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  1. I lost another head. Again, using a turkey baster to try and blow away the brown slime and the head just disintergrate leaving only the skeleton. Two more to go. :( They at least are not retracted into their skeleton, yet... Is it possible that when I "dropped" my coral on to the substrate, they got infected? That's the only thing I can think of.
  2. The last addition to the tank was a scooter blenny a month ago, and I have not noticed any nibbling by my other inhabitants (2 clowns, 1 yellowfin damsel, 1 six line wrasse, cleaner shrimp, fire shrimp, 2 hermit crabs, 5 snails). The only other "corals" I have are green/purple mushrooms.
  3. I'm scratching my head trying to figure out what to do... I got the wrong Iodine (I got Tincture of Iodine instead) last night, so I didn't do a dip. Maybe it's not Brown Jelly disease after all? I did use a turkey baster to try and siphon / blow off "stuff". When I "blew" on the "infected" heads, there were longish brown "slime" that would come off. For the smallest head, the first time I "blew" on it, the whole thing came off leaving just the skeleton, so, I guess he's a gonner. I have one head who is fully retracted into his skeleton but I got all the "slime" off him. I have the other two heads who I'm hopeful I can still save. I've been doing Water Changes every two weeks, maybe I need to increase that to every week? I'm going to do a water change tonight and see if that helps.
  4. I'm using API test kits. Temp: around 78.4 SG: 1025 Amonia: 0 (or not detectable with my kit) Nitrite: 0 (or not detectable with my kit) Nitrate: 0 (or not detectable with my kit) pH: 8.2 Alk: 8 dKH Tank: Stock 29G BioCube with Metal Halide
  5. Help, my torch coral is dying, is it Brown Jelly Disease? Picture of my torch coral right now. Here's a brief history... The coral was healthy and extended about 2 weeks ago. But about 1 week ago, I was doing some tank maintenance and I accidentally knocked him down. So, I just stuck him on the substrate thinking I needed to move him away from my Metal Halides anyways. But 1 week goes by and he never opened, so I moved him back to the original location (mid tank). That was 1 week ago and he never opened. Just yesterday I noticed a pronounced "brown" stuff on him. And tonight (the linked picture), one of the heads "disappeared" completely, another head seems to have half of it with "brown jelly", the third head seems infected, and the remaining head seems like its not going to open and may be ill as well. So, my question is, what's going on? Doing a bit of web surfing, is this "Brown Jelly Disease"? I've been measuring my water Q every few days and every things seems correct. I'm trying to get a QT up and running and I'm planning on doing a iodine dip. Anyone have any suggestions otherwise? Anyone know the dose amount? How long to dip? etc...
  6. I've read everywhere that the cycle time for setting up a brand new aquarium is lengthly (3 or more weeks). The main reason is to allow the die-offs on the rock to re-establish a balance in the ecosystem, or otherwise "cure" the rocks. However... If you are "transferring" live rock immediately (let's say less than a minute) from an established aquarium, I suspect there is little die off, and thus, the cycle time in the new aquarium will be very short. Does this logic hold true? If so, is it conceivable to have a new aquarium ready in a day?
  7. Thanks for all the replies. I'm monitoring it, and it seems to be stable at 8.0.
  8. Thanks jackaninny and jgf86123. It looks like I'm still on track then...
  9. Hi Everyone, (warning: long and verbose...) I'm new to this site and also new to keeping a saltwater aquarium. My wife con (uh, I mean convinced) me to setup a saltwater aquarium for my two young kids. So, I've been reading as much as I can on this forum and other forum Google brings up. There is so much info it's making my head spin... Anyways, Yesterday, I setup a new 29g Biocube HQI with Live Rock (40-50 lbs, 6 year-old) from a gal on Craigslist. It has tons of Coraline algae, purple/green mushrooms, and other stuff (I don't know what they are) growing on it. She told me the system is ready to go when the water parameters are inline. So, I've been monitoring the water quality (temp, sg, pH, ammonia, nitrite, and nitrate) and they are all inline. Except tonight, I measured a pH of 8.0 (it was 8.2 last night). So, I went to PetCo to see if I can get something to help with the pH, but the salesperson sent me home with two damsel fishes (to help seed the ammonia) and 3 hermit crabs and two snails (to help with my pending algae breakout). So, am I doing this right? - I was expecting my tank to build up Ammonia, but it didn't, or at least not yet. Do I need to wait some more, or is my talk already "cycled" due to the use of well established live rock? - Am I too early in introducing the Damsel fishes? I did read that you can use them as "sacrificial" ammonia producing engines. Do I just throw in some raw shrimp to help "kick-start" the cycle? - Do I need to "fix" my pH problem? How should I do this? baking soda? chemicals? Or just add more argonite gravel? Sorry for the this extremely long thread, just hoping maybe someone can give me a clue... Photos of my setup
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