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I have an established 135 Gallon SW predator tank with Wet/dry, protein skimmer, UV sterilizer, several coral skeletons, a full-grown Golden Puffer, 2 med Volitains, a Sm Panther Grouper and a Med Clown Trigger ... lights need an upgrade. I know there are several variables to pricing, but is...

Any advise??? For the past month +, my emperor has had its face develop craters and discoloration. He has white/grey discoloration and "rotting" around his eyes and forehead... it's horrific. I've used MetaFix antibacterial for a couple weeks, but he's getting progressively worse. I'm about...

Steve, Thanks, again, for all of the help and advise. FYI, the fish are all looking good and appear healthy, but the puffer is still ridden with white spots (2 weeks into treatment). The medication bottle indicates that I should remove active carbon (I put a polyester pond filter in its place...

FYI, I had them in quarantine for a week, but I could not stabilize the environment ... I introduced LS, Ammo-Block, Primer and I did 30% H2O changes daily in an effort to reduce toxin levels, but the fish were getting very sick and not eating. Nitrate, ammonia and (to some extent) nitrite...

O.K. I have my fish in two separate Quarantines with hyposaline setups (1. sick puffer and emperor; 2. tusk, trigger and wrasse). Due to the relative "need for speed" I only had the sponge filters running in the bilge for 24 hours - I hope that was enough to initiate a bio. A few (hopefully...

thanks for the advice... given the size of the fish, I am at capacity right now by those rules. My only concern is that the trigger, tusk and angel are likely to keep growing (I guess that I'll just have to get that custom-made 500 gal tank that I've been eyeing next year! :D )

Steve - Thanks so much!!!! You guys are all awesome! I'll let you know how it turns out in a few weeks. Just one last Q, when you mention "bins," would disinfected, 30-gallon trash cans suffice??? If I can bare-bones this one, I'd prefer it. I have 2, 10 gallon tanks, but they would not be...

You may have hit it on the head ... the tank is very well established, as it has been around for years. However, I just added a emperor angel to the tank, which was too much for the bio (+ puffer, trigger, lion (now dead), wrasse and harlequin tusk in a 135 gallon tank). I did not realize what...

Thanks ... I'll be going to B&N to get some books on saltwater aquariums this afternoon, as I feel pretty inept at this point. One final question ... is there a relatively inexpensive way to set up a quarantine tank that will allow my fish to survive for 4 weeks? With a large puffer, large...

thanks ... it is a FO w/o live rock. I had been feeding the lion, wrasse and tusk feeder goldfish, which is where I think the desease(s) came from :oops: I have since learned that was a stupid move. I'm going to go out and set up a quaranteen tank for the puffer today and pray that this...

I know that this is late in the game and I hope that everything turned out well with your yellow tang :) . I have a golden puffer that is really sick :( and he has several white spots about his body. Earlier in the week, my lion fish died within a couple days of exhibiting similar symptoms...

SG = 1.021 pH = 8.2 Nitrate = 10 PPM (per liquid test)/160 PPM??? (per strip test) Nitrite = .5 PPM Alkalinity = 300 PPM Ammonia = .10 Everything seems to look right, aside from the abhorrent strip reading. However, the more I look at the white spots, the more I'm convinced that they are Ich...

Thanks- I'll do that. Are there any kits that I need to test anything other than nitrates and ammonia? As far as white spots ... there are some on the puffer, only ... but it looks like it may be part of his coat? I've had him for 3 months and there does not seem to be a noticeable difference...

I do not have a kit to test anything other than pH and Salinity. I am not sure how large the pump is (I looked, but didn't see key demarkations) ... but the tank has been around for a few years (I adopted it from a friend). It just has the single pump for movement, but I have 2 air hoses that...

(Novice) Please give advice ASAP, if possibe! I have a 135 GAL salt tank with Wet/Dry. My lion fish started breathing laboriously on Sunday and he was dead by Tuesday. I did a 30% water change this evening, assuming that there was an ammonia build up... now my golden puffer now has the same...