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A broad spectrum antibiotic like myacin apparently helps. You need a separate tank to treat in in though.

If they eye is cloudy as well as popping out the source is bacterial. Otherwise it can be caused by diet and tank conditions. Like wasp said, if the fish has stopped eating, it's usually all downhill from there. Layton

Yeah, Steve and I have swapped frags (Steve still owes me ). I've been meaning to send some stuff your way Pies, I've got a few frags going here. How about you Steve? You must have plenty of frags now. Layton

I've actually stopped using it recently (a couple of weeks ago), I suspected that it may be causing or aiding some stn type recession on a couple of my more picky acro's. Don't know if it was the purigen. But I took that out first because it's the only "unconventional" thing I had been using, and water parameters were all fine. I wouldn't think it would cause problem, all it is is a polymer. I'll probably put it back in later. Who knows, maybe it was just that time of month for these particular acro's. It tends to be the same ones I have intermittent problems with, but they seem to recover quick enough.

don't worry. I don't bother posting much anymore. It gets boring, when people miss the point / alter the point. Why bother? I'll stick to posting a few pics every now and then. Plus final year at uni, I got too much work to post much here, I will update with progress on my controller though. It's now my final uni project, so if I don't finish it, no degree this year for me. Layton

Interesting, I never knew that ich had the sense of smell. I guess you learn something every day.

Don't worry Pies, and Chimera, just another one of wasp's tiresome reading comprehension issues. Careful though, you may get the full force of zeovit.com's ignorance brigade, if you keep it up. Layton

They need to get those pylons up.

See the bottom of the page in this thread: http://www.fnzas.org.nz/fishroom/viewto ... 59&start=0 It shows an attack, along with info what the stingers actually are. Layton

And that's the shops fault? Nope. Healthy fish will easily recover as long as tank conditions are good. What sort of fish was it, what size tank, what other fish are in the tank? Layton

Nope, i'd be willing to be it was there well before the fish ever entered the country. Layton

Well that begs the question. Why did you buy a fish in such condition? By the way, you would be extremely hard pressed to show me a reef tank without white spot. My tank has white spot. None of my fish are affected by it because they are healthy. But it's still there ready to infect any fish which becomes too stressed. Healthy fish live with white spot present in tanks. Make sure water conditions are perfect, the fish are fed well and you won't have problems with fish dying from white spot. It is normal for some new fish to have white spot outbreak when newly introduced. It can stress them and other fish. If water parameters and food are appropriate, they will easily recover within a couple of days.

umm.. you bought the fish didn't you? Layton

What information did you get out of that link relating to fish and white spot? All I got was maybe's might's, potential, and speculation. What use is that? How is that making a more informed decision? Although the article may be interesting, it does anything but provide the information required to make and informed decision on this. My advice is the same as Pie's. Feed your normal food, and feed a little more heavily. Layton

If it's tuned to resonance, then it is a standing wave. There may be a small elliptical shape to the water particles movement but the net displacement of a water particle after a cycle is going to be pretty close to zero. That is going to be nowhere near as effective as a stream in doing what you need done. Effectively the water is going in a short orbit, rather than bouncing off the other side of the tank. The wave is bouncing, not the water. Say for example you put a drop of ink in the middle of a tank running a wavebox, and then in a separate tank running a stream. The tank with the stream will mix the ink much faster than the wave box. The stream relies on physical mixing, where as the wavebox relies mainly on diffusion. The stream will be much faster. Surely the same would apply to coral waste?

I have a green A. hyacinthus. Currently it is a column shape, just waiting for it to table out. Layton

I'm just wondering how effective a standing wave would really be in a tank. I think you would be better off with more streams personally. They would be far more effective in removing waste and providing food for corals, than the standing wave the wavebox sets up. Layton

I had an infestation of these ones; I forget the species, but they are coral eating machines. A benifit of my heater problem a while ago was that it wiped these bastards out, along with aiptasia. Layton

Perky I suggest you edit your previous post. Layton

You mean eflo's and stoli's ? Never seen them. Layton

I would not alter photo periods. Keep them the same. If you are not making large changes to the tank all the time, and it is stocked appropriately, these alage phases will pass. Cyano can be more of a problem mainly because many strains get their nitrogen from N2 gas (dissolved from the air into water), unlike algaes which can not (they use nitrate and other species). So there is always a plentiful supply of nitrogen available to them. Layton

I believe Alois was organising the club up in Auckland a few years ago, then when he began importing, he gave up control to Nick to avoid any potential conflicts of interest. Now that Steve and Nick are importing I think they should do the same. Plus, as far as NZMAS is concerned, I have heard nothing. What's going on? Have they given up now that they have contacts to try and sell their stuff direct to? Or do they not have time? Maybe it's time for someone else to take control. Layton

Not at resonance. If the energy input is less than the energy lost (overdamped system), then the wave will decay down to zero. In english, no wave action. But if the energy input is slightly more than the energy lost, then the system will be underdamped and oscillate to infinity. In English, you'll get water spillage. What the Tunze system has to do is balance the two exactly. The energy it has to provide has to equal the energy lost during each wave cycle (critically damped system), this means the wave (once it has reached a certain size) will not grow any larger and spill water. Surely the only way to de this is to sense the wave height some how?

The wave box must have some way of detecting the wave height though. Otherwise once tuned to the tanks natural frequency, the additional energy every cycle would mean water would eventually slosh over the side of the tank? Layton

Yip.