Recent content by platylover

I used to lose tangs and other fish to ich all the time until I learned to quarantine the fish i bought. I go through a certain regimen with all my fish and I haven't lost a specimen in quite a while. These are the steps I go through. 1) Freshwater dip the fish for up to 5 minutes. I usally...

It may be a blessing that all your fish died. If you keep your tank fish-free during the next 2 months, the Amyloodinium parasite will exhaust it's life cycles and eventually die from lack of a host.

Leemar makes some nice starphire glass euro tanks locally. The price can be comparable if you factor in shipping costs. I know that Jeff's deals with them.

I used both 1.5" spa flex and sch40 pvc when setting up my new tank. The 1.5" spa flex was 10x more expensive than the sch40 pvc. I bought locally since I only need a small amount of flex pvc. I think I paid about 3.50/ft for 5 feet and the 10foot length of 1.5 pvc was 3.50 for the entire...

I have a smallish red volitans lionfish currently housed in a 29 gallon tank. A full-grown lionfish would need a larger tank. The fish leads a rather sedentary life and only gets excited when feed, which i do twice a week. I was able to wean the lionfish to cocktail shrimp and then eventually...

I had to do this the other day when I got an R/O system for my friend. It's not a big deal. I drilled a 1/2" hole using a carbide-tipped drill bit. Before you start the drill, you want to press down hard at first to crunch through the porcelain so the bit doesn't wander.

I had a large desjardin sailfing tang once that helped me rid a bubble algae problem. She ate it like candy. Steve

Cappuccino has a good point and one I had alluded to earlier in the Industry forum. Bans are useless and counterproductive when the AVERAGE aquarist kills off most of the fish they buy, regardless of the "hardiness" of the species. Some of us have to stop and realize that we are not targeting...

Most of the R/O filters being built and sold on Ebay and those specifically for the aquaria industry are made from standard parts. However, there are different grades so you have to compare apples to apples. That being said, you can get a great deal on Ebay. I just purchased a new unit to...

Jeff's Exotic Fish is having a special this week on MI rock at $2.99/lb. Jeff's Steve

The stuff comes in a 2-2.5 oz glass pump bottle. It is concentrated Nannochloropsis that you keep in the FREEZER. Obviously the stuff is dead. I've heard that it's repackaged instant algae from Reed Mariculture, who by the way only sells by the liter for aquaculture uses. The stuff is...

I doubt that banning difficult to keep species would make that much of a difference. To the AVERAGE aquarist who doesn't research a species' requirements and relys on his/her lfs owner for advice, what is the difference between buying a cleaner wrasse or a yellow tang when both are doomed to...

If the allergy is to shellfish only, why can't you just keep shellfish out of the equation?

How is your water circulation? Alot of surface agitation? By what you describe, you might not have enough circulation, making the skimmer the only way to oxygenate and degass CO2 from your system. It was probably a combination of excessive CO2 and depletion of oxygen that caused your fish to...

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