Recent content by wubaguba

Wow, thanks for all the help everyone. it's nice to know that others have had similar mysteries with these guys so i'm not the only one scratching my head over this issue. i'll try everyone's suggestions with my water changes and temp and see if we can save the few remaining turbos. my...

I added my turbos in 2 batches. The first crew went in when the tank was young, about 6 months ago. The second crew went in about 1 month ago. There were about 7-8 in each batch. The problems started about 2 weeks ago. I have tested my pH before and after several of the water changes and...

Krullulon, to answer your other questions....I am trying to match salinity and temp as closely as possible when doing water changes. I'm not sure what you mean by "conditioning" the water, can you explain? I do let it circulate overnight if that's what you mean. thanks.

Thanks for the suggestions. I have been doing 20% RO/DI water changes about every 2 weeks for the past 2 months to fight a hair algae bloom. I distribute the clean water directly to the display tank after siphoning up as much junk as possible from the substrate. My nitrates and phosphates...

Hello all, I have a small crisis going on with my mexican turbo snails. About half (5-6) of them have died over the past week or 2. I have not done anything different with my tank lately except more frequent water changes (w/ RO-DI water) to get rid of some hair algae, which isn't working...

Thanks guys. Very helpful, as usual.

Hello. I have a about a 7 month old reef tank: 75gal AG aquarium w/ AG stand, berlin skimmer, Pro Clear wet/dry sump (rated to 125gal), 80 lbs LR, 4x65 PC lights, fish & inverts only so far. I have read a lot about refugiums and would like to set one up. My question is: Can I remove the bio...

Hello, I would like to ask for some advice regarding my new hippo tang. I bought him about 3 weeks ago (3 inches) and put him in my QT (good water from my main tank with 1.5 PPM Coppersafe). About 3 days after putting him in the QT, he broke out with crypt. I have had nothing but success in...

Wow, that will make it easy. Thanks a ton Len!!! I'll give the hyposalinity another try if the c.irritans strike again. Obviously, I didn't go low enough. Thanks. -Bill

Hello all. 1st of all, thanks for all the ongoing help...this forum is awesome. about 3 weeks ago, i placed my 2 sick ocellaris clowns (c.irritans) into a 10 G QT, tried FW dip and hyposalinity, got down to 1.012 sg but the parasite kept returning. the last outbreak was killing them quickly...

Mihai, check out this RO/DI unit on eBay. I bought one and love it.... http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... gory=20684

Update: I moved my clowns into a QT tank about 12 days ago and have since tried FW dips along with hyposalinty (down to 1.014 now). Everything has been fine...white spots gone, fish eating well...and then today, they both were covered in white spots again. Also, they had lost about half of...

Thanks for the replies. I'm trying calcium dosing and cutting back on the number of hours the lights are on.

Hello, could someone tell me why my nice purple coralline algae on my live rock is turning white? i've only had my tank running for a few weeks now. only inverts in the tank right now (turbo snails and hermits). i added about 75 lbs of nicely cured live rock with lots of purple algae when i...

Thanks for asking, Simon. my clowns are doing fine....might have been a case of paranoia after my damsel died. i'm still not sure what killed my domino....freaked me out. later.