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Very good thanks! Someplace in my history of small reef tanks I think I had that Eclipse! Wish I still had it. Thanks for the tip about food to maintain the cycle! That was the one question I forgot to ask as the last thing I want to put with small (and may expensive) fish are the cheap damsels...

So Beth, I know a hospital tank is a bare bones thing with a bubbler foam filter (which I have) and alot of water changes. As for a QT tank what is the minimal size if I have small fish acclimating one at a time and as well is this just a tank where water is monitored & changed alot like a...

I think I will start QT on new fish - sort of like driving with no insurance you can drive for a long time but someday something bad will happen!!

Yes it was a new fish that caused the problem - this is a new larger tank then my previous smaller reef tank, I moved the fish from the reef tank over and of course added a few more as I had space and all was doing so well. Unfortunately I went against my better judgement and put a few new fish...

Well Beth, originally I saw very fine spots on the fish bodies and fins, not on all the fish but the initial fish that died some had visible parasites and some didn't. I had a pretty good handle on things with treatment for about 2 weeks then I had another small outbreak (this weekend) where a...

silverado61, your points are spot on - I have no inverts of any kind in the aquarium, and yes about FW dips and UV, none of those things are effective in all situations for all fish or all problems. Like all facets of science much of it begins as an art as some things work sometimes for some...

Well remember my tank is currently not a reef tank. All the corals are artificial and right now the only thing filtering it are bio-balls, ceramic noodles, Purigen and foam blocks - no carbon. Maybe the more porous of the media I should remove - I read about foam filters being used in QT tanks...

No, right now my fish have nothing on their bodies. At the height of the disease even though most of the fish got effected, only a few had outside parasites. I would guess it's velvet, but without a microscope and some knowledge of dif parasites it's hard to know what exactly it really is. Alot...

I've been in the hobby for about 30 years and only have had a few sentinel events - unfortunately with Hurricane Irma heading dead on to my house, I had my latest disaster, I was lucky in not loosing electricity (and I have a 12volt back up system if it did) but I noticed the day before the...