Originally posted by fulcrum
I'm trying to help you, and prevent you from spending a lot of money replacing fish that will die.
I will admit that the Flame Angel is a marginal call in a reef tank. And I see where it was reccomended to you. But I see many more posts that disucss the 50/50 probability that they will be a problem with corals.
I've gone back and read your posts since you started on this board. Here's a timeline:
4-11 Your puffer died. There is a Flame Angel in the tank, and you levels indicated you were still cycling. There should be nothing living in the tank, except Damsels which aren't realy necessary.
4-21 Your tank was 71 degrees and you did not know what temperature it should be. You were told to SLOWLY raise the temperature (1 degree a day)
4-21 You referenced a Mandarin Goby in your tank. This fish is an "expert only" species, and your tank was only 71 degrees on this day.
4-22 You bought and kept and Achiles Tang for a 55 gallon tank, and kept him against all reccomendations of this board. Your tank should have been only 72 degrees this day.
4-26 You bought a Sea Apple and Clownfish.
4-27 The Sea Apple releases toxins and kills all your fish, (clown, achilles, flame angel, and I'm not sure if you had returned the few damsels you reported in an earlier post or the mandarin)
4-28 The Sea Apple dies. You were given the advice that you should do a water exchange and run carbon in your filter. You said you would do 20% changes each day. This process should take 5 days.
5-2 You asked a question about the Maroon Clown in your tank (indicating that you had already added fish to the tank)
5-6 You mention a Porky Puffer you added a week before (which would place it immediately after all your other fish were killed). Your profile also reads that you have another Flame Angel. You also posted that you have a Custom Sealife Smartlight, which does not provide sufficient light for the corals in you tank (which you thought were anemonies in the first place). And now you state that you intend to add another Achilles Tang and a Sea Apple
By my count, you have killed at least 5 animals in the past month. You have ignored recomendations of people trying to give you good advice. You are buying fish without researching their needs or behaviors. You do not understand the temperature and lighting parameters of a saltwater aqaurium.
Forget that the Puffer was a gift (even though you stated in your post that you bought it), its a slap in the face to kill the corals by putting a puffer in a reef tank.
I am asking you to slow down, buy some books on marine aquariums and make better choices about your tank inhabitants.
wow you gave a lot of suggestions for me...now is my turn..how about you go and buy some books on humor...cause you have none
"And now you state that you intend to add another Achilles Tang and a Sea Apple " you kinda suppose to laugh after that...because it was a joke..but unfortunatelly some people need explanation
"4-11 Your puffer died. There is a Flame Angel in the tank, and you levels indicated you were still cycling. There should be nothing living in the tank, except Damsels which aren't realy necessary" I set up my tank in the beginning of march..and I didn;t even add any fish before beginning of april..first I brought my water to LFS to ck if it cycled or not, when they gave me OK I add damsels to my tank. After a week I went to LFS store and they gave me OK to put flame angel..and he was really happy in my fish tank.
Oh you left out one post 4-15 my fire shrimp molted and molting is an indication of a good water quality...so LFS gave me OK to add another fish...so I bought puffer..and It died on 4-17 because he was ill when I brought him from the LFS.
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4-22 You bought and kept and Achiles Tang for a 55 gallon tank, and kept him against all reccomendations of this board. Your tank should have been only 72 degrees this day.
" I bought achilies on 4-24..tep. of the tank was 75 degrees an I DIDN;T disobey the order of the board to raise it 1 degree a day. Also I never posted a question about buying an achilies tang..therefore there were no recomendations on this board about it...the post that I poste was...should I put another tang with the achillies ..people on the board said no ..and I never put another tang in to the fish tank.
"4-28 The Sea Apple dies. You were given the advice that you should do a water exchange and run carbon in your filter. You said you would do 20% changes each day. This process should take 5 days." Actually sea apple died and killed my fish on the 26th not the 28th. I called liveaquatica website, 3 LFS, spoke in person to 2 LFS...and all of them told me ....that since my fire shrimp was alive, nudibranches were alive, hermet crabs were alive, trubo snails were alive, mexican snails were alive, anemonies were alive,then sea apple release very little toxins and that I should change only 25% of the water and add one fish in a few days. So I did two 25% water changes ..and in 3 days(since my water tests were exelent) I added royal gamma (05-01)..royal gamma was and still is happy.
"5-2 You asked a question about the Maroon Clown in your tank (indicating that you had already added fish to the tank)" ooooooooops you wrong again....I didn;t have maroon clown on that day ..I was just planning to get it and wanted to know more about it and whether it liked BTA
"5-6 You mention a Porky Puffer you added a week before (which would place it immediately after all your other fish were killed). Your profile also reads that you have another Flame Angel. You also posted that you have a Custom Sealife Smartlight, which does not provide sufficient light for the corals in you tank (which you thought were anemonies in the first place). And now you state that you intend to add another Achilles Tang and a Sea Apple " First of all..I asked a question about puffer behavior..and I didn;t know that I should post exact date.....umm let me call the person who got it for me and ask her for a date on the receipt from the store...here we go the date on the receipt is 05-03...see..it wasn;t one week ago...sorry my mistake..I can send you a copy of the receipt if you want...
Looking in my profile..and trying to understand where did you see that I have another flame angel? so far as I know I have only one
I knew before that I have one coral (pink) and one anemonie.. when I posted pictures of my tank..did you see anywhere in my post that I was asking any questions about it..or I wanted any suggestions about it? so far as I know I posted it to show other people what I have in my fish tank.. and I really appriciated when people posted names of my coral and anemonie and posted warning about my puffer.
From now on Im going to get each of my post notorized just for you...=)I also will include dates from the receipts , phone numbers and addresses of the people who got me fishies..if it would make you happy
i'm glad everyone has to know the exact second when they do things just to ask question or post pics of there tank
everyone takes things out of context and it's ok (even the board moderator's) i say something and i get totally flamed.
