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The customer facing pieces may have changed, but the supply really hasn't. FFE was essentially a front for ERI the wholesaler. Drs Foster I believe is heavily supplied by ERI anyhow. FFE was causing a lot of trouble for ERI with LFS, so it was probably in their best interests to get FFE at...

seamaiden, copper is highly effective in the treatment of cryptocaryon (at least ionic coppers or ionic copper compounds, can't say the same for the most popular chelated brand). Hyposalinity shouldn't be discounted either. It has been proven (in a scientific setting). I would look at some...

I like garlic. It works as an excellent food stimulant. In terms of garlic use, i think its a good idea. In terms of using it to treat cyrpto, I have very large concerns for it. Yes, a study would be good, but I think most researchers pretty much know that it isn't effective to compare...

replace the brine with somethine nutritious like mysis. Brine shrimp should only be used to get something feeding. Other than that its nutritionally useless.

Is the tank 32" outside dimension or inside dimension ? Some tank manufacturers build tanks to outside dimensions (which is significant). Not sure why they would cut it off at 32" as most sheets of acrylic are 48" anyhow. Maybe they had a chance to make another tank at 16" rather than 14, but...

Ideally, one should probably alternate between selcon and zoecon. If you're having such a problem locating it, why don't you just mail order a few bottles from marine depot or something.

You might as well put the clowns in now. The lifecycle isn't going to be broken unless all the obligate hosts are removed and that hasn't happened. If you want to break the lifecycle, you're going to have to remove all hosts.

sammy, man I resisted posting this yesterday as it was my intention to do so, but saw no use jumping on. . . But since its being worked out, I'll paste back what I saved. Sammy, I think that you should exhaust your avenues before something like this is posted. While I certainly don't have...

Short term, most of those are possible. In the long term, I suggest you stay away from any Naso's (lopezi, unicorn, vlamingi, lituratus, brevirostris, etc). The Naso's are constant swimmers and get large fairly quickly. Most of these are fully capable of growing to 15-25" in captivity. Not...

It does sound like gill flukes as johnf noted earlier. A series of fresh water or formalin dips (every day, or every other day for a minimum of three treatments) will do the trick. It can also be treated with prolonged exposure to hyposalinity. For hyposalinity, I would seriously recommend a...

IMO, offering the LFS store to 'price-match' isn't really fair deal to the lfs. You may certainly think so, and this might satisfy your ethical dilemma, but it shouldn't. Your utilizing the fact that you can see what you're purchasing, can research whatever your buying, can determine if it...

Do you dose kalk ? I believe I read somewhere that Roger vitko said something that if you dose kalk quite heavily, more frequent cleanings were necessary. I haven't tried the stream yet, but my Tunze pump/powerheads have been running for over 18 months w/o any cleanings yet (yeah, I've been lax).

What kind of water did you use ? Was it heavily aerated first and then buffered to match the pH of your tank water ? FW dips aren't all that helpful, but if done correctly won't generally kill the fish that quickly. If your fish started swimming around drunk right after being placed back...

there is really no necessity or reason to get into this sort of discussion about lfs vs mail order. Everyone realizes the differences, but keep in mind - the economies of scale are different, service levels, see before acquisition, rent, shipping, etc. All those are factors. To expect an LFS...

I believe its 1" drains and 3/4" returns. I wouldn't go over 800 gph for optimal drains. 600gph is a better realistic number with any sort of bends. Assuming from below the stand, a good pump will be probably the Mag 7 as you'll have to dial back a Mag 9 (from experience). With the slight...