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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 Cranberry Micro-fine gas bubbles sticking to gills can obstruct respiratory gas exchange. Once again is this only in saltwaterfish tanks and not fresh water tanks? If so why only on saltwater fish?

Originally Posted by Cranberry Bubbles are like a million little light reflectors.... reflecting light back out of your tank. Too many bubbles and you won't have as much light reaching your corals as you would otherwise. My tanks are fish only with tlive sand and live rock. I will never...

Originally Posted by King_Neptune Why would anyone want bubbles passing through the gills of their fish? How is it different from fresh water fish? Are they different in physiology that saltwater fish can't handle air bubbles? or is it that the bubbles only go through the gills of saltwater...

I was wrong I had 9-10 gallon tanks. Now I have an empty one and I will be trying this bubble thing in it. Will see where it ends up on the long run.

Originally Posted by Cranberry But let's forget about the OP, he clearly doesn't have anything to add to this conversation. Hi is not the only one, o well that's how it rolles in this forum most of the time, now-a-days anyways. As far as the fish I had in hypo did not make it. I am not sure...

Originally Posted by florida joe You could disperse the bubble over a larger area with a piece of media material I assume. Are you planning on using an air stone and a media diffuser? If so I would like to see a pic of your final product and your evaluation of the process Remember IMO we are...

Originally Posted by florida joe I am not really sure what you mean a bubble diffuser is as I am sure you know just a chamber with a disk with various size holes to defuses large bubbles of air into smaller. Why would they brake before they reached the surface? If you mean to channel bubbles...

Originally Posted by florida joe IMO you are absolutely right. Salt creep is the major drawback to air stones Hi Joe, What if you used a buble difuser at the top so that the bubbles do not reach the very top surface of the water and pop?

Originally Posted by spanko But isn't the appearance of Ich on a fish and the subsequent all but disappearance of it then return all in a rather short period of time a sure indication of Ich? Well I do believe that is the question that is hard to know with 100% certainty. My assumption is...

Originally Posted by hdross I have an auto top off. Apparently doing the drip acclimation my SG has dropped from 1.024 to 1.022. What is the easiest and safest way to bring it back up? Hi there, the easiet way to do it is by turning off your top-off and top-off with 1.024 salin water. I would...

Originally Posted by Jazzeh Finally an account on SWF. Hi. I guess what I'm wondering is what... er. Well. I'm not sure what I'm wondering. I want a pretty aquarium with a large variety of color, texture, and fish. I understand that coral is expensive... Is there any way for them to grow...

Originally Posted by WickedPaul I started up a new 30 gallon tall tank which will eventually be a reef tank about two weeks ago. Buying items slowly to get everything I need without going broke all at once. Started the tank with 20 pounds of carribsea live sand, and 20 pounds of aragonite...

Originally Posted by salt210 I dont know what is going on. it is starting to come out more and more again and sometimes it comes out fully open then sometimes not Hi there, Mine did that, it would comeout fully than it would not retract fully. After awhile it lost it's crown than shortly...

Originally Posted by florida joe While I do believe the op was for whatever reason endorsing this product it did in fact open my eyes to a very real dilemma, as I stated above and that is accurate diagnoses of Ick Trully the point of this thread. Wether there is a new cure for ich, is sort...

Originally Posted by Beth Yep, and that is pretty much my understanding of the alleged mutant strains. There were rumors started a few years ago, that resistant ich was coming out of Southeast Asia, however, nothing was proven. I have actually been hearing these rumors since I first started...

Originally Posted by Beth Ich that is resistant to hypo must have gotten that way due to having been exposed to water that is much less saline than your typical marine water--and survived. Mutations don't just happen, but are caused by something in the environment. Now, an interesting thought...

Since I can't post links here is a quote from another person on a different site; "Thanks greenbean36191. Are you referring to his 1997 or earlier work or something more recent. One of his studies showed that the cyst lived in (I believe) 15ppt saline water and delayed producing Theronts for 28...

I have been reading different sites where they are talking about this new Ich strain that is resitant to hyposalinity. They are saying that it somes from vietnam. Google this and you will get different topics about Ich "different starins of marine Ich".

Originally Posted by Beth I have a little known way to treat ich that doesn't involve medications or hypo....you don't even need a QT. I think we all have something or other that we know about salt water fish keeping that we don't tell everyone.