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I'm not sure what my problem is, actually. I have had a gross brown/red coating on my sand on one side of my tank (the side that gets some sunlight), and a dark green on the other side (away from the sun) for many months. My water params are all good. No phosphate, nitrate. I use RO/DI water...

Anyone have any experience with these products? Do they work? Are they harmful to a reef tank (no corals)? TIA for any advice.

The remaining Chromi looks to be doing fine. We'll see what happens...

Well, the bruise got much worse. Looked more like a gash. Needless to say he didn't make it. The remaining chromi looks to be doing pretty well. I'll give him a few days and re-evaluate.

I have a few LFS that I am not overly crazy about. They never seem to have the fish I want, or their tanks look dirty. Simply because I can't keep spending $$$ on the shipping and minimum purchases, I'm going to have to make do with the LFS. I'll give a status update later tonight. I really...

It is a blotch, not a thin line. FYI, the majority of the livestock have been coming from LiveAquaria.

Well, this morning one of the chrmis was dead. Not the one with the bruise, either. Upoin post-morten exam, it looks like this chromi had just started the get the odd stripe, but he it wasn't there yesterday. The other two chromis are alive. The specs of my change water were very close to...

Ok, I'm doing a 50% water change right now. I've been feeding them flake food, and I have Zoe vitamins and garlic which I will add. Will that be sufficient?

NH3, NO2, NO3 all 0. pH is 8.1. Not sure on the Alk. I've had the Chromis about a week, and the stripe appeared last night, but only on one.

Hi. I recently got a few green chromis that are now in QT. One has a red strip funning vertically down his side about halfway down his body. It looks like almost bloody under the scales. The same fish is breathing harder and nipping at the other two chromis in the tank. Is this a treatable...

I have carbon only in the Fluval. Got rid of all sponges, too, a while ago.

My tank is almost a year old. Ammonia nd Nitrite are 0. I use RO/DI water, but my phosphates (0.25ppm) and nitrates (15.0ppm) are are still too high (not sure why, I only feed every other day). I have a host of ceriths, but they don't touch it much.

I have this brown algae all over my sand. It mostly seems to be growing on the side of my tank that gets some sunlight. I've been battling it for like two months, trying syphon it out without taking too much of my sand bed with it. Any suggestions for beating this stuff.? I absolutely hate...

Well, he didn't make it. I came home today, ready to add cupramine after the 48 hour wait, and the little guy had expired. Anyway, gotta get back on that horse. What should I do to decontaminate my QT? Do I need to completely strip it down? Leave if fallow? Should I still add the cupramine...

Well, the good news is she was still alive when I got home, so cupramine treatment has begun. I have a bucket of aged seawater all ready (for inching the alinity back to 1.025) and am making a fresh batch. I will make sure to add copper to the change water for the QT. Out of curiosity, how...

BAck, with test kit and cupramine in hand. I'll begin treatment when I get home.

Thanks, all! It's lunchtime and I'm off to the store to check it out.

I started the hypo because I wanted to try something immediately and wasn't 100% sure I could get the meds and test kit today (only one store I know of where I live carries that kind of stuff). Does velvet manifest as small white dots? I thought it looks rusty. Oh, and I do have a...

I believe my Royal Gramma has ick. I'd noticed over the past few days that she's been scratching on the PVC fittings (she's in QT for about a week and a half now now and I didn't realize this was a bad sign until now), and just last night I finally noticed spots. She doesn't look too good -...

UPDATE: He's fine and swimming around. Guess I was worrited for nothing.

Salinity is 1.025 and pH is 8.2. I let the bag float for 20 min before I started adding water. There is a guarantee with the place rodered from, but I'd rather have a live fish! He looks a little better now. Still labored breathing, but at least he's alive and upright. I even saw him nip...

Yes, mail order. Came DHL overnight.

My Royal Gramma finally arrived today. I acclimated him to my QT (which has been up for many months now) for 2 hours, scooping a 1/4 cup of QT water into his bag every five minutes and dumping half the water every half hour or so. Then I netted him into the tank. He's been in there for about...

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