Lion Fish and Coral QuarantineTank
Toronto Danforth
Introduction
This tank is to be my quarantien tank and also I will be keeping a small lion fish in it only unless or until it is to big for the tank then I will move it to my main system!! This is also my first lion fish so any tips would be appreciated!
Thanks for reading :)
Thanks for reading :)
Background
I decided It is very important to have a quarantine tank for any corals I put in my system once I found out the hard way that dipping doesn't always get rid of pests. So Now that I have a pest free tank I plan to keep it that way and if you are new to the hobby or even if you have been in the hobby for 5 years or more do not under estimate what we are telling you you definitely need a quarantine tank. Especially if you plan to sell frags and if you sell frags to people knowing you have pests on them then shame on you cause you are causing someone to spend a lot of money to rid their system of them and it is just plain rude to do if you don't sell frags but give them away you still have a very large responsibility to let people know if there is pests!! If you don't you are just a prick and need to find another hobby!!!! Anyway The reason I chose the JBJ 24 gallon is because of it's nice look (makes the wife happy) :) and because it holds a lot of corals and has may lighting options as I have the open/Glass top Model.
Filtration
For now I am just using what the standard 24 gallon JBJ nano Cube Comes with and some rowa phos in panty hose between the media it came with! It came with carbon , 5 JBJ bio balls and ceramic porus curcular stone media as well as 3 large Black square / rectangle shaped sponges. I plan to add more flow later.
Lighting
K-2 Viper 70 Watt HQI from JBJ and a 1 watt Coralife led moon light for the night.
Flow
So far just the standard flow the system comes with looks like 600 gph or so not sure haven't read the specs and like I said in the other section I plan to add more flow!! I do have some loc line on order so I can expand on the adapter flow nozzel it comes with I plan to have 2 have a Y with 2 flow nozzles and 3 inches of loc line off each of them and later I plan to add a couple nano korilias or something!!
Salinity
Calcium
Ammonia
Temperature
Alkalinity
Nitrate
Phosphate
Magnesium
Lion Fish , Sun Coral , Stylopora, Gargonian, Elegance, Teal Birds nest, Cheato Macro Algae, Devils hand leather, Live rock and Montiporas all kinds...
2 Fish
Lionfish - Volitan Black
sp sp
20 Corals
1 Plant
Equipment
Aquarium
Cleaning
Food
Medication
Powerhead
Pump
Skimmer
Thermometer
Additives
Tech I once a week for Iodine/Iodide and Kalkwasser 2 little fishes for Calcium and Alkalinity.
Feeding See more
omega one marine flakes with Garlic · Reef Roids · Polyp booster 1/4 ml · Zoplan and Phytoplan spot fed to all corals in tank · Marine Snow to Gargonian and all corals in tank with Julians Thing · Omega Brine, Rotifers, Ans PE Mysis To fish and corals soaked in selcon and Garlic Guard · 1 live Ghost shrimp · 1 live Ghost shrimp gut loaded with Garlic Guard soaked Omega One Marine Flakes · Polyp Booster · Pe mysis soaked in garlic guard to sun coral 1 cube fed what it wouldnt eat to main fish · 1 live Ghost shrimp gut loaded with Omega One Marine Flakes · sun coral Cyclopeeze mixed in 2 cups of tank water and spot fed with a turkey baster · 3 Small Live Ghost Shrimp Gut loaded with Seachem Nutridiet Marine flakes soaked in Guarlic guard · all corals sun and gargonian mostly with tank water and turkey baster Cyclopeeze · all corals and Gargonian Marine snow 2 caps with turkey baster and tank water mixed · silverside to lion fish soaked in selcon and garlic guard 1 hour he ate it right away · fed sun coral CyclopEeze with turkey baster mixed with 1 cup of tank water 2 pinches · 4 Live Ghost Shrimp Gut Loaded with Omega one Marine Flakes · fed krill soaked in garlic guard for 1 hour and 30 minutes and selcon for 30 minutes · fed krill soaked in garlic guard and selcon 24 hours · sun coral CyclopEeze mixed in 1 cup of tank water and spot fed to sun coral · 1 live minnow · Polyp Lab Polyp-Booster 1/4 ml · Sun Coral 1 Half cube of Omega brine soaked in Garlic Guard and selcon · Coral Frenzy · 1 live minnow gut loaded with Seachem Flakes · Coral Franzy · Argent Cyclop-Eeze Freeze-Dried to sun coral · suncoral PE Mysis and Brine soaked in selcon and Garlic Guard for 30 minutes · 1/2 ml of polyp booster · Polyp Lab Reef-Roids · cyclopeeze to sun coral and tank in general · Sun coral opened up fully and all polyps were witnessed taking in brine shrimp · 1 minnow gut loaded with Omega one Marine flakes with garlic · Marine Snow spot fed with turkey baster to chili coral 4 caps · 1 Small live minnow · Cyclopeeze to sun coarl and chili sponge spot fed with baster · suncoral opened up fully and I turned off flow and fed the sun coral one whole cube of PE Mysis and it took it all in every polyp I think I can save this guy!! · coco worm pe mysis juice and he looked like he took it in · 1 small minnow Gut loaded with Omega one marine flakes · 1 small live Minnow gut loaded with Omega One Marine Flakes · Argent Cyclop-Eeze Freeze-Dried · 3/4 ml of Polyp Booster for sun coral to open up · Chili coral Pe mysis juice with selcon aned Garlic guard · Chili coral Marine snow · Sun Coral Brine and PE mysis soaked in selcon and Garlic Guard for 2 hours · 1 silverside soaked in selcon and Garlic guard for 2 hours to lion fish · 1 silver side · 1 silverside soaked in selcon and garlic guard · chili coral marine snow 2 caps · 1 silverside to lion fish soaked in selcon · sun coral PE mysis and Brine · rotifers to chili coral · 2 silversides to lion fish · 2 damsels in tank hopefully for angler fish · NutriDiet Marine Marine Flakes Seachem to damsels in tank · Frog 1 damsel kinda gut loaded it may have eaten a little flakes I put in there!!whitnessed angler eating damsel · now there is one honey damsel left in tank with lion and frog hopefully lion don't eat it and frog don't eat it till tomorrow · TLF Marine Snow to Chili coral and 1&1/2 caps to whole tank · Frozen Cyclop Eeze to sun coral and tank in general · 1 large silver side soaked in selcon for 3 hours to lion he is very fat if I can catch the honey damsel stop feeding him for a couple days! · spotfed cyclopeeze to suncoral and it is in the water for the corals aswell · Omega One Marine Flakes to honey damsel · 1 minnow and 2 ghost shrimp gutloaded with seachem flakes to angler fish · lion fish 2 minnows gut loaded with seachem flakes · Polyp Lab Polyp-Booster · TLF Marine Snow · lionfish 1 silverside soaked in selcon and garlic guard · Frog fish 1 small minnow and 1 large minnow gut loaded with cyclopeeze and seachem flakes and 1 ghost shrimp not sure he got it gutload the same · 1/2 silverside soaked in selcon and garlic guard all day and night to lionfish · frogfish 1 minnow regular size gutloaded with cyclopeeze and seachem flakes the day before · lionfish 2 live minnows gutloaded with seachem flakes · frogfish 2 live minnows gutloaded with seachem flakes · 2 minnows to lionfish gutloaded with seachem flakes · 2 minnows to frog fish gutloaded with seachem flakes · fed honey damsel seachem flakes · Frog fish 1 large minnow gutloaded with flakes only · lionfish 1 silverside soaked in selcon and garlic guard for 1-2 hours · Chili coral a mixture of rotifers,Frozen Pe Cyclopeeze and marine snow with turkey baster soaked in selcon and garlic guard for 1-2 hours · frog fish one minnow and 1 ghost shrimp · lion fish one minnow · frogfish 1 minnow · lionfish silversides enough to fill him up soaked in selcon and garlic guard · chili coral cycxlopeeze ,zo plan, phyto plan,rotifers,and frozen pe cyclops soaked in selcon and garlic guard · honey damsel io marine chips omnivore · honey damsel omega one marine flakes · NutriDiet Marine Marine Flakes Seachem to honey damsel · San Francisco Bay Frozen Silversides chunks soaked in selcon and garlic guard to lion until he wouldn't eat no more · Lion Fish 1 minnow gut loaded with brine,pe mysis soaked in selcon and garlic guard and omega one marine flakes 1&1/2 before feeding · Frog Fish 1 minnow gut loaded with brine,pe mysis soaked in selcon and garlic guard and omega one marine flakes 1&1/2 before feeding · Frog Fish 1 Ghost Shrimp gutloaded with selcon and garlic 1&1/2 hours before feeding · Chili sponge phyto plan,zoplan,marine snow and pe cyclopeeze soaked in selcon and garlic guard · all coral phytoplan, zo plan,marine snow and pe cyclopeeze soaked in selcon and garlic · instant ocean marine chips omnivore to honey tang · Ocean Nutrition Prime Reef to honey damsel · lion fish 1 minnow gutload O.N prime reef · frog fish 1 minnow gutload O.C prime reef · honey damsel O.C prime reef flakes · lion fish silver side chunchs enough to fill him up · honey damsel O.N prime reef flakes · 2 minnows to frog fish small ones · silver side chunks to lion plenty · silver sides to lionfish · 2 minnows to frog fish · 2 minnows to lion fish · 1 minnow to lion fish · silversides to lion fish · 3 minnows t lionfish · 1 minnow to frog fish · with turkey baster zo plan and phyto plan mixture to chili sponge · 3 minnows to lionfish · Ocean Nutrition Prime Reef honey damsel · 3 minnows to frog fish · 4 minnows to lion fish · chili coral marine snow, phyto plan and zo plan · minnows 1 to lion and 1 to frog · Frg fish eats frozen silversides now plus he ate one minnow · lionfish 2 minnowsOn average you perform a 28.1% water change every 28 days.
0% total water change in January.