My big Naso and yellow tang are hanging in there. I only lost the big powder blue (still crying over that one), a carpenter's wrasse and my big yellow stripe maroon clown (a favorite of my daughter's- kind of sad). The Naso has cloudy eyes, and doesn't seem to accurate on the food gathering and is off his feed, but is still eating a fair amount. the yellow is not eating as well, but looks good (no cloudy eyes or visible spots).
The new tank should be here this week and I've got a 5K walk this saturday through work (if I walk, work give $50 to the charity- so I can't back out) and then a thing at church which may last until 3pm. Ugh. I could blow off church without much problem (just would need to let them know) or we could do the switch over on Sunday (after 11:30- have to sing in the choir- they are desparate.....). which ever day is best for you all....
I'll buy supper (at a buffet place) or order pizzas in (whatever you all want)
I've got Donny's 100 gal buckets and one is almost up to the correct salinity (I'm at the adding slowly stage) and correct temp and the other is being filled as the R/O unit produces. It should be full by tomorrow evening at the latest (depends on whether my husband is a nice guy and keeps filling the thing up and allowing the R/O to produce more or waits for me to get home and do it). I'm going to do a water change maybe Wednesday just to offload some offensive water and clean the tank up. My Ca is a bit high at 520 and Mg was ok at 1330. Not correct ratios, but I think I've been putting in too much CA since my old tank was always low and I figured that more corals needed more CA. I'll stop that. pH was 8.2 and Nitrates were ok, but need watching (water change will help that).
Plan is to dumpt the water out of the 100 gal and fill it up with water (maybe 80 gal 220 gal water and 20gal fresh made?) from the 220gal some rock and fish (not LR but dead (?) rock) and do the low salinity/low light/higher temp thing to the fish and let them incubate for 6-8 weeks.
The 220 gets swapped out with the help of a lot of friends (I will really appreciate any and all help I can get) putting all LR, corals and shrimp in the big 100gal containers from Donnie, (sand in a bucket or two- everybody bring a bucket?), taking old/new tank off the stand and putting the new/new tank and putting in sand, building up the LR stuff. None of my corals are attached to any of the big pieces (I hadn't done it yet and then found out I needed to swap tanks), so I think we can put those in before we put the water back in and maybe glue them together? They are just balanced on each other right now. You all can help me decorate (or at least give advice)....
And, I do want to add another purple tang to the spread. Donny has those whoppers and might hang onto one for me. If the big Naso dies, I'll get rid of the yellow after the quarentine since he's a whopper and meaninsh to other tangs and get smaller tangs. I hope my Naso makes it..... If he does, I'll need a whopper of a purple tang to match him (and maybe keep the yellow- have to compare sizes).
Thanks for all the suggestions and support guys! I do appreciate it...
Susan
I will bring what I can sunday and should be there between 12 - 12:30.
