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  1. Ace25

    Help! Clownfish keep dying!

    First, I do agree, I believe tap water is the issue. If your city uses chloromines to clean the water, it will not show up on an ammonia test. Second part, Dr. Tim's One and Only does make it 'safe to add fish right away', as long as they are hardy fish like clownfish. It has been proven...
  2. Ace25

    Lights that would work with canopy

    Ummm, DIY! But seriously, that article was funny. I stopped at that BS about 'current reduction' vs 'pwm' because anyone that knows anything about LEDs knows that PWM is MUCH more damaging to LEDs because you are constantly turning them off/on to create the desired brightness, it just turns off...
  3. Ace25

    210gal tank is leaking

    Did you check the Bulkhead/gasket for leaks on the overflow and return?
  4. Ace25

    QT tanks and copper

    Nope. Copper doesn't stick to fish, it is more like 'burning' the fish so that it kills parasites attached to it. This is why you have to be extremely careful not to overdose on copper. It is a harsh treatment for fish, but sometimes necessary, kind of like Chemo for humans. I think you are...
  5. Ace25

    Rabbit fish

    Rabbitfish are usually very gentle and I have seen 2 of them get along fine in many tanks that are at least 120G in size, so you should have no problem adding a second. There maybe a little aggression the first few days but it is usually mild and subsides quickly compared to other types of fish.
  6. Ace25

    20 long reef build

    RO/DI should not create ammonia as long as your source water doesn't contain chloramines, or if it does, you use a chloramine block on your RO/DI filter. Chloramines = Chlorine+ammonia, chloramine blocks (catalytic carbon) break the ionic bonds holding the chlorine and ammonia molecules...
  7. Ace25

    Trigger, Lion, Puffer compatibility

    First, what size tank are we talking about? Assuming the tank is large enough, the type of puffer you want should do fine, lion I would be very cautious, try and get a small one, and the triggers you want, those are both aggressive triggers, but if I had to pick one it would definitely be the...
  8. Ace25

    20 long reef build

    It will affect the performance of the skimmer if you put things inside of it.
  9. Ace25

    QT tanks and copper

    Remove sand before hand or replace sand after treatment. I left the sand in (due to my fishes sleeping requirements) and after 2 packs of curpisorb and 8 cups of carbon in 24 hours on 80G of water, copper went from .45 to undetectable on 2 different test kits, no water changes needed, and my...
  10. Ace25

    QT tanks and copper

    How do you 'know' those things, because most of them are straight up false. I treat my display with copper (removing rocks/corals first), and I remove copper from the display in a matter of hours with cuprisorb and carbon, so how again is copper going to 'leach' from a piece of glass or silicone...
  11. Ace25

    Brown algae that I can't get rid of

    Here is my issue with Rowaphos (and I did use it myself for over 5 years simply going on faith before I learned better). I was told the same thing when I was buying Rowaphos all the time. It is acid washed, making it somehow better and more able to remove silicates was the line told to me. Truth...
  12. Ace25

    Brown algae that I can't get rid of

    Carbon does not last long at all in a saltwater environment. If you get 7 days out of any carbon you will be lucky. So that is a good cheap place to start. Rowaphos and Phosban are the same, and both of those normally last 30 days on average. Silicates are definitely something to look into...
  13. Ace25

    Brown algae that I can't get rid of

    Need more info on your filtration, but first thing that comes to mind to help the problem is carbon.
  14. Ace25

    Mega-Powerful Nitrate and Phosphate Remover Replaces Skimmer, Refugium, part 1-4

    And if anyone buys the above fantasy, I have a bridge to sell you. (I am Pro-scrubber, just anti-BS) A basic understanding of chemistry can explain why the above post is just nonsense. I have proven it myself many times, as anyone else can, by taking a piece of rock out of a tank, putting it in...
  15. Ace25

    Flame angel just died from ICH - How do I treat my tank?

    I understood that. :cheers: I was just explaining it for the newbies so they understood why certain products sold specifically for that purpose really can't solve the issue. One of my biggest pet peeves in the hobby is all the things sold in bottles that do not do as claimed, and 'Ich cures' are...
  16. Ace25

    Flame angel just died from ICH - How do I treat my tank?

    I lived with 'ich' in my system for over 15 years, never lost a fish to it in that time. I kept up on my water changes and healthy feeding and most fish never showed any signs, only a couple would show 2 or 3 white dots once a year but it never got worse than that. That was, until I slacked...
  17. Ace25

    Flame angel just died from ICH - How do I treat my tank?

    As pointed out numerous times on the net, anything short of copper medicine or hyposalinity treatment will not do anything at all to kill Ich (Cryptocaryon irritans). In the future we may develop better methods/medicines for this problem, but today, copper or hypo are the only cures. Just look...
  18. Ace25

    20 long reef build

    That sucks.. it is always a battle keeping jumpy fish in. I have lost 3 dartfish that made it through an eggcrate top. So far nothing has made it through my BRS screen top. As for the parameters, something else isn't quite right. Sounds like a test isn't accurate. Calcium will be used up by the...
  19. Ace25

    Keeping the sand bed clean

    The goby usually only eats the very top layer, the layer you want cleaned. It will eat pods by chance, but it is the diatoms that you want gone that it feeds off of mostly. As far as spitting sand everywhere, I have had good luck with diamonds not doing that.. bullet/dragon gobies on the other...
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