Bigjohnwoody

So I got a 100.00 gift certificate for Christmas from liveaquaria and just ordered a clam with it. If anyone has any suggestions on how to best place this and where then shoot them my way. It will be delivered on Thursday so I have plenty of time for all suggestions. Tell me what you think and I will keep this thread open as my first clam thread! Lol This is the pic from liveaquaria as I don't have it yet! http://www.liveaquaria.com/diversden/itemdisplay.cfm?c=2733+1&ddid=111151&ref=4282&subref=AI&cmpid=E-_-TR-_-DDN-_-PRDCT

Been wanting a tat for awhile I just don't know of exactly what yet. Atleast I know where to go now

Very cool. I am hoping to get some green birdsnest in the next couple days. I really like that stuff and now I am inspired on how fast it grows. I will have to take more progression pics. Thanks for the pics

Very very cool!

Yah that's funny, reading over it again I think I might submit the thread to General Hospital. Lol

So another update for everyone. She is still doing well and I was finally able to get some pics of her. I have a canon EOS Rebel T1I but apparently I have no idea how to use it because my pics suck and I can not figure it out. So any recomendations on why her color is so faded and what I can do to improve it would be awesome thanks. Anyways here are some pics of my new hopefully getting healthy Tang.

I would have to agree with the rest of everyone on here. The way some people can act on forums is completely unnecessary. As a relatively new member myself I was overwhelmed with positive posts and responses to my questions. I was in fact so impressed by the kindness and eagerness to help on this site I became a member in just a couple weeks. I have continued to be more and more impressed by people willing to help. Even giving out phone numbers and inviting you to there homes. I am truly sorry that your son was treated this way and can understand your frustration. I can assure you as I have been on many saltwater forums and this site by far has the most members per capita that are willing to bend over backwards to help. I hope you will give us all a second chance since this club is a great place to learn a wealth of information. Also you being local to everyone has unforseen benefits. Thanks for posting this and making all of us aware of your unfortunate first experience.

Ok I want chalices now! Crap my wife is really gonna flip. Why can't I just fall in love with a whole tank of pulsing xenia and GSP?

I talked with Seachem yesterday and he told me no Ammonia additives with the use of Cupramine as it does contain copper. I also found this thread yesterday and though it is a little old it seems to still hold true and there is some good information in it as well involving other products you can use in conjunction with an ammonia product like Amquel. http://www.reefcentral.org/forums/showthread.php?threadid=1373316&perpage=25&pagenumber=1

So an update on my tang. She is doing extremely well. Her color is looking better all the time and she is out and about swimming. I also just fed and she is eating like a pig once again. Her ich looks like it is almost completely gone and everyone else in the tank seems to be acting as they always do. When my green chromis noticed her this morning he freaked and went to the top of the tank and panicked but after about an hour he is now even swimming with her. She does swim some and then go hide in her rock then come out and swim but I have heard and read that this is normal behavior. Also her eyes are foggy and I have heard this is a sign of stress and I am sure it will pass. I will try to post a pic tomorrow of her for all to see.

I found this while searching the web and thought it was amazing. Just starting to get into chalices as I have always thought they were way to much money. This morph is unbelieveable to me though. Just thought I would share it and see if anyone knows where I can get one. I am sure they are super spendy so as soon as you tell me the price I am sure I will say it look great on my computer screen. lol.

Ok so lights have come on and I would say she looks pretty good. She has very good color and actually came out of the rock swam around a little and then returned to her rock where she is still sitting. I am sure she is still super stressed and don't expect much for atleast a day. The ich actually looks a lot better. Hardly any spots at all it seems to have faded quite a bit. I would consider her breathing to be normal. I will keep you all posted as things change. Thanks again for all the advice.

Dosing Cupramine and an ammonia suppresents will cause copper levels to go toxic. Which is why I had to do constant water changes and decided that it was more stressful than helpful and moved her to my display where all params are in stable conditions with no Ammonia and more of a natural environment. I just have to hope and pray now that she will pull through and not stress the rest of my fish.

Went in that room to grab my laptop because it is ten times easier than typing on my iphone and happened to get a glimpse of her. She is in between two rocks just sitting there. She is moving around a little so at least she made it through the night. Lights come on in about an hour and a half so I will be able to see how she looks.

As of this morning no sign of her! My lights don't come on until noon and I am trying to stay away from the tank so I don't stress her any more. I will let you guys know as soon as I know something.

Well first update is she is now in my display! Lights are out when I introduced her and I am off to bed so I can't bother her. Lol.

Great looking tank!

Never been much of a chalice fan yet but that thing is beautiful. This may make me look into chalices more.

Ok well after listening to all of you guys I think I am just going to add her to my display. Between me struggling with ammomia too stressing the heck out of her with staring at her every second I am just going to go with the strong will survive and pray my pair of picasso clowns, diamond goby and green chromis will be ok. If you think I am making a huge mistake and want to talk me out of it you have about an hour before I add her to the display and start to pray everything else is ok. Thanks CCR for clearing things up. I really was laughing out loud when you said if she was a monkey she would be throwing poo at me. This is so true. I have not left her alone for more than a couple hours since I have had her. Thanks guys for the advice I really appreciate it.

All I have for flow is my hang on the back aqua clear power filter! With just a sponge in it for filtration. It does flow in and break the surface but flow is not much I would say.

I did use Kent pro ammonia day before I started the cupramine and did a 60 percent water change before I used the Cupramine and talked with seachem and Kent about my situation and both said I would be more than fine.

Ok so I bought a blue hippo and put her in my 30 gallon qt tank thank God. She was gorgeous at the store and was eating very well. Of course the day after I got her home she had ich. I drip acclimated her to the qt and left the lights off and have a hang on the back filter and pvc fittings and a heater in my qt. The temp is at 79 degrees and I have less the .25 ammonia 0 nitrite and 0 nitrate. I have been doing water changes like crazy trying to keep down my ammonia levels. They have been as high as .5 and that was three days ago and she has always acted perfectly healthy except fo rhaving ich. I had the sponge in my tank for over a month seeding and it does not seem to be helping as I am doing lots of WC's. So I have had her for about a week now and the ich is worse than ever and decided instead of hypo I would run Cupramine. So I added my first dose of cupramine last night. The bottle recommmends 16 drops per 10.5g for the first dose. I put in 32 drops for a 30 gallon tank and decided to not put in the full dose as I read online about really easing them into treatment even more than the bottle states. The copper levels are currently below .25 tested with Salifert test kit. So now after last night she will not eat. I have been feeding her three times a day small meals and she always eats everything and now she wont touch anything. I soaked the food in Kent garlic and also tried rod's food and she won't even come out of her PVC. What should I do? Should I do a big water change again and start the cupramine even slower? I really don't want to lose her. Someone please help.

I don't get off until 4 which would put me up there at about 5:30. Still working on a way to make it though. Don't count me out as of yet

I want to come to this so bad. I am bummed I have to work. I am gonna see what I can do to make it though.

Thanks jgf86123! I pm'd them both and am hoping to hear from one of them. Love your avatar by the way that picture is sick. Please don't ever change it!