That flasher wrasse looks super nice. We'll look for a more peaceful wrasse later down the road and take this as a hard lesson learned.
Are you reconfiguring the room for your TTM setup? Read up on that a bit from the link you sent me.
Yes on the reconfiguring.
I originally had a 4’ bench set up for two 10 g tanks for TTM, ran 2 quad electrical outlets, easy siphon lines, right next to the sink. A week before getting my first fish, I read Hotrocks QT thread and decided to do copper treatment, prophylactic worm treatment etc.
So I had my CUC QT, inverts etc on a second, 3’ bench, but it was cramped. So I moved those to the TTM bench, the copper QT stuff to the 3’ bench, hung some shelves for gravity ATO and storage and moved cabinets so I had drawer storage for meds and dips right under the fish bench.
Then when I started stocking corals, I got a 20long with a 165w led hung above it and expanded the 4’ bench to 6’. Used an old hollow core door as a surface. Drilled holes in cabinets and ran lines for an apex controlled ATO . Expanded the 3’ to a 4’ too.
Anyway, as you know, I lost my yellow tang, and this really spurred me into planning my next round of additions. This hybrid TTM sounds amazing, but I couldn’t figure out the space since I’d need an observation tank as well as 2 TTM tanks.
So I downsized the coral QT from 20l to 10g, moved that to the new 4’, hung the led off a wire shelf, put another 10g perpendicular for my CUC and worm QT, a 5g in between the two for my upcoming RBTA purchase and LTA rehabilitation (got badly bleached after it walked while I was on vacation).
Bleach scrubbed the 20l, which is now on the opposite 6’ bench, hooked up the apex ATO since I hardwired float switch lines and container to that location. Now I need to add 2 quad outlets (I hate multi adapters, but think running electrical is fun) a Perspex screen between the TTM zone and the observation tank (aerosols are a concern, but I just don’t have space to do the 10 feet between tanks rule, so I’m borrowing a lab trick and adding a physical barrier and a low velocity, high volume fan blowing over the TTM area, AWAY from the observation tank).
Just haven’t decided if I’m going to do 2 rolling carts, 1 for each TTM tank that I can roll away/ roll in place during transfers (to preserve the 10 foot isolation and not potentially contaminate the next tank in the cycle) or just set them next to each other and cover one in Saran Wrap while I fill and prep it for transfer. I have space (just) to do the 2x10g and the 20l side by side, but maneuvering might be a little tight.
The thing that bugs me is that these 10g tanks seem to be getting thinner and thinner every time I buy one. I hate moving them with any volume in them, since I’ve broken two at the seams lifting them with just 2-3 g in the bottom.
Anyway, wow, that turned into a train of thought run on statement. Hope it wasn’t too boring, lol