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All, i have a bad outbreak of ich and i am told that the absolute best treatment and very effective is hyposalinity. I set up my QT tank have bare bottem, filter, air pump, heater and Ammonia Alert. The purpose of this tank is to never have it cycle which im told is possible if i just keep on...

All i have a bad break out of ich. My hippo also has pop eye. I did ay60% water change and the ick still hung in their and multiplied. Hippo is covered with dozens of white spots. My lfs told me to buy Rally medication, comes in a large bottle and is im told supposed to be really good at ridding...

All i have a clownfish, standard orange and white thats been around for a year now. I rescently added a black false perculous clown and they have fought for a few days now. The thing is , is that the orange clown has always been fine. Now today after changing my water column from high nitrates...

All my hippo tang has been stressed and has shown small dots of white all over his body the size of a grain of salt . I've been watching and havnt done anything because it seemed to go away. I just started seeing my skunk cleaner all over the tang(hippo). The spots and skin discoloration seemed...

I just got a skunk cleaner shrimp a few days ago and he is now cleaning my fish like I wante him to. I've had a hippo tang that's been having skin issues and the shrimp doesn't leave him alone. The tang keeps going back but I'm curiouse as to whether or not it's bad to have the shrimp clean the...

All I am a little stunned at the fact that my knyas are dying. It's strange all parameters are normal, iodine, I add trace elements in my water changes , calcium ,lighting has always been fine. I can't seem to get them back to health. I've also noticed the other coral isn't as helathy as it used...

Al I just purchased what u can say is a large hippo tang. My params are great however the tang has been picked in mlby my yellow tang. They seem to be getting a long better and the hippo has seemed to hve foun a rock he thinks e hides under but u can still see him lol. I'm concerned ia this...

All for a year I have had hob filters and now am converting to sump . I've read that for the appropriate head you multiply your tank volume by 5. However i have a 110 gallon and using the aboveentioned theory a 810 gph pump I had been looking was suitable. I saw fine print that this is however...

All, my tank has been established for a year and a half now i got rid of the red slime algae long ago but it seems to for some reason have reappeared. My params are normal and okay but phosphates are .4. I also use RO water and havnt changed the filters in a while but im not thinking this is the...

All I have a well establihed 2 year old tank. I am again barreling red slime algea , a battle I have bot fought. In a year. I am struggling this time to identify the cause. My t5 bulbs are only 6 months old with 12 hours daily, I have plenty of flow with power heads and just replaced my filter...

Hi everyone, I noticed many of my corals not doing so hot, after checking my parameters I have noticed the my ph is 7.8 and calcium is 340. I took RO water and mixed ph buffer (roughly 5 grams) as the directions stated and added calcium per the directions. I mixed the water and let it sit for An...

All, I have a 55G setup with a 200W or 250W heater i cant remember. either way this should be enough and has always been enough to keep my temperature reliably at 78 or 80 when its warmer. I have noticed that when the temperature dips to 50 degrees or around that temp inside the house, that...

All, I am new to keeping Cabbage coral and i have not found a lot of info on the net. My coral has been fine previously. I couple heads have rescently started turning purple when everything was a rusty orange / brown color. The water quality has been fine. Anyone ever seen this, is this...

All, I had the LFS test my iodine levels today. Every other parameter is normal but the Iodine level is about .09. I was told it should be .06 and that anything over .08 can damage coral tissue. Is this true? Also how can i get rid of the high iodine levels. Is there another way other than a...

All my blenny has been doing great. I am not sure why he has suddenly been acting strange. Every time i notice a fishes behavior change, before they die 2 days later they swim crooked, almost staggering and twisting sideways when they try to swim. This is what my blenny is doing. My nitrates...

All, I obtained around 70 pounds of dead live rock from a LFS that went out of business. Got it for all of $15 :). Anyway i knew i had to cure it, so i put it in a bucket of saltwater with a power head where its been for 4 weeks. It has accumulated ammonia, nitrites and now finally nitrate...

I obtained some dead live rock from a friend. I knew about the dying bacteria that may cause an ammonia spike in my tank if i put it in, which is why i decided to cure it. I put it in a bucket of salt water with a power head where it has been sitting for a week now. I measured the parameters and...

All, I have a 55G tank, i have been doing the Fish Only for quite some time and have been slowly working my way into converting for a Reef. I picked up some coral for free from a LPS who was going out of business. Their tank still had water in it, but was shut down, no pump, heater, etc. They...

I have purchased yellow polyps about 4 months ago and they seemed to be fine. I had about 16 heads on them and they were reproducing. My T5 light fixture broke so i brought the polyps back to the lfs to hold for me. They were there for a week then i got them back with a brand new T5 fixture and...

We all love our saltwater tanks however the unfortunate thing is i spend most of my day at work !! UGH!. I had a thought a 3 Gallon desk tank would be perfectly acceptable at my work, if i had a hardy fish, would it be possible for me to keep say a small clown in a 3 gallon tank? I understand...

My nitrate levels in my tank or always high. I understand that ammonia is produced, broken into less toxic nitrite, then into least toxic nitrate. So after testing my parameters in my 1 year old tank, my nitrites are at 0ppm and ammonia at .2. My nitrates were really high however. I have had...

All, I have a 55G tank, with 2X 54 watt T5 bulbs, (1 brand new 10K and 1 Actinic). Anyway parameters are ideal for the pollyps and i have a protein skimmer. I have had issues with these before, they seemed fine however did not multiply exponentally, only a few at a time, and they never really...

Appologize in advance for the noob question but im having a rough day haha. My tank parameters are fine 0ppm ammonia, nitrate, nitrite, salinity is within normal recomended range, etc. I have a protien skimmer. The tank has been very healthy along with all of the creatures within it, i have...

I rescently noticed an issue i have been having between my hippo and my feather duster. My feather opens wide to sweep for food. Rescently my hippo tang has turned bully and nips at the feather mostly all the time. Every time i see the feather bravely reveal its feathers, sure enough here comes...

I had a few hours of down time for my light and i noticed that my blue hippo tang was not acting normally. He was in an unusually hiding spot, at the top of the tank wedged in between the heater and the side of the tank. I didnt find him for an hour or so after i thought he was missing. I moved...