Recent content by sooju

What kind of fish? In my experience, different techniques work for different fish.

I've done a few searches here and see that many people soak their food in garlic, selcon, and vita-chem regularly. I'm wondering how much to use? As far as I can tell, garlic is just for soaking and then you pour it off and/or rinse the food. Is that correct? And do I add vita-chem and...

I have a 26G tank that was used for hyposalinity treatment and is now fishless. What do I need to do to it to prepare it for use as a quarantine tank? Just rinse it out and replace the filter media and water? It's only been 2-3 weeks since the last fish died so I don't want to take any...

You can lower the SG by up to .005 a day (or .0025 every 12 hours) but you can only raise it half as quickly (.002-.003 a day).

With live rock and a skimmer, why run an HOB filter? Seems like that may be the culprit. EDIT: I have a 55G non-drilled and run an overflow into a sump in the base. I replace the aqualifter pump every six weeks as a precaution and so far I haven't had any problems with it...good luck!

Can you post a picture? Is it some sort of algae?

Ooh good point, I hadn't thought that far. I'll dry it out or toss it after treatment. Tonight I caught the gramma and the dartfish so there are now three fish in the hospital tank. I still have to catch the chromis, cardinal, and a wrasse. And the mandarin, of course, although I don't...

I forgot to ask - I put some live rock rubble that was in the sump of the main into the 26G to aid in getting filtration established. Is there any reason it shouldn't stay in there when I begin hypo treatment?

Here's the plan. Let me know if I've missed anything. I have the 26G set up at with an established but undersized filter (from my 10G QT) and a wrasse that was in QT (he's going to have to go through hypo with everyone else since I'll need the 10G for the mandarin. Who knows, maybe I'll be...

I've read that article before. It recommends running a filter in your sump at all times but doesn't say how long it would take to seed a new one. I'm still not sure where the balance is between seeding the new filter and treating the fish asap.

I did QT all new fish for a full four weeks, that's why this is so frustrating!! Kurt, are you suggesting that I leave the fish untreated for two weeks to get the filter seeded? Won't the ich get out of control?

I need to set up a new hospital tank to treat my fish with hyposalinity (this is my 2nd outbreak of ich despite using a QT, so frustrating). I picked up a new HOB filter today and will start running it on the sump of my main tank. How long would it take to establish enough bacteria to handle...

I found a picture! I was having no luck finding anything online doing google image searches for all the suggestions so far, but I opened my Aquarium Corals book (Borneman) and flipped through every soft coral pic only to find on page 117 with the description of "Family Clavulariidae...

I have xenia in another area and these look different (for one thing they don't pulse). And I have GSP in another area but they retract and these don't. Any other ideas? EDIT: I searched for images of clavularia and it seems they all have feathery appendages. Mine are smooth along the stalk...

Does anyone know what these are? I have a dime-sized colony of light brown translucent polyps growing at the base of my finger leather. They look like tiny palm trees. They don't retract, and they seem to be stationary. They do not look like any picture I've seen of aptasia or majano or...