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Due to lack of maintenance for long periods of time (no water changes for 8-10 months ), the algae broke out 2 months ago, that caused most of corals died ... (even my out-of-control purple mushroom died, too) Most of my observations seem understandable, except I also found my dragonet is...

Not sure if it has anything to do with too much water flow, my yellow tang has been a lot less active ever since I added a maxspect gyre to my 90gl thre week ago. Today, a dark red spot appears on on side, some red hue appears on the other side near gill. Not really eating :-( Should I take...

you like them? I wish I know how to get them off and give them to you :-) Cut them off seem easy, scraping ... can i use tool brush instead of chisel?

I have a rock, that have a few fan worms about 1-2 inch wide when they opens, since last year mushroom coral grows on the rock, they grows so quick, so many and so big. They are blocking the tube openings. One of the worm actually left the tube and disappeared. What is the best way to remove...

Today is the 3rd day in copper treatment. She seems eating ok, but I do see her lost appetizer a little. The hospital tank (with cupramine at 0.5 -0.6 ) is a little dirty now and the ammonia is on the rise (0.25). I am going to do 10-20% water change. (NOT water top off) Question for water...

sounds the nitrogen cycle is starting now.

wondering its marine velvet without showing its typical sympton... i had one pbt died in one day since i noticed he acted not too normal. in another month, the marine velvet outbroke that killed almost the rest of the fishes with clearer MV symption. I still cannot be sure and still learning...

got my magnifying glass yesterday that really help. the pic really looks like ich, BUT I read trophonts/white dots stay on fish 3-9 days until fallling off? could it be just dust because it only showed one day? She seems much comfortable now. Since its not velvet, should i observe longer until...

yes and no. The 20-gallon qt has its own 20-gallon sump on the bottom. The other 10-gallon med HT has two hob filters on its own. The HT has a small damsel to help cycle this tank. I manually connect both tank with u-tube plus redirect the overflow for 30 mins every other day to mix the water...

The DT is a 3 years old 100-gallon system with softies and LPS. A velvet outbreak last summer killed most of my babies, only able to save an YT and two firefishes. (My BT was recovered from ich/velvet in the HT but died from HLLE while DT was still in fallow, that was very sad ). The DT went...

same time as the flame angle two weeks ago. they are junior less than 0.75 long, they hang out on the other side, never bother KT. should i move them some where else?

so hard to get a good shot: i think i saw ich, do u? or does it still looks like hlle?

the kole tang was hiding in the tank on the top. the bottom one is the sump, that has three chamber. you probably can see the flame angle in the left chamber. DT is not in that pic

amonia close/less than 0.25ppm nitrite: o nitrate: 5ppm 1.024 salinity 78f i have reframeter. other than faded color that looks like mold under my moonlight/2 blue led when room is dark, i cannot see anything like white spot. i feed 3-5 time a day with pallets, flake and frozen food specific...

just did 10g wc, will do another 10 tomorrow and the day after tomorrow.

no, this qt is just for observation when i have new fish. i use another 10-gallon tank pvc and 2 hob filters to treat sick ones with medication when i found any fish in qt need to be treated. (i used to use this one to pre-treat any new fish until recent suggestion doing observation first) see...

the parameters is not perfect: detectable low ammnoia recently, probably since i added that flame angel i did not worry about the parameters since the observation tank has a 20-gallon sump and has been running almost 8 months with rocks and filterations. it is basically a soft coral only tank...

My Kole tang seems in trouble now. she has been in a 20-gallon QT since late Dec 2017, no pre-treatment, only quarantine for observations. 2 weeks ago, I added a fame angel to the QT, and the Kole tang got constant bully and showing minor stress signs. Last weekend, I decided to catch the...

wow ... I was just joking :-) one thing I would love to have is to have a veggie greenhouse in my backyard after I retire. Knowing there are really sumps setup outside, having a sump in the greenhouse to grow planted refugium may be worth explore the idea :-)

very nice to have sump in the basement. I don't have basement, but still curious how that is done, perhaps I can learn something and put the refugium in my backyard using southern california sunlight :)