The REAL Reason You Haven't Seen The Waterbox | Waterbox Aquariums Angelfish Reef LX 270.6 - Part 13
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- The REAL Reason You Haven't Seen the Waterbox
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I appreciate how well you're documenting issues setting up a new aquarium. When people say saltwater is "easy", I just roll my eyes and turn off the video.
My first marine system was established in the days of dry rock and dry sand. And then I had 3 years of non-stop problems and issues establishing it. Which included draining it and culturing the rock, and then draining it a second time to treat a coral eating pest, and then a fallow period after I had Brooke in the tank... It was the 4th year before their was any sense of ease or stability.
Then, that tank had a seam failure and my second attempt at a reef tank began rushing into my 'tank upgrade' I had started several months earlier. I had the new aquarium on the stand and not much else, noting plumbed, not enough lights, too few pumps. But the fish and corals went in anyway.... That was this past December. And it's been nothing but a downhill slope since, as the new tank lacked any sense of ecological succession or 'stability' even though it inherited all my live rock and corals. I watched most of my coral die off over the last 4 months, despite all my best efforts in cleaning, testing, treating, and water changes. While experiencing the worst hair algae and cyano blooms I have ever seen. This is the first time I've watch hair algae choke out a coral, because it was growing so fast, I couldn't keep up. And that's with all the usual offenders in a full cleanup crew.
There are simply some tanks that are an uphill battle. Those tanks, are what makes this hobby a real challenge. I'm not done with reefing, but I'm certainly taking a step back, trying to maintain what I have, and have no interest in adding anything else for some time. It seems I have another long establishment period ahead of me...
My tank is approaching 3 years of life. It's my first reef, having a reasonable history with hi tech planted fw. It's only been the past maybe 6 months that it's looked any good...2.5 years of bacterial bloom, algae outbreak, red snot, literally every possible malaise known to reefers, I have dealt with it. Being my first reef, to say it's been a massive learning curve and frustration on a daily basis, would be the most understated understatement in history 😂 The one thing that kept me going was nil disease or fatality, so I figured I must be doing something right. Now, I can confidently say it is a very mature, very stable and happy system...AND I LOVE IT!!! So many corals, so many cool fish, so many smiles on the face of my daughter. I think if it weren't for the fact the tank was built into a wall and very difficult to just tear down, I'd have given up ages ago. Very happy to hear of you having all the problems I have had, makes the success even more special 😉
I totally get your worries about adding more fish I have just 12 fish in my 750 litre tank which were shop qt in copper. I am too nervous to add anymore having gone through what you have in a previous tank.
White spot can be dormant in the tank for years. Also it is under the fishes skin do not feel bad if you happen to see it pop up. Also a 1 micron sediment filter will catch the parasite in the filter and they will die in it. Would be a good idea when you add the fish for a few weeks
some species of white spot can exist in the main tank for over 90 days ,wont bore you with the nightmare details but copper power for 90 days and clean your sand or remove it,the white spot was in the sand all along you returned the fish to the main tank and then did a blackout, which woke up the white spot in the sand. i now keep back ground copper in the tank, loads of natural light seems to help the white spot stay alive as well.or if you plan
to keep corals in there i would drain the tank buy new sand and leave it dry for 6 months. good luck :)
I went through a similar process back in 2020 - ironically during the pandemic. All my fish got ich and velvet 😅 I took them all out, did the Tank Transfer Method and kept them in a quarantine tank for 110 days. In the meantime the display tank nutrients bottomed and I got dino's. It was quite terrible for the corals, but I dosed Nitrates and Phosphates and continued with water changes (to remove as much of them as possible). By the time the fish were back in, it caused a bacterial bloom and red slime algae. I kept going and slowly things got better :) I did not use Copper because I read it only prevents ich from attaching to the fish and it doesn't kill it. That parasite can come on any hard surface like snail shells, coral plugs and even shrimps, so since the event everything is quarantined and I wash my hands really well between tanks. No chance taken 😅 The TTM worked quite well, I have a powder brown and have never seen any spot on him 😊
I can understand, It Happened to me once, and I have been running my 400L Tank with just 4 Fish for almost 6 months now.
5:55 amusingly altitude is height above mean sea level, and as you’re recreating the sea are your rocks at negative altitude 🤔
Thank you for sharing your hardships. That is very helpful to new and old hobbyists. How often did you do water changes to the observation tank in your bathroom? I recently had a hard time keeping ammonia down in 20g observation tank with 2 small heniochus.
Have a UV for back up, in case of emergency
Wait are you still running medications on the QT tank? UV can degrade the medications in the water.
The purple tang in my 275 just came down with whitespot, currently prepping to move everything into QT and go fallow but hitting timing issues with a holiday coming up and having to go away for work. Doing all the snake oil treatments to maintain it till I have time spare. It's pretty depressing to see all your hard work get turned upside down.
Any advice for battling hair algae problem done manual removal with little success currently doing black out and carbon dosing..... please help 😂
Manually remove , large water change , clean up crew, or hydrogen peroxide dosing, reef flux ect….
Waterbox now gone from the uk now havent they ?
How can i introduce anthia pods to my tank please?
Amphipods?