ddrew78

I would agree with too much food, except that the amount that goes in only lasts about 2 minutes. Also, he mostly splashes in the hour before they get fed (I was actually able to sort of time it this weekend), so I was wondering if he's just hungry and knows food's coming soon. I haven't had anyone attack the algae scraper when I'm using it, but if I leave the magfloat in there, my neon spot wrasse will do circles around it like a circus clown :-)

Ok, so this is my first post on here, so a little about my setup first. I have a 46G tank, about 5 inches of sand at the bottom, about 50lbs of live rock. I use a CPR bakpak for filtration and a 9W Submariner UV Sterilizer, as well as an extra powerhead for added current/surface agitation. Current inhabitants are two Clowns, Flame Angle, Neon Spot Wrasse, Red Coris Wrasse, 2 Fiji Blue Devils, one Pacific Blue Tang, one Skunk shrimp one emerald crab, one Haitian pink tip anemone and three (used to be one until a few weeks ago) bubble tip anemones, as well as a few snails. The tank has been setup for about 3 years, so it's well established, so I hope. Now to my problem, if one even exists. My fish usually get fed three times a day, Mysis shrimp in the morning, and then I have a feeder that feeds them twice (once early afternoon and once in the evening, about 45 minutes before they go to sleep. Over the past week or so, my Tang has started to splash water all over the place with his tail, right in the corner where the food usually comes in. Is he just hungry and I need to reduce the amount of food, but increase it from twice a day to three? Or is he just being a brat and wanting to play? He seems fine, still swims around all happy, but I don't like having to dry up my floor every day, plus of course I don't want the splashing water to damage anything else. Any ideas?

One product I found works quite well is Microbe-lift from Herbtana. The only draw-back to it is that you'll have to turn off UV sterilizers, skimmers, and OZ generators. But, I also found that if you do about a 50% water change right before you start using it, you're typically ok. Treatment seems to work after about 4 days (as observed in fish behavior), but make sure you still treat for the full 10 days, otherwise you'll have a return to the problem within a few days. My Pacific Blue Tang had a bad case of it a while back, and was looking very bad. Got a hold of this thru my LFS, and the next day he actually started moving around a bit again. By day 3 he seemed to have returned to normal, so I stopped the treatment. Bad mistake. Two days later he was sick again. Did the full 10 days, and he's been fine ever since. As an added bonus, this stuff actually smells rather pleasant as well.