in over my head with new elos 215 gallon setup

[stanlalee]

Originally Posted by Cranberry
http:///forum/post/3057987
Both hypo and copper require longer length of time than two weeks.
That is one sweet setup.

copper works within two weeks (according to the cupramine instructions and considering which part of the life cycle it works), its the tank you have to wait for if treating an outbreak but in the case of adding fish and treating profilactically with copper or cupramine 2 weeks is sufficient.
Very nice set up. Since you have a nice high end set up I would continue to utilize the help you used to set it up with stocking and care so you dont bother with the baby steps us normal budget reefers go thru which basically ends up with getting rid of a bunch if not all the corals you initially liked to replace them with the corals you'll like in the future (read a year from now you will hate those softies you like so much now and will basically tear the tank down and all the rocks they attached to when you realize you no longer like softies). Then again thats part of where the fun and learning get done so maybe thats not so good advice. the other "problem" is those growing steps which may include excessive diatoms, a few hideous looking nuisance algae outbreaks, a few too many aitapsia to name a few seem quite okay in a $179 off the shelf ***** tank but oh so terrible in a rimless masterpiece. you went straight to Pro so you can have none of that. Your now bound to near perfection at all times! I kid (I think)!

 

[dankbardy31]

Just stumbled on this thread and I'm really interested in where this is going to. Good luck with it all and congrats on a beautiful setup!

 

[saltincalif]

Thanks for all of the input. Calcium reactor getting set up today by my LFS. Wondering if turbo snails and such can transfer problems in terms of disease, parasites??? What to do about that? I have no diseases or challenges with respect to that in my existing tanks.

 

[spanko]

Any addition can introduce problems. This is why some people recommend QT for all additions.

 

[saltincalif]

Originally Posted by Stanlalee
http:///forum/post/3058068
copper works within two weeks (according to the cupramine instructions and considering which part of the life cycle it works), its the tank you have to wait for if treating an outbreak but in the case of adding fish and treating profilactically with copper or cupramine 2 weeks is sufficient.
Very nice set up. Since you have a nice high end set up I would continue to utilize the help you used to set it up with stocking and care so you dont bother with the baby steps us normal budget reefers go thru which basically ends up with getting rid of a bunch if not all the corals you initially liked to replace them with the corals you'll like in the future (read a year from now you will hate those softies you like so much now and will basically tear the tank down and all the rocks they attached to when you realize you no longer like softies). Then again thats part of where the fun and learning get done so maybe thats not so good advice. the other "problem" is those growing steps which may include excessive diatoms, a few hideous looking nuisance algae outbreaks, a few too many aitapsia to name a few seem quite okay in a $179 off the shelf ***** tank but oh so terrible in a rimless masterpiece. you went straight to Pro so you can have none of that. Your now bound to near perfection at all times! I kid (I think)!

what quantity of water to change and how frequent for this 200 gallon reef??

 

[stanlalee]

for me large frequent water changes on a large tank just isn't that practical. Where I'd do 20% weekly on a 30g when I had a 100g I did 15% every 2weeks. I run along those lines and be more focused on not overfeeding and overstocking to maintain water quality until it can handle it without negative effects.

 

[hlcroghan]

If you are able to and it is in your budget there was a person on the boards that had automatic switches set up to do water changes for his tank. Basically he pushed a button and he would empty so much out of the tank and then he pushed another one and it would fill from his premixed salt water. He also had an automatic top off unit. So basically he did two 10% changes a week and it only took him like 5 minutes each time. His tank maintenance was really easy and he never had nitrate issues because he never put off doing water changes. Maybe talk to your lfs about trying to set that up. You could use that copper tubing for the line transferring the water out of your house......That way it would not be such a waste of money. Sorry I can't remember what member or thread this was or I would post the link to it. But it may be a good idea for you.

 

[cranberry]

Originally Posted by Stanlalee
http:///forum/post/3058068
copper works within two weeks (according to the cupramine instructions and considering which part of the life cycle it works), its the tank you have to wait for if treating an outbreak but in the case of adding fish and treating profilactically with copper or cupramine 2 weeks is sufficient.
But you shouldn't (IME) take a fish out of copper and then think that everything is fine. I would sit and wait and make sure the ich has truely been eliminated.