Falcon's Magnifica Cube.
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Awww man, thats awesome!!! Inshallah everything will be good after Ramadaan.
Oh and Ramadaan murabakGood luck with the new venture bud.:yeahdude:
Not yet started zee,these things take time lol lots of planning etc still.Going into manufacturing logistics solutions and packaging for industrial users,mainly mines,recycling co's etc...
noooooooooo bare bottom
Dont you start turning my thread into loki's lol zee is already here and I dont want no talk of bare bottoms in here
Lol its only for a while,once its stocked and stable i'll be adding a thin layer of substrate but with lots of flow i'm skeptical of how well play sand will hold up in the beginning before it develops a bio bond.
the tank really looks great man.
lol .. I must come and visit you, steal your frags, take you on road trips then this will be like Loki's thread
lol what frags?youd have to visit my parents,the tank there has frags,havent got around to the substrate yet but it seems like some is forming on its own
dont know where its coming from,maybe liverock is getting eroded by the powerful water movement....so i guess my tank has spoken lol itll make its own substrate.Thanks buddy
@Falcon .. time for an update dude
No good Im afraid Ive done ALOT on the tank but hit a MAJOR set-back recently,just lost my QUEEN ANGEL today and my blue throat trigger afew weeks ago to white spot
.The cleaner wrasse was also an unfortunate victim as it got sucked up by a powerhead in the quarantine tank Everything was going well and i managed to add some fish in addition to my 2 clowns,managed to find a healthy eating queen angel and regal angel.So i had:
1.Queen angel
2.regal angel
3.Blue throat trigger
4.Black back butterfly
5.Huge fox face.
6.pair of percular clowns
7.humbug damsel.
8.Cleaner wrasse.
Unfortunately a bad case of white spot hit and despite feeding a variety of enriched foods things were still starting to look bad for the regal angel and queen angel.
So I ran of to die visdam after a week of trying without a quarantine tank,BIG THANKS to ersnt for sorting me out with a qt tank!
I set it up quickly in the kitchen and used copper in the water,added the fish...
The blue throat was too far gone and died after two days in the qt tank.....after a week the queen angel and fox face refused to eat in the qt even though all traces of whitespot were gone(they were eating in the big tank)so i transfered them back to the main tank and i was right,they were too big for a 3foot qt tank so in the main tank they started eating again.
I suspected that the copper could be hard on angels also so i decided to keep the rest of the fish in qt under hypo only,its much easier on them and they all have no sign of whitespot anymore.The regal angel recovered its appetite after i stopped copper treatment.
The fox face has recovered fully but the queen just didn't,this morning i found her dead.
That was my favourite fish.Ive come to a realization no matter what anyone says,DON'T USE COPPER WITH ANGELS,rather use hypo....its much more likely to succeed.
I'm actually rather down right now,Thankfully I only lost 3 fish in total but the fact that the queen angel was one of them is whats really getting to me.....
Thanks @Achilles also for your help in this!
I normally keep VERY very low maintenance on my tanks,but the maintenance on the qt has been drastic Imo with frequent water changes etc....i still have to qt for another 8 weeks but atleast hypo without copper will be much easier as i can build up some bacterial populations with the bio balls I added to keep maintenance down.
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lol what frags?youd have to visit my parents,the tank there has frags,havent got around to the substrate yet but it seems like some is forming on its own
Thanks buddy
No good Im afraid Ive done ALOT on the tank but hit a MAJOR set-back recently,just lost my QUEEN ANGEL today and my blue throat trigger afew weeks ago to white spot
Everything was going well and i managed to add some fish in addition to my 2 clowns,managed to find a healthy eating queen angel and regal angel.So i had:
1.Queen angel
2.regal angel
3.Blue throat trigger
4.Black back butterfly
5.Huge fox face.
6.pair of percular clowns
7.humbug damsel.
8.Cleaner wrasse.
Unfortunately a bad case of white spot hit and despite feeding a variety of enriched foods things were still starting to look bad for the regal angel and queen angel.
So I ran of to die visdam after a week of trying without a quarantine tank,BIG THANKS to ersnt for sorting me out with a qt tank!
I set it up quickly in the kitchen and used copper in the water,added the fish...
The blue throat was too far gone and died after two days in the qt tank.....after a week the queen angel and fox face refused to eat in the qt even though all traces of whitespot were gone(they were eating in the big tank)so i transfered them back to the main tank and i was right,they were too big for a 3foot qt tank so in the main tank they started eating again.
I suspected that the copper could be hard on angels also so i decided to keep the rest of the fish in qt under hypo only,its much easier on them and they all have no sign of whitespot anymore.The regal angel recovered its appetite after i stopped copper treatment.
The fox face has recovered fully but the queen just didn't,this morning i found her dead.
Ive come to a realization no matter what anyone says,DON'T USE COPPER WITH ANGELS,rather use hypo....its much more likely to succeed.
I'm actually rather down right now,Thankfully I only lost 3 fish in total but the fact that the queen angel was one of them is whats really getting to me.....
Thanks @Achilles also for your help in this!
I normally keep VERY very low maintenance on my tanks,but the maintenance on the qt has been drastic Imo with frequent water changes etc....i still have to qt for another 8 weeks but atleast hypo without copper will be much easier as i can build up some bacterial populations with the bio balls I added to keep maintenance down.
Im sorry to hear that man! I also had to pull all my fish out because of WS. Tank ran with no fish for 2months. It was a mission with the QT. Put the fish through the bucket method, then in the qt it was hypo and higher temp. In the end I lost two fish and WS came back! So I said screw it, theres only so much I can do.. but all the fish are fine now and I havnt seen WS in ages. I think the WS I got is very hard to get rid of but is not so bad..
Hang in there bud! Soon it will all be over..
Such a process to quarantine fish and get them eating, one of the reasons I have so few fish
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What copper did you try? I always used the seachem cupramine, and run it at half dose 0.250, I first bath the fish in formalin, (i think the centro angels I bath at 0.75ppm), for an hour, and then I run them in the cupramine, but everytime I do a water change I reduce the %. Try the cupramine, seachem say it can even be used for copper sensitive fish upto 0.7 I have found that some don't really eat when the levels are up at .250, but when you start reducing it, they start eating.
Remember if you run the fish in hypo, you must adjust and reduce the copper levels again due to the changes, this may of hasseled the fish.
Thanks ziyaad,although even with measuring and proper understanding and keeping levels way below recommended levels it was too hard on the angels,other fish responded very well to it though.
In the past(talking over six years ago) i successfully treated fish with copper but never angels,i use sera but i dont think its the brand thats the problem since like you say they loose appetite even with seachem copper.
I normally keep the copper level at around 0.3 but this time i only used 0.2 ppm and it was enough to get rid of the whitespot,but unfortunately even at that dose the angels appetite went away completely.....all the other fish were just fine.
The truth is copper is HARD on angels and hypo will get rid of the whitespot in any event so why subject angels to conditions that don't suit them?a sick fish that doesn't eat is more likely to die than one that eats.
Next time I ever have whitespot issues ill never use copper again,hypo works well enough and its easy on the fish.
@magman when i reduced salinity i did not add copper but by that time the queen was already in a bad way after being in copper for 3 days....so the damage was definitely caused by copper removing the fish's appetite
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there is two kinds of copper, chelated and non chelated, and even still brand to brand varies greatly in strength, I feel that the cupramine has never let me down and i have found it to be stable and accurate
Really bummed to hear about the losses man...that Queen was a beauty and a strong fish, must have taken a lot to take it down...hope all others are now ok and u get back on track soon.
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Really bummed to hear about the losses man...that Queen was a beauty and a strong fish, must have taken a lot to take it down...hope all others are now ok and u get back on track soon.
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Man Im even more upset today,my huge foxface and my black back butterfly have perished in the last two days...yeah the queen was a rare fighter and that makes it so much harder to loose a fish like that!
So right now ive lost five fish in total.....this sucks big time....
only five left eish...i dont think i'm gonna buy any more fish for a while.Maybe a few months even.
Some of my fish in my big tank are with me for over six years most over 4 years so im not used to loosing fish like this
so sorry to hear of your losses mate, i hope the brakes come on soon and you dont loose any more. I know how hard it is too loose fish, especially the sort of fish you have just lost, but hang in there the ballance will right itself soon Im sure.
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So sorry Falcon! Hope it turns for the better! This is my worst nightmare. It always sounds so simple...... catch the fish and treat it. HOW do you catch a fish without destroying your whole tank. So everytime I add a fish, I break out in spots with nerves until the fish is settled and shows no sign of sickness. Hang in there.... it has to get better!!!!
Thanks for the words of encouragement crispin and helga,i hope you guys are right as right now its pretty bleak for me....getting some of your dream fish and then they gone in the blink of an eye almost.....
Maybe i'll feel it again next year right now im just going to leave the rest of the fish in qt for two months and then maybe after a few months think of getting more until then my tank will have to do with five fish,im thinking of concentrating on the sps more as they dont get spot lol
Hmm ok interesting didnt know that but ive made up my mind about copper and if i ever treat a fish with copper it wont be for more than 2 days if its an extreme thing that cant be cured with hypo....but if its spot then hypo it will be.
The thing that caught me off guard is that a few years a go in my big reef i used to get whitespot here and there and once i lost a single fish(regal tang) but ive never lost so many fish to whitespot...this was a combination of a bad strain of whitespot and copper and a freak accident with the wrasse but all in all I lost 5 fish and thats a big blow to me
Sorry to hear about your losses Falcon, you really have a nice system there, I’m sure it will turn around soon!
Sorry to hear about your losses Falcon, you really have a nice system there, I’m sure it will turn around soon!
Thanks bud.The system itself runs quite smoothly,Ive installed an auto top up system with a normal electronic shut of switch and a manual auto shut of switch as a back up.....the reservoir also fills with an auto top up switch so it all been fail safed and plumbed directly to the tank so i don't need to do anything as far as top ups go....
All I do is every few days i turn on the r.o unit manually to keep the tds low instead of letting it fill the reservoir in smaller batches,but if forget it on then its cool as it auto switches of when the reservoir is full
Im very happy with the system and can sleep peacefully or even go on holiday without worrying about floods anymore
The nutrients etc in the tank is being taken care of by vodka dosing and cheato/macro algae's.The refugium is there so that in case of a power failure then large amounts of bacteria can use up oxygen far too quickly from the water.
Ive purchased a UPS so going to test it out one of these days to see how long it can run my return pump only,if it runs for atleast 4-5 hours then ill stop trying to keep the refugium alive as right now i have to dose very little vodka so as not to rob the refugium of nutrients and kill it off.
The octx-200 skims very nicely and its serving my tank well.Im also quite happy with things like flow in the tank...the only thing the tank now needs besides more live stock is the cabinet,and this will have to happen soon as falcon junior is 6 months old and just started crawling slowly yesterday!Lol so that will have to be done ASAP.
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