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Garlic does work better if added to food rather than directly into the tank. However, the package instructions for Kent;s Garlic Extreme do suggest adding 1 drop for every 10 gallons of water. I used to do this but I rarely do anymore. I know that Beth frowns on this practice.

It is hard to tell what effect the copper will have. Many times, the copper is bound up in the rock and will not leach into the tank. I have heard of some people who have not had any side effects from rock such as this. However, I would be concerned about the invertebrates. I probably would move...

I tend to use a store-bought product called Kent's Garlic Extreme. I have also purchased another product called Garlic Guard but this is much harder to use. (The first product has a dropper which limits the likelihood of getting the stuff on your hands (and then smelling like garlic for a...

The cleaner shrimp will not do much. You cannot keep them in any tank that you are contemplating using hyposalinity or copper as this is toxic to invertebrates. I enjoy my cleaner shrimp but I have never had good luck with them doing much cleaning. The time to Quarantine should have been before...

So you know why it lost it's crown. This often happens from stress (such as a new tank, poor water quality, etc). If you can eliminate stress (e.g. improving water quality), they will usually regenerate their feathers.

For some reason, my kids named my blue tang Dory also! What a coincidence! :rolleyes: Hippo tangs love to squeeze themselves into tight places in your live rock. It is possible that it might have scratched its eye. Poor water quality is the other major cause of cloudy eyes. Doing a water...

Keep the specific gravity down around 1.009 for three weeks after the fish seems cured. Then gradually bring it back up over about a week. It is possible that your clownfish was not infected. At this point, I would probably just leave him in there and pray for the best. The worst thing likely...

If the clownfish was with the tang in the same tank, you should assume that fish is infected also and begin treatment for it also. It may take 3 weeks before you see more spots. Freshwater dips are ineffective for ich - the parasites are protected by the slime layer of the fish. Hyposalinity...

Acclimation stress can take up to a month to resolve. As long as the degeneration is only on the arms and the central disc is okay, the star may recover. These sea stars are difficult to keep. You should have a mature tank (>6 months old) and at least 100 pounds of live rock. As far as I know...

If it was brooklynella, you only need to keep your tank fishless for around 1 week. This disease reproduces right on the fish and generally does not have a long free-swimming phase. It is usually transmitted directly from fish to fish so it is possible for a fish to be in the tank and not get...

A UV sterilizer is certainly not a requirement. I do not have one. The small benefit associated with possibly keeping diseases in check is probably countered by killing off some of the beneficial bacteria in your system. A QT is much more valuable.

Hyposalinity is a process to kill off saltwater parasites by exposing them to dilute water which your fish can live in but which kills the parasites over a period of several weeks. The process is well outlined in the sticky at the top of this forum. If you have specific questions, we would be...

Hyposalinity is well outlined in the stickies at the top of this forum. It is time-consuming but not particularly difficult. Just make sure you get a refractometer (which you will find that you prefer to use for you main tank anyway after you have used it a few times). The learning curve for...

Good Luck! Most people on these boards tend to be skeptical of what LFS owners tend to recommend. They usually go for the quick (and profitable) way of building up a tank and treating diseases. They will often sell you bottles of snake oil of questionable quality. Many of them started out in...

Welcome to the Boards! Slow down! That is a lot of life to add to a 30 gallon tank. I would recommend you get a QT established so you do not risk losing all your fish from a new infection. If they are air bubbles, they will fall off quickly. More likely, you have an ich infection. If you see...

It is hard to tell what you have from your pictures. However, I would suspect Brooklynella before I would suspect marine velvet. This disease is quite common in clownfish (some people call it clownfish disease) and has a characteristic white slime layer on the fish. Check out the diseased fish...

Welcome to the Boards! Is this a new tank? If so, you may be adding too much life to your tank too quickly. The primary tests only measure nitrogenous wastes, but many other waste products are generated by the cycle. Do you quarantine? Diseases are MUCH less likely if you do (and it forces you...

The erratic swimming behavior may only be due to adjustment to the the new tank. However. rubbing on rocks tends to be associated with the early stages of an ich infection. Considering tangs tend to be ich magnets, I would watch the fish closely. You will probably see spots within another week...

A fish can seem cured of ich but because of the lifecycle of ich, it may still be in your tank. A lot of treatments may seem to improve the fish, but the disease often will come right back. The only reliable treatments are hyposalinity and ich. Freshwater baths will NOT cure ich. The trophonts...

Marine Velvet can be one of the most quickly spreading infections in a marine aquarium. If a fish is still alive the next morning, it may not even be marine velvet. I suspect that your fish actually has Brooklynella. Check out the diseased fish sticky at the top of this forum for a few...