8/13- Day 66. Tank cycle completes!!! Ammonia- 0, Nitrite- 0, Nitrate- .2
8/14- Got in on a Reef2go buy with a friend and ordered 8 snails, 6 hermits, and a lawnmower blenny.
8/16- Purchased a Twospot Bristletooth (AKA Blue Eye Tang) from a LFS. and added to the 26g QT. She had already completed a copper treatment at the store and i got to see her eat before I brought her home.
8/17- R2G order arrives. 4 of 8 snails and 4 of 6 hermits are DOA. Blenny comes in so little water, I use a red solo cup to acclimate him to the Biocube. The ordered also included a free 250 pod pack that i added to the fuge.
8/18- Blenny didn't make it through the night. the 4 snails and 2 hermits that arrived alive are doing well in the DT and the Tang is looking good and eating in the 26g QT.
8/22- Dragons breath and Chaeto are going crazy. Here are side by side pics showing 36 days of DB growth.
8/27- Pods are muliplying like crazy, If I were to guess, I would say that 250 turned into 4000 in just 10 days. I am sure the population will go way down once there are fish in the tank, but for now they are having the time of thier lives. I have even spotting them actively eating cyano.
8/28- Tang is still looking good and eating well in QT. Since she has already gone through a copper treatment, I decided to start her on a Prazipro prophylactic treatment. While many of my local fish friends think I am crazy to even QT the fish, I have read a bunch of articles by the pros that recommend a stay in QT with copper and prazipro for every new fish and I have decided to follow this course with all my fish.
8/30- While I am siphoning out cyano less often, it is still growing. I bit the bullet and combined group buy pricing and a $10 off coupon with BRS to order a BRS Dual reactor with MJ1200, 1/2 gallon of GFO, and a gallon of carbon. Death to red slime!!! I also added some ATI Aquablue Specials to get to free shipping and so I can get the stock Aquaticlife 10k bulbs moved to backup duty.
It is also Day 14 for the Tang in QT. She is very friendly and eats like a pig!
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