It's hard not to get carried away when you've got a tank, you want it to look like Jamie Cross's tank. You didn't mention a QT tank and that's the first step to a healthy reef with fish. All fish should be in QT before they go into the reef tank. A lot of people skip this step and I'm guilty of it as well and I lost all my fish at one point. If you set up a QT tank and you have a fish in there and 3 weeks later you add another fish that you just HAVE to have, the QT process should start over again for the first fish. You need that time to evaluate them, if anything does go wrong you can medicate or alter the water asap with out having to stress them with catching them in a reef etc. Stress Coat etc all have their place but I agree with trilinearmipmap, a commercial product isn't the solution. Proper QT, prevention and if you need it treatment are the proper steps.
Doug
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04-08-2005, 08:11 PM
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