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Yes I used that to help with cycling it to keep the ammonia from skyrocketing from adding 10 fish it's only around 15lbs max, which it kept the ammonia from rising at all. Normally I only have pvc pipe. Once I am done with it I will probably just trash it because it attacts hair algae like a...

The ick dropped off last night . Now I have to deal with the eye problems, I think they keep running into the rock by accident when I come in their room.

No I used fresh RO that I had added buffer too and airated for 24 hours

Okay I turned the temp down to eighty. I tried to do it 48 hours but I ran out of RO water from filling my 37gallon tank with display water and putting new water in and then collecting more for dropping the salinity too.

I have two 3.5in blowing in the side and two 4in pulling from on top since heat rises

My purple tang still has a good amount of ick on him even after almost a week of 1.009 hypo and a two weeks of quarantine all together. I even had the temp turned up to 83 to help speed the ick life cycle so they could die once they dropped off. Is there something wrong or am I just impatient?

You must have added a lot of base of some sort to cause the buffer to start to wonder out of the center of its equilibrium all the way towards a pH of 9. Is there any ammonia in the tank, ammonia is basic and might add to the problem

Just for reference if you were to break the probe's glass nothing but a solution of dilute hydrocloric acid would come out which would be absorb by your buffers. Just happened to see this in my Chem book so I thought I would share it. Oh the joys of electrochemistry.

Somewhere between 0 and .25. It should probably started to diminish when I took the flame out six hours ago.

37 gallon quarantine that used to be my sfe's tank until he got moved to his bigger tank. There is a small amount of NH4 from the flame angel but before I found him there was 0 nitrites, and 0 NH4. There are 7 9 tangs(5 being zebramosas(sp)) and 2 blennys.

1.009

Yes refractometer I dropped the salinity over a week. The flame angel looked like it had problems when I got it, it was sort of skitish. Its hard to tell if the fish aren't just more grab in the dull lighting. Otherwise they are their normal pig selve with food.

Update: Purple Tang still has ick, although I only got the water at 1.009 today. My new Flame Angel died , he wasn't looking too well when I got him, but he is still guaranteed. All other fish are doing well though my Red Sea species, the Purple and Sailfin, are looking a little paler then what...

Pg 15 near bottom, the top photo you can see the stapled wood sticking out

Thought I post a pic to help support the Euro car drivers. Here is my latest car, maybe I'll have this one for more than a year. My parents are car dealers so my car gets sold, I get a new one. It is kind of nice for both of us. All 5 of my cars in the past 2 years have been Audis. My last cars...