Lester Verano
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I found this tank and stand on Craigslist. It's a NOS Oceanic 30 gallon. This tank is literally new, never had water in it. I think I paid 60 bucks for the tank and stand. I filled it with about 24 gallons of water leaving room at the top in case my fish decide to try some acrobatics. I have 4 Bio balls in there from my canister filter and a huge sponge filter attached to a cobalt pump as the filtration system. The tank also came with a little Italian made water heater, which also looks like it was never used. I have a cheap Tunze stimulating my surface for oxygenation and there we go, QT done, and I should have had this from the get go.
I have three fish that will be calling this tank home for the next 76 days. Unfortunately a dotty back, a yellow eye kole tang, and a powder brown tang were lost to marine velvet due to my stubbornness in not setting up a quarantine tank to begin with. It took me a while to get what I needed to $et up my QT tank, but luckily my two damsels and cinnamon clown were able to survive in the parasitic water in my display tank while I put together what I needed to setup the QT tank. I swear damsels are immune to everything, I never saw them get sick in the 5 months my tank has been up and running, but as soon as the price of a fish climbed over 20 dollars, you can bet it was susceptible to whatever illnesses lurked in my display tank, and it got it, and died or came close. The cinnamon clown did get sick, but actually recovered with some medicated food before I could get it over to quarantine.
I never had a chance to begin with anyway. I put live rock straight in my tank from someone I bought from who was breaking down their tank, so I'm sure I introduced some nasties right then and there. I'll forever be placing fish in a QT before they go in my display.
I plan on buying another fish down the road, so I think I'll save my medication for then, and I'll treat all the fish at one time close to the time I'm just about to put them back in the display. I plan on treating with medication about two weeks out from the end of the 76 day fallow period I'm going through now. Thanks to everyone who chatted with me on my last thread when my fish were dying. I just thought I'd share this little story again with everyone.
I have three fish that will be calling this tank home for the next 76 days. Unfortunately a dotty back, a yellow eye kole tang, and a powder brown tang were lost to marine velvet due to my stubbornness in not setting up a quarantine tank to begin with. It took me a while to get what I needed to $et up my QT tank, but luckily my two damsels and cinnamon clown were able to survive in the parasitic water in my display tank while I put together what I needed to setup the QT tank. I swear damsels are immune to everything, I never saw them get sick in the 5 months my tank has been up and running, but as soon as the price of a fish climbed over 20 dollars, you can bet it was susceptible to whatever illnesses lurked in my display tank, and it got it, and died or came close. The cinnamon clown did get sick, but actually recovered with some medicated food before I could get it over to quarantine.
I never had a chance to begin with anyway. I put live rock straight in my tank from someone I bought from who was breaking down their tank, so I'm sure I introduced some nasties right then and there. I'll forever be placing fish in a QT before they go in my display.
I plan on buying another fish down the road, so I think I'll save my medication for then, and I'll treat all the fish at one time close to the time I'm just about to put them back in the display. I plan on treating with medication about two weeks out from the end of the 76 day fallow period I'm going through now. Thanks to everyone who chatted with me on my last thread when my fish were dying. I just thought I'd share this little story again with everyone.
