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The frag rack is one of the kinds that attaches to the glass via magnets, and has no contact with anything else in the tank beyond the glass. The cleaner shrimp gets up there every now and then and pesters the duncans, but after my peppermint shrimp destroyed my blasto (and I returned them to...

None of the CUC really mess with the hammer. They can't reach the corals on the frag rack and the hammer is distanced a little from the other corals, though that was to protect them from its sweepers, not the other way around. The light is a 50 watt NICREW Aquarium LED Reef Light - It's...

Hello all, I've somewhat recently started up a saltwater tank, my first, and it's somewhere between 8-10 months old at this point. About three months ago, I put my first corals in, and that consisted of a duncan, blasto, zoanthid, candycane, GSP, and about a week later, a branching hammer coral...

Hi, I've been testing the seals on my new 14 gallon aqueon rimless cube, and it came with the mat which I definitely used immediately. With the tank full of water and otherwise empty, I can see all of the hotspots from the tiles on my counter top. I'm concerned that the mat may not be taking up...

Update: All of the fish in the tank died. I have since then treated the tank with an antibiotic amidst various water changes, and now there is a clean, healthy stock of fish that have been happily swimming disease-free for 2.5 weeks. They were all attained from the same location and quarantined...

The Kanaplex isn't arriving until Monday. I have to get them to somehow survive 2 more days untreated. I will be treating both the tank and the fish though.

Somehow through all of this, 2 types of meds, salt, heat numerous water changes no doubt throwing the chemistry all over the place... there are two blue dream shrimp that I pulled out of my shrimp colony with the beginning plan to start a new one just... chilling in their little breeding...

Thank you for that. I'm taking some temporary emergency steps. Removing the fish from the main tank to a measured amount with 2x the salt content, since I can watch them. They're bag floating to adjust temps right now with a bit of the higher salinity water added incrementally to adjust them...

The medication came in... and it was packed wrong. I was sent Metroplex instead of Kanaplex, which now I can't get in until Monday and no one stocks in person. Why you gotta do me like that Amazon. Temps down to 80, only 2 fish left alive now.

Approx 60% water has been changed out, I added the salt back in, and left the water a bit lower in the tank to allow the filter to agitate the surface a bit more. I'll just keep updating here as I proceed through the steps I take. Temp is down to 84 degrees from the 88 it was earlier, still...

The tank is a 30 gallon and was not too heavily stocked. Now it's even less so. Good parameters, nitrates a little high but coming down with more frequent water changes. Dropping the temps already but it'll take some time. I added the salt per the instructions on the container. 1 tbs/5 gallons...

I can get my hands on the Seachem Kanaplex by tomorrow. I think this may be the solution, I'm going to start dropping the temps in my tank right away and hold off on any more ich treatments. The salt should still be beneficial according to that page, but I have everything else already to make...

That.... looks almost exactly like that I'm seeing. If it is epistylis with columnaris then the higher water temperatures are only making it worse.

So is the suggestion removing the fish to the bucket for approx 2 weeks, keep the temps high in the tank and just treat the bucket? I don't have an extra heater for the bucket, especially not one for so small of an amount of water. The best I could manage is snagging a betta heater from my betta...

My quarantine tank is currently being used as emergency housing for my shrimp colony while I verify that the 10 gallon I had to nuke a couple of weeks ago is stable. I have my 5 gallon water change bucket that I could probably use as temporary housing if absolutely necessary, but that wouldn't...

I'm down with getting another medication if needed. Hikari Ich-X, the Rid-Ich plus... whatever.

The temperature is already holding steady around 87-88 degrees, and there's no trouble with holding it there. I'm concerned that the two week wait is going to kill of my remaining fish though. Out of a tank of 20, 6 are left, the largest and strongest who have mostly resisted the disease except...

Hey guys, I'm not exactly new to the fish hobby, but this... I don't know what to do about this. This is the worst outbreak of ich I have ever experienced. I've lost half of my tank already. The explosion of infection just seems to be getting worse and I'm running a full gambit of treatments...

I've heard of Repashy gel food - it was an option to use in mixtures for my snails, specifically the soilent green version. It has some great reviews but I haven't used it myself, I've just seen it recommended in a few different places. I did see one interesting feeding technique where someone...

Yep, I have a super healthy colony of blue neocaridina living in the same tank as well as the remains of a blue spotted ramshorn colony (I'm slowly transitioning them to another tank to make space for the mystery snails so the bio load won't get too high.) My rabbit snails are there too, since...

No fertilizers, the food is a sort of random rotation of tetra pro pleco algae wafers, and hikari crab cuisine. The newest food is more or less the same snello recipe I see everywhere with unflavored/unsweetend gelatin, organic baby food (only greens, no meats) food grade calcium carbonate and...

As some of my previous posts have mentioned, I'm trying to raise and breed mystery snails. Well, I just found out this morning that one of them died without any cause that I can tell. I did mix a new food for them, but now I'm having a hard time remembering if I ever saw him come out to eat it...

I've had tigers in a number of tanks and a number of grouping sizes. I read and read all of the information pages saying that they are quite aggressive, however this hasn't ever been my experience. Granted, I do get them in a group of at least 6, but I currently have a tank with electric blue...

Hornwort is how scuds got into my tank too. Frustrating but harmless. I have found that the plant will sometime shed its needles randomly, but my shrimplets absolutely adore it. It's a great place for fry and babies to scoot around in a more protected area. I've never seen any of my snails...

For reference, and because I haven't shown anyone this tank yet, this is the tank in question. It's home to a pair of male guppies, a breeding colony of blue dream shrimp and the various snails. :D

Water conditions in that tank are pristine, and it's been set up for over 6 months. I wasn't about to put expensive fancy snails in a bad tank, hehe. I am frustrated, but, I'll take excellent care of any hopeful future babies, so.. I guess we'll see what the future holds. Thanks for the input!

It is possible that the calcium in the tank was lower when these problems started - I'd just done a couple of water changes and while I do have hard water, I supplement with a wonder shell and didn't this time for about a week after. Maybe they're predisposed to it, but the momentary dip allowed...

I don't have the parents, and there was only a single image on the posting to go off of, however there is one snail in the picture that is facing the right way to see that it seems to have a developing dip in the same location. It would really be a shame if this were genetic. Luckily the other...

Hey guys, I've been raising some fancy colored mystery snails and they've been doing great until the last like, two weeks. I noticed that both of the large purple snails were developing these clefts in their shells. You should be able to see in the pictures the cleft, but I've had these babies...

I only cleaned the smaller tank's sponges because the 10 gallon one was packed full and I hadn't realized it was so gunky. They were all set up around the same time, so I figured giving them a cleaning couldn't hurt. Mind, this is a couple of months of these brand new sponges being in action, so...

Hey guys, I've only recently gotten into sponge filters and I'm still learning about them. I have them in a 2, 3 and 10 gallon tank, and I've been going through and cleaning them all out, but for some reason... the 3 gallon's sponge was almost pristinely clean. These have been working for a...

Yep, I'm from Florida! Thanks for all of the welcomes! I don't know if I'll submit my tanks for any contests, though I do like sharing pics.