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[Adam L]

Just got a biota yellow tang and was worried about the ongoing ich problem for powder brown even with uv. So, I pulled all fish and am doing 76 day fallow in my display. My two cleaner shrimp have never been happier with all the fish gone. All fish are in a bare 40 gallon breeder and doing well. I have collected so much gear over the years all I needed was the tank. I had extra power filters, heaters, skimmers, auto top off, lights, etc.

 

[Adam L]

Update: Fallow period was rough. Lost a bunch of corals as my parameters were bouncing all over the place with the reduced feeding and changes in bio load. Dosed no3 and po4 but it was a struggle. Finally all the fish back in display in January and they were doing great for a month. Then my hippo got the ich again, and the powder brown and my purple tang. Yellow biota tang nor any other had signs. I was bummed to say the least. I have added a whole bunch of high end acros and although my Walt Disney made it through the fallow with flying colors I couldn’t do it again. I lost mostly lps oddly, blastos, Aussie lords, hammer, trachy, and a torch.

I got all four tangs out pretty easy with my trap. Set up my 40 gallon hospital tank again and dosed cupramine over two days after letting them acclimate for a day. After second dose of cupramine the yellow Tang looked bad. Scooped him out and put him back in display inside trap and tossed an airstone in. He perked right back up. Powder brown, purple and hippo all looked fine in 40 but I did notice powder brown didn’t eat. Should have pulled him too. Next day powder brown dead. Water change, added more bio balls from display sump. Now I thought not copper but ammonia. Didnt have ammonia kit and hippo and purple tang fine. Pick up ammonia kit next day - no ammonia. Had been a week at this point so moved the yellow and purple tang back to display. Purple only a had a little ich from the start and after a week in copper looked better. Was worried I would lose him and yellow because didn’t know what was going on in hospital tank. Adjusted uv in display to even slower flow, added garlic and ginger to food. Hippo stayed in hospital 40 as she was the worst with ich, always ate and all ich gone. Decided hospital tank is staying around for awhile just in case and will run as a fowlr. So added a blue head wrasse and a Niger trigger ‘cause saw them at the lfs and could never buy them before. Here’s a pic from right before the ich came back. And before I loaded up on high end acros from Manny. Pic of qt before lost powder brown.

You can cut my Achilles but not quitten’ the game.

 

[Adam L]

Pics from this morning. A bit dark. Everything still waking up.

 

[Adam L]

Anyone have some thoughts on this green pocillipora colony? Closed up during fallow and won’t extend polyps. Moved around a bit, higher, lower, more flow, less flow to no avail. I had read you should not move these after they get this size but I bought purple pocillipora frag to see what was going on. It was doing great at the lfs super long polyps. It too has been unhappy in my display. Thinking a parameter is off but not sure what it might be. Everything else doing well right now. (I’ll pay for that statement.)

 

[Adam L]

Bump

 

[horseplay]

That's SPS for you. Corals next to each other one is happy the other one is not. Only thing we can do is to keep good parameters and let it adapt. I have some problems earlier in the life of my current tank. Some SPS recovered quickly, some take a year to recover.

On a separate note, I am sure you already know, unless you want pocillipora all over the rocks I would remove them. They're invasive.

 

[Adam L]

Update pic

 

[ericrodriguez]

Your system looks great!!