Recent content by ShannonFaas

TC and Jim, I only have the one tang right now, the sail fin. He seems to be doing fine. My SWFS does trades if the fish get too big. They are monitoring my tank carefully as to what I put in it and the size of fish I have. The blue or the Yellow were only a thought. The Blue I was looking at...

Thin, I have t-5 lighting, one blue one white, on at 11a off at 7p. They are mostly gone first thing in the morning then bloom with the lights. There is very little direct sunlight on the tank. I thought they were dinoflagyllates so I was agressively vaacuming the substrate, I also got so...

Sadie, I am back! No great news to report. The brown stuff is still there. It is only on the sand bed. I did talk to another professional and he said that because I am siphoning the sand bed deeply everytime I am getting rid of beneficial bacteria. It is raging right now, and he said it was...

I take some water from the tank, nuke it to boiling and squirt the aptasia until gone...Make sure it isn't around any corals...works very well!

Sadie, I went to the LFS today, picked up a new power head, larger one to move the surface better, moved my surface one to the bottom in the opposite direction. Hopefully this will help too, keeping it from being able to sit. I also took some pictues in to show them. They said (and I agree)...

Sadie, Was your outbreak in a small tank? I am jealous if it was. I have a 65g. and it is a pain in the butt because I make all my RoDi and it takes forever. I am going to do a major change today, but you meantioned not to do anything with the base. I just completely changed the sand bed to a...

Sadie, Thanks for all your adivise, I will be trying that. A lot of what I have read is to stop water changes completely, which is what my LFS has told me. They said only to do enough to siphon the bottom. I am keeping the PH at 8.6-8.8 with a calcium powder. I have turned my timer down to...

Sorry was thinking it was SW...yep a little salt might help :-)

I do have a sailfin tang...but he doesn't eat much of the algae.

Sadie, My aqarium supplier, Blue Fish Aquarium, also said dino's and we have been treating it as such. I do a 14g water chage every 6-7 days on a 65g tank. I siphon every time. My parameters on the water are 15 for nirates, 0 on everything else, 1.022 on sg. I had an issue a long time ago...

I had the same isssue, hyposalinity for 6 weeks worked for me. I also treated with prazi-pro at the same time.

I actually had a real issue with aptasia's. When we put in some LR, we had 3 large ones. My husband thought they were great. Well I finally decided to terminate them when they started to spread. I took some of the water from the tank and put it in the microwave....took it to boiling...used a...