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Hi! It's been a long time since I've been here - missed you all! Long story short, I am in the process of breaking down my 90g tank (forced to remove it from my office). Over the last several months I've been moving small fish to smaller tanks at home and getting rid of my larger fish. I've...

My 42 hex tank has been horribly infected with aiptasia for several months now, and I'd finally gotten the point where I decided to break it down, move the corals and inverts elsewhere temporarily, and bleach everything to start over. Lo and behold, earlier this week I noticed that my aiptasia...

Up here in Boston, our "condos" come in many different forms and often aren't the big complexes like elsewhere in the country ;) Mine is in fact the second floor of a two family building (two identical units one on top of the other with separate entrances), so I have 4 outside walls, along with...

Hi Everyone! Well, it looks like I might have to move my tank in the coming months out of my office and am trying to figure out whether it is feasible to move it home, or whether I need to break it down entirely. Its a 90g tank with a 20g refugium. My condo is on the second floor so I...

Environmental is unlikely, because the tanks are across 2 different locations - the 90g is at my office and the others are at home, so it shouldn't be something in the air. I wondered about oxygen depletion, but all tanks are getting good air exchange across the water and I don't see any fish...

Yes. this is exactly why it is such a mystery to me! I haven't seen any problems with corals or inverts, which to me rules out copper, stray voltage, and all of the other usual suspects. But for something to be happening in all 3 tanks, which are not even in the same location, it also can't be...

I've wondered about the parasite option as well, particularly if some single celled organism got through the rodi since my top off/salt water is the only common denominator across all 3 tanks (and the buckets/bottles that I use for the water). The one really interesting thing that I've noticed...

So I've now lost a few more fish, including my flame wrasse that was not in the same tank as the tang. What the heck is going on? I moved into a new place a few months ago and even though I'm using the my ro/di could there be some sort of contaminant getting through? What sort of contaminant...

It's crazy how they will be chill for so long and then all of a sudden just turn on everyone else! Have you tried hanging a mirror to distract the Kole from the angel? I'm debating whether to sell my mimic or to add another fish who might put her in her place so that she stops harrassing the...

Good thought Rob! So a bit of an update... I now have 2 more fish who aren't doing so hot in my 90g - my male lyretail anthias and my orange-back fairy wrasse. Both have been in hiding for the last few days rather than out in the open, though have come to check out food when I feed them...

The two tanks at home get the same food, but the one at work gets food from different packs (and at this point totally different food since I have Rod's at work). I can't explain it. I too would have thought that more fish would be affected if it was a contaminant - or at the very least I...

Hi, So, my tanks are all mature and have been stable for quite some time. In the last 3 days I've lost 3 fish, one from each tank - my yellow-flanked fairy wrasse (big 5+" fish) that I'd had for 2 years, my leopard wrasse that I've had for 8+ months, and my firefish that I've had for a year and...

Thanks guys. It really is a sad loss. I was proud at how well he did in my tank. I think the velcro must have gotten wet over time - it was the section near my HOB overflow - and the screening came loose from it. I loved this fish, he was really awesome. I would fully recommend a purple...

I am very sad to report that I lost my purple tilefish to a jump. I had him almost a year and he was a fantastic member of my reef community! I have screening on top and velcroed over the back openings of the hood, but it looks like the velcro lost its stickiness on one side and opened up...

She is eating fine, and after doing some googling, it sounds like it is likely physical trauma instead of illness since it is only one eye. She and her mate have been cleaning the rocks pretty excessively lately so maybe she just scraped her eye. She's acting a little more normal today and I'm...