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Dubs83
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That’s flippin funny, man!
Victoria M
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Hi dubs!
Umm what am I looking at?
Umm what am I looking at?
Dubs83
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It’s so obvious!Hi dubs!
Umm what am I looking at?
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Hi Victoria!Hi dubs!
Umm what am I looking at?
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LOL! Poor Victoria
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Today I added the splash barrier between the observation tank and theTTM station, and filled the observation tank. Stirred up the sand a bit and got some seachem clarity in there to remove the residual dust. Tomorrow, I’m going to add biospira and ammonia and get this thing cycled
RBTA looks happy, doing the wacky waving flappy man dance.
Midas, mccoskers and carpenters are doing well, other than the carpenters likes to hunker down under a pvc elbow. He’ll swim around a bit, but seems to be deferring to the much smaller mccoskers. No aggression, but they flash for a born and he back so down and goes hide
Eating ok. Water is getting a little cloudy which has always been an issue for me doing QT. 11am tomorrow is the first peroxide treatment and transfer, so I got TTM two filled, turned on the heater and replaced the Saran Wrap.
Gathering supplies for restarting the nannochloropsis, and growing grindal worms and Artemia. I ordered a small pack of eggs this morning on one-day delivery, so I could have live brine shrimp babies sometime Saturday evening
RBTA looks happy, doing the wacky waving flappy man dance.
Midas, mccoskers and carpenters are doing well, other than the carpenters likes to hunker down under a pvc elbow. He’ll swim around a bit, but seems to be deferring to the much smaller mccoskers. No aggression, but they flash for a born and he back so down and goes hide
Eating ok. Water is getting a little cloudy which has always been an issue for me doing QT. 11am tomorrow is the first peroxide treatment and transfer, so I got TTM two filled, turned on the heater and replaced the Saran Wrap.
Gathering supplies for restarting the nannochloropsis, and growing grindal worms and Artemia. I ordered a small pack of eggs this morning on one-day delivery, so I could have live brine shrimp babies sometime Saturday evening
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Hey Neil just finished your thread. Man you've sure had some ups and downs.
So many comments I wanted to make but just started reading it a few days ago!
Regarding the H2O2/TTM I'm very interested in this myself as it's time to replace some losses. I'm assuming you saw updated Humble's thread on it?
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So many comments I wanted to make but just started reading it a few days ago!
Regarding the H2O2/TTM I'm very interested in this myself as it's time to replace some losses. I'm assuming you saw updated Humble's thread on it?
Hybrid TTM to treat all parasites!
10/9/2022: Jay Hemdal and the current Fish Medic staff are suggesting that people find other treatments rather than TTM. It has some substantial drawbacks: “Tank chasing” method (Tank Transfer Method - TTM) A mostly theoretical method for treating Cryptocaryon infections takes advantage of...
www.reef2reef.com
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THanks for reading!Hey Neil just finished your thread. Man you've sure had some ups and downs.
So many comments I wanted to make but just started reading it a few days ago!
Regarding the H2O2/TTM I'm very interested in this myself as it's time to replace some losses. I'm assuming you saw updated Humble's thread on it?
Hybrid TTM to treat all parasites!
10/9/2022: Jay Hemdal and the current Fish Medic staff are suggesting that people find other treatments rather than TTM. It has some substantial drawbacks: “Tank chasing” method (Tank Transfer Method - TTM) A mostly theoretical method for treating Cryptocaryon infections takes advantage of...
Yeah- I have the second to last comment on that thread, lol.
I’m planning on a full write up when I’m done, with intermediate updates when I think I have something important to say
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Nice choice of wrasses
My 2 cents on the Melanurus;
Had him for 7 years. He ate every pod, bristleworm and micro star he could get at. Always pestered hermits and got some. Snails he'd go after if they were upside down but never saw a victim. He also ate a freshly introduced peppermint shrimp in 2 bites. Left a harlequin shrimp pair alone (and all the asterina stars), as well as cleaner and fire shrimp but I think the rest reinforces your lack of desire for 1.
Aside from those issues, he also nipped at every fairy and flasher wrasse I ever owned. Was very stressful for them and they all had to swim in the uppermost part of the water column. Not very conducive to a stress-free life huh?
My 2 cents on the Melanurus;
Had him for 7 years. He ate every pod, bristleworm and micro star he could get at. Always pestered hermits and got some. Snails he'd go after if they were upside down but never saw a victim. He also ate a freshly introduced peppermint shrimp in 2 bites. Left a harlequin shrimp pair alone (and all the asterina stars), as well as cleaner and fire shrimp but I think the rest reinforces your lack of desire for 1.
Aside from those issues, he also nipped at every fairy and flasher wrasse I ever owned. Was very stressful for them and they all had to swim in the uppermost part of the water column. Not very conducive to a stress-free life huh?
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Quick update:
So, transfer 1 of the hybrid TTM was this morning.
And not a moment too soon I think. The carpenters wrasse was lethargic, in a corner abc listing to one side. What I’d thought was maybe just stress and shyness yesterday afternoon now looked like an infection.
At 9.05 I turned off the air stone and heater in the tank then waited 10 minutes while I dispensed the required 160ml of 3% h2o2 I needed to get me up to 150ppm.
At 9.15 I slowly lowered the peroxide into the tank, and mixed it in with a pair of salad tongs (don’t tell Katie, lol) taking care kit to cause any surface agitation.
The next 30 minutes where uneventful- all fish continued doing as they were, no signs of any stress response.
At 9.45, I used a square plastic colander to move the fish 1 by 1 to the new TTM2 tank that had been prepped and wrapped yesterday. Switched over the heater controller cables, put the lid in and did 10 minute checks over the next hour. At 11am I had to go out fir the day (last minute plan) but by then all 3 fish were up in the column swimming around.
At 7pm, I got home, straight to the basement to see me Carpenter is gliding around the mid water column, flashing at the mccoskers, swimming circles around the Midas. The most active I’ve seen him since I got him.
I’m suspecting maybe he had flukes, or possibly even the start of velvet, given that a small patch of skin sloughed off when I was catching him for transfer. Regardless- he looks and acts great now
So- I’m putting hybrid TTM round 1 down as a success. Let’s hope I can keep it going.
So, transfer 1 of the hybrid TTM was this morning.
And not a moment too soon I think. The carpenters wrasse was lethargic, in a corner abc listing to one side. What I’d thought was maybe just stress and shyness yesterday afternoon now looked like an infection.
At 9.05 I turned off the air stone and heater in the tank then waited 10 minutes while I dispensed the required 160ml of 3% h2o2 I needed to get me up to 150ppm.
At 9.15 I slowly lowered the peroxide into the tank, and mixed it in with a pair of salad tongs (don’t tell Katie, lol) taking care kit to cause any surface agitation.
The next 30 minutes where uneventful- all fish continued doing as they were, no signs of any stress response.
At 9.45, I used a square plastic colander to move the fish 1 by 1 to the new TTM2 tank that had been prepped and wrapped yesterday. Switched over the heater controller cables, put the lid in and did 10 minute checks over the next hour. At 11am I had to go out fir the day (last minute plan) but by then all 3 fish were up in the column swimming around.
At 7pm, I got home, straight to the basement to see me Carpenter is gliding around the mid water column, flashing at the mccoskers, swimming circles around the Midas. The most active I’ve seen him since I got him.
I’m suspecting maybe he had flukes, or possibly even the start of velvet, given that a small patch of skin sloughed off when I was catching him for transfer. Regardless- he looks and acts great now
So- I’m putting hybrid TTM round 1 down as a success. Let’s hope I can keep it going.
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Frustratingly- my next day delivery of brine shrimp eggs from amazon won’t be here for 2 days. Uugghh. That’s annoying
It’s ok- they seem to be eating some of the Bluezoo mix that came in the care pack, abd the tdo chromaboost x-small and small pellets I’ve been adding.
It’s ok- they seem to be eating some of the Bluezoo mix that came in the care pack, abd the tdo chromaboost x-small and small pellets I’ve been adding.
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You know what- that’s maybe the only thing that I was a little frustrated at. Frustrated is too strong a word though. Once you add the threaded / slip fittings into the bulkhead in order to put your pipes in, you’re already 3 inches up. I believe my full siphon is literally immediately into the 90 elbow pair. Just enough pvc pipe to join the bulkhead fitting to the elbow. My secondary had a 3.5” piece of pvc, 2” exposed and the two 0.75” ends to attach the fitting and elbows. And my emergency pvc pipe was 6”?
Let me go look...
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