Np.. I used it with a Kole tang a while back. It was a pain in the backsideto be either tearing down a tank, setting up a tank, or mixing water every day for 15-18 days, but it meant no medications or stress on the tang, other than being moved every 3 days.
Shaun, thought about the 3-day transfer method? I don't know if the hypo-tolerant ich variant is a myth, or has been seen outside the lab, but if it really is ich, this would be a safer alternative than copper.
http://www.petsforum.com/personal/trevor-jones/3daytransfer.html
If one of your fish has ich, assume the others do (or will). Qt'ing inverts, rock, coral, sand (basically everything _except_ fish) for six weeks and separately qt'ing fish and putting them through 6 weeks of hypo will lead to an ich free tank.
Why not get some columbellid snails? (euplica versicolor / pyrene versicolor / "IPSF Strombus Grazer")
They're small, reproduce to meet available food, and are great herbivores.
I'm switching over from kalk dosing (not enough evap to dose the required amount of limewater) to RHF's homemade 2-part + Mg.
Question I have is that I'm a stickler for measurements, and switching over from weight to volume is irking me. So does anyone know how much 3 cups of epsom salts...
Bingo.. he started out as a little 5" bubble-y guy about 3 years ago. Once we upgraded to MH lighting, he really started to take off. Eventually it started splitting, and I got either 6 or 7 clones from it over the course of the next year and a half.
We eventually sold it and the tomato clowns...
I agree with thekingfish. I've seen it in action. I had a colony in the direct flow from a powerhead, that had long tentacles. I split the colony and moved it to a calmer spot, and eventually the tentacles shortened.
Ad Hominem and Appeal to Authority..
Appeal to authority again..
Appeal to ignorance..
Note that the core issue is never addressed.. is 10 tanks with one salt each a large enough sample size to come up with _any_ valid results. No matter how many reams of data collect, or how nice the...
We feed as much as the fish can eat in 3-4 minutes.. that works out to about a turkey baster full of slurry- usually one small cube of food and tank water twice daily.
You really have two choices, or a combination of them both..
1) kill the ich. This involves getting all the fish out and treating them with hypo / copper for 6 weeks, and letting the tank sit fallow. There is no proven reef safe, yet proven effective in-tank treatment.
2) deal with it. Boost...
I agree that the sample was too small.. would it be statistically significant if this study of 10 tanks were repeated ten times? I guess I don't know enough about the proper way to run an experiment, but I do know this one sets off all my warning bells.
Ehn.. look at his claws.. to me, that looks like a herbivore (and yes, I know, most crabs are opportunistic omnivores).. I mean, c'mon, he's packing salad tongs, not a steak knife ;)
I'm holding some livestock for a club member who had almost all of her halimeda die at once, polluting the tank. Not sure if it went sexual, but it had gotten very thick, and it's roots were everywhere.
My 55g fuge went through the same cycle. I added two MJ 1200 powerheads, and it eventually went away (took about 3 months of siphoning excess out once a week).
Hrmm.. doesn't look like a ball anemone.. they have little 'balls' on the end of long stalks and a small central disc. I have a couple of pink ones like that.