Saltwater Noobie Inbound

Hello everybody, im glad i was able to find this site. Everyone seems real helpful and friendly. I just took the dive about a month ago into my first saltwater tank. I kept and bred cichlids for the past 6 years so im not a complete fish keeper newbie, but i could use a little help with just about everything when it comes to saltwater. I currently have a 75G drilled (That is currently in hypo thanks to my LFS and a certain Scopas Tang .) Have a good bit of fish, and a few corals, but corals are taken out due to ich. I am also in the middle of setting a 135G drilled, but thats proving to be a feat haha Hopefully you guys can give me hand...Thanks

 

Welcome to the forums! I've found the best recipe for defeating ich is vitamin soaked food (i like selcon) and lots of it. A fat fish can pretty much beat anything.

 

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Yea i wish i would have tried something different than hypo, i lost my coral beauty and royal gramma. Learned after the fact that angels dont take well to hypo treatment..Everybody looks fine now, but im only in week two of hypo..Ill def check that link out though i appreciate it...Think i could could pull the tank out of hypo tomorrow and try what you suggested?

 

Uhhhh... you never want to do anything fast in this hobby. I would just feed well and continue with your hypo treatment at this point. Jacking up the salinity will probably just stress out your fish and bring back a big ick outbreak.

 

Eesh thats one thing i need to learn big time with all of this is patience. As long as my triggers make it through the hypo, i'll consider it a success. All my other fish are pretty hardy (minus the tangs)..Trigs are still eating well

 

Welcome to 3reef.

Bring the SG up very slowly, much more stressful on a fish going from a lower SG to a higher SG.

 

Just an observation: You said you have only had a tank up for a month, and already two weeks doing hypo-salinity. But you seem to already have or had a royal gramma, coral beauty, triggers and tang(s). That is a lot of fish to put in a new tank if that is the case! Did you buy an existing setup that came with everything including live rock, fish & corals, or start new?

 

Yes the 75G came with about 80 lbs live rock, Hawkfish, osc clown, and a dragon goby. I added a scopas tang, pink tail, niger, coral beauty, File Fish, and a few damsels..and a gramma

 

Ok, well good that the tank was already established, but in the future definitely go slow adding new stock. Most advise a new fish every 2 weeks at the earliest. The biological filters (bacteria) need time to adjust (expand) for the higher load for each fish added.

 

Great catch though.
Did the live rock and all the other items "stay live", did you manage to keep the water ?

Otherwise, start from scratch