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- Hamilton N,J,
I'm going to start out by explaining my setup fish, and routine. I have a 75 gallon tank. I have 2 marineland emperior 280 biofilters, 2 marineland 400 circulation pumps, and 6 54 watt lights for coral. I have an R/O system in my house for water. My levels are 8.4, ammonia is 0, no2 0, no3 0. I started the tank with 90 pounds of live rock that was cured for 8 months and 40 pounds of live sand. I let the tank cycle for 6 weeks before adding fish. I added 2 osc clownfish then 2 weeks later added a grey poma angel and yellow wrasse. 2 weeks later I added 1 firefish and 1 bicolor angel. I feed my fish 3 times a day. I only feed them 1 krill cube a day. I belive this is not to much food. Every week I take 10 gallons out and put 10 gallons back in. When I do this every week I make the 10 gallons in a 20 gallon tank I use for this. I have a heater and circulation pump in it. I start 2 days before the change by adding the salt to the water and letting it circulate keeping the salinity and temp same as my tank. I keep my salinity around .023 since my fish store is the same. I keep my water temp at 76. I run my lights 12 hours on and 12 hours off. I have 3 actnic bulbs for the blue color and 1 bright 20,000k and 2 10,000k yellow hue lights. 2 weeks ago I picked up 2 sand sifting starfish and a leather. I finally made a bad decession according to everything I read. A friend of mine was moving and offered to give me 1 blue hippo tang, 1 blue powdered tang, 1 6 striped wrasse, 3 blue green chromis, and 1 amonenti. I have a brown algae break out. I believe diotodes. I also noticed my blue powdered tang looks like he has sand all over him. I did stir up some sand removing the brown algae with a turkey baster. I can not tell if its the itch. He is not breathing fst or itching. I'm wondering if anyone else has had a fish have sand all over him and put it thru stress by removing it to the hospital tank? I would also like any and all constructive critisism on my fish keeping and did I put my fish at risk by taking all te free fish. One more thing. My grey poma angel only bothered the bicolor angel a little when added it. It chased him around and 4 hours later they looked like friends hanging out. When I added the powder blue hippo the grey poma hated him. Both fish are 4 inches and the biggest fish in the tank. I removed the grey poma and put him in the 4 gallon breeder. Can I now put him back in and expect a different outcome?
