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  1. bergamer

    Sick golden puffer: need help please

    He has been fine until the other day when I noticed he was not getting up from the sandbed when I walked in the room. Today I noticed him breathing heavily. I began to feed him and he was eating and then all of a sudden he dropped to the sandbed and just sat there breathing heavily. After a...
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    interesting hypo issue.....

    My tanks salinity is at .008 per my refractameter. I even double checked with fresh clean RODI water to make sure the line came back to zero. Here is the amazing part, my hermit crabs are living. I only have 2 left, but they have lived well over a week in near hypo .010 and today I took it...
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    Watchout: Chloramines will wipe-out your tank

    I just lost almost everything in my 24 ap almost overnight. I tested for everything and nothing was unusual. It was horrible to see my clowns suffocate to death. (Then all my corals died) ammonia: 0ppm nitrite: 0ppm nitrate: 20ppm PH: 8.2 So I was doing some research and I found out that my...
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    blue angel has popeye...help

    I didn't notice it yesterday and today poof. He has been living in sump life for a while with no problem. I moved him because he got too aggressive. I am actually in the process of trying to bring down salinity for hypo due to ick. I have been changing 30 or so gallons of saltwater for...
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    wow... and they are all getting along

    in my 210g and living pretty peacefully! 3.5" sohal 9" golden puffer (anthron meg) 5" humu trigger pair of gold stripe maroon clowns 3" flag fin angel 4" red sea regal angel 3" singapore angel 4" juvi emperor angel 3" blue spotted puffer 1" bi color pseodochromis 3" purple tang 3" pearscale...
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    I will be doing hypo on main display soon....questions

    I am preparing to transfer my livestock to a new tank (190g full hex) and I seem to have an ich outbreak. So I thought it would be easiest to do hypo, which allows me to transfer all the rock out and put it in the new tank (then the tank has time to properly cycle) I have done hypo before...
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    nitrate problems....help

    I have a 210g with 100g sump. 170lbs of LR and 240lbs of LS 40g refuge with cheato bubble king supermarine 200 skimmer I do a 25% water change every 2 weeks and my nitrates easily jump up to 80ppm. I have started sugar dosing, but I would rather not keep dosing sugar. critters: pair of gsm...
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    is it advisable to use prazipro in my display?

    210g with 170 lbs of LR and 240lbs of LS. My flagfin all of a sudden has stringy poop and might show some signs of flukes. To get him out would be a large ordeal. So I thought it might be better to treat the entire tank (especially if flukes are present). Is it safe to use in my display? if it...
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    Angel fish issues

    Wow am I having angel aggression. I started with a flagfin who is doing fine Next I purchased a blue angel and she started picking on the flagfin but it subsided quickly and they get along. Then I bought a regal angel and the blue angel terrorized the regal. So I put the regal in the sump and...
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    credit

    I have emailed saltwaterfish.com twice to determine what credit I have from a DOA and haven't received any response. My first email was a couple months ago and I believe my last email was 2 months ago..... should I just consider the credit lost? I have an email from saltwaterfish.com telling...
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    about to give up....hlle

    I have had my blue angel in QT for over a month and I seem to be fighting anything and everything. First it was scratching which was cured with prazipro then it is lymphpmus (sp) which has gotten worse, but seemed to stabalize. then his lateral line is showing and now today his head has a bump...
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    blue angel with Lymphocyctis... what am i doing wrong

    I read that it will go away on its own, but it has spread from his fin to where his fin touches his body. Ammonia: 0ppm nitrate: 10ppm I feed daily a mix of spiralina formula 1 and 2 all soaked in vita chem and zoe and nori sheets any other suggestions?
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    blue angel in qt scratching against the bottom of the tank...

    I bought this blue angel/queen 2 weeks ago and he twitches sometimes and I was in the process of doing a water change and he began scratching against the tank about 10 or so times. my nitrates are at 70ppm. (which is why I am doing 10g water changes daily) the tank is a 40g with about 30-40lbs...
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    Help HLLE

    tank: 210g LS: 240lbs LR: about 100lbs Nitrate: 20ppm Ammonia 10ppm I initially battled hlle with my blue hippo and then started feeding him a mix of nori sheet and spiralina soaked in zoacon, garlic and liquid vitamines and it went away. now I am looking at my flagfin angel and see his...
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    lowest SG live rock can live in

    my qt is cycled, but I need to match the SG with my main display, currently at .014 (was in hypo). I would like to add LR to make sure I don't get an ammonia spike when I add my GSM to QT (40g) I need to remove the GSM bc my Q. Trigger won't leave the GSM alone (ever since I took out the...
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    Blue Hippo tang shows signs of HLLE....help

    PH 8.3 ammonia .10 was as high as .25 for about a month Nitrate .20 (the tank is in HYPO atm) I feed my fish just about every day on food days I feed them a mix of aquatrol spiralina 20 formula 1 pellet omega 1 veggie flake Nutrafin max spiralina sprungs sea veggies- purple seaweed flake Hukari...
  17. bergamer

    flagfin angel has strange marks

    My tank is in hypo atm. 210g Ammonia: 0-.25 (in between) Nitrates 20ppm PH 8.2 He eats mysis, spiralina, formula 1 and 2 I am setting up a qt and as soon as it cycles, I plan on putting him in. what should I treat him with? you can see the mark under his top fin and the mark is present on both...
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    My tank is in hypo....question

    I left about 240lbs of LS in the tank (its a 210g) Is the sand still alive? I have a person who wants to purchase about 60lbs of sand, but I am not sure if I should sell it to him because the tank is in hypo and I don't know how it has effected the sand.
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    hypo questions on 210g display

    I have a 210g fowlr and just had a major ich outbreak. My fish are just too large for a QT tank, so I have decided to slowly remove all the live rock and then remove the sandbed and then bring down the salinity to .009 for 6 weeks. (I just purchased a new tank and plan on moving all the rock and...
  20. bergamer

    could a large dead xenia hurt a fish?

    I recently went through some sort of infection in my 210g where there was some oily substance all over the fishes fins and the fishes bodies turned white and flakey. (not marine velvet) I researched and researched but could not find anything that seemed to fit. This infection killed my clown...
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