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I got some live brine last night and I put some in this mourning and the male ate a few. Then they both started chasing and eating little white specs about the size of a grain of sand. Maybe brine shrimp eggs? But they did not show much interest in the adults after the male ate a few. The...

Thank you for the reply. The water readings are temp 76 sal 1.023 ph 8.4 no3 5.0 no2 .1 am .25 They do not seem to be breathing hard but the female has her mouth open all the time. I gave them another fw dip tonight and they seemed to be more active when I put them back in the tank. When they...

I have a pair of true Percs that I purchased last weekend in my qt tank. They have not eaten yet and don't show any interest. I have not seen any signs of external parasites but both have area's were it looked like there slime coat was peeling off. I did a fw dip and added some coppersafe to...

Thanks Beth, all I have on hand is Maracyn and melafix. I will see if I can find some Maracyn 2 around town. The water in the Qt tank came from a water change on my 150 gal reef tank and all the perameters checked out fine on the qt tank this mourning.

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I just purchased a Wrasse from the LFS. He seemed fine and was very active in the display tank. I put him in my qt tank and he seemed to be doing ok. I checked on him this mourning and he has an area on his side with the scales raised up with some redness also there is some redness at the...

After the first outbreak I did remove all the fish and left it for 5 weeks with no fish and treated the only survivor a sfe with hypo in a quarantine tank even though he did not show any signs. I have a refractometer so I know I was low enough. I put the eel back after treatment and the first...

I have been having alot of trouble with with ick in one of my tanks. Quarantining new arivals and treating with hypo in a seperate tank have not seemed to work so I was thinking of treating all the fish in the main tank this time. The tank is 150 gal with 175 lbs of live rock and 3" sand bed...

I am thinking of getting a ph monitor posibly a Pinpoint ph monitor. I was woundering how well these work. Do you have to leave them in the tank or can you just drop the probe in and check the ph in one tank then move to another tank and check it too? If you can move it from tank to tank do...

I don't know what I did wrong this time but my new porcupine puffer has ick. I am starting over after a outbreak of ick or some other parisite killed all my fish except my SFE a couple of months ago. After the outbreak I removed the eel and put him in my QT and treated him with hypo even...

Thanks Beth, the refractometer I am looking at is an Acquamarine. It is the only one I have been able to find so far.

I want to get a more accurate way of checking my salinity so that I can treat with Hypo and know that I have reached the correct salinity. All the Hydrometers I have tried seem to give a different reading every time I use them especially at a lower salinity. I found a refractometer for about...

I want to get a more accurate way of checking my salinity so that I can treat with Hypo and know that I have reached the correct salinity. All the Hydrometers I have tried seem to give a different reading every time I use them especially at a lower salinity. I found a refractometer for about...

Well Terry when the problem first started I posted and you thought that it was Ick because the fish were still alive after a week and velvet is sopossed to kill everything fast. I don't know if there are any other posibilities besides these two but this out break was far more devestating than...

I recently had an outbreak of what was probably ick with a secondary infection and lost all my fish in my 150 aggressive except the SFE. I lost the Tusk before I had the QT set up. I caught the Lion and treated Myracyn and Hypo but he died last week. I don't have a glass Hydrometer or a...

Is it ok to swith over to Maracyn 2 for FW now or should I just continue with the Maracyn treatment? If I change to Maracyn 2 FW will I need to put carbon in to remove the Maracyn or are they close enough to just start using Maracyn 2? Also if I use the FW Maracyn 2 do the direction for FW...

Well I have the QT set up but not in time for the Tusk. I caught the Lion and put him in there and started to treat with Hypo. No one around hear seems to carry Maracyn 2 for saltwater, I had allready got some Maracyn so I started treating with that because I figured someting would be better...

Thanks Terry for your resonse I read those articles and found them very informitive. I can't treat the main display because I have 175 lbs of live rock in there. I did pick up a 29 gallon tank tonight and I am heating the water now then tomorrow I am going to do water changes on the 2 tanks...

I had what I thought was an Ick out break last week. I did not have a QT large enough to treat all the fish in the tank so I tried soaking their food in garlic. The Harleqiun Tusk was the only fish that had alot of visible signs. He was starting to get better and all of the fish were eating...

I have Australian Harlequin Tusk that I just added to my aggressive set up last Friday he was doing great until Monday. He is now covered with ick. He is still very active and eating good. I have been soaking his food in Zoe and have moved the UV off my 50 gal on to this tank until my larger...