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just a quick update for those that may be watching. Mr. Limpid thank you for all the help. Everyone else is doing just great. eating and swimming and all that other stuff fish do when they are in a tank with no rock. I decided to take the opportunity to upgrade the lights on the 180 to 3 XM...

well, we fought the good fight, but our little tang succomed to, well, whatever it was that he had. everyone else is doing great - thats the good news. I hate losing fish. I hate hate hate it. especially when it's impossible to tell what he died from. none of my other stoock is showing even the...

ammonia is zero... well, it's so low it won't register in my test kit. believe it or not, the tang is still hanging in there. I would have bet he would have been dead by noon, but he's still breathing. he doesn't look good and is still not swimming, but I'm not giving up until he does

I wish I had a better report, but this morning we woke up to find the tang on his side, breathing hard, pale and splotchy in color. he can hold himself upright, but typically either lays on the bottom flat, or props himself up against a PVC elbow that was put in for a hiding place. parameters...

Yes. everyone is in QT at the moment and the big tank has no swimmers. just as an update: everyone is still doing great. they all look a little bored (no rock to swim around) - but they are all healthy. no signs of ick, everyone is eating well. I've started alternating betwen mysis cubes and...

I would agree execpt that I can see that what he is really doing is 'grazing' on stuff on the front the powerhead (which is one of the few places he could go without being harrassed). he pretty much had it picked clean before he was removed. Everyone is doing swimingly right now. It's only been...

Agreed. I set up the biocubes last night in preparation for treatment. Better to treat now than later.

That's my concern as well. I'm afraid it's just cycling. I am really surprised none of the other tank inhabitants are showing ANY signs yet. This morning the tang was completely clean and lively. he ate like a pig and was playing in the powerhead jets all morning. I thought I would see more...

unbeknownst to me, my wife decided to dose the entire 180 gallon with formalin/Malachite green yesterday while I was at work. Luckily, there was less than 1/2 dose in the bottle, so it was very dilute. The upside is that it appears that the tang is doing much better. I'm not sure what the long...

Thanks Mr. Limpid. With the exception of the occasional "treat" of like plankton, the mysis seems to be what they're interested and prefer. I've tried several other foods, but neither of those, so I will give them a shot. All the others that I have tried just went to waste it seemed. The mysis...

Here are the specs on the 180. Keep in mind everything was just fine until we added the tang. We lost a picasso clown the day after acclimation (that hurt the wallet). Other than that, this tank has always been healthy. 1 Atlantic blue tang (1.5 inches) 2 days in tank 1 Rusty Angle (3 inches)...

I guess I thought a week was plenty long. How long is 'long enough' for a QT? I've used a week for every single fish I have and have caught ich twice in quaritine, treated, gave another week once all symptoms were gone then acclimated to their perminant hime.. I've never had a fish go through a...

We are definatley keeping him. him going back to the LFS isn't really an option. Worst case is we will put him in our 55 gal tank. Our QT tank is rather small. it's a 25gal biocube - but it's been retrofitted with LED's because we got tired of dealing with dead CF bulbs. When it was originally...

3 250W metal halides, 4 54W actinics. This is going to end up as a reef tank - assuming we can get everyone to get along and be healthy. We're not adding anything else until we can get this tackled obviously. BUT: we do have our sights on corals, polyps, etc...

Right now there is a single anemone in the tank, so technically no, it's not a FOWLR tank. I have to admit it's frustrating to have a new fish in QT for a week and do wonderfully, only to have it 'ich up' once it's in the main tank! ARGH!! We re-arranged the rock completley. every single piece...