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i had the same outbreak about 1 1/2 months into my tank being up. it was gone within a few weeks. i had hair algae covering the back of my glass, and on some of the rocks. i then got a bunch of hermits and snails, along with some manual removal from the rocks. but my cleanup did most of the...

ok, thanks. it was a small piece anyway.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/science/11/23/sci.us.marinecens.ap/index.html i thought this might be of interest to some.

thanks. one question though. i have a piece of live rock in my qt. can i put it in my main tank after i treated the qt w/ formalin? of course, i would boil the rock first, but i dont know if boiling would get rid of the meds and the possible parasites that were in there.

unfortunately, i think i was too late in treating my flame angel. :cry: he died this morning. yesterday i looked at him and his condition worsened by like 100%. it was very strange. one day he was eating and his eyes were a little cloudy, and yesterday he just stopped eating and looked...

thank you for all the suggestions. I will purchase cupramine tomorrow at my lfs along w/ a copper test kit. i appreciate your offer quarryshark, that was very nice of you. :) i will take your suggestions and definitely use them. i will keep you posted, and hopefully he'll make it!

no, i stopped using quick cure. i only used it for 2 days. i was also thinking that maybe he got a secondary infection. the past 4 days i have been doing 20-30% water changes to keep the water as clean as possible. i also noticed today that some of what i think are its scales on the pvc pipe i...

ok here is the best pic i could get. it kind of looks like red streaks on his left and right fins. and you can notice the cloudiness of the eyes.

i will take a pic and post it. ph is at 8.2. i did redose as the instruction said, 1 drop per gallon everyday until ick is gone. but i did 7 drops to be on the safe side. pic will be up soon...

the sg is 1.022, which i lowered slowly from 1.025. ammonia and nitrites are at 0, trates are at around 5-10. i treated the ick with quick cure which contains formalin and malachite green. and the fish is eating.

my flame has been in qt for 2 weeks. the first week he showed no signs of sickness at all. he was eating, active, and bright. about 1 week ago it looked like he had ick b/c of white spots on his tail. i treated the qt w/ quick cure and the ick was gone in 2 days... now, at about day 13 in qt...

well, i bought a visi therm stealth. its made of plastic and is supposedly shatter proof. and it has auto shut off if it overheats. so far, so good.

take it out! i actually got 3 crabs out that were like this. one of them actually killed my firefish when he was in his bolt hole. i put them in a jar for now...dont know what to do w/ them

heres the pic

well, by blowing up i mean the glass cracking and smoke coming up from the unit...sorry if that was misleading. i do have a surge protector on everything. the heater has always been underwater... it is just very odd that this happened.. i have had a tetra heater for my fw tank for over a year...

i have (well, had) 2 visi therm deluxe glass heaters for 3 months now, without a problem. this past saturday, one of them blew up in my sump. smoke was coming out of the water, and the glass cracked. luckily, nothing burned or died and nobody got hurt. my water had a burning smell that was...

i just got two more of what i think are the same crabs but smaller. they were eating at a snail that fell upside down. unfortunately, the snail is dead, but at least i got another two out! ill post a pic of all three later...i have them in a jar for now.

well, got the other crab out! but i still hear clicking so it definitely wasnt the crab :( oh well, at least i got him, just dont know what to do w/ it

I have the same exact crab in my tank! actually i had two, and one killed my firefish when it was in it's hole. i got one out, but still have another. and i hear clicking all the time in my tank.... but it could also be a mantis...hopefully i'll get this sucker out and know for sure!!

i had a lot of algae on my glass and rock, the one on my glass is gone however. i still have some on the rocks, not as much though becuase my cleaners take care of it. i will def buy some seaweed for it. thanks.

i have 80 lbs of keys rock from liverocks. thanks for the replies...just one more ? my tank will be just over 3 months old when the angel goes in...i read that the tank needs to be "well established" for flame angels. what exactly is well established? 3 months? 5? 6? Thanks again.

I just bought a flame angel yesterday, and he is in my QT right now. I plan to have it there for 3 wks. that would make my tank 3 months old. Right now i only have a clown. Tank is 55 gal w/ lr, 17 snails, 15 hermits, and some hitchikers. ph is 8.1, nitrites 0, trates 10-15. phosphates are...

well, i had 2 im my tank that came w/ my live rock. im pretty sure its the same crab, hairy, blends in very well w/ the rock cuz he has coralline algae on him (or what looks like coralline). anyway, i had a firefish for about 2 weeks - beautiful fish btw - and as you may know they hide in the...

that is really weird... i bought my tank raised ocellaris clown at PETCO about 8 days ago. they looked very healthy in the tank, and i watched them eat. my fish is in qt right now, and seemed to be doing perfectly fine for 6 days, but the last few days he has been doing the same thing, laying...

physically, he looks great. his colors are very bright and he looks fine. hopefully it's nothing, but ill try feeding again tomorrow.