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Sorry I know it's copperband (stupid autocorrect). This is very interesting. Probably because the copperband is a tad bit bigger than tang. Tang doesn't seem to mess with others.

I just put a Copperbelt butterfly into my tank and my yellow tang keeps backing his tailfin into the butterfly and will smack him around. They are not nipping each other. Anyone seen this?

That's my next question. How do you safely get rid of them?

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Ok. It's Reef Crystals Brand.

I think my problems were coming from my water changes. I was topping the water off without saltmix because the salinity would get high during the evaporation process. The two reasons I am testing for calcium is to help combat the hair algae and to eventually get some hard corals.

API....Aquarium Pharmaceuticals

no hard corals just several mushrooms.

If I am reading it right.....it's 20mg or below. Says if blue color forms after the 1st drop then it is 20 mg or below. It turns blue immediately.

I have a very low readings on Calcium. Any advice on how to get this increased....fast? I have just been adding 1 tsp of calcium suppliment daily so far. I'm thinking maybe a few water changes might be my next plan of action.

I have seen many in my tank already.....I just figured the mandarin would deplete them in no time. I will try the phytoplankton and see if I can get them to expand.

What do I need in order to get this process started? Do I just put the bottle of copepods in my refugium and let them multiply? I had one years ago when I had a smaller tank and of course it starved after a while. I was unsuccessful with feeding it with a feeding station. Have you ever had...

Does anyone on here harvest copepods in their refugium in order to supply their mandarin goby with food?

Will blue reef chromis school with green-blue chromis?