What did you do with your tank(s) today?

[DMD123]

Do you have a pic? Like @sir_keith said it could be age. Other (unlikely) possibility is parasites but then other fish should have symptoms too...

Its a hider so pics are tricky. This is a fish that was getting picked on badly when I purchased it. It was getting eaten on by red tailed sharks and Chinese algae eaters. When it came home it looked to settle in but then it started to shed skin. Then it went through the Ich treatment when the clown loach was introduced and its been a bit off ever since. But this thing has been skinny from the get go.

 

[DMD123]

Water change/gravel vac on two 90’s and the one 46 bowfront. Always get motivated to clean after seeing a good fish store, lol. Bridges got me super motivated! Though I was happy when we got home and the wife looked at the garage tanks and said that ‘this is the best fish store we went to today’.

 

[DMD123]

Buce plant order just came in!

@sir_keith, posted some pics for you: http://www.wafishbox.com/forums/threads/first-plant-order-with-buce-plant.15420/#post-142478

 

[fishguy1978]

Water changes. Second spawn by the rainbow cichlids.

 

[cjag]

Been a while since I updated. A few days ago finally got my plants and driftwood into my cycled 75.


Then today I made a stop into Farmland Fish and Feed in Silverdale for the second time ever. First time ever buying something. I was shopping around online for a severum but this guy pretty much fell into my lap.

Awesome gold severum. Someone had returned him the day before as he was getting his butt kicked by CA cichlids. He has some fin regrowing to do but I think he's going to look amazing in my 75 after quarantine.

 

[fishguy1978]

Hey @whatthebloody how's your reef tank doing?

 

[sir_keith]

Lots of power outages in western Washington this morning; hope everyone is OK. I lost power for a little while last night, but have power this morning. Half of Bainbridge Island is still without power. This year I finally completed my emergency generator project, so I don't have to worry about my fishes; even so, power outages are no fun.

 

[fishguy1978]

Power was out around 0130 and back on around 0900.

 

[DMD123]

My power went out at midnight and lm still waiting to get it back. I put battery air pumps on and temp in tanks was at 72-73 degrees. Trying not to think about losing anything but if it happens I sadly already have a complete restock idea in mind.

 

[DMD123]

As of 6:20pm we still had no power. Thankfully my sister in law lives near by and has power so we have a warm place to stay for the night.

 

[fishguy1978]

As of 6:20pm we still had no power. Thankfully my sister in law lives near by and has power so we have a warm place to stay for the night.

Wow, I have seen the outage map. Little pockets of outage all over.

 

[whatthebloody]

Hey @whatthebloody how's your reef tank doing?

I was hoping nobody would ask. Not the best! A lot of the coral has died back, and some algae. The inhabitants are still alive. I'll be honest, its my fault, as i dont do water changes like I should

 

[fishguy1978]

I was hoping nobody would ask. Not the best! A lot of the coral has died back, and some algae. The inhabitants are still alive. I'll be honest, its my fault, as i dont do water changes like I should

 

[DMD123]

Wow, I have seen the outage map. Little pockets of outage all over.

We got phone alerts that our power was back on at 10:20pm but we had already settled in to go to sleep so we didn’t go back home. Hopefully everything is well and heaters got tanks back up to temp. Im sure filters are going to have to get reestablished and probably had a huge bacteria die off. Hopefully didn’t poison the fish. Will do mass water changes today.

 

[sir_keith]

Power still out on parts of Bainbridge; estimated restoration time noon tomorrow.

 

[DMD123]

Back home this morning, power is up and tanks getting back up to temp. Everything seems good with the fish. I dont believe I have any losses at the moment. Will spend some time with each tank doing large water changes.

 

[sir_keith]

Power back on Bainbridge, 24 hours ahead of estimate.

 

[DMD123]

Just finished all 5 garage tanks. Did good gravel vac on them with a large water change to each. Only fish I did not see were the 3 black kuhli loaches. This is typical so Im not too worried. I am going to order a couple extra battery air pumps, Batteries and air stones in preparation for the next time. I really need more than what I have for the 300.

Speaking of the 300... Im off to do the large water change on it next

 

[fishguy1978]

Back home this morning, power is up and tanks getting back up to temp. Everything seems good with the fish. I dont believe I have any losses at the moment. Will spend some time with each tank doing large water changes.

Power back on Bainbridge, 24 hours ahead of estimate.

Glad to hear you are back from the 1800's

 

[DMD123]

Tired... I don’t usually do all 6 tanks with heavy gravel vacs and big water changes all in the dame day! But I am just finishing filling the 300 and then watching the fish to see if they are doing okay. I think I might actually pull out my test kit and check things out tomorrow when everything settles down.