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here's a little update to my ick situation. lost the lemonpeel angel yesterday. he had stopped eating the day before. the puffer is not looking so good. he is still eating a little but not much. i bought some kyolic liquid garlic stuff and i have been feeding the fish that for 3 days. i am...

sounds like you guys are so so on the garlic idea. my tank is a fowlr, so using copper in there would kill everything in the rock right. if i lower the salinity, what level should i lower it too, and how helpful is this. i think what i have read is about 1.016. thanks for the replies.

About 2 weeks ago I added a lemonpeel angel, and suddenly he appears to have marine ich. There are little white spots on his body and gills. He seems to have given it to my valentini puffer as well. all of the other fish in the tank seem ok so far. i have read that garlic will work against...

has anybody kept a valentini puffer (mine's about 1.5") with a cleaner or coral banded shrimp. alot of the things i've read say that puffers might have a shrimp as a expensive snack. i have a sally lightfoot in there that he hasn't had a problem with. anybody have any experience in this area...

make sure you stop at kline's dairy bar while you're there, fantastic ice cream. it's one of the few redeeming qualities of harrisonburg.

my prizm seems to be skimming fine, however it keeps dumping tiny little bubbles back into my tank. i cleaned it throughly last week, but it didn't seem to abate the problem at all. i send red sea an email a week ago and i haven't heard anything. anybody know any tricks to fix this problem...

I've got a 37 gallon FOWLR which currently houses a 1" false perc and 1" orchid dottyback. i've also got a pretty good size sally lightfoot in there as well as about 20 snails and 10 hermits. I'd like to add some new fish. i was thinking of a pygmy angel or maybe some damsels. i would like...

i've had my prizm up and running for about 2 months now. it had been working well until about the past week. now it is releasing the microbubbles back into my tank. i tried lowering the level as the manual says, and that reduces the amount of bubbles, but not completely. what's worse is that...

any idea how long it would take to get there from dc, say from the beginning of the bw parkway. is it worth the trip?

hi everyone. i got a strange reading on my ammonia test last night. rather than turning yellow, or green, or blue, it just turned cloudy, milky white. any ideas what this means. nitrite was 0 and nitrate was 10ppm. i've got a 37 gallon which is coming off of it's initial cycle. the ammo and...

hey guys, what happens when you power goes out and there is a siphon going from your main tank to you sump sitting below the tank. is there a way to prevent an overflow from happening? what kind of pumps/powerheads do you guys recommend for a sump. how do you get the flow rates between the...

mine is still pretty milky. i rinsed it pretty thoroughly before i added it too. i may try putting a couple of small pieces of LR from my existing tank in there and see if that clears it up. i am just afraid to drop a bunch of LR in there and have it die off. i set up a emperor 400 w/carbon...

i agree with olgakurt. i've got 2 tank raised false percs that i got from petco. they have survived the first month with no problems, and this was in newly cycled tank. pretty tough little guys. just my 2 cents.

i added roughtly 70 pounds or southdown to my new 37 gallon this weekend (sunday). that was enought to make it about 4 1/2" deep. my question is how long should it take for the water to clear up. i changed alot of the water and it has gotten better but it's defnitely not crystal yet. i don't...

hi all, i just purchased my 37 gallon this weekend, and filled it 4.5 inches of southdown. it's still looking pretty milky, no worries though, hopefully it will subside soon. my question is what type of filtration do you guys recommend on a tank of this size? i plan on using a prizm skimmer...