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Hi there, If I understand your post correctly, you are suggesting that Tangs should be housed in a 6' min. tank. Well if I have a 12" (long) Tang that can be housed in a 6' long tank, that gives me a 1:6 ratio. That would imply that at a bare minimum an 8" long Tang (Yellow Tang, Zebrasoma...

Hi there, I think you are just enforcing my point. Originally Posted by bionicarm Why is it if basketball is such a dominating sport in the US, the US has to pull in overpaid professional players into the Olympic team in order to win? For 3 reasons; 1.) The other than NBA players, that are just...

One comment, If NASCAR is so well know all over the world and everyone wants to be a NASCAR driver, why is that it is not a "sport" in the olympics? Oh wait, basketball is in the olympics (a place somewhere in the world where athletes come together to compete, huh no NASCAR drivers weird).

Originally Posted by spanko You pretty much hit it, for the carbon source you are looking for ethanol. Vodka is used as it is more pure than the other liquors like brandy, wiskey etc. as they contain other additives that can adversely affect the tank. Vodka is pretty much ethanol and water as...

Originally Posted by lluv24 WELL IVE HAD HIM FOR A COUPLE MONTHS NOW, HE HAS BEEN CLEANING THE OTHER FISH AND EATING FLAKE FOOD AND LOVES ANGEL FORMULA . THE WRASSE IS DOING VERY GOOD I DIDNT THINK HE WOULD MAKE IT THIS LONG BUT SINCE HE IS EATING OTHER FOOD KNOW I THINK HE WILL BE FINE...

Originally Posted by spanko No rubbing alcohol is not to be used in this method. Why is this, are both of them ethanol? I thought the only difference was vodka had a way much smaller concentration than rubbing alcohol. Or is rubbing alcohol only isopropanol and not ethanol. I know that some...

Originally Posted by Rigdon87 thats what i was thinkin it might affect the gas exchange yep that's it

Originally Posted by florida joe Henry do you have a refug on this system? I have come to my own conclusion that vodka dosing is such a strong method of nitrate removal and coral enhancement that it actually will out compete caulerpa and surely Cheato for nutrients hence you will see a slowdown...

Originally Posted by Rigdon87 Hey guys i have a 44gl brute trashcan that i do my water changes in with a pump and heater and i let it agitate for 24hrs but my question is can i put the lid on to cut back on evap or should i just leave it off??does it even matter If you are not worried about...

Hi there, How long have you had the cleaner wrasse?

Originally Posted by ReefForBrains What you are talking about is more like a perpetual motion device. Any change from one form to another of energy would be counter productive because of drag and resistance making it just a complicated way to actually waste energy. Your input required to...

Originally Posted by TeresaQ unless your ammonia gets above one or two, dont do one until it reaches zero. Then do a 10 percent change and add a few snails and crabs. Do you mean the ammonia or nitrites?

Originally Posted by trasler ALSO>>> anyone have an idea on the gallons by my dimensions? And is this going to be enough lighting or when i add another 100watts of leds? If your tank is a corner tank (quarter of a circle) that is 29" tall and 36" deep it is around 129 gallons.

Originally Posted by Cranberry I wouldn't want too many bubbles in either a freshwater or a saltwater tank. Guess I haven't heard the discussion before. Well I have kept freshwater fish for a long time, and all my tanks have somesort of bubble making device. On of my 55's have two 18" strips...

Originally Posted by Cranberry I didn't realize this was a freshwater/saltwater discussion. I have zero experience with freshwater anything and have only read about their nutritional composition and how they affect my saltwater fish. And I'm talking lots of bubbles like I said before. I don't...

Originally Posted by florida joe Henry this is a copy of the post I submitted to Locoyo when he asked me the same question There are crustaceamorpha .of which within the copepods there are 10,000 species worldwide 2000 parasitic species, 90 percent of these are marine, 20 percent of these are...

Originally Posted by spanko Sure unless you have the education and equipment and I guess the desire to remove some of the parasites for examination. But most in the hobby do not so for the "standard" identification you see the spots, see the indication, you take the necessary steps. Let me...

Originally Posted by florida joe I hope you are not talking about mewozer every post of hers is chock full of pertinent info Not going to mention names, but if you read thru this hole thread and others, you will see some patterns.

Originally Posted by florida joe What I don’t understand is this new resistant strain of ick mutated from the over use of hypo. Not necessarly as they are bodies of water that have low salinity and they are attached.

Originally Posted by Beth That is amazing that Dr. Brian could tell so much about the "menacing organisms" just by looking at them under a microscope! WOW He was able to determine: That there was a new (and menacing) strain of ich. That the new ich was one of the most viral and rapid...