Lyn
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OK, since some of you out there are not afraid to post pics of your less than pristine tanks, you've given me the courage to do the same.
This is my 46 gallon low light Bowfront. It is an unplummed tank and has no overflow. It has been running for over a year. It is devoid of fish because we had an Ick outbreak. They are all in quarantine, as you'll see below.
Equipment: 46 gallon Bowfront, 96 watts 10,000K PC, 20 watts 50/50 daylight/actinic regular flourescent, Aqua C Remora skimmer, Penguin filter used to run carbon, phosban, and provide some circulation, 2 rotating power heads (can't remember the name) soon to change out one or both due to encrusting algae always gumming up the works, 1 koralia nano. Used to have a heater, but all the equipment and lights running keep the tank at about 79-80 degrees.
Inhabitants: (This tank is too crowded, look for my upcoming 75 gal. tank journal.) 1 cleaner shrimp (the psycho one that killed and ate the other 5 shrimp), 1 royal Gramma, pair of Ocellaris clowns, 1 Pyjama Cardinal, 1 yellow tang, 1 Kole tang. Assorted hermits, snails, and good/bad algae, mushrooms, kenya tree coral, star polyps, anthelia, tiny bits of pumping Xenia, one green protopalythoa (I think), Dyngoes Zoas, and the lone Orange Crush Acanthastrea (far away from any coral it could kill).
Supplemented with iodine, calcium, vitamins, baking soda, and try to do 7-8 gal. water change weekly.
Tank devoid of fish- waiting for 2 month quarantine to get rid of Ick. You can see the coraline algae water line where we removed 16 gallons for a water change. ;D
Close ups of inhabitants. Fish in Quarantine. I'm using Nat'l Fish Pharmaceuticals- Crypto-Pro
Truffle, our Kole tang should have died. This is day 4 of being medicated. He looks great compared to what he looked like when he went into quarantine. He was so covered in ick, he looked like a gray fish. He lay on his side for 2 days with rapid gill movement and eyes fixed. Tissue, scales, and slime were sloughing off his body. I wanted to kindly put him out of his misery, but my daughter kept praying for his recovery. On day two, he got up and swam in circles, the same way, over and over. I thought, oh, oh, brain damage. His eyes were fixed. Again, I wanted to put him down. At one point, he spazzed, shot up to the top of the tank, hit the glass canopy, and floated down immobile. He was not breathing. A few seconds later, he started again. I thought this was it. He will be dead by morning. Day 3 came, Truffle still laying on his side breathing rapidly. I can't believe he is still alive. Tonight, day 4, he is vertical. His eyes are looking around. He looks alert. He is not swimming in circles, but slowly back and forth! He is now hiding in a piece of PVC pipe. He has not eaten yet, so we are not totally out of the woods, but this is nothing short of miraculous. Do you believe God loves fish? I do, and the little girl who prays for them.
The corals (Sorry for the blurry pictures)
This is my 46 gallon low light Bowfront. It is an unplummed tank and has no overflow. It has been running for over a year. It is devoid of fish because we had an Ick outbreak. They are all in quarantine, as you'll see below.
Equipment: 46 gallon Bowfront, 96 watts 10,000K PC, 20 watts 50/50 daylight/actinic regular flourescent, Aqua C Remora skimmer, Penguin filter used to run carbon, phosban, and provide some circulation, 2 rotating power heads (can't remember the name) soon to change out one or both due to encrusting algae always gumming up the works, 1 koralia nano. Used to have a heater, but all the equipment and lights running keep the tank at about 79-80 degrees.
Inhabitants: (This tank is too crowded, look for my upcoming 75 gal. tank journal.) 1 cleaner shrimp (the psycho one that killed and ate the other 5 shrimp), 1 royal Gramma, pair of Ocellaris clowns, 1 Pyjama Cardinal, 1 yellow tang, 1 Kole tang. Assorted hermits, snails, and good/bad algae, mushrooms, kenya tree coral, star polyps, anthelia, tiny bits of pumping Xenia, one green protopalythoa (I think), Dyngoes Zoas, and the lone Orange Crush Acanthastrea (far away from any coral it could kill).
Supplemented with iodine, calcium, vitamins, baking soda, and try to do 7-8 gal. water change weekly.
Tank devoid of fish- waiting for 2 month quarantine to get rid of Ick. You can see the coraline algae water line where we removed 16 gallons for a water change. ;D
Close ups of inhabitants. Fish in Quarantine. I'm using Nat'l Fish Pharmaceuticals- Crypto-Pro
Truffle, our Kole tang should have died. This is day 4 of being medicated. He looks great compared to what he looked like when he went into quarantine. He was so covered in ick, he looked like a gray fish. He lay on his side for 2 days with rapid gill movement and eyes fixed. Tissue, scales, and slime were sloughing off his body. I wanted to kindly put him out of his misery, but my daughter kept praying for his recovery. On day two, he got up and swam in circles, the same way, over and over. I thought, oh, oh, brain damage. His eyes were fixed. Again, I wanted to put him down. At one point, he spazzed, shot up to the top of the tank, hit the glass canopy, and floated down immobile. He was not breathing. A few seconds later, he started again. I thought this was it. He will be dead by morning. Day 3 came, Truffle still laying on his side breathing rapidly. I can't believe he is still alive. Tonight, day 4, he is vertical. His eyes are looking around. He looks alert. He is not swimming in circles, but slowly back and forth! He is now hiding in a piece of PVC pipe. He has not eaten yet, so we are not totally out of the woods, but this is nothing short of miraculous. Do you believe God loves fish? I do, and the little girl who prays for them.
The corals (Sorry for the blurry pictures)
