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    Ich Size Question - Sump as QT?

    So based upon our conversation, you cannot be sure that your tank is ich free. It is completely possible that you have a small amount of ich living in your tank, without your fish ever showing signs of infection because they are well cared for, and relatively stress free. And as long as the...
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    Ich Size Question - Sump as QT?

    So what do you do with new fish in your QT after you purchase them, just watch them?
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    How to identify species of acropora?

    That's exactly what I am trying to avoid. NO WAY my wife will let me spend a couple hundred on a coral book. If you want to see a cool book you should check out Cabinet of Natural Curiosities. All drawings of one man who lived in the late 1600s and early 1700s. He collected everything he drew...
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    Coral ID Help Please

    I hope it doesn't get much more green. I bought it 'cuz I like the color it is.
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    Coral ID Help Please

    This one is half moon shaped as well. It is curved, hanging over the piece of rock it is on. Thanks for the help with the ID everyone.
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    Ich Size Question - Sump as QT?

    So Steve, Do you treat everything that goes through your QT tank with hyposalinity or copper?
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    who are you

    So what was the thread that got him banned? I always enjoyed his perspective, even if I didn't understand or agree with all he said. I too hope it is temporary.
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    How to identify species of acropora?

    I am looking for a good online source to help me identify the species of some acropora and millipora frags I recently bought. Any sugestions?
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    Coral ID Help Please

    I think this is a Pavona decussatus. Is this correct?
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    Ich Size Question - Sump as QT?

    Exactly my point. You can never be sure a fish doesn't have a sub-clinical infection, even if it looks completely healthy. That's why QT MUST include treatment if you want to keep ich out of your tank.
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    Ich Size Question - Sump as QT?

    I think that if you read my previous post, you will see that I now believe that ich can be eliminated, in aquaria, but it requires actually treating the fish during QT, and that observation is not enough, because you cannot rule-out that the fish has a sub-clinical infection. So let me rephrase...
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    Ich Size Question - Sump as QT?

    Ok, semantics here. How much actually exists where there are fish? It absolutely does make sense. The parasite doesn't have to remain "stable" in one fish. It just contaminates the whole process, and as long as fish are around it continues to live. It has to remain "stable" in the system. And...
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    Ich Size Question - Sump as QT?

    How do you know that you have eliminated all the parasites from a fish, even after 6-8 weeks of QT? C. irritans is ubiquitous in the ocean. Can you be certain that just because a fish doesn't show spots that it is free of the parasite? Most fish are not immune, and a few parasites in the gills...
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    Ich Size Question - Sump as QT?

    Theoretically, it would not be for treatment, just for isolation prior to placing the fish in the main tank. The problem with this theory obviously would be that the new fish would introduce ich into the sump/refugium and then it doesn't matter. I tend to fall into the camp that believes that...
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    Ich Size Question - Sump as QT?

    I have done a bunch of reading recently on ich, and one question I can't seem to find an answer is how large are the trophozoites, trophonts, and tomites? Here's why I ask; what do you all think? If I run a 100 micron filter sock and the little buggers are larger than 100 microns, then...
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    What color seaweed is best??

    But nori is only green, at least at my local oriental food store. And I still think this thread has left open the question as to whether or not one color/type is better than the other, or even if they should be mixed. Right now, I feed only green. My tangs (purple, naso, yellow, hippo) attack...
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    What color seaweed is best??

    Can anyone suggest specific brands of algae? I am only able to get green locally.
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    Injured Fin

    Well, My powder-blue gave up the ghost. He had been swimming and eating with what appeared complete normality. I arrived home from work to find him upside down between some rocks, not moving. After I removed him from the tank I closely inspected his body for tell-tale signs. His fin was white...
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    My (our) new Aquapod 24 ~advice~

    What he means is to make sure that all the slides covering the return slots are pushed down and that all return water is going over the top so that you get good surface skimming.
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    My (our) new Aquapod 24 ~advice~

    Colleen, The 12g aquapod has four compartements in the back, the 24g only 2. In my 24 (in which I keep seahorses and pipefish) I removed all the bioballs and cut one of the blue sponges in half. I dropped live rock rubble into the overflow section, as much as I could fit, and then keep the...
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