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    What to do with QT water?

    Hey guys! Once again thanks for all the support, after losing all my fish, with my new QT I’ve got three fish back in the display tank now and they’re ich free and healthy :) loving it I’m going away from my tank for 2 months (don’t worry my brother is now a reef keeper haha so he’s looking...
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    Creating a QT for LPS corals

    Hey guys! So while my fish restocking is good, I was thinking about moving on from soft corals only and adding a few pieces of LPS to my tank. Parameters wise I’m measuring pre and post water change to see what levels it managing, and I don’t think I’ll need to dose initially but maybe in future...
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    Identifying cause of death

    hey guys My LMB, after eating for weeks, stopped eating, started hiding more and more, and now finally died this morning. It has a white belly with skin missing. I’ve posted some pictures. Could someone please help my identify why it died? And also what this means for my Chromis which is also in...
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    Lawnmower blenny stopped eating in QT

    hey guys I have a chromis and a LMB in the QT, they have a week left in there. The lawnmower blenny was eating fine when I added him to the QT. He was eating pellets, nori and omega one veggie rounds. As I’ve done more water changes he’s becoming increasingly shy. And now for the past 3 days...
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    Vegetable ideas for a LMB

    Hey guys I’m on week 2 of my LMB and chromis quarantine. Do you guys have any suggestions for vegetables that the LMB may like and how to prepare them? I just thought since it’s eating pellets, veggies rounds and dried seaweed, id give it some fresh food.
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    Why do we quarantine for 6 weeks?

    Hey guys Currently quarantining a lawnmower blenny and a chromis for 6 weeks without medication. I observe both sides of each fish once a day for disease. I have 2 questions, 1) where does the number 6 weeks come from? Is it to do with some life cycle? Or experience? 2) say my blenny and...
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    Training a LMB in a QT

    Hey guys! I’ve finally finished nearly 16 weeks of fallow (ich) and I’ve just added my first two new fish into my 40 gallon QT (fully cycled with a shrimp before hand, ammonia is 0, 30hrs post fish addition). So it’s been over a day and I added one chromis and one lawnmower Blenny. They have a...
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    Finished the Fallow!

    Hey guys just needed some help with the quarantine process. So I lost all my fish to velvet and ich (poor quarantine procedure on my part) a few months ago. In 3 weeks time I will have completed 13 weeks of fallow. Definitely no contamination as there have not been any fish in my house. Just...
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    Diatoms or cyano?

    Hey guys! 100 gallon softie tank. Only a shrimp and hermit crab, my fish all died from velvet or Ich or brook and the tank is currently in fallow. I'm just taking my time to work on tank maintenance. I have this brown stuff on my sand. It was there when I had my fish. And now it's still there...
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    All my fish died from ?velvet :(

    Hey guys! As some of you may know I've been getting ready to treat my 8 fish in a hospital tank for Ich while my tank fallows. Yesterday something weird happened. I saw the tang acting strange and then the skin started sloughing off, breathing rapidly, and then lying on its side and dying. This...
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    Need help, sick Tang

    Hey guys! As you may have read earlier I have Ich so I'm preparing for a 12 week fallow of my 100gallon plus treating my 8 fish in a 40gallons. Now then QT is cycling still. It's been 3 days and I've got my ammonia (0.25) and nitrites but waiting for them to come down (the cycle was quick...
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    More questions about fallow

    1. This maybe a silly question but can I feed pieces of shrimp or mysis shrimp or seafood mix to my shrimp while the tank fallows? Can Ich parasites attach to a cooked piece of meat? 2.does adding a bowl of sand for the sand shifting goby make it harder to treat Ich since Ich can attach there...
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    Using Ich water to cycle

    Hey guys next week I'm gonna set up and cycle my new 150L hospital tank (gonna treat all my fish and leave my tank fallow-Ich). I got a large canister filter rated for 300L because I don't trust my 8 fish in that tank I'm worried about ammonia spikes. Anyway so I was gonna put this filter in my...
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    Does Fallow work?

    Hello everyone As I mentioned in a previous post I got Ich in my main tank (I failed to pre-emptively medicate a new tang during QT). The main tank has corals and while I was considering removing invertebrates and corals and dosing cupramine and then cuprasorb this seems risky. The fish are...
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    Messed up and got Ich

    Hey guys! So my white cheek tang finished 4 weeks of quarantine. This was only observation however and no medications were used and I used different nets and kept my hands dry in between tanks. I added him to the tank, he was fine for 3 days and then 2 days ago he was covered in many many white...
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    Tang diet

    Hey guys, just added my first Tang, a white cheek Tang. I have a 400L set up (around 100 gallons, 4.3 feet swimming length and open rock-work). During quarantine I fed half a sheet of green nori each day for grazing (man he eats a lot I had to water change every 3 days!!!), some mysis every 3rd...
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    Electric Blue Hermit crab molting...?

    Hey guys! Tank details: 11 month old, 400L with refugium, sump and skimmer. Nitrates 10ppm, Amm and Nitrites 0ppm. Alk-7dKh, Ca-410, Mg-1300. Soft corals and live rock, Inhabitants: CBShrimp, clowns, fairy wrasse, foxface, bangaii, sand sifter, firefish, and a newly added white cheek tang. Oh...
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    Evidence for changing filter socks

    As always, just in case this is interesting to anyone. This is a good series :) Cheers,
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    Reed safety of a flame angel

    Has anyone every kept a dwarf flame angel in a reef system? I have soft corals only. I'm just wondering if there are accounts of it working out as I hear they are reef safe with caution. I hear coral beauties are ok sometimes too.
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    Why should I feed more frequently?

    So as ive noticed my yellow headed sleeper goby is a little thin after being away for 6 weeks, I've decided to split my one cube of frozen into two feedings a day. Half a cube at 4pm when I get home and then again at 10pm before lights out. What are the advantages of feeding like this? Does...
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