badamsios
Aquarium Advice Regular
Please see photo... It does not shoe the extent.
1. I’ve had the fish for about 3 months. I don’t know if it was tank raised or not. I bought it from the local fish store and they said they don’t know either.
2. Its tank mates are a dwarf lion, an eibli angelfish and a Clown trigger the latter 2 of which have died yesterday and today respectively. Wednesday, just 3 days before I noticed this I added a brittle sea star, and 4 shaving brush plants that I bought from liveaquaria.com.
3. It is eating, it eats frozen brine shrimp, Aqueon Marine flakes, Aqueon Chichlid jumbo sticks, and algae which it keeps well under control.
4. PH is at 8.1, no ammonia, no nitrites and nitrates are always around 20. SG is 1.0235, I use a digital job, trust me it’s accurate. I don’t know the brand of the test kit anymore, I tossed the box some time ago.
5. It’s showing grains of salt size spots but not all are white. A lot are just darker spots of its yellow scales. The dwarf lionfish looks like the eyes may be clouded but I’m so paranoid right now…
6. The angel was flashing.
7. It’s swimming around, but not excited like normal. Rather sluggish and disinterested.
8. No quarantine, I’ve added no medication, I just noticed these spots yesterday when I had to search for the dead angel. The Trigger died today.
9. I always use Dr. Foster and smith’s drip method, spending around an hour to acclimate. This was done with the star fish as well as the plants.
10.Tank is 125 gallon, well lit with T5’s, both actinic and white. Substrate is crushed coral and I have around 40 lb.’s of live rock. I use a sump with ceramic heptagons (lots), it’s lit with a “grow” lite because I have an algae in it that is supposed to help fight nitrates, but I don’t know what it is anymore. I also use the Fluval G6 which contains ceramic heptagons, and a Coralife superskimmer 220.
11.On Sunday before the arrival of the starfish…etc., I did a 12% water change as I do every 3 weeks. I siphon the coral at that time. At a week and a half I (halfway between water changes) add Kent Marine essential elements.
12.Please note also that on Thursday my protein skimmer crashed.
13.The tank has been up and running for 7 months.
1. I’ve had the fish for about 3 months. I don’t know if it was tank raised or not. I bought it from the local fish store and they said they don’t know either.
2. Its tank mates are a dwarf lion, an eibli angelfish and a Clown trigger the latter 2 of which have died yesterday and today respectively. Wednesday, just 3 days before I noticed this I added a brittle sea star, and 4 shaving brush plants that I bought from liveaquaria.com.
3. It is eating, it eats frozen brine shrimp, Aqueon Marine flakes, Aqueon Chichlid jumbo sticks, and algae which it keeps well under control.
4. PH is at 8.1, no ammonia, no nitrites and nitrates are always around 20. SG is 1.0235, I use a digital job, trust me it’s accurate. I don’t know the brand of the test kit anymore, I tossed the box some time ago.
5. It’s showing grains of salt size spots but not all are white. A lot are just darker spots of its yellow scales. The dwarf lionfish looks like the eyes may be clouded but I’m so paranoid right now…
6. The angel was flashing.
7. It’s swimming around, but not excited like normal. Rather sluggish and disinterested.
8. No quarantine, I’ve added no medication, I just noticed these spots yesterday when I had to search for the dead angel. The Trigger died today.
9. I always use Dr. Foster and smith’s drip method, spending around an hour to acclimate. This was done with the star fish as well as the plants.
10.Tank is 125 gallon, well lit with T5’s, both actinic and white. Substrate is crushed coral and I have around 40 lb.’s of live rock. I use a sump with ceramic heptagons (lots), it’s lit with a “grow” lite because I have an algae in it that is supposed to help fight nitrates, but I don’t know what it is anymore. I also use the Fluval G6 which contains ceramic heptagons, and a Coralife superskimmer 220.
11.On Sunday before the arrival of the starfish…etc., I did a 12% water change as I do every 3 weeks. I siphon the coral at that time. At a week and a half I (halfway between water changes) add Kent Marine essential elements.
12.Please note also that on Thursday my protein skimmer crashed.
13.The tank has been up and running for 7 months.
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