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Sounds like it, only way to confirm is to check for eggs.

Amphiprion bicinctus you can find WC from red sea shipments, CB only from ORA. A. chrysopterus only usually found at Coralfarm, I have a stable male if you want to try out this fish. I am giving up trying to keep this fish alive. A. latezonatus has not come to Sg for a long long time.

I would strongly advise against dosing of vodka to your tank directly. If you want to dose vodka, only do so in a denitrator unit. If you dose it directly into your tank directly, the heterotrophic bacteria will outcompete your true nitrifying bacteria and your nitrifying efficiency will be greatly reduced. This will be dangerous considering your bioload. http://www.biofilters.com/webfilt.htm "In general, there are three types of aerobic microorganisms that colonize biofilters for aquaculture. Heterotrophic bacteria utilize the dissolved carbonaceous material as their food source. Nitrosomonos sp. bacteria utilize ammonia as a food source and produce nitrite as a waste product. Nitrospira sp. utilize nitrite as a food source and produce nitrates as a waste product. Nitrosomonos and Nitrospira will both grow and colonize the biofilter as long as there is a food source available. Unfortunately, both of these types of bacteria are relatively slow growing. Heterotrophic bacteria grow about 5 times faster and will out compete the other two types for space if food is available" http://www.bioconlabs.com/autoheterobac.html

Unless you can increase the water volume, it will not help. The frank fact is that the tank is overstocked. Getting super efficient skimmers will not help either, skimmers cannot skim out ammonia which is secreted passively by the gills of your fish. 100+ppm of nitrates don't seem to harm fish much. If you really want to bring down the nitrates without reducing bioload or massive water changes, your only option would be a sulphur denitrator. You will need a large one to bring the levels down by any significant amount.

Priceless creations..

Nice head band.

If anyone has automatic feeders to let go do drop me a pm.

What is the brand of anti-chlorine you are using? Nutrafin?

True, the price is considered reasonable considered their relative rarity. Then again most people will just think of them as expensive clarkii.

Amphiprion tricinctus, rare in the hobby as well. CF brought about 3-4 pcs in few months ago but all did'nt make it. These fish are real bad shippers. Price wise around just above 3 digits.

One of the more important components for marine fish food is DHA. Marine fish are unable to synthesize DHA, unlike freshwater fish, and thus their diet needs to have sources of DHA. Basically any type of marine fish/shrimp/krill/squid meal in the ingredient list will contain DHA.

Keep changing water. Your fishes are stressed by ammonia spike, which is why after 10 days of medication your fish are still not recovering.

Do water changes daily, it will help.

Bro, Nitrite leh..not nitrate.. Paiseh, typo error. My friend tested the nitrite level in his RO/DI water and it is 0ppm (not 0.25ppm). His tapwater is 0.25ppm. So there is nothing wrong with the test kit.

I do not use distilled nor ro/di water. I use water from the tap all along. My friend tested for nitrite in his ro/di water, reading was 0.25ppm too. His established sps tank nitrite level also 0.25ppm, even though he uses ro/di water for his tank.

That's what I thought too. My system has been running more than a year...

The blue color is a variation, I have not seen the blue ones so far. Years ago the green ones which came in from Paradiz Reef were E. clarki. http://www.seaslugforum.net/factsheet.cfm?base=elysclar

Hehe for me I read another article. http://www.seaslugforum.net/display.cfm?id=3638

I will test against distilled water tomorrow and the truth shall come to light. I find it hard to believe 0.25ppm of nitrite in my tapwater.

http://www.reefkeeping.com/issues/2005-06/rhf/index.php Look at the levels that they state that fishes can tolerate.

Hi bro, What test kit were you using? The salifert one I have can only test up to 4ppm. On their instruction sheet they put "danger" next to 0.4ppm of nitrite.

Just want to ask around to see if any other reefers measure their nitrite (N02) levels. I understand that the best scenario it would be zero. I just tested my nitrites and it was at 0.25ppm, the levels are the same in my tapwater. Test kit brand is Salifert (expire in 2011). I have checked various online sources & they mentioned that most marine species can tolerate nitrite levels way above 50 ppm, even to the hundreds. I am not sure if I should be freaking out.

Reef Depot lettuce nudibranch very healthy.

If I did'nt need money to build new systems I would have considered..but not now..

Think I saw 1 pc of Amphiprion thiellei at CF.