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A few weeks ago I adopted a snowflake moray from another reefer who was taking down their tank. (You may have seen my other thread) Unfortunately the eel has stressed the other fish so much that I have lost a few fish and many of the remaining fish are suffering. It seems unlikely that a...

The remaining fish are showing signs of stress. @Kensington Reefer suggested that the eel's nocturnal prowlings are preventing the others from resting and this makes sense. I don't see any alternative but to rehome this eel. If anyone has a suitable tank and is interested I would be happy to...

Recently I adopted a snowflake moray eel from @FeliciaLynn and all seemed well. Unfortunately in the weeks since original introduction I have been losing fish. Initially my eldest clownfish who was already ancient but more recently a hogfish and a tomini tank. From what I have read before...

Ah, too late then. I don't want to end up with two females in the same small space.

The eel has explored the tank thoroughly. So far he has knocked over only one rock. I was prepared for the eel arrival and had Felicia pre-check my setup with an abundance of precaution. The lid is tightly sealed with a nice big weight on the only portion he could theoretically lift. I've also...

My eldest fish, a 8+ year old female ocellaris clown, which I have had for the entire time I have had a tank suddenly disappeared on Friday. The skimmer was working overdrive and my fish room/office had a distinct sulphur dead fish smell. She lived a long time for a clown fish. Well past the...

@FeliciaLynn's snowflake eel has taken up residence and seems to like the 92G corner and especially the deep rockwork. Thanks to @Kensington Reefer for the taking care of the eel and my tanks while I was travelling! Yes, I have persistent problem with diatoms since moving to the 92. It...

The eel has landed!

Looks great Jon! Good to see that you and your tank continue to prosper!

I am actually pretty good about remembering to do manual dosing but it is as Mike says, it will be more stable with automatic dosing. I also suspect that keeping the mag levels up will help with the inorganic calcium deposition that plagues my pumps and media canisters.

I need to set up a doser with magnesium and trace minerals. The magnesium level is constantly low since sump and tank upgrade. I suspect the culprint is the vast amount of coraline growing on all the new surfaces and rocks.

I used to do peroxide dipping and application to frags to burn off macro algae. Very tedious and in the long term felt like a losing battle. I have been much happier with a Tomini tang and a Magnifica Foxface which will scour all algae away from any frag or rock in short order.

I would like to get to at least one meeting in 2017. :-) 2016 has been a bust for me and I will be missing the potluck for the second year in a row. :-(

Thank you for the condolences and offers! Totally not required. I was primarily recording what I lost before I forgot!

Pump died on the skimmer, some coral and livestock (cleaner shrimp and snails) died as well despite repeated water changes. I ended up losing armour of god palys, one nice SPS, orange pavona, Caulastrea and the worst loss, an Australomusa I had never figured out how to frag. Nothing that can't...

Yeah, that seemed just as outrageous as BRS including about a dozen $65 Cermedia plates in their BRS 160 tank build. I read a review of the Cermedia plates which said they performed about the same as 7X volume of base rock in a sump for nitrification though don't offer anything for pH...

I bought a replacement Varios 4S DC pump for my Reef Octopus skimmer. I had not planned to, but the untimely death of the old one mandated that I do so. I did also restock my cleanup crew and also bought several Brightwell XPORT bio plates which Marine Depot had on for a great price. Oh, and two...

I have always used the ice water / boiling water method. You'll need a barometer to know what the boiling temperature should be. This method is generally accurate to within a 0.1ºC

The replacement controller performed no better. Buying a replacement pump. :-( With all of the early black friday sales it is almost the same price to buy a replacement skimmer.

Yes, I learned this in my research. I made sure the one I got was a DC model. Thanks again!