Recent content by zeldapinwheel

Thanks for the info. It was very helpful!

what particle size do you recommend? What if I put the dry sand in another tank and seed that with a sample from my tank for a month or so? will that decrease the likelihood of a bloom? I'll consider removing the biowheel- are you talking just taking out the wheel- or removing the whole...

Thanks for the tip about bristleworms. Maybe I was confsuing them with something else. I certainly haven't been trying to get them out of my tank... My phosphates are currently about 0.02, two weeks ago they were 0.2 ppm. I also am siphoning out the algae daily, so that there is less of it...

I am aware that pygmy angels can be a problem, but the only problem I have had with them really is that they don't live long enough to be a problem. This is my second one, and it will definitely be the last. I am sad to report that he is not doing very well.

I was told that bristleworms eat corals, and therefore are not a good hitchhiker to have in the tank. Is this not true? At any rate, after 2 weeks of using the phosgard, the phosphate levels have dropped ten-fold, from 0.2 to 0.02 ppm. I am getting the hair algae out of the tank and it seems...

My nitrates are also 0.

okay, thanks guys. I really appreciate the input. Maybe this angel will survive yet.

My guess would be a bristleworm.

Absolutely my dips are at the same temperature and pH as the fish is being kept in. Ok, so I will get a bigger hospital tank. I'm using cupramine, which is the one the LFS said they use. So, what do I do- just put him in the bigger hospital tank and monitor water quality? Use copper or not?

I started this topic on Saturday, unfortunately, it has disappeared, along with the responses I was hoping to read. So, here is my scenario. I have a flame angel with ich. He is in a hospital tank and is being treated with copper. I have removed carbon filtration and am just using a...

Well, I know that there are many beneficial life forms that come in on live rock- the curing process, as I have been told, is to get rid of things that cannot survive it, like mantis shrimps, bristle worms, etc, that are harmful to livestock. I have not been back to the LFS that sold it to me...

Thanks for following up with me on this issue, Ernie. I was out of town, so I delayed. The history on my system is as follows: it is 15 months old. After having the system up for 4 months, I discovered a mantis shrimp in my tank, (the LFS that sold it to me promised that the rock was cured-...

In response to your questions, the filter is a biowheel with an activated carbon filter pad in it. I had no idea size of the hospital tank mattered. Should I do water changes and lower the salinity to 1.008? What about putting some neon gobies or a cleaner shrimp in there (only after all...

Hi- I recently added, at the urging of my LFS owner, a hospital tank to my system. It is a 3 gallon eclipse system, I have one piece of rock in there. I started using it when my flame angel started showing signs of ick. I had just purchased him the week earlier, and he showed up in my main...

Thanks for your input. I'm definitely going to try your suggestions; they were very helpful. How did you rig your toothbrush/siphon contraption?