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[superman1]

2 yellow tail damsels dead today

looks like i will have to start over again...

when it comes to restocking think i might go down a different route..

any suggestions people..

p.s im moving rooms in my house so i am thinking once i am sure white spot has completely been removed io will be cleaning the tank out and cleaning the crap out of it then moving the tank to another room so i shall restock in a while.. will leave it as it is as the cost of the fishes has put me off..

 

[seffieuk]

It's disheartening isn't it when you lose fish - but you will bounce back

Got any thought about stocking?

Seffie x

 

[superman1]

in total i have lost
1 clown
2 yellowtailed damsels
1 mandarin goby
1 flame back angel
1 sunfaced damsel
1 engineer goby
1 bangai cardinal

total: £110 worth



restocking wise i think i will wait for a while so this white spot to pass.. i have another clown thats on the edge...

i was thinking of stocking with just maybe 2 feature fishes.. 2 clowns and maybe one goby and THATS IT
in terms of feature fishes i was thinking maybe a tang while it is small or maybe a nice angel fish with it..

so maybe a tang n angel fish..
pair of clowns
goby

and CUC... i will eventually get a larger tank and will get a tang while they are small.. would love a 6 foot tank..

 

[Azeron]

note to self: never have any salt water fish


looks good though

 

[TigerIssey]

in total i have lost
1 clown
2 yellowtailed damsels
1 mandarin goby
1 flame back angel
1 sunfaced damsel
1 engineer goby
1 bangai cardinal

total: £110 worth



restocking wise i think i will wait for a while so this white spot to pass.. i have another clown thats on the edge...

i was thinking of stocking with just maybe 2 feature fishes.. 2 clowns and maybe one goby and THATS IT
in terms of feature fishes i was thinking maybe a tang while it is small or maybe a nice angel fish with it..

so maybe a tang n angel fish..
pair of clowns
goby

and CUC... i will eventually get a larger tank and will get a tang while they are small.. would love a 6 foot tank..

Superman this may sound a little harsh, but you only set the tank up on 4th july, a week - 2 weeks for cycle and another week for fish, means that you added 13 fish in approx 6 weeks. That for a marine tank is extremely quick stocking. I am not surprised that white spot struck to be honest.

If you are adamant you want to keep marine tanks, you need to slow down a little bit, allow the lr to mature and catch up bacteria level wise before adding the next fish. I would have added that amount of stock over a 6 month period at least.

Really sorry you lost them, its never nice. Its also good that you are going to leave the tank a while before starting to restock, but do so slowly, allow the bacteria to catch up and be patient, very patient.

 

[superman1]

in total i have lost
1 clown
2 yellowtailed damsels
1 mandarin goby
1 flame back angel
1 sunfaced damsel
1 engineer goby
1 bangai cardinal

total: £110 worth



restocking wise i think i will wait for a while so this white spot to pass.. i have another clown thats on the edge...

i was thinking of stocking with just maybe 2 feature fishes.. 2 clowns and maybe one goby and THATS IT
in terms of feature fishes i was thinking maybe a tang while it is small or maybe a nice angel fish with it..

so maybe a tang n angel fish..
pair of clowns
goby

and CUC... i will eventually get a larger tank and will get a tang while they are small.. would love a 6 foot tank..

Superman this may sound a little harsh, but you only set the tank up on 4th july, a week - 2 weeks for cycle and another week for fish, means that you added 13 fish in approx 6 weeks. That for a marine tank is extremely quick stocking. I am not surprised that white spot struck to be honest.

If you are adamant you want to keep marine tanks, you need to slow down a little bit, allow the lr to mature and catch up bacteria level wise before adding the next fish. I would have added that amount of stock over a 6 month period at least.

Really sorry you lost them, its never nice. Its also good that you are going to leave the tank a while before starting to restock, but do so slowly, allow the bacteria to catch up and be patient, very patient.

yeh i know...

lesson learned the expensive way...

although i have noticed some nice small mushrooms growning on the live rock and some weird thing that i noticed the other day when i was rock watching (thats pretty much all i can do at the mo) is a weird thing popping out of the rock and opening some kind of fan.. then it would retract and dissapear again.. any ideas what that could be.. sorry i dont have a pic but its too small to capture...

new fish will not be for at least a month so will try n update when something new happens..

 

[Buddyboy67]

Sounds like a barnacle mate..check dave's nano post for a pic of these little filter feeders


http/www.fishforums.net/index.php?showto...7387&st=140

 

[kj23502]

wow sorry about the fish loss

Good to let the tank sit for awhile. WS needs at least 8 weeks to cycle itself out so best to let it sit fishless for at least that long.

 

[superman1]

are the shrimps and CUC crew completely immune to WS...

 

[Truck]

are the shrimps and CUC crew completely immune to WS...

yes.

your pump should be with you tomorrow at the latest saturday

 

[superman1]

Thanks for the pump.. nice doing business with you..

 

[superman1]

Hello

thought i would give a quick update on how my tank is doing.. i currently have 2 coral catfishes.. one completely dissapeared and when i mean disapeared i mean vanished in thin air.. one day it was there then next gone.. no signs of it.. no left overs.. havent got a clue what happend.. could be the reef lobster i have in there.. but god knows..

anyone stocking wise i havent done anything.. i have 2 coral catfishes.. 1 rabbit fish, 1 chalk bass, 1 randals goby and a pair of clowns.. i did have 1 large clown but i brought a tiny one to keep the other company...

clean up crew i have 4 snails, about 7 hermits and 1 mithrax crab.. water has been spot on and no problems what so ever,, i will leave the tank as it is..

the mojano thing has grown quite big and i have to admit i quite like the look of it.. also on one of the rocks there are 3 mushroom things growin.. they seem to have tiny little spikes on the outside of them.. i will try to get a pic for ID... other then that i may get a few more mithrax crabs to control hair algae..

 

[seffieuk]

thanks for the update - its good to know things are going well

Seffie x

 

[simonas]

found your thread very interesting mate. I'm thinking of doing the same and learnt more from your thread than I have over last few days!

Your loss will be my gain as I am going to take things very slowly when I start mine up but the I now have a base plan to work from which is your tank

Good luck with it and keep the updates updated!!

 

[superman1]

found your thread very interesting mate. I'm thinking of doing the same and learnt more from your thread than I have over last few days!

Your loss will be my gain as I am going to take things very slowly when I start mine up but the I now have a base plan to work from which is your tank

Good luck with it and keep the updates updated!!

glad i helped...i think the main thing i learnt from this was to be patient.... i just got too excited and brought loads of fishes n then it just went pants up and ended up losing expensive stock.. i will be giving the tank a massive clean up on the weekend to remove alot of algae that i have.. then will have a move round with the rocks. will upload a few more pics to the thread..

what tank do you have btw.