SpazNPedro
01-01-2008, 11:47 PM
Hello all-
My boyfriend and I were into the salt hobby only 8 months when a disastrous ice storm struck the area and left us without power for almost a full week. :o Four days into the power loss, our power generator couldn't even heat our house enough to keep us warm, let alone allow us to keep aeration and heat in the tank adequate for keeping our stock healthy. At this point, we had to abandon ship and move the fish. Luckily, I work at the local fish store and there was room for our livestock. They've been there about a month now.
When we finally got power back, we added more live sand (I had wanted a deeper sand bed anyway) and refilled the tank so that we could restart right away. So far things have been going well with our restart. After a couple of weeks, we brought home our yellow tang and two purple firefish. I've got a green spot mandarinfish, chalk basslet, flame angel, cleaner and peppermint shrimps, sand sifting star, a turbo snail, christmas tree rock, galaxea coral, various zoos and feather duster worms that are still waiting to come home.
The thing that really concerns me at this point is how I can boost the copepod population for my green spot mandarin. She'll occasionally eat small bits of frozen mysid shrimp, but has certainly preferred the copepods that have hitched in on my live rock. I can introduce copepods from our refugium at the store, but I don't want to wipe out the population for the tanks that are plumbed into it and rely on those food sources as well.
I'm also concerned about my pink finger leather. It went pretty limp at the store and has somewhat perked up since I brought it back a couple of hours ago. What can I do to help it along?
I'm on a bit of a short time frame. My boss @ the fish store will soon need the tank space back for stock he can sell. Does anyone have additional suggestions or feedback?
Thanks!
My boyfriend and I were into the salt hobby only 8 months when a disastrous ice storm struck the area and left us without power for almost a full week. :o Four days into the power loss, our power generator couldn't even heat our house enough to keep us warm, let alone allow us to keep aeration and heat in the tank adequate for keeping our stock healthy. At this point, we had to abandon ship and move the fish. Luckily, I work at the local fish store and there was room for our livestock. They've been there about a month now.
When we finally got power back, we added more live sand (I had wanted a deeper sand bed anyway) and refilled the tank so that we could restart right away. So far things have been going well with our restart. After a couple of weeks, we brought home our yellow tang and two purple firefish. I've got a green spot mandarinfish, chalk basslet, flame angel, cleaner and peppermint shrimps, sand sifting star, a turbo snail, christmas tree rock, galaxea coral, various zoos and feather duster worms that are still waiting to come home.
The thing that really concerns me at this point is how I can boost the copepod population for my green spot mandarin. She'll occasionally eat small bits of frozen mysid shrimp, but has certainly preferred the copepods that have hitched in on my live rock. I can introduce copepods from our refugium at the store, but I don't want to wipe out the population for the tanks that are plumbed into it and rely on those food sources as well.
I'm also concerned about my pink finger leather. It went pretty limp at the store and has somewhat perked up since I brought it back a couple of hours ago. What can I do to help it along?
I'm on a bit of a short time frame. My boss @ the fish store will soon need the tank space back for stock he can sell. Does anyone have additional suggestions or feedback?
Thanks!