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1. Spectrapure 90gpd maxcap af, all filters and RO membranes replaced and used for about a month. Have additional DI resin bags as well from BRS. (Price $50 obo) https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BmbrWMCN0nbZH0ThNO0S9bteCc0v1dwu/view?usp=sharing 2. Hospital tank (5 gallon or 10 gallon dont remember - free) 3. Stand which can hold 15 gallons tank. (https://www.petco.com/shop/en/petcostore/product/aqueon-cherry-bow-front-aquarium-stand) free (See pics link) 4. Tunze Care Magnet Scraper - Strong+ Plus (Price $15 obo) 5. Flipper nano scraper - (price $10 obo) 6. heater 1 - 50watts ($5 obo) 7. heater 2 - 200 watts ($10 obo) 8. maxijet pumps/powerheads (x2) price ($5 each obo) 9. Heavy duty pump for water changes (free) 10. Flexible return piping (Free) 11. RODI tubing (Free) 12. Marine cement (10lb i guess, free) 13. silent air stone with batteries (free) 14. frozen food (3 packs of different stuff) free 15. saltwater api test kit (new) -free 16. calcium supplement - free 17. Large grabbing arm to remove corals or rocks - free 18. refractometer - free I can donate them for a school or a good cause as well. Prefer someone who can take it all. links to some of the pictures: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1XhWEK4XP_Ne9Jfp0FKvc8E8SC8Xt48Hq Location: fairfax, va near monument dr. PM for pickup, sooner you pickup the better.

on a related note, I am dealing with some fish disease which doesn't fit the pattern. I had all healthy QT'ed fish in my tank (5), and I introducted a tang which has been tank transferred for 12 days. After introducing the tang, it didn't eat at all ,hiding and few days later saw its mouth stuck open. It perished few days later and then one by one, each of my health fish started breathing heavily and laying of floor and die eventually (3-4days). The symptoms show up on one fish at a time and while rest appear to be healthy and eating. The sick fish dont eat at all and heavy breathing. No flashing at all on any fish. Each fish either show boated stomach with stringy poo line or fin torn up a bit. No aggression noticed in the tank at all. there is no aggressive fish in my tank either. I treated my display with antiobiotic dose azythrmycin for 7 days with as per dosage instructions. Still had issue, treated with prazipro and still having issues. Not sure if its fluke or ich but I dont see any fish flashing or having white spots or dont see any thing drop off them when i do a fresh water dip or when i check the dead fish closely. I have two fish remaining with one close to dying. all parameters such as ammonia, nitrate, nitrite are undetectable. Ph 8.0-8.2, temp 77-78. salinity 1.024

Hi, I am looking for any general feedback and experience other members may have on using icecap skimmers? I am looking at them for my redsea 170. Any other suggestions? I saw bubble magus 5 but it may be overkill for the tank. I saw icecap K1 50 and icecap k1 100 which may be near my tank capacity (40 gallons). If you have any other better skimmers you had experience with in this capacity range or with goes well with redsea 170, let me know. Cheers and happy holidays.

I did some research on these stands. Not all stands are equal unless they are specifically made for your tank. Some stands expect that majority weight is transferred on the stand where the table top meet the base joints. So if you have a NUVO tank or any tank which doesn't rest over the points where the tabletop meets its base. The tabletop will cave in slowly. I am currently using this bow front stand from Petco: https://www.petco.com/shop/en/petcostore/product/aqueon-cherry-bow-front-aquarium-stand My nano is 13.5 gallon and it was able to hold 16 gallons max. Do some research on how the table's support is constructed and also read on multiple sites for user reviews of same model what issues they have encountered with different brand tanks. Based on the price point - the tabletop should be made sturdy enough to hold your 22 gallon but just make sure.

for those of you who are not gratified enough of your horror appetite: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_7ByiYbCYM

I didn't have such experience with LA so far, but in generally I realized especially with Fish, Cheap means High RISK. Unless we have our own QT which offsets this Cheap prices, we are playing the game. Marco's QT and reefescape QT are the only sources I trust and put the fish directly into my DT. The risk is highly multiplied when we are adding one fish bought from these cheaper sources to existing healthy fish in our system. I have personally experienced for myself that the cheaper prices and the cost of QT, fish die in QT and cost/time of existing fish killed is NOT AT ALL WORTHY!

Realized that Valentini puffer is omnivore per liveaquaria.

Another interesting observation I made: My valentini puffer (carnivore) is munching on the lettuce I feed my tangs. Its been doing it since two days. Very interesting behavior swapping in my tank. My tangs harass corals and my puffer eat tang food

It could be a curious ripping or aggression or something. Its definitely not because of food landing on corals. I see my corals still surviving and opening up, so it may not be as damaging as killing the colony. Read online that Hippo tangs have been observed to do this.

Has anyone had experience with tangs and fox face harassing and trying to eat corals? I feed my fish heavy with NLS pellets and mysis shrimp every day. Make sure each of my 13 fish eat. (Except mandarin) First I feed pellets till they stop feeding on pellets and let one or two pellets drop floor., Then I feed a cube of mysis to make sure all fish ate latest a two bites of mysis. I feed nori or lettuce/spinach twice a week as well for tang/foxface/angelfish. Recently I observed my rowdy yellow tang and fox face eat the polyps of pulsing sinularia and clove polyp. Literally mowing down the polyps with their mouth colored with polyps. Never heard or read anything of this sort before. My flame angel, valentini puffer and midas don't bother any corals or other fish. Another thing I observed when I feed nori is that pretty much all fish except valentini puffer and mandarin eats nori. Tang, fox face, flame, royal gramma, chromis, midas and filefish, clowns. Has anyone see this behavior? All my fish are fat as super pigs! literally! they are so belly full they swim funny. But still act like they are starving if I don't feed them nori everyday. Could this be due to recent increase in water temperature to 77F? Im trying to be feed them a tad less so they don't act like spoiled rascals! and keep my water clean. (Thanks to cheatos and strong refugium lights, my nitrates are consistently around 2 ppm and phosphates are undetectable using multiple test kits)