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The catalina goby was something I liked I never told him to purchase one.
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02/26/2014, 09:17 AM | #28 |
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Still poor advise. It's good your user name fits.
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If you are going to go with a short cycle I would get a bottle of brightwell microbacter7 or a similar product. Using fish for a cycle isn't really a good practice. You can use a very small amount of clear ammonia or a piece of table shrimp to get the ammonia for your cycle no need to put a fish in poison water.. Xenia has always seemed to grow better in "dirtier" tanks as in like tanks that were more nutrient heavy. Higher po4 and nitrates from big fish taking bug dumps and once xenia gets going it can definetly be worse then aiptasia.
BTW the fish die in a lot of the Tanked tanks I've been hearing. I know for a fact the Friday after the reveal of the Cowfish restaurant tank in Raleigh NC all the fish were gone but a lionfish and a half dead rabbitfish and that was a blot of fish that died... |
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Really?! I didn't know that! That's so horrible! Why would they basically sell these people dead fish? |
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The cowfish killed the tank
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OK. Piggyback over. Learned. Don't buy one, and the tanked guys are crap.
Got it!
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The cowfish may have contributed to the speedy death of those fish, but there have been many reports of all fish dying after the show airs. It's tv, don't assume because they do it that it's right, or even works.
The fact that noobs look to that show for advise is just one of the many reasons I despise that show. Almost everything they do is wrong.
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Btw have fun wasting time and money chasing problems from doing things in this hobby because "they did it on tv so it must be fine".
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I am down the same road. Just got my first coral yesterday. It never really looked right. It kept getting smaller and smaller. For one, my cleaner shrimp and hermits won't leave the friggin thing alone! I finally moved it to the sandbed under the best lighting and it has remained there un harassed. My PH is low, as well as alk. I thought I would try to buffer. As well I bought a bottle of Kent Marine Essential Elements. I added one dose of each today, and now the guy is just about totally wasted. My tank is a new upgrade (30g to 56g) with new sand. It shouldn't be considered a new set up, but it is acting new. It's been running for 2 months now. Where did I go wrong?
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Now little stalks are falling off and blowing away.
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Well, it is still with us today. That's a start.
They were Sg: 1.024, PH: 7.8, Ammonia: 0, Nitrite: 0, Nitrate: 20, Temp: 79*. I tested again this morning after adding buffer and they haven't changed. My light is a 24"-36" Marineland Reef Capable LED. A toy basically. The tank is 23" high as well. Not helping. My lighting schedule has 7 hours daylights, but yesterday I pumped it up to almost all day to see if the little guy took to it. I haven't tested for elements. My plan was to stick to easier corals and ease my way into this. One fish and one coral at a time.
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I am going with all day lights again, and when I get home tonight, test the PH again and decide if I will add buffer again or not.
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I wouldn't add buffer. 7.8 isn't terrible and I'm not a fan of adding buffer to begin with. Adding directly to the aquarium can burn the gills of fish and is not good for coral. You would be better off testing your alk as that is a natural buffer.
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My test kit is weird when it comes to Alk. It is not the dkh, but the ppm. My tank hovers right around the minimum 120 and a bit lower.
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1ppm = 0.056 dkh so your alk if equal to 120 ppm is 6.72 dkh. That's low, I prefer to keep mine around 9. You should look into getting (or making) two part and dosing the alk part. I wouldn't dose the calcium part until you test your calcium levels.
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I haven't checked my Ph in over 15 years, and don't plan to anytime soon. I've seen numerous cases of people chasing the Ph instead of the alk, and crashing their tank. I would suggest that you get a Salifert ALK/KH test kit, and adjust the alk to be around 8 or 9 (between 7-11 is fine). I use Arm & Hammer baking soda to adjust my alk, what they sell in the pet store is the same chemically just a lot more money. The only problem I have with my xenia is that I can't sell it fast enough.
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Adding a fish to aid cycling is cruel in the extreme. Just because the fish can survive the conditions does not mean you should inflict such living standards on the poor things.
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Good to know. Thanks both.
Salifert ALK/KH test kit will be in hand on my way home today. As far as raising ALK I think that's what I'm doing? The stuff I bought yesterday is Kent Marine Superbuffer-dkh. I have dosed once. Toss it?
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Just be sure not to dose all at once, bring your alk up over the course of a couple days.
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Awesome. Thank you.
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