NZR's RSM130 - The tank that is no more

[the_fish_man]

I have looked through this thread and your tank has been coming along very nicely. One question is i have the same tank and i am wondering how you are able to keep enough pods to feed the mandarine

Thanks!

[NewZealandReefie]

Cheers guys!

 

TFM - To answer your question, it appears to be a combination of the following factors:

 

- We supplement the mandarins diet with fish roe (see photo below of the stuff we feed her).

- We feed our coral reefroids once a week, whenever we feed reefroids the pod population booms as the pods feed on the roids.

- Our other fish don't really prey on pods, they're fairly content with flakes etc.

 

We use a long jar (as seen lying on the sand in some of our tank shots) to ensure that the mandarin is the only fish that can get to the roe. She is fed about a quarter of a teaspoon twice a day, every second day.

 

 

[NewZealandReefie]

Operation Impending Doom is no more.

 

In a stressful, sad and frustrating turn of events we have dismantled it.

 

Started yesterday evening, clowns looked odd, filmy slightly patchy look to their slime coats. We're 95% sure they have brooklynella. It's come on quickly as is characteristic of the parasite. Don't know how it got in the tank. Orchid dottyback looks like she's affected too. We tried to net them last night when we notived, in order to freshwater dip them but were unable to catch them. We don't have a fish trap and based on the condition of the clowns, we wouldn't have had time to wait to get one. We chose to move all the rock from the RSM in to the Leviathan in order to catch the fish. The parameters of the Leviathan are borderline acceptable for livestock.

 

We dismantled the RSM and moved all coral and rock over to the Leviathan. Most rock went into the sump but we added a few nice pieces to the display to finish off the scape. We weren't planning on moving anything for about another 2 weeks or so.

 

In general we feel absolutely sick that we've had to take such a risk but moving everything allowed us to catch all the fish to fresh water and antibiotic dip them. We stayed up late in to the night to monitor them, the clowns relaxed a bit and have taken up residence in the same corner of the Leviathan as they lived in, in the RSM... front left hand corner they're looking a lot more hopeful than before the dip.

 

This morning we called in to our (very understanding) work places and said we'd be a bit late. We headed out to our LFS which is also a veterinary clinic and purchased a bottle of Polyp Lab Medic. We returned home and dosed the tank... here's hoping when we get home the fish are doing ok. They looked a lot better when we left than they did last night.

 

It's kinda been disaster after disaster over the last week. Spilled water on the main power point running the RSM (everything ok but had to run extension lead from another room to get everything going again). Sick fish. Risky move of corals and livestock. To top it all off, we couldn't find LSD the mandarin this morning. I did eventually track her down... stuck upside down in the tiny basket we have wedged in the overflow intake to prevent fish going down the overflow. Happy the basket did it's job but LSD is looking pretty weak. I suspect she spent about 8 hours stuck in the basket struggling against the sucking flow around her, she was very worn out when Ciedre pulled her out of the overflow box.

 

As a final attempt to help things out we have a water change ready to do when we get home.

 

Fingers crossed, we've done all we can at this stage.

[NewZealandReefie]

Fish are all still alive.

 

So far.

[owlbassboy]

glad to hear they are all still going

[d'Espresso]

nice

[NewZealandReefie]

Was nice

 

Not so much now it's a cold, dark empty box in the corner of the lounge.

[NewZealandReefie]

Tank has now been sold, yay for more space in my lounge.