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    Lee! Sick Purple Tang. Moses needs help!

    I know. That is why I question whether it is Ich. The affected area on my Tang is about the size of a dime (on a 5" fish). It would seem that trophonts would spread randomly and periodically over the entire fish rather than just targeting one small area on the same fish.
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    Lee! Sick Purple Tang. Moses needs help!

    Hi Lee and Kirk. I do have questions but first wanted to give you an update as it has been 8 days since I first posted and 30 days since I first noticed the initial symptoms. Moses (the Purple Tang) and Georgie (Heniochus) are both alive, eating and seem healthy. Georgie seems to have lost...
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    Lee! Sick Purple Tang. Moses needs help!

    Yes I have a great skimmer and will use the cleanup procedures. My big question now - Should I be using ANY medications? What about "Stress Guard"?
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    Lee! Sick Purple Tang. Moses needs help!

    Thank you for getting back to me so quickly and I hope you havd a nice trip. Before I replumbed I checked with members on this site. I was assured that they had replumbed systems and never had any issues. We used PVC and no, I am horrified to remember that we didn't clean it out first...
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    Lee! Sick Purple Tang. Moses needs help!

    I've had the QT up and running for the past week. I will try the suggestions in the post to try to get him out. Thanks for that. I'll keep you posted.
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    Lee! Sick Purple Tang. Moses needs help!

    I have read both posts as well as countless others and agree that I need to get Moses OUT. I guess I am hoping that he has something else. I couldn't find any pictures of sick fish that look like they have the same thing as Moses. Any tips on how to get him out of my tank? He gets so...
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    Lee! Sick Purple Tang. Moses needs help!

    Hey Kirk, Thanks for your thoughts. You are right about Gracies Popeye but I don't think that had anything to do with her death. About a year ago my ATO malfunctioned and cold high pH ROI water flooded my sump before I got it it, rapidly decreasing tempand salinity while increasing pH in the...
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    Lee! Sick Purple Tang. Moses needs help!

    Hi Lee, First thing is that one of my Heniochus died last week, I've attached a picture but its hard to see anything. "Gracie" the Heniochus had small white spots that I couldn't identify. By the time I got her into my hospital tank it was too late and she died the next morning. Too late...
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    Who will win? starburst or clove polyp

    You were right - the starburst is overtaking the clove on the rock but the clove is sending little pieces off which are colonizing other rocks. Its all rather pretty.
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    need skimmer pump asap

    hmmmmmmmmmmmm.
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    why high Potassium?

    Okay! Thanks Boomer. I haven't gotten their salt sales pitch...yet. But I won't use them anymore. My other questions for you are: Is there a problem with using my Pinpoint for pH? What salinity do you recommend and can't I vary it 1 point +/- every week? Its hard to keep salinity totally...
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    why high Potassium?

    Interesting. I did read the ingredients of DD because I had been using Tropic Marin and it didn't have ANY K+ . I was surprised to see DD listed K+. Yes I mix my salt for at least a day and usually two. I mix with a powerhead and also set a heater in it. Before I use it I adjust for pH and...
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    why high Potassium?

    Hi Frankie, Really nothing to scan - its text and this is it Potassium (K) Natural Seawater Value: 390 mg/L Acceptable Range: 350 to 450 mg/L Tested: 564 mg/L (HIGH) Your potassium level is too high. We recommend the suspension of any additives containing potassium until this level stabilizes...
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    why high Potassium?

    Thanks Boomer- Aqua-Medic is a mailorder company where they send you a prepaid box with 2 bottles and they run lab grade tests and email you the results as soon as they do 14 different tests. I have had good luck with them before but this time I think my samples must have been too small -...
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    why high Potassium?

    Oh, I also have a 30g nano that I do exactly the same way and its numbers were all well within the parameters - EXCEPT for Potassium which was 564!!
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    why high Potassium?

    Hi Boomer, I just got my test results from Aqua-Medic and my Potassium tested at 515 mg, well above the 350-450 range. I have a 300 g mixed reef tank with fish, acropora, montipora, sinosa, some zoas, digitata etc and also some cardinal shrimp. Everyone is fine and the corals continue to grow...
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    Got rbta for my clown, but he likes trachy

    Our clowns must be related! I thought that my clowns were the only ones that lived this way.
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    Need Chiller suggestions for a 325 g reef system

    Thanks, I cleaned the chiller up and raised the set point and then turned my heaters down. So far it hasn't turned on again. I will see how it does when it warms up. The other concern about room for the plumbing has been resolved too. I still may get a bigger chiller but I'm good for now. I...
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    Need Chiller suggestions for a 325 g reef system

    It has been running pretty much all day but shutting down at night for the past year and I found that even last summer when temps got high I still have to use fans. Part of the issue now is that I am concerned that I don't have the flow running through it correctly and am unsure as to how to...
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    Need Chiller suggestions for a 325 g reef system

    I want to replace my 1/2 hp Oceanic in line chiller with something bigger for my 325 g system. That chiller is only rated up to a 200 g tank so undersized for my tank. I have to use an in line chiller. I was looking at the 1 hp Oceanic but I don't like the 90 degree elbows that come out from...
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