Recent content by mdottyp

Hi, i am pretty new to keeping marine fish, and for the last four months my tank was going really well and wondered what was all the fuss was in keeping them, two weeks ago my kole tang died, and then problems really stared, i belive i have had white spot/ich, as my other fish are scratching on...

hi, i have noticed just recently, i have started to get lumps of black mudd in my tank(obviously it is not ), can any one explane wat it is please, i am currently going through a ich/white spot problem, so i took my rock out cleaned all the gravel, and did a big water change, this is when this...

humbug damsil, yellow tail, damsil,(both not infected, x2 clowns, and a fire fish(are now all infected, noticed tonight, really worried now, is this the end of my tank live stock, help im stressing

thanks for your reply, is there any thing else i can mean time as i will take time to buy and set up a QT, however i do have a small 25L tank will that be big enough

dont have the spare cash to do this,however what will i need, and how do i treat thanks, will all my fish need to go in the QT

how do i treat white spot without a QT, i recently had a fish die, and now my small clown has white spots on his fins, and acting strange (sat on the gravel). i have done a big water change and purchased a uv filter today, is there any thing else i can do. PS i also have coral and inverts so...

More info on pipe fish please

Just when i thought it was going really well, my yellow eyed kole tang is not looking well, he as seemed to have lost weight, and is hiding away in the rocks (very strange behavior for him) i have noticed he has small white spots on very close inspection (white spot ?) my parameters are all...

hi my ph is 7.8, fish seem fine but how do get my ph to 8.2 :shock:

what does 25mins acclimation? mean, in my books and advice from my LFS, that is enough time and never had problems with this before so please explane or advice, instead of critisise thanks:grumble:

Yea your right he died, my water paramiters are all good, i check them all last night, and its probs the best ive had them since the tank as been running, i acclimatised him for 25 mins, with the light off. one worry is, will he poisen my tank, he was relesing white puss into the tank, and my...

hi i recently posted a thread about my red sea star been on his back, i helped him on his front last night, however this morning i have noticed he has a white milky puss in the middle of his back, and i am not sure if a bit of his skin is flaking, his he dying ? P.S i only bought him an saturday

He as fell on his back and seems to be struggling to get up right, should i help him on to his front:frustrat:

Hi my nitrates are low 10ppm(mg/L), and i am not getting to worried, but how do i reduce the nitrates, i do a 20% water change every week, but all it does is give me a lower reading, how do i get to 0, plus i get alge all over my tank witch is getting really annoying, i belive this is due to my...

My clown is showing alot of interest in my hermit crab lately, they have always been in there together but this has just started to happen, he seems to rub him self alog his shell, and keeps swimming in front of him, its quite funny, the crab looks really p#?ed off LOL, does any one know wats...