John’s official/unofficial tank(s) build/rebuild thread

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Oh man - sorry to hear that. I had velvet when I moved tanks two years ago and nearly all my fish died! It was one expensive crash so wishing you all the best. With velvet, you got 3-5 days to react so I’m glad that you’re taking immediate actions to save them.

Best of luck!
 

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Make sure you are monitoring the nutrient in the display. With all the fish out, you will need to supplement to keep your N + P at same level.
 

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Make sure you are monitoring the nutrient in the display. With all the fish out, you will need to supplement to keep your N + P at same level.
There’s plenty on tap, so I’m going to let them come down and keep them stable until I reach my desired level. I’m still dosing live phyto every day and reef roids every 2-3 days. I’ve also stopped dosing LC into my skimmer, so we’ll see how this plays out.
 

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It's great! Typical long list of home maintenance things cropping up but everything is great. Still trying to figure out where the tidepool goes in the yard...
The tide pool is the yard
 

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Well, the 1st transfer is done on the clowns and a partial water change on the remaining, with their 1st happening tomorrow. So far, just lost both Molly miller blennies, which I chalk up to extreme stress from catching, etc I also think they’re a little more delicate than I thought? It sucks, because those guys were fun to watch. The clowns look pretty good and the female is definitely better, as she is flying her dorsal fin nice and high. Both fusilier damsels are eating good, while the others are kinda nibbling at food.
I think I have a plan together to temporarily home all the fish until the fallow period is over, just need to shuffle around the fish in my son’s 50g, which I’m going to be drilling out so I can add a sump and use a proper skimmer (Deltec).
The 90g looks good and there’s new branches popping up on the strawberry lemonade, so it’s still humming along. I need to test today and see where the big 3 are sitting. I also might send in an ICP on Monday? I might check out the corral show in Chatsworth today, as it’s about 5 minutes away from me. Anyone going?
 

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Sounds like you got a plan and know where to put the fish. That's sometimes the hardest part because you need to get a new system up and running to support lots of fish.

I'm not going anywhere today besides my backyard & pool. LOL. It's scorching out there. I always try to go and check out what's available and see if anything is new. Buy my $20 worth of raffle and see if I get lucky.
 

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Sounds like you got a plan and know where to put the fish. That's sometimes the hardest part because you need to get a new system up and running to support lots of fish.

I'm not going anywhere today besides my backyard & pool. LOL. It's scorching out there. I always try to go and check out what's available and see if anything is new. Buy my $20 worth of raffle and see if I get lucky.
I didn’t wind up going, had to run some errands and it’s not like I was going to buy anything. I’m about to open up some beers and jump into the pool myself, stay cool out there!
 

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It’s really strange to have a tank without fish, but there’s something really cool about it too.

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A couple quick pics with just the meso blues before the Atlas kicked on.
 

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