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The only thing that I have hear about them is that they are venomous! Apparently a bite from them can be fatal, if you are a small fish, and might hurt if you are a bigger species (not sure where a uni student would fit along that scale) Hope you've done all the aquascaping you need to do! :lol:

Try using some 4" perforated novaflow around the stream as pictured. I haven't had any problems since doing it. Doesn't eliminate the risk but sure as hell significantly reduces it. Plenty of flow around stream still so I don't think it reduces performance much.

Internal parasites should have the effect of depriving the host of nutrients so fish should lose condition. Often associated symptom of really crappy crap as its internal digestion disrupted. So ya sorta get the effect of food goin in one end and comin out the other without slowing down much in between. Not to be confused with nori... :lol:

Now these are all uneducated guesses but...if the popeye 'came on quick' it is more likely to be physical injury and perhaps more likely to heal on its own accord. If its only one eye - whats the worst that could happen? You'll have to feed the fish from its good side! Furan 2 will turn your tank a pretty colour and you are likley to have to do quite a few water changes until your biological filter gets re-established. Remember you are diluting the medication through the whole tank so sweet fish all ends up in the fishys eye!

So the vinegar is strong enough to bowl them while still in place in the tank?

Have a squiz at this article... http://saltaquarium.about.com/cs/compld ... 053001.htm (earl wont work for me) Edit - hmmm...earl did work after all. The local corresponding antibiotic is Furan 2. Be prepared - it can get ugly and it can take a while! And is best done in a tank separate to your main reef tank. I had an angel that blew right up in one eye after transfer but it went right down after a few long weeks.

I've read somewhere that elegance corals can bail their skeletons and start to calcify skeletons again...politicians do it all the time (their brains bailing from their bodies) so why shouldn't corals survive? :lol:

Some critters learn quicker than others that you get what you get in this world! :lol:

Mushrooms will 'grow' with just normal daylight (not even sunshine) - depends how WELL you want them to grow!

Gotta give ya tang something to look at...! :lol:

If your tank gets cyano the rest of us are really buggered! :roll:

Yup, and the tablet is an antibiotic so that MUST have an impact on your biological filter...just how much is the question! :-? Just that you can SEE the cyno disappearing.

Reef dip contains "elemental iodine complexed to a protective slime - effective against bacteria, fungus, protozoans." Don't know whether this would kill the greeblies you might have? Mainly treats infections by the sounds of it.... :-?

That leather ??? to the right of it in the picture...

We've got two mandarin types. Never seen either eat food added to tank. They pick away at stuff and I can't even see what they are eating! I am operating a high nutrient environment specifically to grow lotsa pods, algae, tangs and mandarins... :lol: :lol: Gotta laugh otherwise you would

If you really want to adopt the farmboy approach get some perforated 4" novaflow, cut to the length of the stream, slice down the middle, and place as a sleeve over the stream. Not as aesthetically pleasing to the eye as some things in the tank but even anemones have trouble getting 'sucked in'. :lol: :lol:

Hmmm...tend to agree! At least there is usually something worth bringing home and you know what you are coming home with! :lol:

Yeah, thats the 'trouble' when we try to cover a lot of the bases at the same time to get our tanks where we want them - we don't know what it was that did it! The reality probably is that it takes ALL the bases to be covered to a reasonable level - there is no one miracle cure for across the board results. I have noticed a BIG difference in my Kh and Ca uptake (way up) since I got my Mg and Str levels close to where they should be. You can just about see the corals growing every day...well not quite, but they are looking a lot better!

Looks great Fay! You are the only one that sees the 'faults'! How long have you been going? (with a marine tank that is! :lol: )

Just to clarify - I used the good ol strontium in a bottle. NOT the branded purple up. The strontium has certainly worked in our tank!

A wise man once told me with great delight "Strontium makes your coralline algae grow like crazy" (those yanks call it 'purple up' I believe). :lol: I now a believer - mine is halfway to the nuthouse!

Skippy - looks radioactive! Must have all the right additives to the tank :lol: Why don't we all pitch in together and bring back a planeload? :-? Even just a chilly bin full....

Hey Ben, I'll do ya a favour and look after the Rose BTA for ya while you are doin it. You should get at least a 1/4 back... :lol:

Mine seem to cast their eggs about shortly after the lights on tank go off. First time I saw it thought me fish were going loopy - they were darting all over the place munching them... :roll:

Nope. My understanding is that most of our fishies come from tropical areas that are close to the equator eg Fiji. Being so close to the equator length of day is pretty steady year round. eg Sun gets up at 6 and goes down at 6. Of course there are differences the further away you get from the equator but not where the sun is up from 5 am to 11 pm! But then again, I never was much good at geography! :oops: I guess my point is that we can set the time we 'activate' corals with artificial light but wonder whats its doing to the natural clocks of the fish?