Recent content by rx330

What paint do you reccommend? I really can't use spray paint, as i cant have the tank outside. I am having a 175 all glass delivered tomm. It currently has blue spray on the back, but my husband and I are partial to black. I plant to scrape all the blue off and clean with alcohol...The lady...

The orange stuff on the coral looks like detrius (sp), and is not harmful. You can use a brush to take it off when you do a water change (in the diry water). I use a unused bottle brush I got when my son was born. I have some on a rock we bought from the LFS. When we got the rock, it was...

Thank you very much, I thought when I read, I didn't see the concentration levels. I will cetainly be adding more now and bringing up the concentration levels. Thank ou so much for your help. Paula

Hi everyone, I am looking for a little advice. My juvi porky puffer came down with ICH. We currently have him in a 10g QT tank with good water (0 Ammonia, 0 nitrates, and 0 Nitrites). We have been treating with Mardel Coppersafe and also have the API Copper test kit. No where on either the...

I know you are going for an aggressive tank, but we have a foxface in our tanks with other fairly "peaceful" fish, and he is rather timid. We are currently housing a Pink spotted goby, foxface, ocellaris pair, coral beauty angel, and a flagfin angel. Just a suggestion, but the foxface is...

My 54g FOWLR tank has very good water quality. Occassionally such as now, the Nitrite goes up a little bit between the .12 - .25 range, which the reading is just a fraction of a shade darker than the light turquoise color of 0 on the Nitrite color test chart. I use nitrifying bacteria which I...

As long as something makes it down, you are ok. I cut up some frozen table shrimp nd put it in his cave. Less mess than the mysis and he loves it. We have Pinkus for 5 months and he competes with a mated clown pair, foxface, and coral beauty angel. His biggest competition are the clowns, but...

The puffer died this morning. Absolutely disheartening. I appreciate the advice and will know to detect earlier on, treat immediately, and go with hyposalinity treatment over copper. Now that I drained the 29g QT, I want to make it into a DT, what is the best way to go about getting the...

the puffer is in the 2nd QT tank (14g) and I put 10g of the water with perfect levels from the DT, into the QT. I added another 2g of new saltwater to the mix. puffer is now on the glass bottom, breathing heavy and not doing much moving. he has no appetite and appears to be struggling. he...

We changed the puffer into yet a 2nd QT tank, and are starting hypo. He is not looking good, although the spots seem to be less, he is breathing heavier and not moving really or eating. I took about 8gal from my DT and the rest was freshwater. So, we are starting the hypo...I hope he makes...

I did the water change, about 5 gallons and that should remove some of the ammonia. I will do another later tonight, prob another 5 gallons. The spots came back, is that normal? i thought once they fall of, they go to the bottom and start to die? I have no substrate in thier at all, should I...

The white spots are now off my fish, but he is on the bottom breathing a little heavy. Now that a 1/2 dose of Coppersafe was added yesterday, when do i do water changes, how much per change, please advise. QT is 29g and was first setup yesterday, meaning that the tank never had a chance to...

we tried a few times giving him a freshwater dip, having him in it for 5 - 7 minute episodes. did this 3 times and didnt notice any changes. i hear from the pros that the coppersafe works, just use less of the normal dosage for puffers due to their high sensitivity. he is out of my 54g DT...

My friend said this was ick on my dogface puffer, so I moved him into a QT an hour ago, and added 1/2 recommended dosage of coppersafe (since the puffer is more sensitive to copper). Does this look like ich to you ? How long do I keep the fish inside this tank with the 1/2 dose of coppersafe...

We have our dog-face puffer for a little over a month, and I was told to avoid any shaving or clipping of the teeth, that you provide plenty of LR for him to nip at...we already have almost 35lbs, so he has a lot to shave himself down. Just like a regular dogs nails on concrete don't have to...