gmerek2

Steel is an alloy of iron and other elements, including carbon. When carbon is the primary alloying element, its content in the steel is between 0.002% and 2.1% by weight. The following elements are always present in steel: carbon, manganese, phosphorus, sulfur, silicon, and traces of oxygen, nitrogen and aluminum. Alloying elements intentionally added to modify the characteristics of steel include: manganese, nickel, chromium, molybdenum, boron, titanium, vanadium and niobium.[1] are any of these bad?

Iron is soft so they mix to make products we buy harder stronger. So i figured my rusted clamp was an iron ore. Im not a metallurgical engineer so I dont know what Ingredients are used in making these products. Which is why I freaked out. My birdsnest didnt seem to like it. How many gallons total did this razor blade tank have? Some LFS have every tank connected and very diluted like you were saying.

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Size doesnt matter. If you are in frederick hit up ricks pet shop they have a 10g. So nice. Gosh I wish they would let me put a nano in my office the ambulance.

ah cool must be why I didnt lose anything.

NICE!!! Might be worth a trip down there

Well Hot dog! where are the batteries located for them suckers?!

I have a 3 year old 125g. I have only 6 fish and have to do water changes or nitrates get out of wack. Working on a refugium to cut back. WC arent fun but I look at it as insurance. if something gets out of wack that Im unaware of it will help dilute and replace. I had a dumb dumb moment and put a metal screw clamp in my ATO. Rusted like heck and I didnt find it until I had to refill the thing. Glad I did a 20% WC that week. Anything from cat %$#* in the sump to kids dumping stuff in can happen.

Just dont hook up metal screw clamps to your ATO pump. Thats just dumb I know better. Almost lost a birdnest. Lots of rust.

Thats weird that calcium would cause nitrates to spike.

Well Ill be gosh darn thats flippin beautiful am I trippin golly gee willikers!

That's always good advice

Lift up their skirt and take a look! I just took a look at her belly they are see through and it looks like there is much more to come since the male has one dark pouch (food) and the female has two dark pouches (massive amount of babies) The sump did have some dead carcasses laying around.

My blue night lights had just kicked on. Saw one of my large cleaner shrimp point her heinie towards the top of the tank. She began kicking all her rear legs at lightening speeds but moving no where, as i saw all the fish in the tank wake up doing a moon dance. I was like what in the blazes is going on here so took a closer look. She was shooting thousands of offspring into the water column as fast as a machine gun fires rounds. I just researched. They eat tiny plankton and if they live though the feeding frenzy they won't live much longer than 2 nights in my 125. :( oh well at least my fish enjoyed it

All other fish in the tank seem to be extremely healthy.

Here is an ulcer on yella belly blue hippo tang. I hope it's just an injury. Also the fish has freckles around the eye region it seems to be normal but I want to check that. Also the fishes eyes are not crystal clear. In the photo it looks much worse due to the cheap camera used. The tang is active and eating anything i throw at her. 125g Tank history: moved one month ago (bought used) had a nitrate problem 80ppm lowered now to 10-20ppm (new skimmer and other stuff) all other water quality is normal. Thanks

I have hydroids. Only a few now. I just kept weeding the garden constantly with tweezers and toothbrush and fingers. It's a lot of work but so nice to see most of them gone.

if its trauma it should clear as it heals. There might be a small amount of clouding that is left (scar tissue)

I would guess healing scratch also. If the problem affects just one of a fish's eyes, the cause is likely to be a specific injury to that eye alone. If both eyes are equally affected, the problem is not likely to be a simple injury, and there is more of a chance that the problem is systemic - involving the entire fish, or in the case of multiple animals showing the same symptom, the entire aquarium

Do we need a copepod hunting license? DNR will find something to bust us on. Ill take y'all out tomorrow but the boat can't get too close to shore

Soak in a bucket for a day to losen up dirt or crusted up old dead algae. Then scrub and place in tank

with that big of ammonia and nitrates spike I think it was a # 2 did you feed the cat any tracers (corn) before the incident? if not the # 2 would be undetectable. bad bad kitty cat some spankinz are in order

Im in on the nerdy copepod trip if it involves beer and actually catching copepods that will live in my tank a long time without dieing of shock right away from salinity difference.

I doubt he would bother my fish they are full of %$#* n vinegar. What LFS did you buy him at? What is the coolest reef store in MOCO? I went to aquarium one the other day pretty neat.

My skimmer bubbles died after sticking my hands in after a good rinse in the old sink. That made me sad so I poured a beer and it foamed up too much :( so I stuck my hand in the beer and the bubbles went away faster. Thanks for this post I always wondered what everyone else does. Your gloves must have a water tight seal?!