Kinda's Large Tank Adventure (LTA)

[Kindanewtothis]

15 minutes ago, DevilDuck said:

Is that ReVive? I use that too as a gentler dip, it is nothing by essential oil. You can probably drink a shot of it safely. 

The hydrogen peroxide is much stronger, it will kill almost anything on the frag. Perhaps the only exception would be eggs and cysts that have an extremely tough coating. You can find it at most pharmacies.

 

Yes this is revive, it was sold to me as a coral dip.

 

So 100% peroxide (3%), no water?

[Kindanewtothis]

Anyone can confirm? I put the frag directly in peroxide 3% and I do not dilute it?

[seabass]

I used to mix salt directly in 3% peroxide to use as a dip.  I figured that the salt would lessen the chance of osmotic shock.

 

I've heard that some people use half tank water and half peroxide.

[DevilDuck]

2 hours ago, Kindanewtothis said:

Anyone can confirm? I put the frag directly in peroxide 3% and I do not dilute it?

I've done it with 100% and zoas with no ill effect. To be safe you can dilute it 50/50.

[Kindanewtothis]

On 11/28/2021 at 4:35 PM, Kindanewtothis said:

There is a small white dot on my flame angelfish...

 

How do I know if it's itch?

 

 

White dot is gone.

[Kindanewtothis]

I did something 🤫

[Kindanewtothis]

Superglue question: can you use any superglue (for exemple krazy glue) or must you use "special" LFS glue for coral frags?

[Kindanewtothis]

Transfering the zoas. 

 

First dip: 50% peroxide 50% tank water 10 minutes 

 

Tons of flatworms died, there are now bubbles around the polyps. Found bubble algae on the base of the frag plug. Removed it in the proxide dip.

 

Second dip: revive/tank water 15 minutes 

 

I bought glue that you can use to repair aquariums so I suppose it will do.

[Maas101]

1 hour ago, Kindanewtothis said:

can you use any superglue (for exemple krazy glue)

Yep any superglue, they're all cyanoacrylate but the thicker ones are easier to use

[debbeach13]

My favorite glue is super glue gel. It is a little thicker and to me easier to use.

[Kindanewtothis]

On 11/27/2021 at 12:17 PM, Kindanewtothis said:

Phosphate 0.15 stable and a little high

Nitrate 1.79 still too low

Phosphate 0.18 starting to think about using the phosphate remover pad I still have to take it to 0.10

 

Nitrate 2.5 still low but I now feed more since there are more fishs so I expect it to go up naturaly.

[Jakesaw]

2 hours ago, Kindanewtothis said:

Phosphate 0.18 starting to think about using the phosphate remover pad I still have to take it to 0.10

 

Nitrate 2.5 still low but I now feed more since there are more fishs so I expect it to go up naturaly.

How did you get your phosphates up?

 

I just measured my parameters and had 

Nitrate up to 10 

with Phos stuck at 0 still.  

 

I've been feeding dried food to bump things up, but so far no Phos reading. 

[Kindanewtothis]

18 minutes ago, Jakesaw said:

How did you get your phosphates up?

 

I just measured my parameters and had 

Nitrate up to 10 

with Phos stuck at 0 still.  

 

I've been feeding dried food to bump things up, but so far no Phos reading. 

I feed misys, brine and flakes.

 

When I had dinos, I dosed NeoPhost to get it up but now I have low nitrate but high phosphate so I don't want to change water to reduce it.

[Jakesaw]

5 minutes ago, Kindanewtothis said:

I feed misys, brine and flakes.

 

When I had dinos, I dosed NeoPhost to get it up but now I have low nitrate but high phosphate so I don't want to change water to reduce it.

Frozen Mysis & Brine or dried?

 

I Do frozen at night which bumped up nitrates I'm pretty sure.  The pellets only 1 fish eats and the other eats flakes.  Though I did see my Talbit nibbling on a flake for firs time this morning.

[Kindanewtothis]

Just now, Jakesaw said:

Frozen Mysis & Brine or dried?

 

I Do frozen at night which bumped up nitrates I'm pretty sure.  The pellets only 1 fish eats and the other eats flakes.  Though I did see my Talbit nibbling on a flake for firs time this morning.

Frozen

[Kindanewtothis]

It survived!

[Kindanewtothis]

Sicce pump (4w) and tunze skimmer (2.5w) are pluged in the power pack. We will see how long it last in case of power loss.

[Kindanewtothis]

6 hours ago, Kindanewtothis said:

Sicce pump (4w) and tunze skimmer (2.5w) are pluged in the power pack. We will see how long it last in case of power loss.

Both pumps worked for around 6 hours, that's good for me.

[Kindanewtothis]

21 hours ago, Kindanewtothis said:

Both pumps worked for around 6 hours, that's good for me.

What do you know? I'm out of power. I'm glad I recharged the power pack!

[DevilDuck]

Thats really good! I do see a DC out from your battery pack. Are the skimmer and circulation pump AC only? If one of them is DC then depending on the voltage you can probably plug it directly to that output and not incur the losses from the AC to DC conversion. I think most of these power pack output 12v DC.

 

[Kindanewtothis]

21 minutes ago, DevilDuck said:

Thats really good! I do see a DC out from your battery pack. Are the skimmer and circulation pump AC only? If one of them is DC then depending on the voltage you can probably plug it directly to that output and not incur the losses from the AC to DC conversion. I think most of these power pack output 12v DC.

 

I have not a single clue. The DC out is for car accessories with a lighter plug.

[Kindanewtothis]

Power is still not back.

 

I'm worried. The lights closed around 15h, it's now 18h20 so about 3 hours left to the battery.

 

The anemone is closed like it never was, I hope it doesn't move.

 

We got 20 cm of snow and now it's raining

[Kindanewtothis]

I need advices.

 

Power is not coming back, battery is holding but I'm thinking to unplug the skimmer to have circulation longer.

[PeterU]

Quebec really needs to improve their power grid.

[pal]

Battery powered air stones will help. Should be able to find  where they sell fishing gear they use them to aerate minnow buckets.