Goodfuga

I appreciate it. I felt fairly certain it was no big deal but I wanted to be sure. I hate keeping him in the 10 gal but it is only going to be for another week or so if all goes well. He is the largest fish I am planning on putting into my DT so I didnt feel i needed anything larger than a 10 but I kinda wish i had got a bigger one. He is still small and the ten gal is definatley bigger than the box i rescued him from at the LFS

I got a juvenille Blue Jaw Trigger a week ago and have had him in a QT tank since. The tank is a basic 10 gal with HOB filter and water params tested last night at 0ppm Ammonia, Nitrite and Nitrate. Temp is 78 and I keep the SG at 1.022. I do a 2 gal water change every week using changed water from my DT. He has been eating everything I put in there for him. I feed him 3 times a day alternating between Spectrum pellets, fresh shrimp, mysis shrimp, bloodworms and an occasional scallop, all of which I soak in Zoe marrine and ZoeCon with a drop of Garlic Guard. I have been careful not to over feed and he has definatley been warming up to me and is very active. The question i have is that I have noticed some white stuff on his top swimming fin and I am having a hard time deciding what it is. I dont know if it is just debri or something stuck on it or if it is something I should be concerned over. He isnt showing any signs of discomfort i.e. scratching or rubbing on anything, labored breathing, or other troublesome signs on his body. I am attaching a pic of him and will turn it over to the experts on the site. Thanks for taking the time to help me out. This is about the best pic I can get of him because he isnt one to sit still and pose.

I am going to the LFS today and see if they have a group of small black and white clowns. I have been reading up on this problem and your advice follows right along with what i have been reading. I will see if I can find another George for Wheezy and let you guys know how it turns out. Thanks again, its nice having people willing to take time out to lend some advice or a few encouraging words.

I figured it was bad luck. He was just barely small enough still to fit through the slits and I think if i had of found him earlier in the day in the filter sock i mave had been able to save him. I think over the course of the day the water flow just crushed him. I think i am going to try and just add a couple of zip ties to block the large middle gap on the side. I think that is where he got sucked in. That should make the opening small enough to keep everything in but not restrict the flow. I will try that first before I take a chance on restricting my flow. I have a mag 9.5 pump and if my overflow gets clogged up the tank will overfill in about 5 secs. I do have wood floors but the girlfirend would kill me. Thanks for the advice.

I looked at my tank this morning as usual before i left for work and didnt see my male clown anywhere. I was in a hurry and figured he was hiding somewhere so i left for work. Came home for lunch and started seareching for him, only to find that somehow he got past my attempts to block the overflow cutouts at the top and was sucked down into the filter socks. Dont know if he made the journey and lived for awhile or not, but by the time i found him he was gone. Pretty sad, we have only had them for a couple of weeks and they were doing so good. Got a mated pair of black and whites and now the female is all by herself. I guess i need to do a better job of blocking the overflow spillway allthough he was still small and the female has no problems. I am planning on putting some silicon to help make the slits smaller and hopefully avoid this in the future. Also I didnt have a filter cover on my standpipe which may have saved him. I plan on remeding this tonight. They liked to sit up in the top of the tank and pick out food as it got sucked into the overflow. I guess he went chasing after one two many mysis shrimp. Well the focus of this post is too see if anyone else has had a mated pair that lost the male, and any advice on how soon to wait to introduce a new mate and any other tips. The female looks really lonely and I loved watching them play together. Here is one of the last pics i was able to take before he died. He is on the bottom. Basic Info - Female is still young less than 2" but was definatley bigger and more aggressive than the male so I am fairly positive it is the female. Tank 70gal with 20gal refugium/sump. 155lbs live rock. Coralife 125 protein skimmer, mag 9.5 pump, two 750 powerheads on a wave cycle. Readings ammonia - 0 nitrite - 0 nitrate - 0 calcium 400ppm alkalinity 10 dKh 0 phosphate pH 8.1 temp 78 Critters - 2 margarita snails, 1 turbin, 1 mexican turbo, 3 small hermits and 2 mexican red leg hermits, 1 peppermint shrimp, 1 tiger conch Corals, various zoa colonies on a live rock, small lobo and small hammerhead frag. Tank has been up and running for a little over a month and water has been stable for the last two weeks. I do 10gal water changes every week - 2weeks. Plan on increasing to 20gals over the next few months as I add more bio load. I appreciate any advice offered. Hopefully my experience will help others be more careful when fish proofing an aquarium . Its like having little kids and having to put covers on all the electrical outlets.

I just got the RKL kit from Marine Depot a couple of days ago and it is pretty awesome. Well worth it even for just the pH probe. It also has ORP reading and temp with the built in wavemaker and other cool modes. I have my Heater, powerheads and refugium light all hooked up and programmed. It has been working flawlessly ever since. Had a little trouble with getting the powerheads to work properly with the wavemaker but i figured it out and can help anyone else if they have the same problem with it. Other than that, even though i am fairly new to the reef keeping hobby I can defintaly appreciate the automation and convenice having this system provides. Well worth the $169 and I probably would have paid close to 3 for it if i had too.