Sunday, August 19, 2007

Baby/Bertie: AM Feeding: Bloodworms, krill. SG 1.08

Seahorse Tank: NH3 ~1.0 ppm; SG 1.02. 80% water change.

Seahorse Hospital: NH3 ~0.5 ppm; SG 1.015. 70% water change; added 1 tsp Methylene Blue.
Current total seahorse count: Hippocampus kuda 37; Hippocampus comes 21.

Rock Tank: SG 1.025

Fire Shrimp Tank: SG 1.027

Joney: SG 1.023

Shrimp: SG 1.022

Carl: Ca++ 19 drops; Mg 1350 ppm; SG 1.028

Max/Maxine: SG 1.027

Saturday, August 18, 2007

Bertie/Baby: Feeding: Clam, mysis; SG: 1.018

Seahorses: SG: 1.020; water change.

Seahorse hospital tank: SG: 1.020; water change.
Blue Meanie Rocks: SG: 1.025


Diva: SG: 1.025

Joney: SG: 1.024

Shrimp: SG 1.023

Rocks: SG 1.026

Carl: SG 1.028; KH 8 drops

Max/Maxine: SG 1.027; KH 9 drops

Friday, August 17, 2007

Bertie/Baby: Feeding: Coral food on coral, mysis; SG: 1.017

Seahorses: SG: 1.020; NH3 0.25 ppm

Seahorse hospital tank: SG: 1.020; NH3 0.25 ppm

Blue Meanie Rocks: SG: 1.025

Diva: SG: 1.0247 NH3 Undetectable

Joney: SG: 1.025

Shrimp: SG 1.025

Rocks: SG 1.026

Carl: SG 1.028

Max/Maxine: SG 1.027

Thursday, August 16, 2007

Bertie/Baby:
Feeding: Coral food on coral, mysis
SG: 1.016

Seahorses: SG: 1.020
100% water change; bleached tank and accessories.
Seahorses had ~9 minute fresh water dip before being moved back into the tank.
Count: Hippocampus kuda: 40 seahorses; Hippocampus comes: 21 seahorses

Started hospital tank back up again. SG: 1.019

Blue Meanie Rocks: SG: 1.025
NO3: ~20 ppm

Diva: SG: 1.025

Joney: SG: 1.023

Shrimp: SG 1.025

Rocks: SG 1.026

Carl: SG 1.027

Max/Maxine: SG 1.026

Wednesday, August 15, 2007

Bertie/Baby:
Feeding: Coral food on coral, mysis
SG: 1.016
NH3: Undetectable
NO2: Undetectable
NO3: 20 ppm

Seahorses: SG: 1.015
50% water change, meds replacement?

Blue Meanie Rocks: SG: 1.025

Diva: SG: 1.025
NH3: Undetectable
NO2: Undetectable
NO3: 40 ppm

Joney: SG: 1.023

Shrimp: SG 1.025

Rocks: SG 1.026

Carl: SG 1.028
KH 10 drops

Max/Maxine: SG 1.028
KH 9 drops

Tuesday, August 14, 2007

Bertie/Baby:
Baby's scratch seems to have healed, but the larger abrasion still warrants attenton.
Feeding: Coral food on coral, mysis
SG: 1.015
50% water change planned. During water change, wrasse found dead and quite decomposed behind plastic divider. Water change stepped up to 80%.

Seahorses: SG: 1.016
70% water change, meds replacement

Blue Meanie Rocks: SG: 1.025

Diva: SG: 1.027

Joney: SG: 1.023

Shrimp: SG 1.025

Rocks: SG 1.026

Carl: SG 1.029
KH 10 drops

Max/Maxine: SG 1.028
KH 9 drops

Sunday, August 12, 2007

Bertie/Baby:
Baby scraped herself (on coral?) and has an abrasion and cut on the underside of her snout.
Feeding: Clam, Coral food on coral, mysis
SG: 1.015
NO3: ~40 ppm

Seahorses: SG: 1.017
50% water change, meds replacement.

Blue Meanie Rocks: SG: 1.025

Diva: SG: 1.026

Joney: SG: 1.022

Shrimp: SG 1.024

Rocks: SG 1.025

Carl: SG 1.027
KH 9 drops

Max/Maxine: SG 1.027
KH 9 drops

Saturday, August 11, 2007

Bertie/Baby:
Feeding: Mysis, Krill
SG: 1.015

Seahorses: SG: 1.017
75% water change, meds replacement.

Blue Meanie Rocks: SG: 1.025

Diva: SG: 1.025

Joney: SG: 1.022

Shrimp: SG 1.024

Rocks: SG 1.024

Carl: SG 1.028

Rocks: SG 1.028

Max/Maxine: SG 1.028

Friday, August 10, 2007

Bertie/Baby:
Feeding: Mysis, Krill
SG: 1.015

Seahorses: SG: 1.018
NH3 <1.0
80% water change; new SG 1.019

Blue Meanie Rocks: SG: 1.025

Diva: SG: 1.027

Joney: SG: 1.023

Shrimp: SG 1.025

Rocks: SG 1.025

Carl: SG 1.027

Rocks: SG 1.027

Max/Maxine: SG 1.026

Thursday, August 9, 2007

Bertie/Baby:
Feeding:
SG: 1.014

Seahorses: SG: 1.028
80% water change, meds replacement.

Blue Meanie Rocks: SG: 1.026
Added 8 cups FW

Diva: SG: 1.025

Joney: SG: 1.022

Shrimp: SG 1.024

Rocks: SG 1.025

Carl: SG 1.029

Rocks: SG 1.028

Max/Maxine:
SG 1.028
NO3 Undetectable

Wednesday, August 8, 2007

Bertie/Baby:
Feeding: Mysis, krill.
SG: 1.011
Water change:

Seahorses:
SG: 1.018
Water change: 80%. Redosed with Triple Sulfa and Neomycin.
Hospital seahorses added back into main tank.

Blue Meanie Rocks: SG: 1.025

Diva: SG: 1.025

Joney: SG: 1.020

Shrimp: SG 1.023

Rocks: SG 1.025

Carl: SG 1.028

Rocks: SG 1.027

Max/Maxine: SG 1.028

Tuesday, August 7, 2007

Bertie/Baby:
Feeding: Mysis
SG: 1.011

Seahorses:
NH3: ~1.0 ppm
SG: 1.024
80% water change.

Seahorse Hospital: SG: 1.024
80% water change; medicine replacement.

Blue Meanie Rocks: SG: 1.025

Diva: SG: 1.025

Joney: SG: 1.022

Shrimp: SG 1.023

Rocks: SG 1.024

Carl: SG 1.028

Rocks: SG 1.027

Max/Maxine: SG 1.027

Monday, August 6, 2007

Bertie/Baby:
Feeding: Omega Brine, Krill
SG: 1.011

Seahorses:
NH3: 1.5 ppm
SG: 1.02
50% water change.

Seahorse Hospital:
NH3: <1.0 ppm
SG: 1.025
Removed SH, 100% water change. SH received a FW dip before being returned to tank.

Blue Meanie Rocks: SG: 1.025

Diva: SG: 1.025

Joney: SG: 1.022

Shrimp: SG 1.023

Rocks: SG 1.024

Carl: SG 1.028

Rocks: SG 1.027

Max/Maxine: SG 1.028

Sunday, August 5, 2007

Bertie/Baby:
Feeding: Mysis, Krill; Added a piece of coral to tank to just stay.
SG: 1.011

Seahorses:
NH3: <1.0 ppm
SG: 1.030
~75% water change, continuing with replacement dosing of neomycin (day 6).

Seahorse Hospital: SG: 1.026
~75% water change, continuing with replacement dosing of neomycin (day 6).

Blue Meanie Rocks: SG: 1.025

Diva: SG: 1.025

Joney: SG: 1.020

Shrimp: SG 1.022

Rocks: SG 1.024

Carl: SG 1.028

Rocks: SG 1.027

Max/Maxine: SG 1.028

Saturday, August 4, 2007

Bertie/Baby:
Feeding: 1 Clam, left in all day and totally cleared out.
NH3: <0.25 ppm
NO3:
SG: 1.012
~50% (10 gal) water change

Seahorses:
NH3: 0.5 ppm
SG: 1.029
~75% water change

Seahorse Hospital:
NH3: 0.5ppm
SG: 1.030
~75% water change

Blue Meanie Rocks: SG: 1.025

Diva: SG: 1.025

Joney: SG: 1.015
~50% water change

Shrimp: SG 1.023

Rocks: SG 1.026

Carl: SG 1.028

Rocks: SG 1.027

Max/Maxine: SG 1.029
He notes that Maxine may be sick, may have some kind of fungus on her fins? Doesn't seem to be moving about voluntarily...

Friday, August 3, 2007

Bertie/Baby:
Feeding: Marine Cuisine / Krill
SG: 1.011

Seahorses:
~80% water change
SG: 1.030
Separated SH with white tails into 10g iso tank, dosed with neomycin.

Blue Meanie: SG: 1.025

Diva: SG: 1.025

Joney: SG: 1.015

Shrimp: SG 1.022

Rocks: SG 1.025

Carl: SG 1.028

Rocks: SG 1.026

Max/Maxine: SG 1.028

Thursday, August 2, 2007

SG only:
Bertie/Baby 1.011
Feeding Omega Brine and Krill
SH 1.025
Also ~90% water change.
Diva 1.025
Joney 1.015
Carl 1.028
Mad Max 1.028

Wednesday, August 1, 2007

Bertie/Baby:
Feeding:
NH3:Undetectable
NO3: 20 ppm
SG: 1.011

Seahorses:
NH3: ~1.0+ ppm
SG: 1.021
pH: 8.2
Tails don't seem to be improving so far...
~50% water change; replacement water pH 8.2, SG 1.027; using water made with Kent Marine salt instead of the usual Reef Crystals salt (awaiting delivery of new salt on Friday).
Added neomycin to accommodate replacement water.

Blue Meanie:
SG: ~1.024

Diva:
SG: 1.025

Joney:
Feeding: Mysis
NO3: ~40+
SG: 1.015

Shrimp: SG 1.022

Rocks: SG ~1.025

Carl:
SG 1.027
KH: 7 drops

Rocks: SG 1.026

Max/Maxine:
SG 1.028
KH: 7 drops

Tuesday, July 31, 2007

Bertie/Baby:
Feeding: Bertie food on coral, Omega brine
NH3: Undetectable
NO3: 40 ppm
SG: ~1.010
~10 gal water change. Added 1/2 tsp Prazi to dose replacement water.

Seahorses:
NH3: >1.0 ppm
SG: ~1.022
~20 gal water change (50%)
Day One dosing with neomycin (several had tail lesions today after hitching to a deceased hippo).

Blue Meanie:
NH3: 0.25 ppm
SG: 1.024

Diva:
NH3: Undetectable
SG: 1.024

Joney:
Feeding: Omega brine
NH3: Undetectable
SG: 1.015

Shrimp: SG 1.022

Rocks: SG 1.024

Carl:
SG 1.026
KH: 8 drops
CA++: 22 drops

Rocks: SG 1.026

Max/Maxine:
SG 1.027
KH: 7 drops
CA++: 22 drops

Monday, July 30, 2007 PM

Bertie / Baby:
Feeding: Clam / mysis
NH3: Undetectable
SG: 1.010
5 gal water change; added .25 tsp PraziPro to compensate for water replaced.

Seahorses:
NH3: 0.25 ppm
SG: 1.021
~10 gal water change.

Blue Meanie: SG 1.023

Empty SH tank: SG 1.026

Diva: SG 1.024

Joney:
Feeding: Mysis
SG: 1.015

Shrimp: SG 1.022

Carl: SG 1.025

Max/Maxine:
Feeding: Mysis
SG: 1.026
2 Hippocampus reidi introduced to tank.

Rocks 1: SG 1.025

Rocks 2: SG 1.025

It's been a while... Updates...

In between's to be added later...

Carl: SG 1.026
Coral tank; no fish.

Max/Maxine: SG 1.026
Coral tank with two Percula clowns, two blue mandarins (hopefully male and female), two coral banded shrimp, several peppermint shrimp, hermit crabs, a multitude of snails.

Diva: SG 1.024
FOWLR tank with some small coral and a green spotted mandarin (male/female?)

Joney: SG 1.015
AM Feeding: Marine Cuisine
Begin treating tank prophylactically with Prazi 3/4 teaspoons added slowly, as per instructions on bottle.
FOWLR tank with two exqusite wrasses, one purple firefish (Chloe), and two Perculas (Panda and Joney).

Seahorses:
SG 1.023
NO3 Less than 1 ppm but greater than 0.5 ppm.
Tank with unk. number (many) seahorses only, other than one peppermint shrimp.

Blue Meany: SG 1.024
Some coral(?) and a blue mandarin (male).

Bertie/Baby:
SG 1.010
NO3 Undetectable
AM Feeding: Krill / Marine Cuisine
Begin treating tank prophylactically with Prazi 1.5 teaspoons added slowly, as per instructions on bottle.
Quarantine tank with no rocks/sand/gravel and tubes for hiding. Denizens are a Valentni toby (Bertie), spotted dogface puffer (Baby), a pair of Perculas, and an exquisite wrasse that most often lives behind a plastic backdrop.
PM Feeding: 1 defrosted clam (in shell) that Baby and Bertie worked on together -- they did get it all the way open on their own! -- and 1 cube of Omega BS, shared with Joney's tank.

6/4/07 Monday

Quarantine Tank, PM:
SG 1.010
Feeding: 1/2 cube frozen fortified brine shrimp
(This was too much food. Again, stick with 1/4 cube -- that's just about right.)

6/3/07 Sunday

Quarantine Tank, AM:
Feeding: 1/4 cube frozen brine shrimp

Quarantine Tank, PM:
SG 1.010
Ammonia 0 ppm
Nitrates via strip: 30 ppm
Nitrates via liquid test kit: 30-40 ppm
Feeding: Frozen fresh water mysis.
50% water change with SG 1.010, temperature matched water.

6/2/07 Saturday

Quarantine Tank, AM:
Feeding: 1/4 cube frozen brine shrimp

6/1/07 Friday

Quarantine Tank, PM:
SG 1.010
Feeding: 1/4 cube frozen brine shrimp, a few frozen bloodworms

Wednesday, May 30, 2007

Quarantine Tank, AM:
1/2 cube bloodworms, bit of Rod's Reef Food

Quarantine Tank, PM:
Ammonia 0
Nitrates 20
Specific Gravity 1.010
PM: Fortified Brine Shrimp

5/28/07 Monday

Quarantine Tank, PM:
Ammonia 0 ppm
Nitrates 20 ppm
SG 1.010
Feeding: Frozen fresh water mysis

5/27/07 Sunday

Quarantine Tank, 11:00 AM:
Temperature 78 degF
SG 1.010
Feeding 1/2 frozen mysis cube with Garlic Guard
Added plastic plant to tank for interest.

5/26/07 Saturday

Quarantine Tank, AM:
SG 1.010
Feeding: Fortified brine shrimp

Mid-day feeding: Reconstituted freeze dried krill.
Bertie eats about 4, others eat her "crumbs", not whole ones.

Quarantine Tank, PM:
SG 1.011 (added 4 cups FW)
Ammonia 0
Nitrates 15 ppm

The new quarantine tank had sides and back painted black. My guess is that this was creating more reflections than the fish had been used to in the previous tank; the female clown seemed quite agitated and kept attacking the front glass. Bertie no longer reacted with me (I'm not sure she could see through the tank any longer, and she quite often seemed interested in looking at things outside her tank), and she ultimately stared at the glass of the tank in the front left corner and, quickly enough that I first thought I'd imagined it, she puffed and unpuffed. After a bit of thought, we decided that the painted tank was causing the reflective problems and, rather than try and scrape the tank with the fish in it, I cleaned and prepped a second 15 gallon tank to transfer the fish to. (This tank also had to be scraped, but only on the rear side.)

As I was getting ready to siphon water into the new tank, I noticed Bertie puff at her reflection once again (I guess this puts paid to the idea that she might be willing to share her tank with another Toby...). We then siphoned 10 gallons into a bucket, placed the new tank on the stand and poured fish and water in, then added the remaining water back in. The transfer was unremarkable and the fish seemed to calm down quite rapidly in the new tank. Panda is no longer preoccupied with the reflection in the glass and Bertie seems once more interested in motion outside her tank. I have not noticed her puff since.

Friday, May 25, 2007

Quarantine Tank, AM:
SG 1.010
Feed: 1/2 cube frozen enriched brine shrimp

Quarantine Tank, PM:
Ammonia 0
Nitrate 20 ppm
SG 1.011 (added 4 cups FW)
Feed: 1/2 cube frozen mysis shrimp plus pellets

Moved QT denizens to 15 gallon quarantine tank:
SG 1.010 (2/3 new salt water, 1/3 from old tank)
Temperature in both tanks 77 degrees Farenheit