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    Blue Tangs

    in FOWLR (Fish-only with Live-rock)

    Posted

    Hi,

    I am very interested in your quarantine tank set up. Can you briefly tell me how is yours set up? Thanks a million.

    Mine is only 1 live rock and 1 sponge filter.

    However, I hav heard people saying to omit the liverock in the quarantine tank and put in other forms of stuff for the fish to hide, such as pvc pipe.

    Is it because of harmful bateria that might make live rocks their home?

    Hi there,

    you do not need any live rocks for your QT tank. My tank is 2 ft filtered with a powerhead loaded with bio balls.

    Use PVC pipes for the fish to hide and do not add sand, just BB. Any Calcareous material in the tank will make the copper medication less effective because Calcareous material absorbs copper.

    I also use a protein skimmer to keep dissolved organics and No3 down. Make sure your tank is mature 1st B4 qt'ing any fish. That is all to it, nothing special, no secret and definitely not rocket science!

    Last but not least, add cupramine to 0.3 ppm and strictly follow the instructions on the bottle. Cupramine is pygmy angel safe, I used cupramine to qt my bicolor angel and he is in my tank for almost 2 yrs already.

    HTH

    Blue Tangs

    in FOWLR (Fish-only with Live-rock)

    Posted

    The secret to keeping tangs is good quarantine. You will save yourself and your tang a lot of grief if you QT the fish for at least 3 weeks with seachem cupramine, something which I have had great sucess with. Sechem recommends .5ppm but I found .3 to .4 ppm to be equally effective.

    For now, just leave your tank fishless for about a month and QT all new arrivals subsequently. This will erradicate the ICH once and for all from your sytem and you will never have to deal with it again.

    I am telling you this beacuse I learnt the hard way, I wished I have QT'ed all my fishes when I first started this hobby 20 years ago.

    Help with tang's ich...

    in FOWLR (Fish-only with Live-rock)

    Posted

    I used to own a clown tang, blue tang and now a powder blue...unfortunately and sadly...all died on me...damn sad when each one of them died...

    Now not more tang in my tang, waiting to see what i can do to better solve the prob...

    no nitrate in my tank only phosphate right now...

    all died of ich... damn sian...

    anyone can tell me how they keep their PTB tang alive ? and also clown tang alive ?

    i got a cleaner shrimp..thinking of getting somemore to clean up the tang next time..

    what's a good remedy for ich ? i try freshwater dip with methyl blue but still no use.. still die in the end after i place it into quarantee tank...

    SIAN... :eyeblur: HELP.

    I am thinking of ozonizer...does it make a significant effort and effect to the survival rate of the tangs ?

    I had the same problem too with PBT, they succumb to ich after a few days. The secret is to QT them with copper, not just any copper, but seachem cupramine at .3 to .5 ppm measured with a red sea or sera cu test kit.

    There is a lot of speculation that there are bacteria in the stomach of tangs and the copper will kill the bacteria in the tangs and the tang itself. I find that seachem cupramine is gentle to most fishes even at .5ppm

    I have used this product at .3 ppm with success with most fishes, even dwarf angel.

    I have a PBT which I have QT'ed in copper for one month and he is in my 3 ft display tank now ich free and I beleive my tank's parameters is less than pristine. My N03 is aro 100ppm.

    HTH

    Scribbled Angel

    in FOWLR (Fish-only with Live-rock)

    Posted

    Thanks for all the reply. He feeds very well and is still under QT. Being the only fish in the QT tank, there is no competition for food. He can eat up to 10 hikari "A" marine pallet at once but is still losing weight.

    I am puzzled as to why the fish is losing weight despite of the fact that he is feeding well. I suspect he is drug caught and is unable to digest food.

    The back of the fish looks "pinched" already. He also feeds on mysis soaked with vita chem and ocean nutrition pellets. No ich sighted so far.

    Any advice appreciated.

    Scribbled Angel

    in FOWLR (Fish-only with Live-rock)

    Posted

    Hi All,

    I bot a scribbled angel 3 weeks ago. He eats like a pig and I feed him Hikari Marine A, mysis shrimp, ocean nutrition pellets.

    He is loosing weight and I can see the back of the fish caved in. The fish is about 3". Am I feeding him not enough ?

    Please help, I don't want to loose this beautiful fish :blink: He is in QT BTW.

    :thanks::thanks:

    Bulk DIY 3-stage DI unit

    in Bulk Ordering

    Posted

    Sorry bro but I didn't want this to happen too. That's why I put the risk on my own money rather than asking you guys for a deposit :D and I based on your trust and patient not to aero when good arrive thats all B)

    The filter housing are from across the crossway. I've tot of getting it from another source but that would mean higher cost as per unit might be about $10 to $15 more to us. And don't think they have the quanitity. As the quanitity is a bit large, the supplier has to get its factory to fabricate for our order. Didn't know it would take that long.

    Thanks for understanding if we'll have to postpone it by another week :)

    Yo bro shootsimon,

    I may not be free next saturday. I would really like to come and try to postpone my other appointments. Otherwise, I just pay and pick up the items from you.

    Thanks for the effort, I owe you one bro.

    fish trap

    in New to the Marine Aquaria Hobby

    Posted

    do u have any anemone in your tank that your morron clown is hosting it now? u can take off your anemone and put it in your fish trap... it will swim itself to the trap and host at its anemone... that will be easily catch it up.

    or, after lights off for few hours... noted where your morron clown sleeping area... turn on some lights... enough for you to see into your tank and use your hand or a small net to catch your fish while it is still sleeping... :) i used this method to catch my fishes :P

    This method works, I caught my clown while he was sleeping, lucky for me he was sleeping near the surface. Just used my net to scoop him out.

    Quarantine Tank

    in New to the Marine Aquaria Hobby

    Posted

    Here's my QT setup. 2 ft tank bare bottom with no live rock and sand. I use a powerhead attached to a cointainer of bio balls.

    Incidentally, I have 2 dory in my OT tank for about 6 weeks already. I use seachem cupramine at .2ppm for the 1st 2 weeks and then reduce the concentration of copper to 0 by 25% water changes forthnightly. Once no copper is detectable, observe the fish for another 2 weeks before placing into display tank.

    This method has worked for me. Wild caught fish adapting to captive enviroment is subjected to a lot of stress, the stress causes white spots, ich etc etc. Copper is used to supress the parsites before it takes a hold and kill the fish eventually.

    HTH

    :):):)

    Bulk DIY 3-stage DI unit

    in Bulk Ordering

    Posted

    Hi guys! Session will be postpone by a week to the 15 July Sat instead of the 8 July as the stock for the filter housing will only be in late next week. I don't want to take the risk so I'm sorry but will have to postponed the session by a week later.

    Session will be on the 15 July instead :) Please make arrangements to come :)

    No problem, see you bro shootsimon, no wories will come as promised. I will bring my dremel tool just in case we need it.

    Bulk DIY 3-stage DI unit

    in Bulk Ordering

    Posted

    1) yongwil (Woodland St 41, driving, can pick up along the way) Yes

    2) ervine ?

    3) jinhui ?

    4) Lazybones ?

    5) Blackpuma (Me OK tentatively, but might change due to work. Stay telok blangah, can give lift for those staying near)

    6) Platax Yes

    Thanks

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