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    Thought you were overstocked? Check out this guy.

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    Well, if we really aimed to "emulate nature" then we wouldn't have any fish other than small bottom or cave-dwelling fish and then only 1 or so per 100 gallon tank. The simply fact of the matter is that you can't emulate nature and still have a SW tank. The closest we can come to that is to simulate, to the best of our ability, those conditions we can control.

     

    i meant in terms of being able to maintain as close to it as possible and still have a very nice aquarium in which the animals' needs are respected and met. If a fish gets stressed at a space of less than 100 gal per specimen but stays happy and healthy above 100, then it stands to reason that its against nature to make the fish live in a space smaller than 100 gal

    Ich - Experinced help?

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    thats what amyloodinium (aka oodinium) does - people think the fish are all better, only to find all the fish dead the next day. I kept my display fish-free for a couple of months and treated the fish in qt with copper and did FW dips. I didn't know about hypo back then, but still, irradicated the disease, lost nothing, and haven't had a disease of any kind in the several years since that was done.

    black plexiglass

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    thanks for letting me know about the shop - I'll try to find out the address

     

    I looked around at a bunch of different sites where people talk about using the Krylon, and apparently the general consensus is that it's safe, but there are always people who say to never put anything painted in the tank.

    Thought you were overstocked? Check out this guy.

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    regardless of how well it appears to work, how healthy or not healthy the fish may be, the simple fact is that it's against nature, and isn't the whole idea of this hobby to emulate nature?

     

    Further, my opinion and judgement is that the man is seeing these creatures as objects and eye candy, not living beings

    exterminator toxins

    in General Discussion

    So are they actually fumigating where the stuff will be full force in the air and everywhere? I was thinking simple spraying along the baseboards, hence a relatively simple solution. Sorry about that assumption.

    Spotted Large Bristle Worm in Tank

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    My tank was swarmed with them a few years ago... very disgusting they were on everything and slithering all up the glass at night, poking out of every little crevice... so yukky! The only way I managed to get rid of them was by changing the substrate - haven't seen a single one since then. Now I'm seeing places on the net that actually sell the things - why would anyone want them?

     

    You can build a trap, however, if you have nothing to gobble it and you get a bunch of them. THey sell small traps, but I had built one out of a long hard plastic tube with holes in it. You put some bait in it and the bws will swarm into the tube. Then you just pull out the tube and dispose of the nasty things.

    black plexiglass

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    Jason, have you actually used the krylon? Or anyone? I would just want to make sure it won't hurt anything.

    Ordering from the net is a big hassle and the shipping shoots the cost way up, so I don't wnat to go that route (I did look around though)

    black plexiglass

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    does anyone know of a hardware store that sells black plexiglass, where they will cut it for me? I'm turning an empty 38 into a sump/fuge side-by-side the 45, but splitting it the long way to hide the equipment. I checked Home Depot and Lowes - they will cut but neither sells the black.

    tank backround

    in Do It Yourself

    · Edited by treesprite

    They'll even put it on the tank for you if you have the tank with you.

     

    How likely is that to happen?

     

     

    I used this black rubbery stuff that people dip tools into to rubberize the handles, or on boats because it's oceanproof. The LFS reccommended it to me.

     

    The good thing about it is that if you ever want to get rid of it, you can peel it off. I can't remember what its called - something like dip something. It might be easier to find in a tool isle than it would be in a paint isle.

     

    The coraline is good over the black. I was almost completely covered, but had to empty the tank at one point, during which there was a work emergency that prevented me from filling up till the next day... the coraline all turned white and flaked off :( If you ever move your tank, do something to keep the walls moist if you want to keep the coraline.

    DIY Chiller that works

    in Do It Yourself

    this is interesting - I was researching this subject last night, so am happy to see someone else bring it up.

     

    I can't afford a chiller, but I have a travel cooler which uses the thermoelectric method - I took the cooler apart to see how it worked, to see if I could use it somehow. I had no clue what I was looking at, so I looked the cooler up on the internet to see what it was, then upon learning what the system is called, searched to find out if there is such a thing as a thermoelectric chiller for aquariums. THere's got to be some way to seal the gadget into a casing to make it useable in the tank.

    fish problems

    in General Discussion

    · Edited by treesprite

    Is is cryptocarion or amyloodinium? People mix them up. Cryptocarion can only live without a host for a couple of days, while amylodinium can live for a couple of weeks without a host.

     

    I had amyloodinium several years ago and have been completely free of disease since then (YAY!).

     

    All I did was put the fish in QT for 2 months and treated them while in there with copper, while the parasite life-cycled itself out in the display. I did freshwater dips before putting the fish in the QT, and a couple times after that. Nothing died except for the parasite.

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