Snow_Phoenix Posted December 27, 2020 Author Share Posted December 27, 2020 Zoa pox treatment, day 1: 1 Quote Link to comment
Snow_Phoenix Posted December 27, 2020 Author Share Posted December 27, 2020 Quick update: Multimix zoa mini colony & sparkling red/green zoas appear to have caught the pox too, so I'll be dipping those with the other affected zoas tomorrow evening. Will keep observing the tank. 👍 Quote Link to comment
Snow_Phoenix Posted December 27, 2020 Author Share Posted December 27, 2020 Harvey in camomode for the night: 1 Quote Link to comment
Snow_Phoenix Posted December 27, 2020 Author Share Posted December 27, 2020 Hungry mini rainbow acans: 😅 1 Quote Link to comment
Snow_Phoenix Posted December 28, 2020 Author Share Posted December 28, 2020 Quick topview pics: And my wall-GSP is growing! 😄 : 2 1 Quote Link to comment
Snow_Phoenix Posted December 28, 2020 Author Share Posted December 28, 2020 Tubbs blue: Zoa cluster: Kraken lurking: I thought I lost the skittles zoas yesterday but it turns out they are alive, just really shrunken. The LA Lakers have also been affected by the pox - I don't think they're going to make it. Both my mint greens look terrible, so I might lose them too. 😕 I'll try my best to save my purple hornets, fruit loops, sparkling reds & multimix zoa frags, but I am mentally bracing myself that I *might fail to do so. 😓 Zoas are beautiful but I find them a lot harder to keep healthier and happier compared to my SPS at times. Still not sure why some sites label these as 'easy, beginner' corals. Maybe some morphs are hardier and less easier to kill, but overall, they can be challenging to keep long-term sometimes. JMO. 😕 1 Quote Link to comment
Snow_Phoenix Posted December 28, 2020 Author Share Posted December 28, 2020 Day 2 of dipping in Furan 2: 1 Quote Link to comment
debbeach13 Posted December 28, 2020 Share Posted December 28, 2020 1 hour ago, Snow_Phoenix said: they can be challenging to keep long-term sometimes. Agreed not all zoanthids are easy. I hope the treatment works you have such a nice collection. It would be a shame to lose any of them. 1 1 Quote Link to comment
Snow_Phoenix Posted December 28, 2020 Author Share Posted December 28, 2020 Spotted Minx lurking at the front of the tank! 😊 Just chillin' with her pom poms: Now you see me, now you don't. : Banded trochus snail out for a late night snack: 3 Quote Link to comment
Snow_Phoenix Posted December 29, 2020 Author Share Posted December 29, 2020 Panda in the morning: 🥰 😊 1 Quote Link to comment
Snow_Phoenix Posted December 29, 2020 Author Share Posted December 29, 2020 Sapphire: Corals: Nem: 1 Quote Link to comment
Clownfish king Posted December 29, 2020 Share Posted December 29, 2020 I JUST realized that it’s 1030 at night for me and your saying it’s morning means we have completely different time zones Quote Link to comment
Snow_Phoenix Posted December 29, 2020 Author Share Posted December 29, 2020 1 hour ago, Clownfish king said: I JUST realized that it’s 1030 at night for me and your saying it’s morning means we have completely different time zones Well, yes. We do live in different parts of the world. 😉 Quote Link to comment
Snow_Phoenix Posted December 29, 2020 Author Share Posted December 29, 2020 My tenuis finally developed bright yellow tips: 🥰 Banded trochus snail clearing up algae on the sandbed: Shroom buddies: Superman monti: Purple monti: Neon green acro: (With a tiny mini maxi nem in recovery mode behind it) 1 Quote Link to comment
Snow_Phoenix Posted December 29, 2020 Author Share Posted December 29, 2020 Metallic GSP: Yuma: These still have the pox: But some polyps are still open, so there is still hope. The third dip in Furan 2 will commence shortly. 👍 1 Quote Link to comment
Snow_Phoenix Posted December 29, 2020 Author Share Posted December 29, 2020 Dipping now: The midas polyps accidently detached when I was brushing them down, but I managed to glue them back on the rock. Not sure if they'll make it though. 😓 Quote Link to comment
Snow_Phoenix Posted December 30, 2020 Author Share Posted December 30, 2020 Spotted a zanzibar shrimp for sale at the LFS! 😮 Came from another reefer's tank. I bought it immediately. 😅 : It immediately settled on my forest fire digi: 1 Quote Link to comment
Snow_Phoenix Posted December 30, 2020 Author Share Posted December 30, 2020 Still can't believe my luck though! 😅 : Harvey checking out the new guy: 1 Quote Link to comment
Snow_Phoenix Posted December 30, 2020 Author Share Posted December 30, 2020 Also picked up a purple digi, but the color is a bit off and brownish at some parts: My forest fire seems to be developing more new branches though! 🥰 : And I put in an order for a new fruit loops, skittles, blue hornet and eagle eye frags. They also had these: But I'll just wait for the store to frag them. Once the tank is free of the pox, I'll pick the frags up and re-stock the zoa garden. 👍 2 Quote Link to comment
Snow_Phoenix Posted December 31, 2020 Author Share Posted December 31, 2020 Zen was exploring the tank early in the morning: He's not shy at all, and is pretty cool. I suppose he's a bit hungry too - will try to feed him some mysis later: 1 Quote Link to comment
Snow_Phoenix Posted December 31, 2020 Author Share Posted December 31, 2020 Cross-posting to this journal from my 60G's journal. I picked up a blue mandarin for my 60G yesterday but the fish arrived near-death in the bag, and it was very stressed in that tank. So today, I shifted Qin the mandarin to the nano to let him heal fully before moving him back to the 60G. Qin came from another's reefer tank and has been kept for over a year on live pods only. Previous owner made no attempt to wean him onto frozen, so I'll be training him. When I first added him to this tank this morning, he was sliming very badly and once again, appeared to be dying. 15 mins. after adding him to the 10G, he perked up and was almost completely back to normal: So much so that he began exploring the tank: I did attempt to feed him a breakfast of various frozen food, but he was most sedentary and checking the tank out. He seemed to be particularly interested in my mini macro garden and my red fungia. 🤷♀️ Either way, few hours later and he's now actively scoping out the tank. He's not too thick, but not skinny either. However, his belly is sunken - so I don't think he has been eating much at the LFS. 😕 Quote Link to comment
Snow_Phoenix Posted December 31, 2020 Author Share Posted December 31, 2020 Over the next few days, I'll be seeding my tank with more macro & microfauna (and hopefully pods) taken from the fuge of my 60G to accomodate Qin's diet until he completely switches over to frozen & pellets: He's still very shy and wary of me, which is normal for a new fish. I did notice some of his fins are a bit ragged, but that should heal up. I'll try to set up the XL-size HOB unit and convert that into a refugium - I'm not sure if it'll fit over the side of this tank though, because it's fairly large. Zen, my new zanzibar shrimp is adjusting very well to the tank: Zen & Qin came from the same previous reeftank/reefer. 👍 Quote Link to comment
Snow_Phoenix Posted December 31, 2020 Author Share Posted December 31, 2020 Added 2 giant wads of macro into the tank - yanked them straight out of my 60G's fuge. The lights are already off for the day, but the last I checked, Qin is busy pod-hunting. All is well, for now. 👍 2 Quote Link to comment
Snow_Phoenix Posted December 31, 2020 Author Share Posted December 31, 2020 Settling in for the night: The mini macro forest I made for Qin today: 2 Quote Link to comment
debbeach13 Posted December 31, 2020 Share Posted December 31, 2020 Too bad Qin isn't craving some Bristles worms looks like a feast of them. Oh and that has to be the smallest and cutest coral banded shrimp ever! 1 Quote Link to comment
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