NICE find

[Flybynight]

Here is pictures of the Blue tang that JUST took. I cant get a good shot. I can not get the old pics off my Kodak Webpage unless I buy some and they send me the picture on a mug Haha. But, I can send a invite if you want to look at them.

Every time I would go to take the picture he would move. But as you can see all my fish swim up and want some loving.

 

[m2434]

Sorry to hear about your frag tank... on the bright side, your tangs are beautiful!

As for the algae, I would siphon as much as possible, do some big water changes and run GFO. Unfortunately it might be a battle.

 

[Boca Kris]

what is GFO?

 

[gary faulkner]

granulated ferrous oxide= GFO =Phosphate remover

 

[HDFATB]

This Is a tuff thread!

There are a lot of cynical people watching this thread.

when this thread was first posted I had just finished cycling my new 240g sys I put In a porcupine puffer that I had purchased from my local fs In two days he started to get Ick.
I have had ick In past systems before and had success and failures so I was looking for a new miracle cure. I put In a search for Ick and came across this thread when the pics of the naso first were posted.
I pm flybynight to ask him what he was using and how much. He replied Immediately and from my previous experience his advise was on the money.
I couldn't get garlic guard for four days but I immediately started soaking all food In crushed garlic and saw the Ick stop in Its tracks. Within two days of receiving the Garlic guard I saw the Ick starting to go away. I have been In the hobby for a long time and had Ick many times and spent a lot of money on all kinds of remedies and I will swear by garlic.

I hope from my post everyone will see that some good came out of this thread and the bickering will end.

thanks flybynight for the help.

 

[Flybynight]

Thank you very much HDFATB for you input. I am very gald it worked. I am glad you posted your feelings as well. I was feeling all alone in the world haha.

Just so people know, I only argued my point because of my past success. Not because I like to be up in anyones face. I do not come to this site to prove everyone wrong. I come here to learn and to teach. I do A LOT more Learning than teaching haha.

I debate to learn. Not to make people mad. What kind of world would this be if everyone did what they where told and never questioned if they where doing is right or wrong?

 

[gary faulkner]

Flybynight

I think you oughta rename this "The Garlic Thread"

Or maybe not.

 

[kau_cinta_ku]

beautiful looking fish, but looks skinny with the caved in belly.

don't you love the way they eat out of your hand though. my hippo is still to shy but my clowns will nibble at my fingers when food is around.

 

[Flybynight]

Nice Find or The Garlic Thread....... Kinda goes together =-)

 

[jadeguppy]

Naso is looking much better! Sorry about the frag tank. That is a nice zoa to have lost.

 

[Flybynight]

Well, the good thing about the ring of fire. I have thousands of them haha. So the 25 is very minor. I got my ppe frag cleaned up and doing well in the main tank. I built a new/bigger frag rack a bit ago so I cleaned all those frags also. Everything is going to be just fine.

 

[jadeguppy]

In that case, how about sending some my way.

 

[Flybynight]

Pay for shipping, box, and heatpack MR teacher =-)

 

[Boca Kris]

do you have an attack plan for your algae? I recently added a TX5 unit and had an algae outbreak in about 2 days later...none of my parameters really changed...no nitrates/phosphates, etc....any tips Garlic Guru??

 

[Flybynight]

Well, I got thinking about the algae problem. I did not have one before my brother overfeed. So that was the problem. I do not need to buy anything to help with it because like in the real world things tent to correct themselfs.

Now almost all the algae is gone. The fish is doing good. Everything looks good.


The tips on Garlic guard is soak the fish food in the garlic guard then feed. Or add 5 ml per 50 gallons per day. Somethings I do both.
Your Parameters probley did not change becuase the algae was eating everything haha. The reason it grows is because that is food to them. So that is a way of a system balancing.

Before buying stuff like a TX5, I would try and figuar where the probelm is. It may be to much food, your water, to many critters, or a # of diffrent things. If you cant figuar it out then I would start spending money on stuff like that. Good Luck