Joshifer

Thinking about catching some bristle worms and tossing them back there.

If your familiar with AIO tanks. In the return pump chamber theirs these two holes that go out to the sides of the tank under the baffles. Can't get an arm in there. Or a scrubber wand. Full of junk. Do I throw some critters in there? It's really piling up. Detritus food whatever the crappy stock media trays miss ends up in there.

if you have Instagram theirs this girl named @Aqua_tank_girl she recently battled it and won. Maybe you can get some tips from her. She's a clown breeder in Australia.

Polyp lab actually sells reef food trial packs for $2. I ordered some today. Might wanna try that I hear good things about it

Yes. I brought euphs back from far worst damage. Keep it in a lower light area or lower your light output. Feed it something small. Frozen brine mysis whatever. Even liquid coral foods. I had one that was ghost white. And in a few weeks it's a beautiful dark Forrest green with pink tips.

This coral is puttied to the rock. Humm. Maybe I can put reef putty over it.

It's a hard spiral. Gets bigger everyday. I don't see the actual creature but it looks like a tornado. It's growing on the Skelton of a frogspawn.

Welcome. I find turning the power heads off at night help with that. As long as you have something else like a return pump creating surface agitation. Or a hob filter

I'm gonna check with tom and the gang. Maybe do like a "post your gift partner" and maybe do like a $10 minimum gift. But post partners so people don't get stuff from everyone and not give someone something. Like a pairing thing. Or is this asking for trouble? Lol

Hmm I didn't keep any of the dead fish. Oh well. Thanks you two for the opinions.

My aunts been in this since the early 90s. She lives in Delaware and very busy so I don't bug her with questions. Anyway to my point. She came over for a visit and looked at my water with a microscope And she says she doesn't see any brook velvet or ich. Just pods normal bugs. Is it possible to see these things with a microscope? Diseases I mean. If she's right then these 4 weeks worked. Im not gonna go out tomorrow and buy fish just wondering if she's right or not.

Sounds fun. But I don't do public events lol

I think I will. I already have some people in mind who id like to get gifts.

Pump and hose included on ATO?

lol I know what to get you for xmas. Some more cyano for your GSP

Does anyone do any Christmas stuff here? Secret Santa. Exhanging fish/tanks/etc. ? I think it would be fun! I already know who I wanna gift

Cyano is caused by low flow? Sorry I know you guys are joking around but I want to avoid it. My diatoms finally stopped.

Hob filter and a 20GPH pond pump I made sure and had surface agitation. I think these fish were just sick. One died in the 20 minute drive home then was replaced. They wouldn't eat. Just stood at the bottom. I was gonna start medicating them today too. But I woke up this morning to find them dead. Even in the store they were a bit pale. All the clowns were pale and nipped. Not saying which store don't wanna bad mouth it. Their good guys. I was just excited finding da Vinci's so cheap. And I'm not giving up. I mean just staying away from fish for a long while.

Update pic. Yes it's heavily edited lol. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Well their dead. I don't know why. I took a water sample and had it checked at a LFS and it all checked out fine. Even checked it myself. I give up. I'll keep a coral invert only tank. See about fish in January.

Okay. Thanks Rob. I'll get on that tomorrow.

I really don't wanna sell "the meanie" it's an extreme da Vinci. I think it stopped fighting with the little one. They were next to each other most of the day no pecking or chasing. Wish me luck. And thanks for the hood tip. I got so used to not having fish these few weeks I always forget to put it back lol.

I actually blacked the tank out. I only remove it to look at them and put the covering back.

They won't eat. I tried 2 different types. Flakes. Pellets. Going to try frozen brine. Also their just sitting in bottom corners. Never swim around. The little one stays inside the rock ornament's cave. Ammonia nitrite 0 nitrate 5 PH 8 SG 1.025 temp 78° I'm not sure if this is normal behavior. My last pair was all over the tank. I'm not sure if I should medicate. Even if I do I can't find cupramine anywhere. Ordering online will take too long. And I misplaced the copper kit I had. I don't see anything on their bodies. But the not eating and hiding is a concern.

Didn't think about the pumps lol. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1577/1548-8667%281995%29007%3C0257%3ACCOAOD%3E2.3.CO%3B2 That's not the actual place I read it. The one I read had a bunch of names and dates and the name of the lab. Can't seem to find it. This is just what they said someone copy and pasted it.