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Thanks everyone for all the comments and i really appreciate it of that interested in me.
Recently i think i found disease or parasite in my tank especially on the emperor angel fish. i have treated the tank with 14ml of copper tru to my 100 gal tank, first dose only, i do not have any coral or quarantine tank, is it ok , or how i can improve without removing the fish from tank.
Fish are not easy to catch and afraid of giving stress to fish. Any suggestion?
 
Dude copper is not the remedy to fish disease or parasite, your best option is to give them a fresh water bath for about 5 minutes. be sure to remember too get the fresh water you use to the same temp as your tank and pref RO water, If you cant catch your fish out the tank the next best is water changes lots of water changes and keep your lightsoff for a few days
 
hi trdan again, i have just caught the fish and given a RO water dip for 5 minutes. should i repeat this procedure every day till it get well? the emperor have blur eye, what else should i do?
 
hi tridan, what do you mean non copper base medicine? Dose to the tank? i am afraight of it bulging eye that it can die. this fish really cost and beautiful to me. any good garanty procedure?
 
Well you say its got a bulging eye, wouldnt worry to much about that, non copper based remedies, they got no copper in them, fish are very seseptable to hmp (heavy metal poisening. but with a bulging eye i would not medicate i have had one or two fish with the same condition as long as they feed it should be ok
 
is the water dip still require? i have quarantine it inside the tank, if nothing i need to do, i will release it.
 
imo i have never had problems with a fish that has pop eye, they always seem to
just sought them selves out, watch him for a day or 2 if the fish really looks stressed out you might need to a dip
 
agree with tridan.as long as the fish eats,he will be fine.a few of my fish also picked up popeye but recovered with out any treatment
 
you would probabley have to up your flow to get the particulte mate out the tank, disolved protiens would easly get there but because particulate matter has wieght it would need a bit of a boost. To give a boost ad more movement in your tank
 
Tridan said:
you would probabley have to up your flow to get the particulte mate out the tank, disolved protiens would easly get there but because particulate matter has wieght it would need a bit of a boost. To give a boost ad more movement in your tank
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Thanks Tridan for the infor.
 
Anyone know why i always get many something like dust(dirty) on my rocks even i have a blower and two powerhead continuesly blowing in the tank?
 
David - you must also get one or two more VERY powerful power-heads. For example: 2 x 6000 litre per hour power-heads (together with your existing power-heads). Otherwise, if you don't like to see too many power-heads in your tank, you could always replace the two that you have with 2 x 10000 litre per hour power-heads.

I also have the same problem - I manually "clean off" my sand bed and rocks every day (sometimes twice a day) using a "turkey baster".... I still do not have enough water movement in my tank, even though I have 39900 litres per hour being pumped around in my 2 metre tank.... I need at least another 20000 litres per hour - then I know that the detritus (dust-like stuff) will not settle onto my sand or rocks....
 
Thanks for the instruction jacq and thailon. I have just purchase an anemous, why it sometime look like squeeze? Photo will update soon.
 
David - if I was you I would increase the lighting if you want to keep your anemone happy as well.... Your nitrate levels should be 0, and you must have a LOT of flow and lighting to keep your anemone happy. Also, you must feed it small pieces of fish and shrimp (small pieces: +- 1cm in size)..... I feed my 4 anemone's every Sunday (once a week)... and they seem to be very happy
 
jacquesb said:
David - if I was you I would increase the lighting if you want to keep your anemone happy as well.... Your nitrate levels should be 0, and you must have a LOT of flow and lighting to keep your anemone happy. Also, you must feed it small pieces of fish and shrimp (small pieces: +- 1cm in size)..... I feed my 4 anemone's every Sunday (once a week)... and they seem to be very happy
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How Much lighting?
Now i have 3 nos of 4 ft 40 watts 20000K, 1 no of 2ft and 1 4 ft moonlight.
 
Hi David - you would need much more than that - to keep the anemone happy, you would need at least 8 x 40watt T8's - WHITE (at least 6500K, perhaps even 10000K white color). The 20000K is ONLY for coloring, and not to assist in the growth and feeding of the zooanthellae inside the body of the anemone (they need the same amount of lighting than at least soft-corals)....

Good luck!
 
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