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    Fish Moving Time Please!

    Yea, thats what my wife said.... it was probably something he ate:cry: I knew I shouldn't have said "dipped" after I posted. All I did was net him and put him in the large makeup water tub right below, and believe me, he didn't even know he was being netted. I didn't give him a bath if thats...
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    :mad: Hi Steve Well, a dissapointing setback today, to say the least. The best part of this hypo treatment is that I felt that I had a sense of control over the outcome and was actually feeling confident that I was, in fact, in control. Things have been progressing nicely, and quite frankly, I...
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    Fish Moving Time Please!

    Hi Steve, I've got a reliable test now for NO2. I was really disappointed in the Hagen kit.... maybe it had outlived it's shelf life or something, but I've heard others complain also. I'm using the Tetra kit, and backing that up with the Salifert kit for Nitrite so I think I have it covered...
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    NH3 continues to drop with total Ammonia now only showing .1 on the color chart. I think I'm reliably reading Nitrates at about 15, but the Nitrite test is pretty much worthless, as the vial color doesn't really match any shade on the test strip. I would expect to see moderating levels of NO2...
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    Hi Steve, An eye opener this morning after reading your reply. Last night before I did the wc I tested NH3/NH4 as usual. It was only half or less the normal value for the first time. Total ammonia had been .5-.6 since the beginning. Now all of a sudden it's only .1-.2 with NH3 being so low...
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    Thanks Steve and Nikki, I may have painted a bleaker picture than I intended. I've attached a couple of pics. One of the pics shows what looks like red on the PBs head, but that is only from my trick photography. Whats red looking are acutally white splotches. Its looking more and more like...
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    Hello Steve, After reviewing the ick life cycle again, when I set up the qt and moved the fish, I brought 3 out of the 4 stages into the qt in mass numbers, using 90% water from the super infected display. The Powder Blue had at least 2 cycles of trophonts - perhaps a third as well. Possibly...
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    RO/DI vs auto top off

    I can't really ask a specific question as of yet, but was looking for thread referrals and or pics which would help me understand and get ideas for setting up my fish room ro/di holding tank and sump auto top off systems, and how they interrelate to each other. The question I have right now is...
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    Thanks Steve, So watching the PB go through one heavy infestation, then clean, then another light infestation some days later, and then clean again is not uncommon once in the qt and hypo? From this point on - hypo now for 12 days, I probaby shouldn't see any more infestations, or perhaps...
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    Hi Steve, Thought I'd post a bit of an update. Things were sparkling. I went out of town for a couple of days and came back to the Powder Blue looking like he'd just dropped some tophonts (sp) into the water. He was showing the same darker blue "post ick" spots on his body. Not a big deal...
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    Hi Steve, Things are going great in the QT. :) PB looks as good as when I brought him home from lfs. My son had no problems with the wcs and testing. PH has settled down. This means that nitrifing bacteria are getting established, and tank is starting to cycle? Or something else? Not...
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    Thanks Steve, Vast improvement of the PB. A couple of other fish showed a bit of infestation for a couple of days due I'm sure to the major explosion which was occurring in the display about the time I moved all the fish to the qt. Thanks again for your help and feedback... getting back each...
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    "Attention to detail" I'm always crying out to my 16yr old....After studying the fine print on the various pages of the test guide, I think I'm starting to understand through the various tidbits of info that are in English. Not the easiest concept to grasp. So the initial test results off the...
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    Ok Steve, thanks. NH3/NH4 is what I'm testing for in addition to Nitrite. The Nutrafin ammonia test kit specifies for fresh & salt water. Sorry for the (spelled my) confusion. I'll leave the Seachem tester in the tank.... Maybe it's accurate and the tank hasn't produced enough NH3, or just...
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    Hi Steve, The Hagen Ammonia test kit doesn't seem to give that specific info...It says it's a "Indophenol Method Modified" - When phenol is combined with hypochlorite it reacts in the presence of ammonia to create indophenol blue. The intensity of color is proportional to the amount of total...
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    This is great Steve, thanks for providing just the right amount of info for me to digest as I work through this. I believe things are stabilizing somewhat. I threw out my old test kits and replaced them today. I was really suspicious about the NO3 and with the new kit (Hagen) I did show...
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    Hi Nikki, Yes, I had read Terry's article earlier. I was just wondering what the science, if any, was behind targeting 12ppt instead of 14ppt. I'm sure there are numerous variations of the strategy/treatment, and I'm sure many hobbiests have developed a plan which has produced good results for...
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    Great, thanks Steve, I had to ask on this one.... last night I stumbled onto the thread at reefcentral which I'd suspect you may have browsed....the following quote after the death of a tang due to ammonia spike... >>However, I e-mailed WetWebMedia after my Tang died and Bob Fenner said he no...
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    Fish Moving Time Please!

    Hi Steve, Well things seemed to have settled down and I'm sitting at 14-15ppt in the qt now. The PB looks like a war zone but seems to be coping. The refractometer arrived today and works great. By the way, the Instant Ocean swing arm hydrometer was dead on in agreement with the new...
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    Fish Moving Time Please!

    Ok Steve :badgrin: I feel sorry for the poor guy, I don't think he's terminal, just miserable. I'm thinking I should put a plastic back scratcher in there to give him something better to rub scratch his forehead with :D I took the coral skeletons out and now it just some pvc fittings, and they...
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