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I have a green brain, hammer, frogspawn and I am looking down the road to expand now that I have a better lighting system in my tank. What is the best way to spot feed the existing corals and if I were to get into something more advanced down the road...way down the road...what would be the best...

The same could be said about certain people too you know? Most cleaner shrimp actually combine in groups and do there thing together. I have a coral banded shrimp (not really a cleaner) and a cleaner shrimp...my coral banded cleans my fish but my little cleaner just sits there and chills out...

I had the BPII Skimmer on my aquarium...The unit worked ok after trying to adjust it but god forbid if I ever turned it off. When I did water changes I had to turn the unit off and it created so many micro bubbles that I was going to go out and buy the filter you can put on it. Needless to say I...

As in the other post in the disease section I am fighting it and thats not ich...HOWEVER I did have a bicolor blenny that was picking on my hippo anytime it was near the right side of the tank...this came about after a week of the blenny being in the tank and all of a sudden the blenny started...

Originally Posted by outlaw69 Good luck I just went through the same thing. Lucky for me my tank is f & LR so I finally used copper after using ick attack for two weeks. I lost 2 cromis a orange shoulder tang and a humu trigger. Mine turned out to be velvet the copper cleared it up on the...

Originally Posted by Rigdon87 The owner of one of the lfs just throws his in the wash with some bleach,dont now how safe that is but i guess he hasnt had any problems. Bleach dries chemically clean so there is no ill affect on the fish...obviously dont throw the sock in the tank right after...

Thanks for the info Vorlx...I like the look of the HQI bulbs as they simulate real sun...I believe I have found the system available online that i was looking for...was debating the 250 or 150w bulbs but went with the 150w system...I should be able to keep any corals in the system that I want to...

48" Current USA Outer Orbit 2x250W 10,000K HQI-MH w/ 4x54W T5 HO & 18 Lunar Lights That would be the one I would be looking at getting...BUT no one has any around...ive looked everywhere and can't find one available...so my guess is as good as anyone elses I suppose in whats going on with the...

Ok I am ready to buy a new lighting system and I wanted to get an idea on what everyone would recommend out there? I was heavily looking into an outer orbit system but I guess they are going away? Here is what I am looking for for my 90G system, basically a system where I would have no...

Originally Posted by BTLDreef Suggestion for this week: Before you do a water change, blow off the rocks with a turkey baster or syringe to clear excess food and fish waste and cut back on food. See how it goes. Good luck. I usually take my hand and blow off any excess sand that the goby kicks...

Originally Posted by BTLDreef Okay, first problem I have is that your fish list has changed since you first posted this. ??? %% ??? Which list is accurate? I really think that you need a goby. IMO I'd get a cleaner shrimp as well, I don't think CBS do as great of a job cleaning. Secondly...

Before this gets out of hand here...I love how people assume that this and that will not happen. I guess maybe I need to explain myself here. I am going to try and fight the war IN THE TANK!! I do not have room for a large 50+G tank to put the fish into..PERIOD. I have my other half bitching...

Originally Posted by wattsupdoc Do not add any new fish until you have effected a cure and obtained a QT! Who said I was going to add fish in the tank after I lost a couple and dealing with this issue that could take months to get over? I was simply asking on a whim what would be a good...

Originally Posted by AquaKnight Agreed. If you don't QT everything, it may suck, but get rid of the Hippo. The other fish are resistant enough, to combat your Ich levels with good diets. The Hippo will only continue to fester and allow the Ich to keep regenerating. Also, add New Life Spectrum...

Originally Posted by spanko Just gonna throw it out here. Seems to be too much stress on the part of the original poster here having a reading of 20 for nitrate. Slowly step back and evaluate what you are doing and why. Are you feeding too much, is it all being eaten or is some falling to the...

Just a real quick update... As noted before I did lose my flame angel and the 2nd firefish on Sun/Mon. Since the loss here is what is going on... 1. On Monday...again since I have it I might as well use it...I added in another dose of kick ich to the tank. 2. I removed the sock that I had in the...

Whelp I lost my flame angel and firefish today so the ich is killing off the weak in the tank...the more I think about this it may be a good thing as much as i hate to say it :( I hate that this has even occured but not much I can do now... So when this is all over...whenever its all over to...

Originally Posted by BTLDreef IMO, cut back on feeding, less is better than more. See if that helps. We had to cut back on our feedings and added carbon media and it seemed to help. We do a water change every week regardless of water conditions, our LFS also told us that with a strong protein...

I completely understand...now haha. Ah well so far no changes. I have a 200 micron sock in the tank that I will be removing later on today as I was reading that it could be a harbor of bacteria growth including ich.. I know I know...but tomorrow I will be adding in another dose of kick ich...

Originally Posted by srfisher17 If I follow, you only have fish and no inverts? If so, a nitrate level of 20ppm is not a problem at all; in fact, on the low side. Its a reef tank so yes I have some small crabs, snails and a coral banded shrimp...I haven't lost any yet and the corals seem to be...