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hi, kevin thanks for your prompt response. however, this dottyback is very smart. it doesn't even go near the trap while other fishes do. i've starved the tank for a day or so and i've even tried rotating the type of food to attract it. No luck.

hi, guys Anyone has a suggestion on how to trap this fellow? It's killing my bottom dwellers. It has already killed my royal gramma, yellow watchman et al. Need urgent help. Tried to trap it with a bottle with inverted top.... no luck... it's too smart to fall for it. The trap has trapped and...

i had this flame angel for about 4 months already, so i don't think it's cynaid posioning here. it cannot be agression since it is the most agressive in my tank. i fed it with mixture of food. some blended food, cyclopeeze, flakes and pellets. i used to have an other flame months ago which...

My flame angel suddenly starts to keeps to the bottom of a corner of my tank and refused to move anywhere. No sign of injuries of any infections. Wonder what's going on? It doesn't look too good. Not as alert as before. All my rest of the livestocks are doing great. Can anyone advise me on what...

i'm afraid to say that temperature has little effect on ich. Or at least for my case. My climate here is all round 30-32 degrees which is higher than stated here and the ich still strives in my tank previously in my tank which was maintained at around that temperature without any chiller. I've...

it's a brown branching acropora. i've a T5 white 39W + a T5 actinic 39W light. ammonia 0ppm nitrite 0ppm nitrate 50ppm (reducing....) phosphate 1ppm (reducing....) alkalinity ~6dKH calcium 500ppm

there doesn't seem to be any irritation around it. i can see slight inflation from the sick half but still shrunk in general. how long will it take to recover if it was an injury?

it's under T5 lighting in the upper part of my tank. no direct strong current. anyway, i'm using scwd so there's no constant current flowing through there. furthermore, i've 2 other green bubbles near it doing fine.

anyone has experience to save the acropora from this? my acropora has been in my tank for about a month and the colour has been dull and i've observed slow RTN recently. i'm using T5 lighting and the acropora is placed near the water surface and is near an outlet from my filter where there's...

my green bubble has been doing well in my tank for a week and half of it starts to shrink up. the other half is still opening and i can see the half that is closed seems to be losing colour. my water parameter is ok and all the rest of my bubbles and other corals are doing great. it could be...

what's your flowrate like? and your water flow construction? it does help to increase it... it works for me. i used to have ich problem daily for my blue tangs and they're doing fabulous now after i improved my water flow.

1 of my damsels was too smart for the fish trap. tried using a quarantine box with sliding doors. Keep the door open and start feeding your fishes from inside the box. your fishes will get used to feeding from there and the damsels will soon start to trust it as the source of food and will start...