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Have you tried epsom salt? Should help reduce the swelling. Dose at 1tbls/5 gallons. Can dose twice. If this does not help after a day or 2 can try myicin 2. Heavily aerate the water for this antibiotic, no more than 7 days treatment max before running carbon to remove.

Added a profilux 4 and calcium reactor to my reef tank. Did some trimming in the planted. Found the leak in the plumbing on my pond.

A skimmer is not needed on any tank. The shear ease of their operation over other forms of filtration is their main reason for their abundance in the hobby. Your nutrient levels will determine if your system has enough nutrient reduction/production. I personally would not run skimmerless on...

Synodontis sp?

I wouldnt look at one persons setup for the price. I would breakdown what you think your tank needs, budget each section, tweak when the overall budget gets too high. But a few tips to keep costs down. Dont buy a budget skimmer, better to have no skimmer and filter some other way. Used is...

From my understanding the female damselfly, lays her eggs on plants below the surface. I would remove the plant. To be safe there are bot more eggs that haven’t hatched. I have done this for snails not sure the concentration to kill fly larvae. But moving the plant to its own say 5...

40g breeder will not fit any stingray. You are going to want more like 400+ gallons for the smaller species. And more like public aquarium size for the mid to larger sizes. In my 40b reef i have the following fish. 2 clowns 1 lubocks fairy 1 coral beauty angelfish.

Agree, damselfly larvae. Get it out of there, they are fish eaters believe it or not. Small fish, tadpoles, they live underwater for like 2 years surviving this way. Can cause a lot of head ache in fry systems.

Ive never owned one but know they are passive electric fish. They produce a kind of echolocation using electricity to find prey. Not sure if this makes them less likely to eat prepared foods or not but might have more luck with live foods at first. In general a lot of fish do not eat their...

Plecos are external fertilizers so i can state she is not pregnant. Could the wiggling be muscles or swim bladder? Are there any other symptoms?

As long as they are not growing any place you don't want them. They should be fine. They are filter feeders so help with overall TDS. If they stay alive anyway. Not always the prettiest tank inhabitants if wanted to remove for aesthetics.

Looks like some kind of sponge. Doesnt seems to have the differentiation of a carpet anemone like Base or tentacles. My opinion anyway.

Agreed fish can definitely be sick before added to a tank. But to have both a cyano and fin rot outbreak at the same time when both thrive in similar conditions lead me to believe that nutrients have built up in the system.

Fin rot is indicative of the same tank parameters. Bacterial infections are opportunistic, poor water quality = illness. What are the tank parameters. Besides treatment i would do plenty of water changes over the next few days. What cichlids do you have?

Try frozen brine shrimp. If that fails live food. Brine shrimp or microworms are the easiest to culture imo.

Besides chemicals some quick notes on green slime algae. Loves stagnant water and nutrients. After you get a handle on whats in the tank. Feed a lot less and try to remove any flow dead spots. My guess would be that the areas that it is growing has little flow. After you get the excess...

I buy my r/o di water from my lfs for my SW nano tank. Costs me $1.29/gallon premixed, $1 a gallon pure. I do not do this for my freshwater setups. As a total of 1050 gallons(105 gallons just for a weekly 10%) of water between them would be cost prohibitive. Just an example as there are...

Latest photo. Think i am ditching the micro swords and the small rosetta sword. Micro swords are being outcompeted by the narrow leaf and the rosetta sword(ECHINODORUS PARVIFLORUS) has such dismal growth its more a distraction than adding to the aquascape.

Yes sorry didnt elaborate, if do go this route there are multiple sites and products on remineralizing the water.

You can also do probiotic food, this may help remove some of the pathogens from their digestive systems. Or add more live or frozen food. Anything that gives more vitamins or nutrients at once might give them more strength or fight off the infection. Neons are sometimes a lot more sensitive...

If it is from your tap a ro/di unit would solve the problem. Also could provide very clean drinking water if your water ever tested positive for anything worse.

Thanks for breaking down naming. Was reading from several sites calling them different names lol. Was looking at the fact they are food as being a plus. Algae eats unused nutrients, grows, dies, releases those nutrients back to the tank. We feed adding more nutrients to the tank. PWC remove...

Thanks caliban. Also added a small 80gph pump near the diffuser to aid in moving around the tank. Will see if the increased co2 has the desired effects by end of the week. Back to filter, added a siphon break hole below the water line on the return. When I hard plumb will make this a valve...

Keep doing water changes daily. Say you do a 50% water change you will still have 40ppm nitrate. PH has a tendency to drop as a tank ages due to fish respiration, photosynthesis and other chemical processes. This can also be corrected by pwc. If your tap water chemistry is drastically...

I use a bubble counter currently at 4bps. I also spot check with dkh. After increasing i am currently running 38ppm co2. Was at 30ppm.