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