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  1. Hi everyone, hope to get some advice from u all on this... My ABT has been with me for more than a month already...it's still in my qt n eating extremely well.. It recovered (I think) from previous black n white ich attack about 2 wks ago n there r no visible spots except 1 white spot/fungus on it's 'side' fin that doesn't seem to go away... Now the prob is it's still 'scratching' the sand n breathing rapidly... Is this a sign that all is not well despite the active swimming n constant looking for food? The rest of the fish in my qt r breathing normally... NO3 = 10ppm NH4 = 0.25ppm NO2 = 0ppm I'm doing a hypo at 1.012 n dosing myxazin... Is there anything else I need to do? I'm v worried that my beloved ABT might not make it despite the active outlook...
  2. Thx brendan, I cut down the feeding n things r going quite well for the abt.. I guess the abt also learned a lesson n now it only eats watever it can n won't even take a 2nd look at the remaining food...
  3. I acclimatise them for an hr adding abit of water every 10 min...is this ok? Actually I'm quite confused...according to the method used by the 'saltwater aquarium' website, I shd bring down the salanity fast so as to make the parasites "explode"...but here seems like most of the method is to bring down over a few days or wks... http://saltaquarium.about.com/od/hyposalin...yposalinity.htm
  4. Thx brendan... I tried feeding pellets but it wasn't interested... I'm thinking if I overfed it previously... I fed it with all the garlic soaked mysis n brineshrimp that it can finish hoping to build up it's immune system...for 2 wks it ate like a cow...then one fine morning it ate up all the food I gave it, but vomit it all out a few min later..but I tot since it's the 1st meal of the day it shdn't b due to overfeeding rite? Could it b bacteria infection?
  5. Actually I also tot of getting the seachem reef builder but a fellow reefer was selling the TM Bio calcium so I grab it instead...actually I'm quite confused with all these additives...I used to dose only kalkwasser...how r they different? Is the distilled water same as those we get in the supermarket? Will water from DI unit work as well?
  6. thx sky107line, my kH is 9 but I haven get myself a CA or MG test kit...izzit necessary to maintain the CA n MG in qt as well? Cos I dose the tropic-marine Bio Calcium in my main tank but i tot it's abit ex to dose the qt as well so I skip it for my qt.. Gd idea on the daphnia! Will try it in the future with my new fish...but my ABT was feeding extremely well for 2 wks until now...despite the vomitting it's still looking for food constantly though... thx tineng, I use seachem pH buffer, which is suppose to maintain the pH at 8.3...but my pH is abt 8 now so guess I'll have to dose abit more...I'll try to monitor my pH with my pH pen instead...can't afford a pH monitor... Come to think of it...I read somewhere that the pH will fluctuate when the lights r off...will that happen even when my kH is at 9? could this cos the death of my beloved potter?
  7. tineng thx for the reminder...I think I overlooked the KH factor...I tot by dosing PH buffer I'll b able to maintain the PH... sky107line thx for sharing ur experience...looks like it really depends on my luck... Now I can only hope my abt is alrite...it's vomitting out watever it's eating...
  8. Juz noticed today that my abt spit out all the mysis after feeding on them..it'll eat up all the mysis that I gave it...then after awhile them all out... It has been feeding v well for the past 2 wks...n suddenly this happen today..is that a sign of something bad to come again? I juz lost my potter...
  9. Hmm...I dun have test kit for nitrite...but I'm doing regular water change n dosing ammonia removal so hopefully tt shd keep the water in gd condition...I still have some other fish that were in there for more than 2 weeks le...
  10. Thx guys for the replies...my potter is dead.. Still not sure wats wrong...I inspected it's body n nv c any visible injury or parasite n it's color is still brilliant even when it's dead... Bro beaver & BFG, sry forgot to mention I'm keeping my qt tank at a hypo state so as to cure my new fishes of parasites...the salinity shd b ok for the fish but not for shrimps or corals... Bro ambystoma82, thx for the intro to the website...it'll sure come useful in the future... I still suspect the fish is "drug-caught" instead of hand-caught...any bro here can tell whether a fish died cos it was "drug-caught"??
  11. I just bought the most beautiful potter I've ever seen 2 days ago...it was lively n feeding pellets at the LFS... The first day in my qt it was still feeding abit of mysis but was more interested in pecking the liverocks... But today...it's breathing v rapidly n now lying belly-up on the liverock but the colour is still as brilliant as b4...really dun understand what's going on...the ammonia 0, nitrate 0...salanity is 1.009 so there shouldn't be any parasite...no sign of slime or ich or anything wrong... v v sad.... n seems like there's nothing I can do abt it... could this all b a sign that it wasn't hand caught?
  12. those on my abt is black spots similar to those in the picture of black ich.. I'm thinking of doing a hypo...my naso is dead already n it's whole body turns black except the gill part...scared it's the clown fish disease tt I read about...
  13. Hi everyone...wondering if anyone got the same prob with their ABT from the latest big ABT shipment? Mine's eating v well but the ich is still thr after 9 days...in fact it has both black n white ich... Will it recover on its own? It's still in my qt tank together with a moorish idol (only white ich) n naso (no ich but breathing v heavily)... I'm doing water change every 2 days...Shd I do anything else to the tank? Hypo?
  14. Itch will always come with the fish is stressed isnt it? I got BT and clowns inside..chasing ard though already got many hiding places for them..
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