Well, the fallow period is pretty boring but I've been taking advantage of the fishless situation to do a few things:
- first and foremost I bought some coral
figured I might as well use the fallow period to serve as a coral QT (against fish parasites)
- I also replaced the return nozzles on the Reefer with ones from VCA so I could connect some loc-line. The stock ones pointed right at the front corners making that sand fly away. Now that I can aim them a bit the sand's not leaving the corners & I could turn my MP40's up (never could tell if it was the MP40s or return)
- Bought an ozotech ozone generator & an ORP probe. Probe's hooked up and I'm waiting for it to settle in. I haven't connected the ozone yet b/c the included tubing is way too short so I had to order a longer strand. boo
- Got an RODI booster pump. My old mixing setup had the RODI unit right near the house's main water in; that got me about 90PSI. In the new spot I was down to 50... which is fine - but since I'm constantly making water for the QT systems I wanted to get quicker refills. Plus, this should speed up filling my 105g AWC reservoir.
that's about it....
QT is going ok... I lost 1 fish. The rest vary from OK to "just fine" - I do worry about a couple of 'em but I'm doing what I can. The blue hippo, the only one with visible spots, seems to have cleared the trophont phase - so I assume the protomonts have been nuked in the copper. He still has discoloration spots which I assume are wounds from the feeding stage. I'm gonna check with my QT friends and see what if I need to do anything about that... I know they can get viral nodules post copper - so we'll see.
Testing copper levels sucks BTW. The Hanna reagent is super duper fine and getting the powder out is about 2x more annoying than w/ the phosphate reagent.
Aside from that I feed the shrimp & CUC a few times a week and ... just wait LOL
