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I have a beautiful healthy Snowflake eel located on Long Island NY (nassau/suffolk border) I will only give him to a fellow saltwaterfish.com member who promises me to take him. I have had this eel since it was 6 inches and he is easily over 2 1/2 feet long. I love him but he cannot handle...

My fish are dying fast and I want to do the hyposalinity method having it done it in the past, it worked great ... Now I have 2 small Cortez rays and I do not want to kill them ... can they handle 1.009 salinity or will I lose them if I do that ... thanks

Thanks for the replies ... 9 days later and still Ammonia and Nitrite is at -0- Not that I'm in the clear but so far it looks good that I might be cycled ... though I am really surprised by this.

anyone ?

Here is my deal, I have a 150 saltwater fish only tank that after one year I had to take down for about 2 weeks and then restart. I filled up a 10 gallon tank using a lot of my 1 yr old sand (about 1/4 of the 10 gallon filled with sand), I used existing tank water and put my fish in it with a...

What the heck happened to my puffer ? He went from looking healthy and normal then I think he had a fight at first with another fish and it looked like he was missing half of his skin and he had big white patches. Like his skin was bit off. The next day he looked like this (all white) without...

Originally Posted by Ohioguy06 Are you sure your reading things correctly? :notsure: I use a digital Salinity that I made sure is calibrated. Why .. do the numbers look strange ?

Originally Posted by lion_crazz what? 1.01? As far as my other question, how quickly did you drop the SG on him when you did the hypo? I dropped from 1.018 to 1.014 24 hrs later dropped to 1.011 24 hrs later to 1.008 (actually I now need to raise it a drop to 1.009)

Originally Posted by DaneDodger I'm guessing a number accidently got left off the end of that Even my freshwater livebearer tanks are kept higher than 1.001! Maybe not ... he had written 1.01 which is also 1.010 not 1.001

Originally Posted by robPSca Morning AF. we have a powder blue her name is Princess. GRIN she just recently went thru hypo and copper treatment. weve had her for a month and she is doing great. she is almost 3" we dont have any other tangs in the tank. but we do have a fox face. so it can...

Originally Posted by sw65galma What pump are you using on the UV?? You should have a real Small one, that basically dribbles the water out.... Also how are you acclimating the fish? and for how long? Acclimating ?? What is that ? JUST KIDDING !!! I usually acclimate the fish for 1 to 2...

How long are you thinking I need ? Currently I am at 6 feet long ... Also in general though has anyone had success with the Powder blues ? Even when i go to the aquairums it is not unusually to see large purple tangs and large Naso's but I never see a large Powder blue ... my point being that...

I have a beautiful 150 Fish only set up and between the different types of fish for some reason no matter what I do I cannot get a Powder blue to live past 10 days :notsure: The latest one showed signs of ick so I lowered the levels to 1.009 this weekend. I know these guys are extra sensitive...

Try changing what you feed them ... I never feed flake either to my fish. Go with Frozen Foods ... Tangs should have formula 2 and I would mix it with Mysis Shrimp or Brine shrimp ... Most of my fish LOVE krill(larer shrimps) as well ...

I had a simliar problem with my QT tank a few months back, I took sand from the main tank and put it in the qt, did a water change and the qt didn't need to recycle. My understanding is the bacteria needed to maintain the cycle is in the substrate (along with your other systems such as a wet/dry...