sharuq1

I would replace the rear glass...

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Sharuq, if you go to CAOAC's website, there's a guide to operating a successful aquarium society. Hope this can help you out!!

Thanks to those of you who came. Next meeting is first Sunday of June at my house. PM me for the address . I'm in class a lot of the time, so if I don't answer please leave a message. If you can bring some chairs it would be helpful as we do not have very many. Feel free to bring an object (book, article, equipment., what have you) for discussion.

We really need more people who are interested in taking a leadership role in the group to keep it on track. We also need ideas about things we can do at these meetings. If anyone from the calgary or edmonton group could come up and help us out or talk at the meetings about say the breeder's program or something that would be great. The group is a bit disorganized right now (apologies), but hopefully in time with support from fish lovers we will be able to make this a more formal club.

I'm thinking perhaps that June's topic should maybe be a demo on how to start a small reef aquarium, or how to use test kits or how to use a refractometer? Thoughts on this?

I'd like there to be at least one topic where there can be a learning experience, and seeing as it is at my house this time a saltie topic would work well. If there is a freshie who would like to come forward with a fw topic we could do at the next meeting that would be great as well.

Jim will be starting up a site at some point as well. Any questions, comments or helpful hints, please contact him at jsayers@shaw.ca or call 597-1134.

I have several in my tank, they do reproduce. haven't had any problems from them whatsoever.

BUMPAROONI It's today

Hope you can get rid of it, good luck :beer:

Next meeting coming up soon, same time same place (7pm Sunday May 3) All are welcome, no charge. Fresh and salt water. No snacks provided. For more details email jsayers@shaw.ca or call 597-1134/314-0589.

If you can it would be better to get the trigger and any other affected fish into QT so you can medicate properly without killing off your live rock. If you do choose to QT the LR and treat the tank, be aware that the meds will still be present in the water after this period and that will affect your rock. I don't think a diatom filter would help, and I have heard conflicting info. on whether a UV sterilizer would help or not, although you could try it.

Article on marine ich

A bunch of canreef articles that might help

Freshwater dips

Another article on FW dips

blegh, like playing in a giant skimmer :boxed:

It was so great to meet everyone! This group sounds like it's going to be great. When do we get to see your tanks gobies et al and 2manytanks?

Bump, the event is tomorrow

Jim 403-314-0589

Sun april 5 at 7 pm

Anybody going? I think I will. Met the person who's starting it some months back. He has both fresh and salt tanks. I don't know him well, but he seemed like a nice guy. Would be good to have a local club. Let's get some people over there.

Red Deer Aquarium Club

Nice fish Jonah :beer:

Lol, I didn't even look at the date before replying woops :&

Glad to see you didn't get out of salt. The octo is so cool

If you ever want to turn to the dark side, say the word Jerry. I'll give you some starter frags and a hunk of chaeto. Honestly it's less work than raising those rainbows.

Pretty sure its a favia...although I always get those two corals mixed up, lol. The clown is just a regular oscellaris. He was orange when we got him and slowly got darker over the last couple years. Looks like he is going to keep his orange points, so that makes me happy.

Beautiful! Love the superman monti

What do you mean you can see me?!?

I love gorgonians :smokey:

Welcome to the forums

I wonder if citric acid would work?

Just my personal opinion on the Rio nano skimmer. (Others might like it, I hated it.) I had one and it was aweful! Very finicky, always got clogged up with salt in the venturi, overflowed, leaked and was unimpressed with how it skimmed (when it bothered to). You would be better off with putting on an AC converted into a fuge, or running carbon, or filter pad or all 3 and using reg. water change; getting a better quality skimmer, don't by a "seaclone" they suck (I believe euroreef and tunze may be coming out with nano skimmers) or (my favorite solution) putting in a sump so you can put whatever you want in there for equipment plus hide all your other junk (heaters, etc.). I know the last two solutions are more for when you have the money, but the AC filter really is a much more well made product than the rio nano (Mine's still collecting dust somewhere )

You might want to re-think adding pipefish to a tank with bubble coral. I am sure people have done it with success, but they aren't the strongest swimmers, so much like seahorses can be vulnerable to anything that can sting. I have heard conflicting arguments on whether or not this fish is difficult to keep.

As to lighting, I agree mH's and t5HO are the bees knees and will bring out wonderful color in your coral. People can keep coral with pc's too though. As long as you keep the corals that need the most light higher in the tank, that is. Only reason I mention it is we had pc's over our tank for quite a long time as we just couldn't afford to upgrade. The pics I have in my sig under "more saltie pics" was a tank run under pc's.

Great idea

In your tank keep dosing Prime (use "emergency" dosing instructions), put on a filter full of carbon and do water changes. You could try filling up an alternate "tank" with a heater and air bubbler (a large bucket, a rubbermaid container, a clean spare tank) with clean fresh mixed saltwater and acclimating the clowns to this water, then putting them in there. If they perk up in the new clean water, it's the water in your tank. Nitrite is very toxic.

Did they have any black spots or bubbles at the store? Are you certain your specific gravity measurement is accurate?

I'm afraid I don't know much about diseases in saltwater fish as I haven't had experience with that problem. Try googling "black ich" or "velvet" or "marine ick" and see if any of those things looks like what your fish have. The bubble I am afraid I don't know. Could be an injury/disease/infection/pressure behind the eye or even an osmotic reaction to a drastic salinity change. Try asking on canreef, hopefully someone there will be able to help you.

Random thing I found googling "saltwater fish diseases" to try to help