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I should have added. I'm sorry for your loss. This really sucks. P.

You know, after reading the other thread again I'm starting to wonder if it is velvet. My reasoning is that one of the fish most susceptable to velvet is the tang whist the mandarin should have had much more resistance. I would have expected the tang to die before the the mandarin. Is this...

I hate to say this but if it is velvet everything I have read indicates that the tang will probably get it and if so it will kill him. If it were me I'd really start thinkling about getting all the remaining fish into hyposaline. Even if you have to drain and disassemble the rockwork. Good...

Outstanding!! Do you target feed the original colony?? If so, what with? P.

My pleasure Ma'am. P.

(The following info is from my LFS so I don't vouch for its accuracy) These type of denitrifiers have gone through three levels of technology. 1) At first the bacteria used were a carbon reducer type. This required the use of bio-balls and carbon source feeding (sugar or alcohol). 2) Later...

Asfur I have a 29G which has two non-photosynthetic corals that my wife is nursing back to health. As a consequence this tank is very heavily fed. It has a DSB and live rock but the high feeding loads overwhelmed the system and the nitrates wouldn't go down. I was doing multiple large water...