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No point doing freshwater dips unless you are placing the fish into a different tank later. Putting it back into the same parasite infested tank will only lead to it getting ich again. And cleaner shrimps do not eat white spot..they only help clean the wound of necrotic tissue to prevent secondary infections.

The fries are planktonic. They will float in the water.

Hehee..looks pajiao.

? I use them. I got lots of excess ultrafine powder. Let me know if you need some.

I'm stumped. Just tested my water today for nitrates using Salifert test kit. Been expecting it to be rather high as I've been feeding heavily daily (3 pumps of bioplankton, 3 pumps of coralplankton, some golden pearls per day) and I only have a small area (between 1-2 lunchbox size) of dsb in my sump. And I don't use liverock. Skimming using AquaC urchin (10 hrs a day). Have about 10 fish in about 50 gallons of water. Only changed 1 coralife bucket of water since my tank got running few months ago. Results came out undetectable nitrates. Could my test kit have expired? I only used it for like 4-5 times.

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Hmmm..might want to consider running some carbon as it might help in absorbing chemicals released by softies. Might work...might not work..but a little carbon won't do harm right?

.......You should be lucky if the urchin had blunt spines or it just sat quietly on the hands it rested on. You won't want to know the feeling being impaled by one. I experienced it before and it's not pleasant. You'll have to massage the spine till it totally dissolves into your blood since its impossible to get it out from your skin. Don't ever do that again!

PLS tell me that pic is photoshoped! There is no way you can handle a diadema like that without severe envenomation by the evil urchin! Not to mention being able to smile.

But read this somewhere one of the TFH issues this month. If your goniopora is receding it might help if you use diluted lugol's solution to brush over the receding rim. Some form of antiseptic action I guess.

Can pass you a bubbletip anemone for a small token..fully expand less than fist size. Rather irritated by it roaming all over.

Any luck feeding these? Been very long since I last kept them. My last few specimens ate frozen cyclopeeze but they still died. Sigh...

I second that. Large colonies with acro crabs have been proven to do better compared to similar sized colonies without symbiotic acro crabs or fish. Don't think the crab will need to stimulate the sps to secrete mucus as sps do it naturally to remove settled debri and other possible pathogens. But then again the mucus might be an essential part in the acro crab diet. I've not had any luck keeping an acro crab alive when taken away from its host. Either due to the importance of acro mucus to its diet or it gets stressed so severely without a host that it dies.

Alot of gonioporas originate from murky waters rich in nutrient. Maybe the sudden clarity and high light exposure is stressing them. Tried shading them?

Yo bro. Give it them. Sometimes gonioporas take 1-2 days to acclimatize. Anyway, the red goniopora is supposedly one of the easier to care for goniopora species. If not from the fact that gonioporas are intolerant of chemicals released by softies I would have gotten the red goniopora from you.

Rather large sized harlequin shrimps at I-aquarium. Being treated well and fed orange seastars instead of being deprived of food during holding.

Get the damsels out or the blue tang out if not the blue tang is a goner.

Some zoanthid I acquired today. It was the only piece. Mauahha...the pic ended up yellowish.. But it's purplish pink. More of where that frag came from.

Amazing...I just witnessed my yashia grab the spotted mandarin by the operculum and drag it away from its home. PMS?

Ah? Okok I keep them. See if they pick up mushrooms to place on themselves. They were found on a rock of zoanthids.

! Go lck boh jio~?? next time call me along!

Good news..now got 2 normal mandarins feeding on frozen brine shrimp and mysis enriched with selcon..too bad the earlier weaned psychedelic mandarin died.. Now hopefully my latest 2 psychedelic mandarins get persuaded soon.

U got from Iwarna? So chio! Orange? It looks more red to me.

Found these 2 lil cuties as hitchhikers on a coral I got. They both have 8 legs and move rather slowly. Could they be baby decorator crabs? I'm not sure...have not seen anything like these before. You can compare their size to the toothbrush head next to them.