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I left mine alone and fed them with food soaked in garlic and the ick went away. Kept water clean and bioload low and water temperature stable.

54w bulb for LED?? it will be super bright!!

no need live sand. just go buy some copepods and let them breed in your sand. they reproduce very fast. bacteria will grow after awhile after you cycle

the small tank is most likely used as a refugium. you can put deep sand bed inside nad some chaeto and let your critters nest inside

carribsea is good for me.

keep water condition good. they will heal naturally like in the wild. can try soaking your food in garlic guard. suppose to improve immune system of the fish. just make sure whatever that did this to your fish is removed.

filter foam, use and throw away once a week.... no fuss

dymax clip on 11w is good enough for a 2-3ft sump.

i feed mine with chaeto from my refugium. after they got comfortable in the tank, they just started eating pellets automatically

check out the tankmaker. http://www.tankmaker.com/all_product.html

skimmer cant remove nitrates and phosphates. it should be the first filtration after your filter wool. then feed the water into the refugium for your plants.

from what i can see from the pic, I think the problem lies with the pump and the skimmer being put too closely together. (if that is a skimmer I see in the pic) cant really tell your setup from the pic. If its a skimmer and if your skimmer allows, try directing the skimmer's water exit upwards so that the water comes out from the top of your sump and the bubbles dissipate from the top. or let the skimmer water land on a pieace of filter wool. that should reduce the bubble

Absolutely beautiful..... an inspiration for us all

i think iwarna has

I think Iodine or iodide should be quite similar. Point is you dont really have to use it at all. the sea salts we use already have traces of it. can read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lugol%27s_iodine

Just go for Ehiem. never go wrong with them. 8yrs and still running fine. 12XX series

careful when you dose iodine because iodine is actually toxic if overdosed. you dont really have to dose iodine if you do regular water changes. Your corals should grow well if your lighting is adequate and you feed regularly.

suggest using sodiom bicarbonate (baking soda) to clean. may not be as white as bleach but it sure is a very good cleaning agent.

Tank this small heats up pretty fast, hope you are using LED lamp....

suggest turning off the lights for a week first since its a fish only tank. meanwhile when the light is off, do 30-50% water change with RO/DI water. turning off the lights helped for me..... replace your media rings(they look very dirty). I am using seachem Denitrator that i place in a box with many holes drilled on the sides placed in the final compartment. can consider squeezing a place for cheato to help keep nitrate removal

may have a leak somewhere within your IOS. maybe can attach a pic so that we can have a better idea what u mean

i suggest throwing all the sand that is affected.... hair algae is scary..... they spread like mad.

agreed. dont dose too many things to your water for small tank. i only dose abit of iron for my chaeto to grow only. just do more water change.

very nice algae scrubber

I scrub the algae off when i am doing water change. put the rock in the water you just took out, then scrub off. put back immediately after. watch your phosphate and nitrate levels. new tank can use some phosphate remover if high.... i used seachem phosguard.... quite ok