Nicknjo

Wow

Welcome, I'm out in yelm so not to far from you. 1k tank is definitely something big lol. So much to take into account but if you got the space, the funds and enough structural support under your floor for 4 tons of water that would certainly be something special.

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Picked up a used xr30 g4 for my frag tank and I'm in love. Now I'm looking for another used xr30 g4 pro so I can throw em both on my dt. Want to buy but if interested ill trade my giesemann moonlight t5 halide hybrid if interested, just took it out of the crate last month and just put in the brand new bulbs 2 weeks ago.

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Finally up and running got fish in display, more in qt, and frag qt tank up and running yet empty. Can't wait for rona to be over, I need a frag swap in my near future.

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Gyres bought. Thanks

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Iso gyre either icecal or maxpect. Located Olympia/tacoma area but ill drive for a good deal [emoji846].

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Always something to learn. I didnt know about the h2o2 dip. Can you remember what the concentration was?

I thought really or formalin was the go to.

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Sorry to hear that. At least you had the sense to treat them and cure the other ones. Brook is a killer!!

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Just wanted to follow up. Ended up being brook. Got worse and worse and both clowns showed symptoms. On humblefishes advice I did a 30 min H202 bath on all 3 fish. One of the clowns didn't make it till through the next morning but the other clown appears to be better than ever. Another 2 weeks in qt with metro and if all goes well the DT will finally get its first inhabitants as long as nothing else come up lol.

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Tank cycled, bacterial bloom cleared, 3 fish in QT with 5 weeks to go, about to set up a coral QT. No quaranteen for me here essential personel but traffic has been nice[emoji23]

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If it's an internal parasite you might want to try prazipro. We were just discussing this exact situation on a Facebook page, someone recently bought a Clown with white stringy poo that turned out to be internal parasites, treated with prazi. Another had a female Clown with them so bad she quit eating and after treatment is doing much better. I'm no expert on the subject (like, at all) but it's something you might want to look into
 
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Curious can foxfaces get this?   I noticed mine has like a mucus shedding off him every few days or so...

Quick question, so I picked up 2 clowns and a sailfin tang about 9 days ago and put them in my QT. They all appear healthy except one of the clowns had a white stringy poo about 3 days ago. I was thinking it was some type of internal parasites as there was no strange behavior and no physical signs of any other disease. Talked to my LFS and they said it's probably brooklynella. Either way they are already in QT which is now @2.0 copper power and about to start treating with api GC and metro in the food. Is it possible that brook could go this long with no symptoms? It hasnt had another striny poo since the one 3 days ago.

Thanks

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Correct, no lights for another 2 months. Fair enough I'll start dropping in flakes here in the next week or two once it's completely clear. Thanks again

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Suppose I have to eventually anyway. Maybe I'll toss a few snails in there in the mean time once I start feeding so it dosent get to crazy

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Just an update, tank is about 75% clearer. Taking out the shrimp and turning the skimmer back on seemed to do the trick never should have shut it off. Anyway fish will be goin in QT end of next week so it's got 4-6 more weeks empty, should I add a little ammonia every now and then to keep the bacteria count up till then. I stopped feeding it to starve the hetotrophic bacteria cloud.

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Wow, good thing it was a seperate structure. Glad your ok.

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Just out of curiosity, is there any reason a stand alone AC unit won’t work? Like a window or freestanding unit? I always ask people that, if you are going to chill your tank, why not get some of the AC benefits for yourself at the same time? Units are selling cheap now since it’s winter.

I read a write up on a diy chiller using an old dorm size fridge and some 1/4 inch tubing and a pump. This is my plan if temps get out of control. I dont know exactly the answer to your question but it dosent cost much to run a mini fridge and a chiller is basically the same thing.

Where are you located again? Olympia?.

 

 

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A decent UV would clear that up in a day or two. Once the ammonia is all gone it should clear up pretty quickly. While there is certainly bacteria in your water column, running a UV will do very little to slow down your cycle.

People love to debate about UV, but in a closed system, it is a good way to keep some of the bad stuff at bay. Sure, it may decrease some good things as well, but has been proven to keep harmful bacteria numbers down.

No sand??

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Nullify if probably too strong a word, but I'm a system you new, I think you want all the bacteria you can get. If you can stand to be patient, I'd recommend you just wait

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Had a buddy who started a tank and ended up with a cloudy system like that. It stayed for a long time and wouldn't go away even after doing heavy water changes. He put a small UV sterilizer in his sump, and the cloudiness went away and hasn't been back since.

it'll run it's course. Convenient you have no fish; no worries about oxygen deprivation. You'll probably spend a quarter of your time in the next year with a bloom like this if I've done a decent job of tracking how people do with BB and dry rock.
I'd strongly recommend a persistent regimen of dosing bacteria all through the first year. Dr Tim's was a great place to start, but I'd buy just about everything you can find. Brightwell's MB7, MB CLEAN, Dr Tim's Refresh, Dr Tim's Waste-away, ReefBrite's Live Rock Enhance,  Seachem's Pristine, Prodibio, anything, everything. During the fishless period (when the bloom can't hurt anything), I'd keep dosing one of them every day, mixing it up to different stuff so it gets a variety. Once there are fish in there, I'd mostly do the same, but when a bloom happens, drop in an airstone and stop dosing bacteria until it's cleared up. 
I'd make sure to ghost feed something once or twice a week; you're trying to get that biofilm as rich as possible. You might stick a Brightwell XPORT-BIO block in the sump to try to make up for the sand's surface area.
Oh, and if API shows less than 0.25 ammonia, it's probably zero.  You can pick up a seachem ammoalert badget, they last a year and more sensitive than the test kit.

Hey yall,

So my tank has been fishless cycling for just shy of 3 weeks now. No lights whole time used dr Tim's one and only for bacteria and raw table shrimp for food. About a day or 2 after the cycle started my water got cloudy and has been ever since. Turned skimmer on about a week in and its producing light skimate. Tried a bag of carbon in the filter sock cup which seemed to help mildly for a day or two. Did a 15% water change last week also with no change. Tank is reading less than .25 ammonia or less using api test and 5.0 nitrate which I'm not to worried about as I doing the 4 month brs hybrid cycle. I'm convinced this is a bacteria bloom because tank is bare bottom with dry rock. Any suggestions as to something I should be doing or should I just keep weathering the storm and hope it clears eventually? Thanks

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