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Even I have quarantine the fishes, sometimes ich and velvet still out-break, it maybe due to the fresh market pawn,scallop, clam and musel that you feed the fishes. Unless you say no fresh/frozen food. I cannot confirm that freezing the food will kill the diseases. Mostly likely it won't. Bacteria infection is also possible even in the main tank even after quarantine and feed the fish with pellets only. Good water parameter included regular water change are the way to minimize the chance of diseases outbreak. Get back on the loss, I have a major outbreak before , most likely due to bacteria and velvet. Gills infection and stop eating are the common symptoms. It can occurred one day before the fish died. Queen, king, rock beauty, sailfin tang, purple tang, some dwarf angels, butterfly fish ,etc are some of my loss . Look out for dwarf angel and butterfly, they are normally the first to go as compared with the tang, large angel and clown fish. Sometimes it is very difficult to save the infected fishes. You have to keep changing water and adding copper to your tank (FOWLR tank) for weeks depending on the diseases. You see your fishes one by one go down, very discouraging...... even you have did everythings you can. Mostly you have not enough space in the quarantine tank to hold all your fishrs to do a major clean up and disinflection or go fishless on the main tank until you have loss almost all your fish ( like the case of AngGukuek I think...). Prevention is better, early detection is always citrical. Always spends quality time with your fish just like your kids....... Happy keeping....

I have Par38 led with 8 blue and 4 white. Total is 12 W. Brand new. I have been using 2 par38 for more than 6 months and it is still working fine. Brought extra to reduce shipping cost. It is from china. Selling at $60. Pm me if interested. Collect at Tampines.

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Nice, maybe can run no3 removal media such as bio pellet to improve the no3. PH is a bit low. Try to increase the PH.

It should be bigger than 2 ft, it is a partition tank, the last picture is taken from the side. Very nice adult French angel.

Condition is brand new in the box. Brought it before Chinese new year, found it too big to fix in the sump in side the cabinet.

Hi I have two TLF phosban rector 550, too big... Selling at $110 each. Interested pm me. Collect at Tampines on weekdays after 7pm if possible. Thanks.

http://sealife.com.hk/index.php?id=216 You can compare the difference. The white strip have blue tone.

Nice, I hope I have the space for a 6 ft tank....

The problem is the power trip at home not the island due to some unexpected reasons and no one is at home.

I think your main tank have disease, you may need to leave it fishless for more than 4 weeks. It will be useless if you add the quarantined fish during this 4 weeks. Are you intend to keep corals?

I used to keep lion fish. I start with fw glass shrimp, let the fish go hungry for a few days , then try to feed frozen market pawn. Not successfully then I feed fw glass shrimp. But feed the minimum amount of glass shrimps, just to make it survives not make it full. Try again after a few days later. Just donot make the fish eats too full on fw glass shrimps. After a few weeks, it will start eating market pawn.

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I have a mandrian fish for more than a year now, eating pellet and frozen brine shrimp and mysis shrimp. It is not so difficult, you need a more peaceful tank, less competition for foods. If not, the fish have no chance to try pellets or frozen foods. They are slow eater, just like seahorse. Mandrian are quite robust to ich. So disease is usually not cause of death.

I am using API copper test kit, API should be not a problem, just slowly dose the copper and measure. Each day I dose the amount that corresponded the volume of water. It takes more than 5 days to reach the desired level. Also observe the ANN as copper may effect the ANN that resulted in ammonia poisoning. That is too high concentration,..

Remove the carbon during copper treatment. If not, the carbon will absorb the copper, Slowly increase the copper level by dosing a bit every days to prevent stress to the fish. It takes more dose, as it is absorbed by the sand and rock. Once reached the desired level, I suggest maintain this level for 14 days before decreasing slowly through water change.

Polyzona tang is very interesting, but do it even appear in out shore?

Why I say copperband? Most of the people buy copperband for one purpose, after finishing it's mission, it is wasted because difficult to feed on other thing.

1. Golden angel 2. Multi bar angel 3. Collin angel. 4. Copper band 5. Moorish idol

List the most difficult fish to keep and if possible,it should not be in trade. Most will waste all.

Most people prefer AT over the black tang, that what I think. Nice shape and color. Some more, you can buy a few AT for the price of one black tang.

1. AT 2. Sohal tang 3. PT 4. YT 5. Clown tang 6. Yellow shoulder 7. Powder black 8. Blue tang 9. Gem tang 10. Kole tang. Not in order.

List your 10 most beautiful or wanted tangs here.

Re-scaping is good for new fish introduction, but after the system is stablised, sometimes, re-scraping may cause outbreak of ich. It may due to disturbance of the sands and the rock that ich eggs inside it or the increase in dirts/etc that create the increase ANN or some reasons that I also do not know. Luckily, yours is bare bottom tank, less chances. Plan the introduction of fishes rather than keeping change the landscrape unless there is a real need to do so. Yours is a 5ft tank, it is less of a chances of fightling among themselve as the number of fish are only a few. Half a day quarantine is not quarantine as the ich/disease is inside the fish body will not be kill as it is not affected by the medicine in the water. FW dip kill the disease on the surface of the body not inside the body. That is what I known and just to share.

Can check with reef depot. They have the ice probe but not the hang on one.