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mkroher http:///forum/thread/382313/photos-of-my-tank#post_3335786
and are those Columbian sharks? If they are, it's just a cat fish. They are born in fresh water, and as adults live in brackish water. I've heard of places that get the smaller babies to survive in salt water. Also, they will grow up to over a foot long and eat everything in your tank. Way to go.
That yellow tang looks stressed as hell.
You should have seen the condition they - and the tank were in when I got them. I posted several posts over the last couple of days asking for id on the "sharks" and... I plan to get rid of them in the next day or two...
as for the big basketball looking thing, It is a huge dead brain coral that came with the setup.
This is from one of the other threads I started. It will tell you haw I went about things. I'm carefulling monitoring the tank to make sure I don't have a spike
As for the tang, he IS VERY stressed. He hadn't been fed in awhile according to his old owner and the temperture of the water in the tank before I took it down was a whopping 66 degrees. I don't even know how he managed to survive the move. On a good note, he is eating and also pretty active. We are keeping our fingers crossed for his full recovery.
The tank was really neglected before we got it. they hadn't cleaned it or the bioballs in months The water's actually in better shape now than it was before the move,
I did some research and devised a plan to get everything from the original owners house to mine. I'm not sure it it was the right way but I think it worked "crossing fingers" here is what I did...
When I emptied the tank, I was carful to keep as much water as possible without getting any of the debris off the bottom, near the sand bed. While draining, I carefully lifted out the rocks, taking care not to disturb any more of the sandbed than I had too. Then I Caught the fish and housed them in large rubbermaid containers with an air hose and heater. I drained the remaining water, discarded it, scooped all of the sand into buckets, loaded up the car and drove home. Once home, I scrubbed everything down with water and set up the tank and stand. Before putting the sand back into the tank, I filled a large rubbermaid tote with some of the water from the original tank and used a plastic kitchen strainer to rinse them out; scooping and shaking out the rocks under the water for several minutes each time. I tossed that water and put the rinsed rocks into the tank. Next, I placed the live rocks and put in the rest of the water from the original set up. (minimal amount of debris in the water and light clouding only. After that, I filled the remaing 1/3 of the tank with pre mixed fresh saltwater and let it run for about 12 hours before putting the fish back in.
