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thanks for sharing pics.. are they still eating? Unless it's velvet which may wipe the tank in 24-48 hours, ich will give you enough time to react and move the fish if they are still eating and look active.. so you should have enough time to setup your hospital tank the 'right' way.. Fish facing...

yep, thats correct.. I would also add more bottled bacteria to reduce Ammonia in addition to large water change Another thing I would suggest is to ramp up the copper power slowly.. start at 1.5 and reach 2.25 in 2 days (anything between 2 to 2.5 is therapeutic).. meanwhile if any fish shows...

Things to keep in check when doing QT: Ammonia, Oxygen, Salinity and Temp. 1. Ammonia: Out of these Ammonia is the trickiest, coz the challenge is how to cycle a new tank in couple of days, something that took months in your DT.. You should add some plastic and Seachem Matrix / Fluval Biomax...

uh oh.. I totally understand the ethical part of it, but personally, I would only buy fish 2x their wild caught counterparts only if they have a better chance of surviving vs the wild caught ones.. I know Blue tang is prone to diseases, but the one I have has seen ich, flukes, hypo in 4 months...

I see Biota as more of a shop for Captive Bred fish that are hard to care for when caught in the wild.. like Blue streak wrasse, Mandarin Goby and of course Yellow Tangs! I feel even wild caught Blue tangs do well in our reefs, so would not personally ever buy those from Biota

I wish I was in the hobby back then, would have picked 10 yellow tangs in blink of an eye.. such a pretty fish.. my favorite!

looks like nobody is getting a free Coral today? ;)

both.. when I had to move my corals to a QT tank coz I went hypo, I had to borrow lights from Michael in a failed attempt to keep the corals happy.. And before that when I was treating my Blue tang with Copper, it was so difficult to visually evaluate him for white spots coz of the lack of...

thanks @popper .. Can I reserve #3 for a future QT tank :)

picked up mine from @Woeday, dont know if still has some.. he is in San Jose and had quite a good collection

(Day 65): Salinity is going up slowly but steadily.. I started changing 5 gallon water with new saltwater at 1.026 to not only help increase the salinity a bit quicker but also do a 2.5% water change daily to get me into the habit of changing water regularly once things are settled.. With 5...

I am so sorry that you are seeing this in your tank!! Hope you find the perfect weapon to combat this soon!

Very generous of you Michael!! Can I please reserve the BRS Reactor and pump? Thank you so much

Wow, so much great information.. thank you for taking time to write it @PjFish .. really appreciate the time you spent to explain everything in detail.. My tank isnt in a bad state, though my nutrients are not that great.. Phosphates too high, but plan to fight this battle once I am done with...

Welcome Jaggu, this membership is the best investment as someone told me when I joined - 4 months later, I concur! Cant wait to see your tank pics and catchup with you in one of the frag swaps - Sameer

I have a 230 gallon tank and looking to add CUC soon.. I had issues with diatoms, cyano and now fighting some hair algae, but nothing out of control.. what clean up crew shall I add to the tank and in what numbers? Can you all please share in a list form.. I don’t like looking at inverts at all...

haha, wont work.. he is exhaling CO2, cant inhale what you are exhaling! funny though :)

This is great for all folks specially new reefers.. Thank you! Just a thought, instead of cleaning (not sure if everyone understands what 'cleaning' the blocks actually mean) out used blocks, can we just have folks getting the seeded blocks, to replace them with new ones which can be seeded for...

(Day 57): Salinity at 1.011, 7 days out.. I guess its not a bad option to increase the water salinity in ATO from 1.026 to 1.033 as chatGPT suggested, to go a little faster.. I plan to go to 1.030 in ATO first, monitor and then go from there if needed.. Things look the same in the tank except I...

thanks @PjFish .. tank is doing ok, but feels boring to me with no PBT, no convict and 3 yellows hiding (maybe due to bullying or something else).. I am waiting to increase the salinity to 1.026 and add some more vibrant and outgoing fish (of course QTed ;) ).. I turned off my Kessils and only...