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Yeah, I'm bringing salinity up now since copper is in QT. Never heard copper and hypo salinity don't play well though. I just figured hypo would be overkill since I'm already stressing them with copper. I've heard fish can be immune to ich after exposure? Are mine now? Or is it one of those...

I never really got salinity below 1.010. (yes I have a refractometer). In the process of lowering it over a few days the fish died. That is when I dosed copper and slowly raised salinity back up. It is at 1.020 now and will raise it to 1.025 over the next couple days. I did nothing fast with the...

SO I got Ich a few weeks ago. LFS just said treat with Metronidazole so I did in water and food. Thought it was going away. Then noticed most of fish had it! So got a QT setup (40 gallon). Had fun catching fish NOT! Could not catch Blue Hippo Tang who was the worst of them. Started lowering...

Hey Mel, thanks for posting the links! I've seen you post those on every "ich" thread and have been to them already. However, your link to part 1 is dead. It takes me nowhere. Would love to read it as the 2nd part is excellent. Can't seem to find part 1 though. I expected a lack of reply and...

Guess this topics been beaten to death and that's why not a big response. I've been treating the water with flagyl and food and all getting better!!!

So I'm pretty much screwed I think. I have a 150gallon reef tank that's been running great! Coming up on a year now. I have 2 ocellaris clowns, diamond goby, lawnmower blenny, royal gramma, convict tang, blue hippo tang, blonde naso tang, and a powder brown tang. Just bought paired fire wrasses...

i'll get some pics up soon. Promise. It is a cool little group of fish. Hope my goby cheers up because my sand is starting to go south! Need my vacuum-boy back!

hahaha, probably right. I do have some bada$$ fish now!

whoa, easy fellas! It's cool. Tang police are just lookin' out! I appreciate it. I know from reading many threads on this forum the "tang police" are very justified around here! LOL. As for the Goby Police, thanks for the encouragement. I just dug him out of his cave and he stayed out for about...

So got salifert test kits now. Ca is 320. dKh 9. So u guys were right, my test kits were bogus. Been supplementing with seachem calcium until I get my ca reactor figured out. Thanks everyone! Mt elegance coral has bit the dust I think though. It looks bloated and stays mostly closed and is...

Went out of town for 4 days last weekend. Had autofeeder set up as always. Except this time the window to let pellets out was open more than usual so there were quite a bit of pellets on the sand when I got home (usually my diamond goby nabs em all up). Everybody looked ok though except for...

I use Instant Ocean Reef Crystals. How do you dose your alk/calcium? Dosing pumps? Drip containers? Syringe? What's the best way?

Excellent articles. Thanks! I think that will help my situation greatly. Wish this [moderator edit] calcium reactor would work right though. Already ordered new test kits and will try the new dosing regimen in the article. Seems fail-proof. Although I bet I can give it a good run for its money! LOL

My 4 month old reef tank is doing great. All animals seem to be thriving. Most corals seem happy. My new elegance coral seems to close up frequently though. I have been having trouble with my Reef Octopus 150 Calcium Reactor. My calcium levels have been low for the past 3 weeks (like 200-250...

Does any one have a handy maintenance schedule grid/spreadsheet? I've been looking for one that I can just check when I do things and reminds me when to do them. Thanks!

Look at my other thread and look at my tank pictures to tell me what I'm dealing with then please.

Thanks.

Here are more if you like...

Sorry, here are some new pics of what I've been up to since last pics. As you can see I rearranged the rock so it's more sturdy. Before it wasn't very stable. Plus now I have more tunnels and ins and outs and canopies. My Ocellaris' are flipping in and out of the arches doing lopp-de-loops! So I...

OK. Am feeding less from now on. They just seem so hungry when I do feed them. I guess I don't have the heart for feeding every other day. I don't want my fish and my cool shrimp to hate me. Sounds stupid now that I say it. Every other day it is. And I'll turn the MHs back on. And I only use...

Good advice on the CUC. Even if it eats the algae up it's just gonna cause more with its waste. I have been feeding my 2 little clowns and a cleaner shrimp twice a day with flakes in the a.m. and frozen PE mysis and Rod's food at night. I'll cut back to just once a day. Or is that still too...

So my reef tank 150 gallons has been up now for 2 months or so. 2 clowns and a cleaner and 10 hermits, 4 turbos, 3 blue eyed hermits. 20%PWC every week so far. My original algae bloom was greenish and not so bad. Now it is red and all over my sand and tank walls. Scraping it off every day and...

In "The Marine Fish Health and Feeding Handbook" by Goemans it mentions what to look for when purchasing a fish from an LFS. He says fecal material or white string hanging from the anus could be from malnutrition, parasites or cyanide poisoning as cyanide toxic fish will slough the internal...

I removed the fish immediately just in case it had a disease I didn't want my inverts to get sick from eating it. I'll have to find the real name of the "trail of death", I could be makiing it up.