die immediately as there's copper in the water before it can even attach itself to the fish. Even if it manage to attach to the fish.. It will fall out aft 3 days after eating its fill and when it fall out it will either die from the copper before it can encyst.. Even if it encyst and burst out again.. It will again be in contact with the coppered water again. So yup.. Copper is the way to go for qt.

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