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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...

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...

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...

Just a brief recap - I bought an established 55G last fall and added fish gradually but without a QT. No big surprise, my tank got the dreaded ICH. I pulled the fish out into a hospital tank and treated with hyposalinity. Four weeks after the last sign of ich, I brought all but one of the...

Just wondering what the rationale is for not allowing searches on three letter words. I was trying to find posts regarding "zoanthid pox" and it won't include "pox" in my search. There are way too many posts with the word "zoanthid" for me to sort through all of them!

I have a new mandarin in my 55G (borderline, I know) and my first order of copepods is en route from Sachs Aquaculture. I ordered 500 mls - see description below - and will add half to the main and half to the refugium. Does anyone know how often I need to do this? Every two weeks? Once a...

Does anyone feed their fuge? I took the plunge and added a mandarin to my tank and I want to make sure that my fuge is as hospitable place as possible for copepod reproduction. My tank is borderline to begin with (55G w/ 110 lbs live rock) so I'm planning to supplement his diet by purchasing...

My first post-ich fish will have completed his four week quarantine period tomorrow (woo hoo!!) and I'm wondering what the best way is to acclimate him before moving him over. If I do a 40% PWC using MT water today, and another tomorrow, and then make sure the temperature is the same, will that...

I had a minor collision between two corals last week. The finger leather went limp while the lights were off and one "finger" rested on top of a colony of red zoas. I've since moved them farther apart but a few heads of the zoa have small white specks on their "faces." At first I thought it...

Now that I have some corals I will occasionally want to frag, I'm thinking about getting some rubble to attach them to. If I bought some BR rubble to have on hand, could I just add a single piece at a time (3" or smaller) to the sump for a month before I need it and skip the curing stage...

Just curious, do you quarantine your new fish?

I bought some epoxy putty from the plumbing section of my LHS (a little joke - local hardware store - did any one else chuckle? come on, it's new year's eve!!!) to attach corals to the rock and I'm wondering if I need to worry about whether it's aquarium safe. There are no ingredients listed...

My false perc clowns have been in hypo since mid-November (I had a gramma with ich) and I noticed yesterday that one of them looks like he's losing some of his white stripe, like someone took an eraser and tried to erase some of the white on his side. Any idea what that's about?

I am having trouble figuring out where to arrange all my corals so I'm hoping if I post some pics you all will have suggestions. Unfortunately I'm also having trouble taking good pics! But hopefully these will be good enough. Current movable occupants include: bottom left - 1 branching...

Having my fish in a hospital tank gives me an opportunity to rethink my stocking list for the main tank, and I would love feedback before I finalize it. I currently have three clowns and two bangaii cardinals and I think I'll only keep one cardinal and bring the rest back to the LFS when they're...

Having learned my lesson the hard way, I would like to start using a quarantine tank for any new fish purchases. I've read the very helpful "ounce of prevention" article and the only thing I'm still not clear on is water changes - how often, and how much (%). I'm talking about one fish at a...

In my fuge is a big ball of chaeto with a few strands of caulerpa stuck in it. Am I better off a) running the lights 24/7 or b) removing the caulerpa and putting the lights on a reverse schedule timer? The lights in question consist of a 9W 10,000K bulb and a 9W actinic bulb (it's a 9"...

Treating with hyposalinity is a lot of work, as many of you know, and I'm feeling very discouraged because a month ago my gramma showed the telltale white spots so I removed all of my fish to a hospital tank and have been keeping it at 1.009 or 1.010 and doing water changes at least every other...

I'm trying to learn from my mistakes here, and this may or may not be a dumb question. My fish should be coming out of hyposalinity in about four weeks. I currently have three clowns (came with tank), two bangaii cardinals, and a condei (fairy) wrasse. I'm thinking about keeping one clown...

I added 11 nassarius snails to my tank in October. This morning I counted 15. Could they really reproduce that quickly?

I bought a six year old tank back in September and it came with a huge creepy brittle star (arm span is over a foot, body is about 1.5") that I've only seen come out from under the rocks a handful of times. Usually you just see a few arms poking out looking for food. I suspect that's what he was...

I'm wondering if I could build a little shelf in my fuge to put small frags on while they're growing out. Right now I leave my fuge light on 24/7. The light fixture is a 9" Coralife "mini-aqualight" with two 9W bulbs (10,000k and actinic). If that would be too much light for coral frags I...

My first rics are here! I ordered them online and they just arrived and are drip acclimating as we speak. Once they're in the tank and have opened up (a day or two?) I'll post pics. I would like to give a big thumbs up to coralmorphological.com. If you can stomach the $49 shipping (FedEx...

I have a large flat rock that is mid-way up the tank and directly below the sump return - so I'm looking for something that needs moderate lighting and can handle high flow. Suggestions?