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I have been trying to train the lion fish to eat market prawn so that it will not eat live food; freshwater prawn or small fishes. After more than a month, it finally it is able to eat the market prawn. Not more killing of innocent fishes or prawns, which I hate to see and do so.

Another method I normally used is to add one or two more fish to share the bully by the dotty back. Some may not agreed on this, but I find it normally work well.

As long there is enough rocks and space to hide, i guess the goby should be ok. When adding next fish, you need to ensure the fish is much bigger than the bicolor bottyback. So it depends on what fish you are adding next. Another thing is ensure the goby well fed is also important so that the goby can survive. Are the goby smaller than the dotty back?

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I want to add some information. More about Copper treatment: Just to add on on copper treatment, the copper treatment only can be done if your tank is fully cycled and fully matured with no corals and inverts. If you tank is still cycling, adding copper will lengthen your cycling time. I advise not to use any copper treatment during cycling of tank. First of all, you should not be adding any fishes during the cycling process. You can add fishes during the copper treatment, however you need to ensure the quality of the water that is ANN. Ensure the ANN is zero and nitrate is very low are important. Some may ask why the ANN are zero and the fish still got sick. ANN is a pre-requesitic for the fish to live and does not mean good quality of water means no parasitic and diseases in the water. Copper treatment does not cure marine flukes and worms in the fish. Further more, it does not stop other fishes from bullying the fish until it dies.

More about Copper treatment: Just to add on on copper treatment, the copper treatment only can be done if your tank is fully cycled and fully matured with no corals and inverts. If you tank is still cycling, adding copper will lengthen your cycling time. I advise not to use any copper treatment during cycling of tank. First of all, you should not be adding any fishes during the cycling process. Copper treatment does not cure marine flukes and worms in the fish. Further more, it does not stop other fishes from bullying the fish until it dies.

Thanks bro.

Reminder you should not add anymore fish one week before you start reducing the copper level. Or else your copper level is maintained too long, my experience is not more than 6 weeks of copper treatment. Hope you have finish adding the fish you want soon.

Unfortunately I do not have the space, max length is 4 ft. Now presently I have one set of two ft marines tanks and an another set of two ft freshwater fish tanks. So looking for 2 ft tank to replace the freshwater one that have a width of 1 ft. Taken the same time as the first video on 3 July 11. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q56ueK_AA1A

Thanks for the bros that SmS to me, only looking for tank, sump and return pump with all the piping. Still looking....

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Thanks for all the advises, have already start looking for another tank.

I am very impressed with one equipment that is OF Hydra 30 internal filter that I brought during Aquarama. It is located at the bottom tank. Note that both tanks are linked. However, you need to let it run for a few months to see the results. Will buy the bigger version when higher version is out. Besides that, I change 40 litre of water every 5 days.

Thanks for your concers and advises. Will keep on postings every months.....

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During the copper treatment, the tank because a quarantine tank, so it is the best time to add new fishes and rethink the type of fishes to be added. Top Tank: It basically contains tangs. I have Yellow Tang, Brown tang, sailfin tang, BPT and clown tang Bottom Tank: It also basically contains tangs and triggerfish. I have Blue Tang, Powder Brown Tang, Epaniette Tang, and Naso tang; Picasso Triggerfish, Undulate Triggerfish and Niger Triggerfish. None of the fishes have died after the copper treatment. Ich will only only come back if there is new sources such as from the NSW and new fishes and corals added to the tank, so you need qt the fishes or coral for 3 weeks before added to the tanks. I use fresh water to drip the red bamboo ( food for the tangs) over night to kill the ich before putting in to the tank. Not sure freshwater will kill the ich, until now it seems to work.

I have a incoming electrical circuit breaker trip while I am working in mid of july. It resulted in many fishes died and followed by an major ich outbreak in the tanks that also killed most of the remaining fishes. I would like to share my experience learnt from this unfortune incident. Due to lack of oxygen, the fishes that did not died during the electical trip are very weak and ich easily inflected them. I have tried many treatment methods and medicine from SeaChem Paragaurd, AquaPharm Cure Ich, Waterlife Octozin, API Pimafix, Metafix that are mostly reef-safe. For a major outbreak, those medicines are not so effective at all. I also have UVs installed in the tanks. UV will only help to kill the water floating ich not inside the fishes and in the sand ich parasite. I have no choice to use copper treatment. All the corals and amemones died during the various treatment methods and medicines. Cupramine is the best medicine I found. Slowly increase the Copper level. Due to the rocks absorbing the copper, it will take more doses. If the tank volume is 40l, dose 1ml of cupramine per day, continue to dose everyday until copper level reach about 0.25 to 0.5 ppm. You need to continue test the copper level in the tank everyday. For my tank , it takes 7 days to reach the recommended level, reminder increase slowly to prevent stress on the fishes. When you change water, you need to add the amount of cupramine that coresponding to the volume of top up. Maintain the level for 3 weeks after the recommended level have reached. My hermit crabs survive the treatment, not other anemones and corals. Some fishes already in very bad health eventually died. Use saltmix during the treatment as NSW may contain ich. I also drops the sg to 1.17 to 1.2 to reduce stress on the fishes. After 3 weeks, do water change without add anymore cupramine. The copper level will slowly decrease so it will prevent sudden change in the water condition. Fishes that survived: Top tank: 1. all the Banggai Cardinalfish - 2 2. all the Green Reef Chromis - 3 3. Tomato Clownfish - 3 4. 4-Stripe Damselfish - 1 5. PBT -1 6. Yellow Damselfish - 1 7. Algae Blenny - 1 Bottom tank: 1. Clarkii Clownfish -2 2. Yellowtail Damselfish -1 3. Half-blue Damselfish -1 4. Domino Damselfish -2 5. BPT -1 6. Blue Tang - 1 Some fishes are very robust to ich, such as Damselfish, Banggai, Tangs (maybe because of its size). Clownfish is very easily infected with ich as the fish have no scales, it died easily. I am not sure about angel and hogfish, they both died during the electrical trip- lack of oxygen.

I am using API, just make sure you does not over dose and dose it slowly over time.

Ich will only only come back if there is new sources such as from the Nsw and new fishes and corals added to the tank, so you need qt the fishes or coral for 3 weeks before added to the tanks. I use fresh water to drip the red aglae ( food for the tangs) over night to kill the ich before putting in to the tank. Not sure freshwater will kill the ich, until now it seems to work.

I have try cupramine on display tank after a electricity trip that caused a major outbreak of ich. Many fishes died during the electrical trip and the outbreak, i had no choice to use copper treatment after trying many different methods and medicines that are reef-safe. All the coral will die eventually during the various methods and medicines. Cupramine is the best medicine I found. Slowly increase the Copper level. Due to the rock absorbing the copper, it will take more doses. If the tank volume is 40l, dose 1ml of cupramine per day, continue to dose everyday until copper level reach about 0.25 to 0.5 ppm. You need to continue test the copper level everyday. For my tank , it takes 7 days to reach the recommended level, reminder increase slowly to prevent stress. When you change water, you need to add the amount that coresponding to the volume of top up. Maintain the level for 3 weeks after the recommended level have reached. My hermit crabs survive the treatment, not other inverts. Some fished already in very bad health will eventually died. Use saltmix during the treatment as nsw may contain ich. I drops the sg to 1.17 to 1.2 to reduce stress on the fishes. It is also the best time to add new fishes during the treatment because It becomes qt. I added quite a number of fishes during the treatment. After 3 weeks, do water change without add any cupramine. The copper level will slowly decrease so it will prevent sudden change. This is my experience.

Do fresh water kill marine ich?

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Hi Any LFS have black tang? Thanks

Hi bros, any LFS selling clown trigger? Looking for 2 to 3 inches one. Thanks.