Advice: What Animal to add to the tank.

So far my live rock that had a masive die back has made the great turn
around and is now on the mend. These rocks are still in a holding tank
downstairs, recently I added all sorts of filter stuff to try and save the
remaining life on the rocks, like a fluid bed filter, an extra protine
skimmer, more power heads to move more water, weekly water changes,
scrubbing of the rocks where the life was dieing and I also picked up an old
fridge with a freezer section and plumbed it up as a water cooler (water
temps were going over 30deg'C), now it's all a mostly stable 26-27.5deg'C,
and I bought some new lights. That section of the house down there looks
like a plumbing nightmare as it's mostly setup in the tank and no sump.

Anyhow, recently I put in a mud crab in an attempt to see if it ate off any
stuff that was hanging off the rocks, well it worked well, he done his job
and the crab is now back at sea, the corals that were still alive on the
rocks are now looking very health and very colourfull but still very small.
The water conditions are not perfect by the end of the week but are very
very close in my opinion to being perfect. At this stage I would like to add
a fish or something to the tank that would pick away at the rocks to help
clean them up a little more but not eat the good corals. Anyone here have
any ideas what I could put in the tank that could do the job and not die if
the water conditions arn't perfect ?.

-Andrew

"skozzy" wrote:

"""I also picked up an old fridge with a freezer section and plumbed it up
as a water cooler"""

Any copper, or other metals in direct contact with the water in this
arrangement?

Regards


Chris

If you could post your water's parameters, we could determine if any fish will
be okay to live in your new tank.

Sounds very Macgyver'd so far.

Marc


skozzy wrote:

So far my live rock that had a masive die back has made the great turn
around and is now on the mend. These rocks are still in a holding tank
downstairs, recently I added all sorts of filter stuff to try and save the
remaining life on the rocks, like a fluid bed filter, an extra protine
skimmer, more power heads to move more water, weekly water changes,
scrubbing of the rocks where the life was dieing and I also picked up an old
fridge with a freezer section and plumbed it up as a water cooler (water
temps were going over 30deg'C), now it's all a mostly stable 26-27.5deg'C,
and I bought some new lights. That section of the house down there looks
like a plumbing nightmare as it's mostly setup in the tank and no sump.

Anyhow, recently I put in a mud crab in an attempt to see if it ate off any
stuff that was hanging off the rocks, well it worked well, he done his job
and the crab is now back at sea, the corals that were still alive on the
rocks are now looking very health and very colourfull but still very small.
The water conditions are not perfect by the end of the week but are very
very close in my opinion to being perfect. At this stage I would like to add
a fish or something to the tank that would pick away at the rocks to help
clean them up a little more but not eat the good corals. Anyone here have
any ideas what I could put in the tank that could do the job and not die if
the water conditions arn't perfect ?.

-Andrew

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None at all, I have a large container in there with about 10 meters of clear
acrylic tubing.

"Chris Taylor" wrote in message
...
"skozzy" wrote:

"""I also picked up an old fridge with a freezer section and plumbed it up
as a water cooler"""

Any copper, or other metals in direct contact with the water in this
arrangement?

Regards


Chris

0 reading on the ammonia and nitirtes and nitrates, ph at 8.2 or 8.3,
gravity at 1.024, iron at 0 phosphates at 0.

I decomitioned the freezer/cooler tonight, it froze up so bad inside that
the door got pushed open. It did cool the water ok, but only about 6deg'C
max from outside temp. I am going to make a better design inside the freezer
to try and maximise the cooling of the freezer section and see if I can
bring the water temp down by upto 10-15deg'C.


"Marc Levenson" wrote in message
...
If you could post your water's parameters, we could determine if any fish
will
be okay to live in your new tank.

Sounds very Macgyver'd so far.

Marc


skozzy wrote:

So far my live rock that had a masive die back has made the great turn
around and is now on the mend. These rocks are still in a holding tank
downstairs, recently I added all sorts of filter stuff to try and save
the
remaining life on the rocks, like a fluid bed filter, an extra protine
skimmer, more power heads to move more water, weekly water changes,
scrubbing of the rocks where the life was dieing and I also picked up an
old
fridge with a freezer section and plumbed it up as a water cooler (water
temps were going over 30deg'C), now it's all a mostly stable
26-27.5deg'C,
and I bought some new lights. That section of the house down there looks
like a plumbing nightmare as it's mostly setup in the tank and no sump.

Anyhow, recently I put in a mud crab in an attempt to see if it ate off
any
stuff that was hanging off the rocks, well it worked well, he done his
job
and the crab is now back at sea, the corals that were still alive on the
rocks are now looking very health and very colourfull but still very
small.
The water conditions are not perfect by the end of the week but are very
very close in my opinion to being perfect. At this stage I would like to
add
a fish or something to the tank that would pick away at the rocks to
help
clean them up a little more but not eat the good corals. Anyone here
have
any ideas what I could put in the tank that could do the job and not die
if
the water conditions arn't perfect ?.

-Andrew

--
Personal Page: http://www.sparklingfloorservice.com/oanda/index.html
Business Page: http://www.sparklingfloorservice.com
Marine Hobbyist: http://www.melevsreef.com

Any Victoria Bitter in the refrigerator portion? Can't let that go to
waste...



"skozzy" wrote in message
...
None at all, I have a large container in there with about 10 meters of
clear
acrylic tubing.

"Chris Taylor" wrote in message
...
"skozzy" wrote:

"""I also picked up an old fridge with a freezer section and plumbed it
up
as a water cooler"""

Any copper, or other metals in direct contact with the water in this
arrangement?

Regards


Chris