so..within the next week i am gettin a new 29g tank that im gonna set up in my room...cant wait! ill be getting the tank and stand on this monday, and as the weeks go on and i accumilate money..ill get the stuff for it, sand, filters, powerheads...that kinda stuff...ill post pics of my progress....
what room though, if its the bedroom, although the gentle waterfall sounds & the background hum are great at first, can be enough to drive you nuts if your systems are loud enough. Sleep next to the fridge for a week..lol
Tanks work best in high populated areas, or else sometimes we neglect them.
Unless of course you have a garage like Danamckmeasandwich thats cooler than the house
yea it is gonna be in my bedroom...it isnt gonna bother me at all cause we already have one 39g freshwater up here and its completley silent except for that air pump which vibrates when moved the wrong way. lol. but since i wont havee an air pump, it wont make any noise... i have my one saltwater tank here as well..and it makes that waterfall noise when the water evaporates beneath the brim of the filter bottom....but it doesnt bother me...
ok. so....after much thought and re-reconsideration...ive decided im not going to get a 29 gallon tank...instead, i am going to get a 55 pre-drilled tank w. overflow. the lfs around the corner where i get all my stuff from has it for 239. and the stand for 119...snce my b-day is coming in a week..i figured ill take the money that i was going to put towards the 29 and all my birthday money towards this one. this way, ill be able to set up a nice reef aquarium.
and im not going to rush the process this time like i did with my first tank.
IMO, the 55-60 tanks are ideal. I had a 37g and dream of having a 180, but my current 60g is perfect. Its large enough where you can have a nice variety of live stock but small enough you can really get up close and personal look at the growth and changes in the tank.
yea. so, it seems as thouh the ich problem i have in my tank at the moment killed one of my regals....possibly both. =[ i found one dead in the front of my tank when i turned on the light. i havnt seen the other one all morning...im oping hees still alive, and even if hees not, maybe the eel took care of the dead body so i dont have to rip apart my tank in search of it. and also i had to flush my serpent star last night. he was like...slowly falling apart, and when i spotted him last night, i noticed that he only had one arm and no top skin piece....i could see right thru his mouth. i think this was because my nitrites have been too high from the ich cure. and also what could be stressing out my fish..keeping the ich around for so long. so right now im not worried about the ich, im more worried about not stressing my fish so much with the nitrites, and getting rid of that, and once that is lowered to a decent level. ill start back on the ich medication,
bah, its been a horrible past week with these guys.
wow...its been a whilwe since the last update.......nothing new...the only inhabitants in my tank now are the puffer, eel, and blenny....plus the misc hermits in there, the flame scallop and a red shrrrimp...the cyano is still there...i got this red slime remover stuff...it better be worth the 20$ i paid for it....anyone ever use this before?
well, IMHO, the tank that you are trying to keep all of these fish in is way to small. 2 hippo tangs, and the puffer were all going to be WAY to big for a 55. keeping them all in a smaller tank, like a 55, is a BIG no no. the tangs cover many many miles of reefs in the wild when the are searching for food. they need at least a 6' long tank, again in my opinion. the stress from the smaller tank was probably keeping the tangs and puffer stressed, and the stress weakens their immune system, leaving the vulnerable to disease.
how long has this tank been up and running and what are the water parameters ??
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The red slime remover works but it will come back if you have not corrected the problem. It is an antibiotic so that means that kills other things that you don't want to kill. But, I did use it once when no matter what I did I couldn't get rid of the cyano.
ok..well im glad that i am hearing sucess stories about the red slime remover...it seems to be working for me too...i dont see any more red slime and i havnt seen any in the past day or 2 so im guessing it worked well...also i believe my tank had finished cycling....which could also have been a cause of my fish's deaths...cause i just checked the water params and the pH was at 8.0, no ammomia, no nitrates or nitrites. so i think its finally done cycling... also..today i am getting my first fish since the puffer...about a month ago...my lfs recieved a moorish idol in randomly and i know how they are finikey eaters....but this one actually eats the flakes they were feeding it..i watched it eat 2ce. i thought it was amazing. lol
anyway...since my water params are up to par. and my tank has been finally stabalized for the past few days..(no more ich or any other weird things going on w. it...) i am going to get the idol and house him w. the puffer until after the new year when i have my other tank up, running and fully cycled. i believe that this is a once in a lifetime opprotunity to get one of these fish that actually accept food so willingly. since i have heard that they rarely eat in captivity. so im gona get it and the same exact food that the lfs is feeding him.
how do you think i should cycle my tank? ive heard many different options...im not gonna go with the damsels again. cause the one striped damsel was starting to piss me off.....so im done w. them... should i do the raw shrimp idea or maybe even a silverside? i also have other misc frozen fish goods in my freezer..from what i feed the eel...kalamari, salmon, and scallops... and i also heard that using uncured live rock is a good way to cycle the tank...but i dont want anything in there that is going to be bad for the tank...
so. i went to go get the idol a few minutes ago. and i went to the tank that he was in when i first saw him and he wasnt in there. and i was looking around and found that they put him in a different tank off to the side..and when i saw him he was on his side and breathing extremley fast. i was really looking foreward to getting him and i am extrmely dissapointed that they moved him to another tank and stressed him out like that. i really hope he will be ok, but im sure it will probably die now. which makes me really upset. and that just pretty much ruined my whole day. cause i really did want him.
if the Idol did that there ... imagine what it would have done going to a completely new system. he might have lasted a day. why do you keep trying to get all of these fish that are going to be to big for it ?? the moorish idol, because its a schooling fish naturally and its size ... they need at least 125 gallons. the problems that you have been having are probably directly related to the fish that you are choosing for A TANK THAT IS TO SMALL.
this is ONE of the fish, IMO, that should be left in the ocean. not to mention that they will probably eat polyps and corals.
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i wasnt planning on having any corals or anything in the tank...it was just going to be the idol and live rock....but that idea went down the drain...and the lps put it from a 30 gallon to a little 2.5 gallon tank....i highly doubt they acclimated it to the tank..and its even wrong for them to put him in that smalll ass tank. im really dissapointed.
and the problem i had w. my tank were the nitrites...they were off the wall....and now theyre stable...and everything has been going alright...all of the fish that died on me was kust a leson learned...im not gonna stuff like 8 fish in this tank again...
new 65gallon tank. 
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so much for that idea... =( 
i was really looking foreward to getting him and i am extrmely dissapointed that they moved him to another tank and stressed him out like that. i really hope he will be ok, but im sure it will probably die now. which makes me really upset. and that just pretty much ruined my whole day. cause i really did want him.