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Right on, I bought a bicolor cleaner wrasse the other day and it keeps cleaning the white cheek tang along with the cleaner skunk shrimp too! Hope my power doesn't go out tonight.
 
I saw that cleaner in your tank and one in Hung's tank. Now I want a cleaner wrasse in my tank. Does your eat frozen food or pellets? Your tank is looking good by the way.
 
Thank you, as far as I know they don't eat frozen, flake or pellets. I hope it does take on to it. From what I've read on a bunch of sites and care sheets on it. It only picks parasites, scales, slime and what ever else off of fish. Said it does better in a really large tank with a lot of fish. Some sites said it will only survive a couple weeks or more. Praying and keeping my fingers crossed.
 
Well I got home today around noon, my fiance was freaking out, I'm halfway awake from working 3000+ outages overnight, she starts screaming and yelling get that fish out of the tank it ate my yellow tangs fins and wont stop picking on it. I started to get irritated after I asked her what fish and wouldn't give me an answer. I started to figure it out that the bicolor cleaner wrasse did it because he was still after the yellow tang. It ate about half of its left pectoral fin. Well all in all, I had to remove all of my live rock from the tank to catch the wrasse. Called up the LFS and brought it back for store credit. Well my fiance drove since I was passing out after I caught it. She saw some acans that she liked and a couple of tigger pods. Picked out an orange one and a pink with white stripes. Luckily she was able to acclimate them and I went and had about 2.5 hours of sleep today. Lets just say that I'll be bouncing my head off the desk tonight while cleaning up the mess from the storms. Came in and there was about 2500+ outages still. Thank GOD my weekend starts tomorrow morning!

Oh SawDonkey, be leary of the bicolor cleaner wrasse, may be reef safe but the adults are more aggressive than the juveniles from what my fiance read somewhere. Better off getting cleaner shrimp or cleaner gobies from some of the sites I went on. Sorry for the recommendation earlier and now the unrecommended...
 
tribalturtle2 said:
Oh SawDonkey, be leary of the bicolor cleaner wrasse, may be reef safe but the adults are more aggressive than the juveniles from what my fiance read somewhere. Better off getting cleaner shrimp or cleaner gobies from some of the sites I went on. Sorry for the recommendation earlier and now the unrecommended...
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Thanks for the heads up. I already decided against it since I'm a strict qt guy and a cleaner wrasse would probably starve in my qt before it even got to my DT.
 
I haven't had time to setup my QT tank(s) yet. Wish I did but also glad I found out that it was eating the fins away from my yellow tang before it went after my White Cheek tang that I just bought. The yellow used to be the bully of the tank. Bet he's mellowed out after this situation.
 
Bought some more pvc stuff yesterday morning. Still need a few more things before I start plumbing it all. ugh
Order some snails and hermits from ReefCleaners, wish they had their site setup properly to include the shipping rate for the hermits instead of emailing you later to let you know it cost more to ship them and send you a paypal only pay. Had my bank acct hacked twice because of paypal. Waiting for the payment to go through so I can cancel paypal acct again. Last time I had over $100 of charges from New Zealand, England and somewhere else I can't remember at the moment.
 
Came home this morning to find my yellow tang dying. Didn't have ich or anything that I could see on the outside of it. Wonder if the white cheek beat on it a bit or something. It was eating like crazy every time I fed it and the nori too. From what I've seen while watching the fish in the tank. All my fish left each other alone.
 
It could have been an oxygenation issue as well, you do have quite a bit of bioload in an unplumbed large tank with not a ton of flow. I hope you get it all figured out!
 
Hooked up a 5th power head today and started plumbing majority of the overflow into the basement. Still need to plumb the return pump and plumbing.
 
Came home yesterday from work and found my starry blenny dead. Finished plumbing the overflows to the basement. Today plumbing the return pump. Going to setup my quarantine tank and put my two tangs, blue and the white cheek in it to treat them for ich. The White cheek started showing ich after I put it in the 220.
 
Thank you, Waiting on my reef cleaner package to come in today too. Might run to PetSmart or lfs to get quarantine meds. After getting it all said and done with ich and what not. Going to get another Starry blenny, they're one of my favorite fish! Also maybe get another yellow tang since my fiance liked that one alot.
 
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Just plumbed most of the return pump under the stand. Just received my reef cleaners. Too exhausted to do anything else except acclimate and put them in the tank. Anyone know of a lfs that has scarlet cleaner shrimp near Mundelein or Schaumburg for a decent price? Can't remember what they were going for at Beyond the Reef. I have two but would like to get a couple more. My coral banded shrimp has been doing some cleaning on the tangs too. The blue tang looks almost spotless today!
 
Ugh, lost the white cheek tang and the male onyx clown today. SOB! Almost done with the plumbing on the return pump side. Did a water change this morning before going back to bed to work overnight tonight. Hope the ich will go away. The blue hippo tang is clear of it on the outside of its body. At least its smart enough to go to the cleaner shrimp. The other fish have avoided the ones that had ich on them.
 
how can you expect to keep fish alive in a tank that isn't properly setup... every time you post about loosing a fish it bothers me have some respect for the animals your going to house and give them a running chance by using proper equipment and filtration... If you have time to buy fish you have time to do a little plumbing work
 
1000rrstunna said:
how can you expect to keep fish alive in a tank that isn't properly setup... every time you post about loosing a fish it bothers me have some respect for the animals your going to house and give them a running chance by using proper equipment and filtration... If you have time to buy fish you have time to do a little plumbing work
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I completely agree, no offense to you tribal but this is a perfect example of nothing good happens fast in this hobby. You, and more importantly your livestock would have been better with a nice, well thought out build. Please don't add anything else to this tank until it's properly set up and you've had a few months to observe the system.
 
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