Recent content by Narideth

The frag rack is one of the kinds that attaches to the glass via magnets, and has no contact with anything else in the tank beyond the glass. The cleaner shrimp gets up there every now and then and pesters the duncans, but after my peppermint shrimp destroyed my blasto (and I returned them to...

None of the CUC really mess with the hammer. They can't reach the corals on the frag rack and the hammer is distanced a little from the other corals, though that was to protect them from its sweepers, not the other way around. The light is a 50 watt NICREW Aquarium LED Reef Light - It's...

Hello all, I've somewhat recently started up a saltwater tank, my first, and it's somewhere between 8-10 months old at this point. About three months ago, I put my first corals in, and that consisted of a duncan, blasto, zoanthid, candycane, GSP, and about a week later, a branching hammer coral...

Hi, I've been testing the seals on my new 14 gallon aqueon rimless cube, and it came with the mat which I definitely used immediately. With the tank full of water and otherwise empty, I can see all of the hotspots from the tiles on my counter top. I'm concerned that the mat may not be taking up...

Update: All of the fish in the tank died. I have since then treated the tank with an antibiotic amidst various water changes, and now there is a clean, healthy stock of fish that have been happily swimming disease-free for 2.5 weeks. They were all attained from the same location and quarantined...

The Kanaplex isn't arriving until Monday. I have to get them to somehow survive 2 more days untreated. I will be treating both the tank and the fish though.

Somehow through all of this, 2 types of meds, salt, heat numerous water changes no doubt throwing the chemistry all over the place... there are two blue dream shrimp that I pulled out of my shrimp colony with the beginning plan to start a new one just... chilling in their little breeding...

Thank you for that. I'm taking some temporary emergency steps. Removing the fish from the main tank to a measured amount with 2x the salt content, since I can watch them. They're bag floating to adjust temps right now with a bit of the higher salinity water added incrementally to adjust them...

The medication came in... and it was packed wrong. I was sent Metroplex instead of Kanaplex, which now I can't get in until Monday and no one stocks in person. Why you gotta do me like that Amazon. Temps down to 80, only 2 fish left alive now.

Approx 60% water has been changed out, I added the salt back in, and left the water a bit lower in the tank to allow the filter to agitate the surface a bit more. I'll just keep updating here as I proceed through the steps I take. Temp is down to 84 degrees from the 88 it was earlier, still...

The tank is a 30 gallon and was not too heavily stocked. Now it's even less so. Good parameters, nitrates a little high but coming down with more frequent water changes. Dropping the temps already but it'll take some time. I added the salt per the instructions on the container. 1 tbs/5 gallons...

I can get my hands on the Seachem Kanaplex by tomorrow. I think this may be the solution, I'm going to start dropping the temps in my tank right away and hold off on any more ich treatments. The salt should still be beneficial according to that page, but I have everything else already to make...