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Just to add that, I use aragonite on the fresh water for minmum 1 day before adding into the tank

just any shoppping centre has that 10 micron filter. I have tried to find 5 micron but seems no shops sell it. Only hydraulic filter has 5 microns filter, LOL

well, he has a 2ft sump which I think cant do much and furthermore 3 months is still too new. 7 fishes are alot

Yeah to my survey too changing water is the cheapest way too. And can have free exercise when usually we dont. Change more water makes us perspire and so free sauna. BTW, be a chaeto farmer can help you to harvest money and smoke pipe as above pic

yea correctbut ca reactor is not in the tank, LOL

I am maintaining 1.0235 with a refractometer with temp 26-28. Because my corals demanded me to do so and my fishes had boycott me to do so too. What can I do but to obey my pet masters. Well, I dont want my fish to stress so much so I maintain the 28C temp salinity for Indonesia sea standard. Well most of our reefs are taken from them and this is Singapore so must follow Singapore sea standard

I have noticed that many people are struggling now and then to get rid of them. We use many types of ways but few months later they regrow. Does this means the solution we use are only killing them temporary while the Aipstasia DNA will still regrow more colonies at different places? What we need you to do is after voting, 1) let us know what solution you did 2) how long you see again aipstasia in your tank after your solution. 3) Do you have any shrimps to backup in case aipstasia regrow? 4) After you have added a new LR, you see aipstasia weeks later? 5) what other things you need us to know? thank you for your consent and time.

have got rid of them? advise you to do it fast as they are very fast spreads. Later too big, copperband also scares.

I am still scratching my head on cocworms. I have noticed after my cocworm died, months later I see lots of cocoworms growing on the LR and glasses. I just ignored them as they grow too slow, like no growth in months. Then years later, I placed this empty cocoworm shell in a quarantine tank and months later I see this quarantine tank's glasses have small coco worms too. Then I started to transfer this empty coco shell to another small tank and several months later again I saw some cocos on the tank glasses. I think there grow like aipstasia. DNA flows anywhere and grow there.

No, you still can separate them although they are in one rock. Do it fast or else you will have more problems. If you stay in nearby, I can show you how

1st and 3rd pic seems like a slug. 2nd pic seems like a snail

kill it fast! This is unwanted bristle worm.

its easier when only 2 fishes pair in a tank. So they can make babies and no enemies threatening. Soon they will become mother and father so will you be the grandfather? LOL. Just joking. Any eggs? I hope so. very interesting to see eggs. Just dont use them for your fried noodles.

I think nobody dares to advise a nano tank setup. They are not suitable for any marine nor freshwater fish. Freshwater tank must be minimum 15g for only few fishes and marine minimum 15g for only 1 fish which we use for quarantine. Even this 15g tank will have us nightmare changing water all the time. So usually freshwater should have minimum 60g tank and marine 70g that havent add-in sump which is a must for marine setup. Or perhaps you just want to try it out with 2 fish with 30g tank which is not a heavy burden changing water all the time. Please remember to get lots of LR in this 30g tank. read the forums before deciding so you wont end up wasting your time and money

sorry, I went lost into the jungle. LOL Glad some good reefers advised in time. Well, after reading more on your previous experiences, I think the major factor is you didnt quarantine your tang. It happened to me 7 years ago which wiped out all my fishes in my 3 ft tank. I have some fishes which will play with my hands and eventually ich wiped them out. I never get see these these good fishes anymore. I have successfully quarantined small tangs 20 cents size at 1.019, hang-on filter in a 2ftX1ftX1ft tank with copper raised everyday for 2 months. There is no cleaner shrimp in this tank. I just feed them mysis shrimp. Well, when the tangs had grown too big, I always give out to my friends. I dont think damsels can bully your small tangs. I have always noticed my 2 perculas always want to be big boss in the tank but my small tangs always will fight it out although they are much smaller. When these tangs have grown, they become the big boss. Tangs are medium aggresive and medium hard to keep. But small tangs are hard to keep during quarantine so becareful. Now I just starting on researching quarantine with 1.008 with LRs in a 3ft tank for 3 months! I think copper is bad for the fish so I am not sing copper again. I have included in this research with 2 small cleaner shrimps and 2 small blue tangs. I just dont believe shrimps wont live in a hypo salinity condition. I think they wont survive because the water parameters and tank conditions. Now my tank had reached 1.013 and tomorrow I will drop it to 1.010. Now what I am worrying is I have to be in outstation in November in a project for 2-3 months.

I suggest occelaris because they are so cheap and even after they are grown, you still like to keep them unlike other damselfishes. why not chromis? I saw some reefers have bad chromis. occelaris tends to be more fearful to leave their home.

I suggest occelaris because they are so cheap and even after they are grown, you still like to keep them unlike other damselfishes.

how is your tank condition now? I think your tank will still in unstable state until the next 6 months. This is because of the dead rocks. You should not place those dead rocks into your lovely tank. You should cycle in another tank for 1 year before ready or else you will corrode your lovely tank. Dead rock have too many dead things inside.

I havent tried this type of filtration system because I dont trust the stone in this system. Hence, I use only a 10 microns filter and carbon.

well, with 7 small fishes in such a small tank will makes you having nightmares. Your tank is too young and too small to house 7 fishes. Sooner or later you will have to change water every few days. It also depends on what type of fishes you have. If they are the hardy types, just let the nitrate climb to 120 ppm in a fish only tank. They wont die. It happened to me 7 years ago. They will die in a few days/a week if you use cheap and lousy salt.

In marine we dont use CO2 which is bad for the system. Anything that needs CO2 is belong to fresh water system.

As to my knowledge, better not to grow caulerpa. It will grow in paces that you dont want it to grow. I have seen tanks that infested like ants after introduced. I have no knopwlege of chaetos. I heard some people that chaetos will grow in other places once introduced to the tank. Is that true? How low is the moiionimum light needed? 5 pcs of 0.5W led can be enough? LOL. I just dont like my refugium to have much light stronger than my living room.

well the main thing is that I dont dote on my corals. When I first setup my tank 7 years ago, I used to changed water every day on my 3 ft tank. Its a nightmare! I sleep only at 4-5 am and everyday not enough sleep. After the first crash on Ich, I got fedup and started a 5ft tank. I designed my tank, sump and pipings for 3 months. Then I started patiencely killing everything in the LR and cycle for 6 months before starting adding fishes/shrimps. Patience is the key to start the tank. The carbon can be used 2 times and I threw them away. These 2 X 2 weeks will worn out after absorbing so much dirty harrys. Better be careful than to be sorry. I have Yumas and Foridas mostly. They grow like nobody's business. I have most soft corals and only a bit hard corals. I have seen 2 hard corals that grew by itself. I was stress at work and when I rescaped my LR, I forgotten about them. After I had remembered, I have no idea where are them. Some soft corals, which are totally dead many years ago will grow back from different LR which amazed me. Recently, I was shocked that my refugium has small tiny turbo snails (1mm) which passed through my filter system. I found them on the LR at the bottom refugium which has no light. So I picked them up and placed into the tank. Hopes they wont go into the filter system again. I have only 2 large Turbo snails left since a year because the rest had climbed over the overflo system and end up dead in there. The water flow in there is so fast, 6000L/hour. I have no digicam, spoilt. Tips: dont dote on your fishes/corals. Slowly make them adapt to the environment. Patience is the key to start the tank. At my sump bottom, I have half inch gap. On center, I have 7inches 0-grade coral sand. On top I have lots of LR. At the filter system compartment, I have grade-10 coral sands after the filter pads. At the last compartment, there is where I place my pump for flow back to main tank and all the chiller pipe, carbon,... At the moment I am busy researching if I can make my cleaner shrimp withstand the hypo salinity condition for 3 months. I am busy too helping a friend to a new setup on 5ft tank with 4ft sump which replacing his 3ft tank and sump.

the most important is the setup. You must have have a good sump setup and lots of LR. I have stopped using my Skimmer for more than 1.5 years ago. I only maintain a Phos/silicate absorber in tank and change it every 6 months. Carbon are used every 3 months for 2 weeks to absorb those dirty things. I have some algae growing but not much. The most problem is the coraline algae. I top up all those trace, calcium, strontium, magnesium,... very 2 months. I just throw them in. I have stopped using my Calcium Reactor for 2 years. All of corals and fishes had accomodate to the water parameters fluctuations. Most reefers have doted too much on their corals hence their corals are forever sensitive.

At first of setup, you must clear your LR from all algae, then you wont get them. But once a new LR with coraline algae or other algaes are introduced, your tank will be manifest by them in time. It happened to me after I get algae from new LR. Now I regret. My tank is full of coraline even the side glasses. You have to peel them in time to time. They wont grow if your calcium is low but your corals will be dead.