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Help please :) I'm waiting to do any treatment but i want to get started on something(hypo or copper) before its too late.

Another question. On a local reef forum someone said my tanks temp could be causing undue stress on the fish. My tank has been running 74-75 degrees since December. I was going by liveaquarias recommendations for fish. The other person said I should keep my temp around 80. Would you agree...

Originally Posted by hallzy I have 2 percula clowns, an anemone (clowns not hosting yet), a blue hippo tang, a juv cowfish, 3 firefish, a cleaner and fire shrimp, 2 camelback shrimp, a few different starfish, and some hermits. I am amazed you have kept all of this alive for a year in a 29g...

More feeding = more scraps/waste + more poop/waste = more nitrates It doent matter how often their fed as much as how much / week. I feed my fish every other day. Also, high nitrates, even 50 or so, is not good for anemones or inverts, especially certain species of starfish. It is fine for...

I don't have any 'tricks' to lowering nitrates, but really theres only so many methods of doing it. Here is the list: Water Changes Deep Sand Bed Protein Skimmer(reduces nitrates from occuring, does not lower existing nitrates) Nitrate/Sulfur Reactor Macroalgae(such as chaetomorpha in a...

No. Healthy fish can fight off the parasite but they still live long enough to reproduce. The fish will technically have ich, but it will be such a small amount that you dont see it.

Do you know why the top of my triggers dorsal fin has turned a reddish color? Could that be a bacterial infection of some sort? All thats left in my dt is inverts and a snowflake eel. I know the SFE can be a carrier but as far as fish go they are the least likely carriers because of their...

Ok I cant seem to get any good pictures and also my puffer and trigger are already looking better. I would like to know how you would treat velvet though as I thought its a parasite like ich and needs to be removed completely or it won't go away.

Oh I also forgot to mention one of the reasons I was thinking velvet is because the top of my triggers top fin is a rust color and thats a symptom of velvet. I'll see if I can snap you some photos, we have our digital camera back now.

My foxface started showing signs of HLLE. I suspected my tusk was picking on the foxface and at one point it looked like a chunk of tail was actually missing from the foxface. I never actually witnessed any aggression and my fox would sometimes follow the tusk around so it seemed odd but at this...

I had a filter but it stopped working so now theres a small powerhead in the tank to keep the water moving. I've got my eye open ofr a new filter but im not going to go all out on it money is tight oenough right now. It might be ich tbh I'm not sure. Theres small white spots all over the...

I don't have a filter for my qt. How often/much should I do for water changes? Its a 30 gallon housing a 3" Porc Puffer and 3" Huma Trigger. I'm currently administering hypo for what I think is velvet, does that affect anything? Is it worthwhile to raise the temperature to 80+ from its...

Can anyone suggest a cheap meter that I can use to check my tank for stray voltage? Something that can be found in a nationwide store a definite plus.

When moving a sick fish from display to a quarantine do we still acclimate them? I have a couple fish I need to do a fw dip and then move them to my quarantine tank because it looks like I have velvet or ich present in my display.

I'd get a couple of 1200's. STockman standpipes in each will reduce the noise but your max overall flow will probly be around 1500. If the tank isn't larger then 200G and the pump is just below it then a Mag 12 should be sufficient.

Originally Posted by Darthtang AW There is actually a new scanner coming out on the market that you push a button and lasers capture every upc in the basket...you take nothing out at checkout. Thats what Ive been waiting on.

Originally Posted by erifish3 Do all puffers do that or just depends on there personality? Mine has been biting the heck out of my sandsifter starfish and he's only about 4 inches long. Depends on the personality. Neither of the puffers Ive had ever bit at rock.

Did you use the money as a seed for your upcoming kryptonite burglary?

Eels usually jump out when they don't feel safe in the tank, give them proper hiding places and keep them fed and I doubt theyll ever try to leave the tank.

One of the bigger issues with keeping Corals in an aggressive is keeping Nitrates at a suitable level for Corals in a tank with a bunch of messy eaters. Most FOWLR's run with greater then 20 Nitrates and 20 is already too high for Corals.