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i had the same outbreak about 1 1/2 months into my tank being up. it was gone within a few weeks. i had hair algae covering the back of my glass, and on some of the rocks. i then got a bunch of hermits and snails, along with some manual removal from the rocks. but my cleanup did most of the...

ok, thanks. it was a small piece anyway.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/science/11/23/sci.us.marinecens.ap/index.html i thought this might be of interest to some.

thanks. one question though. i have a piece of live rock in my qt. can i put it in my main tank after i treated the qt w/ formalin? of course, i would boil the rock first, but i dont know if boiling would get rid of the meds and the possible parasites that were in there.

unfortunately, i think i was too late in treating my flame angel. :cry: he died this morning. yesterday i looked at him and his condition worsened by like 100%. it was very strange. one day he was eating and his eyes were a little cloudy, and yesterday he just stopped eating and looked...

thank you for all the suggestions. I will purchase cupramine tomorrow at my lfs along w/ a copper test kit. i appreciate your offer quarryshark, that was very nice of you. :) i will take your suggestions and definitely use them. i will keep you posted, and hopefully he'll make it!

no, i stopped using quick cure. i only used it for 2 days. i was also thinking that maybe he got a secondary infection. the past 4 days i have been doing 20-30% water changes to keep the water as clean as possible. i also noticed today that some of what i think are its scales on the pvc pipe i...

ok here is the best pic i could get. it kind of looks like red streaks on his left and right fins. and you can notice the cloudiness of the eyes.

i will take a pic and post it. ph is at 8.2. i did redose as the instruction said, 1 drop per gallon everyday until ick is gone. but i did 7 drops to be on the safe side. pic will be up soon...

the sg is 1.022, which i lowered slowly from 1.025. ammonia and nitrites are at 0, trates are at around 5-10. i treated the ick with quick cure which contains formalin and malachite green. and the fish is eating.

my flame has been in qt for 2 weeks. the first week he showed no signs of sickness at all. he was eating, active, and bright. about 1 week ago it looked like he had ick b/c of white spots on his tail. i treated the qt w/ quick cure and the ick was gone in 2 days... now, at about day 13 in qt...

well, i bought a visi therm stealth. its made of plastic and is supposedly shatter proof. and it has auto shut off if it overheats. so far, so good.

take it out! i actually got 3 crabs out that were like this. one of them actually killed my firefish when he was in his bolt hole. i put them in a jar for now...dont know what to do w/ them

heres the pic

well, by blowing up i mean the glass cracking and smoke coming up from the unit...sorry if that was misleading. i do have a surge protector on everything. the heater has always been underwater... it is just very odd that this happened.. i have had a tetra heater for my fw tank for over a year...