My Beautiful Achilles ! Success

vincentthai.vo · Nov 18, 2015

3FordFamily said:
Better than nothing. Do daily very large water changes 80% or so. Get a seachem ammonia badge and do additional water changes if it's ever anything but yellow. What kills fish in quarantine is ammonia, not copper. Do NOT use prime, amquel, or any other ammonia nitrite or nitrate detoxifiers with copper. Just do large water changes. You'll need to replace the copper you took out daily in each water change.

Can I add corals to the tank while tank being fallow for 72 days

joshkirkland83 · Nov 18, 2015

vincentthai.vo said:
Can I add corals to the tank while tank being fallow for 72 days

Yeah. Make sure you dip em.

miyags · Nov 18, 2015

Start your 72day minimum countdown period after you add your last coral. Even adding coral can bring in unwated parisites. Oh pick up the proper, copper test kit for cupramine. Do you have a hang on back filter for QT?. That will help.

monkiboy · Nov 18, 2015

vincentthai.vo said:
Can I add corals to the tank while tank being fallow for 72 days

Nothing wet added for at least 72 days or 76 days if going by Bobbys/humblefish's latest posts on fallow period for ich.

KritikaL · Nov 18, 2015

dang

everyone saw this coming

hope it all goes well.

4FordFamily · Nov 18, 2015

vincentthai.vo said:
Can I add corals to the tank while tank being fallow for 72 days

No I would make it 76 days.

You risk bringing in new parasites by doing this. It's not worth the risk, IMO

vincentthai.vo · Nov 18, 2015

3FordFamily said:
No I would make it 76 days.

You risk bringing in new parasites by doing this. It's not worth the risk, IMO

Okay so my Achilles is ich free in QT right now witch is good , I'm just concerned he haven't ate yet . But in sure he will eat .

But I woke up this morning and saw he chase his own tail and swim abit abnormal . But now I'm at work looking at a camera and watching him at work he swimming just fine now weird

vincentthai.vo · Nov 18, 2015

3FordFamily said:
No I would make it 76 days.

You risk bringing in new parasites by doing this. It's not worth the risk, IMO

I also has a video camera setup for anyone to view if you would like to view them .

4FordFamily · Nov 18, 2015

vincentthai.vo said:
Okay so my Achilles is ich free in QT right now witch is good , I'm just concerned he haven't ate yet . But in sure he will eat .

But I woke up this morning and saw he chase his own tail and swim abit abnormal . But now I'm at work looking at a camera and watching him at work he swimming just fine now weird

Get live blackworms, live brine, and red nori. These three things will get nearly any fish eating.

I also mix several frozen foods weekly, drain them in a strainer after microwaving, add selcon for nutrition and garlic guard to stimulate feeding response.

Reefpharmer · Nov 18, 2015

One thing about Achilles is they need a lot of flow. Make sure your qt has enough flow. Normal Achilles tangs can handle more flow than almost all of us have in our tanks and get irritated without it. I don't mean to put mp60 in a 40 gallon but do make sure there is good water movement in the qt if he is healthy enough to chase his tail

vincentthai.vo · Nov 18, 2015

Reefpharmer said:
One thing about Achilles is they need a lot of flow. Make sure your qt has enough flow. Normal Achilles tangs can handle more flow than almost all of us have in our tanks and get irritated without it. I don't mean to put mp60 in a 40 gallon but do make sure there is good water movement in the qt if he is healthy enough to chase his tail

I do I have a mp40 on the QT tank

vincentthai.vo · Nov 21, 2015

3FordFamily said:
Get live blackworms, live brine, and red nori. These three things will get nearly any fish eating.

I also mix several frozen foods weekly, drain them in a strainer after microwaving, add selcon for nutrition and garlic guard to stimulate feeding response.

So I decided to do HYPO on the main tank and put all the fish back . Because the Achilles wasn't eatting in the QT but he eatting now in the main DT tank . So knowing that he eatting Ima do hypo on the main tank and take the corals and inverts out . But on my DT there is a lot of hair algae what should I do about it ? The tang not really eatting it all .

Breakthecycle2 · Nov 21, 2015

I think you are adding unneeded stress on the fish. Moving fish back and forth and back forth is not good. Hypo is a very hard and delicate to accomplish.

vincentthai.vo · Nov 21, 2015

Well he wasn't eatting and was happy in the 40g breeder QT so what am I suppose to so I put him back and he seem abit more happy eatting that is . So I just hypo the tank if he wants to eat in the main tank and not in the QT

4FordFamily · Nov 21, 2015

Hopefully it's ich and not anything else because hypo won't work on other parasites. Just got velvet while doing hypo by lucky chance. I can 100% confirm that at 1.0065-1.007 salinity velvet can thrive..

vincentthai.vo · Nov 21, 2015

3FordFamily said:
Hopefully it's ich and not anything else because hypo won't work on other parasites. Just got velvet while doing hypo by lucky chance. I can 100% confirm that at 1.0065-1.007 salinity velvet can thrive..

I believe it ich . All 3 fish are ich free right now . Going to start hypo soon . The Achilles is eatting again so that a great start again I'm just happy he is eatting again . He a tuff fish . I'll proceed with hypo and get all my fish I ever wanted and be done with fish .

4FordFamily · Nov 21, 2015

vincentthai.vo said:
I believe it ich . All 3 fish are ich free right now . Going to start hypo soon . The Achilles is eatting again so that a great start again I'm just happy he is eatting again . He a tuff fish . I'll proceed with hypo and get all my fish I ever wanted and be done with fish .

Well good luck with that!

Reefpharmer · Nov 23, 2015

Hypo is very doable as long as you have an autotop off with a good sized ato container.

Start by removing water from the dt and adding fresh rodi. You can do it over a day or two. If your salinity is 1.025, you can expect to remove about 2/3 of water if you do it all at once. If it was me, I would remove the 2/3 and start running a small pump like aqua lifter and pump water into the dt from a bin. Obviously you need to make a bunch of water. Be sure to recheck my numbers and when you are close to 1.008, be careful not to overadd freshwater.

Once you get to the point where the tank is running w autotop off engaged at 1.008, it should be solid, just be sure you don't run your ato container dry.

If you have other questions, pm me

vincentthai.vo · Nov 23, 2015

Reefpharmer said:
Hypo is very doable as long as you have an autotop off with a good sized ato container.

Start by removing water from the dt and adding fresh rodi. You can do it over a day or two. If your salinity is 1.025, you can expect to remove about 2/3 of water if you do it all at once. If it was me, I would remove the 2/3 and start running a small pump like aqua lifter and pump water into the dt from a bin. Obviously you need to make a bunch of water. Be sure to recheck my numbers and when you are close to 1.008, be careful not to overadd freshwater.

Once you get to the point where the tank is running w autotop off engaged at 1.008, it should be solid, just be sure you don't run your ato container dry.

If you have other questions, pm me

I did a water change yesterday and today . Now the tank is sitting at 1.016 . I can do another water change tonight also .

vincentthai.vo · Dec 3, 2015

3FordFamily said:
Hopefully it's ich and not anything else because hypo won't work on other parasites. Just got velvet while doing hypo by lucky chance. I can 100% confirm that at 1.0065-1.007 salinity velvet can thrive..

Achilles currently have no ich but what is this coming out of his fins ?