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After losing 1000+ clownfish juveniles due to a freak accident, seems my luck has changed for the better. Finally I have managed to do what fellow reefer marinebetta has done. Presenting....neon gobies!

High salinity and low dissolved oxygen levels.

Conspic lemonpeel.

So far the only farm which brings in ORA fish is at LCK201.

Glad they are doing well. It's hard to receive such perfect fish from overseas breeding facilities. Mostly they will send you the lower grades/deformed fish.

Rather safe. Provided you get Mithrax scultus or Mithrax forceps. The latter species is considered rarer. Do not get Mithrax spinosissimus. This grows up to 2kg.

I think you mean cerith snails. CF has them.

These guys are so aggressive. WC ones will probably rip each other to shreds in such a small tank. Captive bred ones might be more docile, I won't be sure how docile they will be. I have some oblique larvae now. Will let you know once I am successful.

You guys can hold the fish till they start breeding. I do not want to be held accountable for such expensive fish.

Not impossible to get, just that no one is willing to pay that amount.

Sometimes sudden death is better. At least the animal did'nt suffer much. My cat was battling cancer for some time, one day he just vomitted out his dinner and went into hiding. The next day he appeared to be very weak, behind my sump. Could'nt even move the tail. Few hours later, no response. I had to pull his dead body out by his tail between the sump tank and the wall. At least you did'nt have to handle your dead pet that way.

Kanamycin is marketed by Seachem as Kanaplex.

Between 1.016 and 1.018.

Hi Indy, Glad to see the dottybacks doing well. I lost the rest due to some water top up accident. Waterlife medications are rather mild and should be good for delicate wrasses. While I am not sure what that growth is, you might want to consider myxazin and sterazin. If they can be used together it would be good. If it's a viral thing there won't be much that you can do but wait for it to resolve itself.

Good thing is I managed to save around 3 black ocellaris, 17 percula clowns. I learnt that clownfish are really tough things. They were half dead in 1.005 s.g, I put them straight into 1.020+ s.g seawater in like few seconds and after an hour all are behaving normally and even feeding. They did'nt die from sudden salinity shock surprisingly.

Looks like this will be a very good lesson to me. Rather I lose 1000+ fish now than 10,000+ fish next time.

I should probably be wearing an electric choker that will shock me each time my sump tank overflows. 2kg+ worth of clownfish gone in just less than 12 hours.

The parents are ok, they are in a separate system. Don't know why but losing 1000-2000 fish like this does'nt seem to affect me as bad as I thought it would. I'm just telling myself : "s**t happens, just move on". Probably need to pop some pills to boost my memory as well.

Someone just shoot me. This is what happens when you top up water to your sump from a tap and conveniently forget about it. First pic shows black ocellaris. Second pic the black ocellaris have all been buried in perculas.

Iwarna came in this many times already.

I fumbled a few times too. Rather hard to epoxy the frag when you don't have vision of the spot that you have in mind. I managed to do it successfully as you had helped me find the spot.

I can offer to hold the marginalis for you. Need something to eat aiptasia.

$65

Will be ok if it is the real orchid dottyback (Pseudochromis fridmani), this is one of the most peaceful of all dottybacks.

NP-biopellets do remove phosphate, but at a slower rate compared to chemical means as their removal is based on bacterial activity. If your phosphate production in the system is faster than what the bacterial activity can remove, you will still have a net amount of phosphate. You need faster means of phosphate removal like iron-based phosphate removal media to complement this product.