hammy

fungus in marine environment is very very rare. s for lypo, just maintain ur water quality , they will recover by themselves. as long as it did not affect the mouth which will in turn affect their eating, they will be fine.

i recommend fish solution from ecosystem =)

provide a few more detail budget? sump? what u intend to keep?

a clearer pic is needed to confirm it is ich... did u see the fish scratching, reduce appetite and it is spreading fast to the whole body?

Looking for goldflake angel. willing to aquire at higher price if it is stable, feeding. pm to discuss if u are willing to let go...

i quarter it ... throw it in one by one. my large angel will swallow whole. little angel like king, scribble and personifer will pack on it or to make their life easier, i usually crush it in front of the wavemaker.

Try 701 ...

Test kit will be the most accyrate answer whether your cycling is complete. if both ammonia and nitrite is zero after the peak, yes it is complete. However, they may have not build to an amount that will support a full load. So stock your fishes slowly. if your main interest is SPS, you dun even need to add fishes so that maintainence will be a lot easier. Temperature is okie but great fluctualtion and i suppose this temperature is taken without light on. a chiller will be more stable. LED is too new i am unfamiliar, but i think it is the way to go =). read more for SPS... u have to consider calcium reactor/pH controller for SPS such 4 feet... or else dosing will be a prob

Sound normal... since u already have the bacteria inside, it will not follow the conventional reading... however much is still the same. ammonia and nitrite will both rise until undetachable. give your tank abt 3-4 weeks. i see SPS on the list. Chiller is a must and lighting is not enough

thread closed. Sold

bandit look kinda cute in a group =) never did i see such behaviour display from bandit before.

selling a french angel for 70 dollars. feeding on nls pallets and ocean nuitrition angel formula. This is the only fish which my big queen has problem. she let my scribble, personifer and king off, but french, she is determined to disturb it till it die. No obligation viewing in sengkang will feed before selling french has minor torn fin at the back as shown by pic. the french is in my betta now. 2.5 inch

With increasing reefer switching to FOWLR, i feel it will be a benefit to share experiences so that our fishes can thrieve. Keeping from softies, LPS to even SPS... i feel that FOWLR is not that easy as well when it come to control of diseases. Especilly ich and velvet... they are slowly eating our precious fishes away of we do not do anything to it. Fortunately, there is copper, which is like a pesticide to the ich and velvet parasite. I would like to share my experiences for the benefit of friends i have known in reefing. 1)Will cupramine killed the beneficial bacteria? For a start, Seachem claimed that it willl stunned the bacteria for a period of time without killing them. So the biofilter should be safe. However, no one will really be sure unless you try it. I find that my nitrite will rise whenever i dose copper... however, it will last for only a day or less and normal filtration whereby ammonia and nitrite wil be zero will resume. Dose real slowly. 2) How much is enough? Many reefers including myself find that 0.3ppm is more than enough to kill off all the usual parasite. Seachem advice to be 0.5ppm, however i find that is not necessary. 0.3 is equally effective and overdosing will somehow make fishes listless. taking note that copper also reduce the immunity of fishes as claimed by some doctrine. 3)Can copper be removed and can i put in coral after that? Yes, it can be removed by carbon and i used rowa carbon. usually take more than 2 days to remove copper. I do not know whether coral can be put in after that, no experience as i am sure to stay FOWLR for a extended period of time. 4)Which testkit is good? Dosing copper without a testkit is as good as gambling the life of your fishes. i find API and salifert copper testkit easy and reliable. Both give me same result and eradicate all parasite at 0.3ppm. 5)What is the first symptom of overdosing? Nitrite will rise and fishes will lose appetite. So do make sure u have ammonia ( i find ammonia alert the best), nitrite and copper testkit when administering the treatment. Ur fishes will breath more rapidly too if there is overdosing., 6) How long the treatment should be? 14 days is enough... u will find that after 5 days, ur fishes will show signs of improvement and i maintained my temperature at 29.5. ( confirm by Pinpoint temperature monitor) 7)What should i do to make sure that the health is improved with cupramine. I dose together with fish solution as adviced by bro javier and i find the colour improved tremendously with increase appetite . this is especially relevant when ur fishes lost appetite during treatment. 8)What should i take note? Make sure u are not dosing reducing agents such as Prime. They will reduce copper 2plus to copper 1plus which is 10X more toxic and danger ur fishes to perish altogether. Seachem forum claimed that Prime effect should go within 24hours and should you need to use a reducing agent to get rid of chlorine, use it 24hrs in advance. That is what i do, normally i leave it abt 2 days. Change small amount of water to reduce nitrite. Do Not switch on UV. Some claimed it will remove copper but the truth is in cupramine, copper is make stable by attaching amine to it, just like chloramine, chlorine to amine which is a structure similar to ammonia. by exposing cupramine to high energy UV ray, the bond between copper and amine might break and cause your water to be unstable. 9)Can i maintain long term copper in my tank to prevent parasite. As for me, i maintained abt 0.1-0.15ppm of copper in my tank long term. As long as you know what u are doing, i believe so. I have read that some LFS and foreign reefer do that without adverse effect. But do it at your risk and i will not advice to go beyond 3 months. 10)i realise i dose according to instruction. But my testkit show 0ppm. How can that be true. It is very much posible. i advice to have 2 different testkits. Either API, salifert or red sea should be fine. Copper can be absorbed into calcium structure and remained there. i experience that when i am dosing for the first time. However subsequent dosage have no such problem. I come from coral rearing and have the perception that copper is not good. However i find that it is so much easier than the alternative treatment hyposalinity which i have no luck with, although relatively free as compare to copper, i always find it a hassle to maintained the salinity at 1.009. and dosing and testing seem so much easier. If u ask me, i feel that every FOWLR owner should own a cupramine to standby. I have no business with Seachem and all the writeup is solely for education and information purposes. Please do share your experiences too if there are more to contribute. Let's make this wonderful hobby more manageable. With all been said, Cupramine is not reefsafe and 100% fishsafe, too little got no use, too much can kill your fishes, use it properly and you will reap the benefits!

just saw the H&S

nice !!!!! been waiting for u what skimmer u use in the end

ah beng 1 king yellow tang majestic clownfishes potteri

look good... i am looking for LED alternative. For example when T5 first strike the market, it is super expensive then come the solite... easy to install and so much cheaper... when will the solite's LED version come hee hee

wrasse and goby are naturally good jumper. They do it when they sense dangers. are there any threat in ur tank.

not normal to have fluctuating value for both decimal place... maybe the second decimal will jump once in a while when te value is changing...depending how u calibrate... if you caliberate with battery, stick to battery reading, if u caliberate with AC power reading, then stick to tha too

nice in my opinion !!!

his french is worth mentioning. 3 years in the tank ever since so small like 2 -50 cent coin

some laojiao reefer's tank whom i know for a while ...

thanks bro =)

that is so true the physical smimming space allocated in the tank itself is impt