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Will this rust?
It is powder coated on galvanized steel. It will be placed next to a saltwater tank and a small QT tank might be placed on it.
Any recommendations a metal shelf that is next to a saltwater fish tank that wont rust?
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Fish in quarantine for a month. Still has mouthrot. Everything else is ok.
I have tried a ton of meds. Now using furan-2 and kanaplex in water.
Before that i use neoplex + furan-2 + sulphaplex in water with focus+ kanaplex but it just wont go away. Too much meds and it wont eat.Or is more time needed? It has been a month.
Last 2 weeks, fish is healthy and eating with furan-2 + kanaplex but mouthrot wont go away it seems.
I have used some general cure, prazipro and cupramine in the past. I am not sure if it helps.Without furan-2 the fish losses color and gets sick. Suggestions are welcome.
Mouthrot still there now.
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Just to add. Fish is in perfect condition now and mouthrot is almost completely gone. The tank has a quarter to half dose of furan-2, cupramine and prazipro with some general cure.
I fed garlic + hikari and kanaplex+ focus pellets. Kanaplex + focus pellets were used once a day only. Fish is fed in small quantities 3-4 times a day. I believe the kanaplex helped alot.
I hope this info could help others with similar solutions in future.
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Is it normal for test kit to show high nitrite due to medications?
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On 12/28/2020 at 6:01 PM, Otaku Reefer said:
how is he doing? ur ammonia doing ok? nitrite? u see any white spots? white “dust”? he seems very stress from the color change. how many meds u running? probably its better run 1 by 1. if ich or velvet suggest u just run copper and skip the prazi first. once u defeat external parasites den move to internal parasites. Probably skip the medicated foods all these, i tink it taste yucky for them. Better to feed it nice pellets to make sure it start eating well. How to defeat the illness if not eating? i would tackle one problem at a time i tink its better this way. More time yes but less stressful for fish. just my 2 cents hope he makes it thru!
Sent from Singapore Reef Club mobile appThe fish is doing great now. It looks normal but I will be keeping him in quarantine for the next 2 weeks just to be safe. Thanks for all the tips here
Wat solved it was cupramine + prazipro + furan-2. I fed abit of focus + kanaplex on 2 occasions but I am not sure if that did anything. Hikari seaweed pellets was fed 2-3 times a day, of which half of it is soaked in garlic. A mistake I made was to add rocks in there. Apparently, the rock was leeching ammonia which is why my seachem ammonia sticker turned green quickly. and I had to keep changing water Salinity was kept around 1.12-1.15 the entire time. Just FYI.
Are there tank decorations that offer hiding places but do not absorb anything? Rocks absorb stuff. PVC and Acrylic, etc, would not absorb anything right?
That would be the best for a QT tank imo.
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1 hour ago, Otaku Reefer said:
you can try get some seaweed, my foxface loves seaweed, probably will help stimulate the appetite.
Sent from Singapore Reef Club mobile appIt does eat hikari seaweed pellets. I am just wondering if i should add seachem focus with it or garlic, etc.
Mine has never ate seaweed. I have it though. The two little fishes one iirc.
Do u know why the mouth of the foxface is brown?
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Hi bros,
There has been an improvement from before but the mouth now has a brown color infection of some sort.
Should i feed it food with focus or garlic to help? It took some food with focus back then but didnt eat much of it.
The tank still has cupramine and some prazi in it.
Any tips appreciated. Thanks
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50 minutes ago, soggycookies said:
Yes. But do it gradually. it is much easier to get fish into low salinity water immediately from a higher salinity but the same can’t be said for the opposite. do it in increments of 0.01-0.02.
correct, prazipro doesn’t work on velvet and ich. it’s typically for internal worms and larger external parasites like flukes.
cupramine is one of the safer options of copper for treating fish. that said, i would avoid dosing too much at once, but initially get it to half dose(0.25 mg) and then to recommended strength(0.5 mg) 2 days later and keep it there for 2 weeks.
all the best
Sent from Singapore Reef Club mobile appI see. I will do so. I hope the fish survives. Thanks for the assistance.
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3 hours ago, soggycookies said:
by the looks of it, it could be marine velvet. also, copper is more concentrated in lower salinities, so be wary when dosing. if it really is velvet, hyposalinity(a way to treat ich without copper by lowering salinity to 1.007~1.009) is ineffective.
In this case I would just keep feeding, maintain salinity without changing it to avoid causing your fish additional stress.
hope this helps
Sent from Singapore Reef Club mobile appShould I just slowly increase salinity back to around 1.20? It is now at 1.14
For marine velvet, prazipro does not work right? Only cupramine works?
Thanks for the info
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15 minutes ago, peedeers said:
To me it looks like a normal foxface when stressed, i dont think theres any disease. Just let it destress and observe. Shudbe fine. Nori is good.
Sent from Singapore Reef Club mobile appIt had black spots all over earlier, at all times. Then it became whitespots and brown spots around the white part near its face. It isnt due to stress.
This tank recently had a disease issue and few fishes I had died. I have since dosed cupramine, general cure, furan-2 and left it for a few weeks. I then use cuprisorb and charcoal to remove them.
The foxface was ok for 2 months and now he is sick. Hmmmm. After this, I am gonna do an overhaul.
However, my other fish, a yellow tail blue dottyback, which is in the same tank isnt sick at all.
I hope my fish survives. Thanks for all the input
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3 hours ago, peedeers said:
1) have you kept foxfaces before? They change color of their skin and can sometimes have black splotches or spots that will turn back to yellow.
2) dont see any hiding place in qt - the fish is obviously stressed. A pvc pipe etc would be very useful.
Sent from Singapore Reef Club mobile appOk, I added a hiding spot for him.
Does lower salinity help at all for this? Or does it not matter?
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ok man thanks. Should i soak the food in focus or other meds? I have seachem meds.
Any good temperature to keep it at? It is now around 27.5 -
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ok i added some cupramine on top of prazipro. Both work fine together according to other sources. Hope all goes well.
It used to be black spots...now it is white and the skin isnt a good color.
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can copper work with prazi pro... thats the best i can get for pics... it moves around
it used to be black spots.
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Pls tell me if i did it all right.
It had black spots before. It now has white spots? It is in QT with prazi pro and i fed it some focus + metroplex via pellets.
This is day 1 of QT. I have an eheim heater but temp is at around 29 degrees celcius naturally. So, the heater is off.The water in the QT is all RODI.
Nitrite and nitrate are pretty much zero. No ammonia acording to the seachem sticker.
Please tell me if there is anything else i can do.
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On 9/9/2020 at 3:03 PM, R0B said:
As with most reef related pollutants the "solution is dilution" with a good okd fashioned water change. Dosing Citric acid will deplete alkalinity, and impact calcium so you will need to monitor and then slowly add a little extra alk in each water change (just a little!). Also you have just accidentally added a carbon source so depending on how much was added you may want to watch for bacteria blooms (which will later impact oxygen levels). But from the sounds of it, there was onoy a small amount added so most likely you will see no impact at all. Good luck.
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Yep, it is a small amount and it is ok already
It was just cloudy water for a day.For those with eheim universal pumps, beware of the sponge soaking citric acid inside.
Next time i will juz rinse everything in water before put in.Phew.
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10 minutes ago, LittleNat1 said:
Should be okay bah? I think monitor your KH/alkalinity since that's what neutralises acids. Don't know if that's how it's the same for marine but that's how it is for fresh.
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I I see. Seems ok so far. Hopefully nothing bad happens
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I washed my two eheim universal 600 pumps with citric acid. The pumps run in the citric acid.
Unfortunately, I didnt rinse them with water before putting the pumps in. Small residual citric acid water shouldnt matter I thought but these pumps had those sponges in them which i suspect, collected the citric acid and now my tank is cloudy, PH has fallen. I dosed some seachem marine buffer and seachem prime. I did a small 8% water change. Changing and doing too much at once might causes issues too.
Currently PH is still abit low around 7.6. It was around 7.0 or so before.
Water is somewhat cloudy. 4 out of my 5 fishes ate when i fed them.
Maybe the coral beauty cant see the food, i dunno.
The fish dont seem to be swimming as much but are ok.
Just restarted my tank. It has been 10 months and all are ok so far before this.Anyone made this mistake before?
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5 minutes ago, Clement Chen said:
Its frozen food, when I put it in my tank I rub it between my fingers to break it down further. If ur fishes are not eating it you might be overfeeding
They are eating. They will bite at the big pieces and cant seem to break it down.
These are small foxface rabbitfish, clownfish, coral beauty, at 5-7cm, small
I tried to break it up but there will be big pieces of prawn,etc in it still.
Mysis is never an problem though
No one else has this issue?
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The pieces are too big and my fish cant seem to eat them. Alot left on the tank floor.
I cant seem to cut them into small pieces effectively either.
Anyone have this problem?
Will this powder coated galvanized steel shelf rust?
in DIY Forum
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Google says that galvanized steel is better for marine environments?
Or any recommendations?