Losing fish to vortechs :(

[abcha0s]

You really must rinse your carbon. There is a suspected link between carbon dust and HLLE. There was a study being done a while ago to validate this, but I haven't heard anything more since and I do not know the results. However, it's not hard to imagine that carbon dust could be very bad for fish.

- Brad

[cwatkins]

Originally Posted by abcha0s@conceptaquatics

You really must rinse your carbon. There is a suspected link between carbon dust and HLLE. - Brad

Or just buy the Carbon from BRS that has minimal dust.

I don't rinse mine, what I do is just let the first few gallons of water run through it into a pale, and then when the water is running clear then I put the output back into the sump. In effect this is rinsing it, but it's much easier than trying to rinse it by hand at the sink.

[dynamite]

Thanks for the info.. I'll start rinsing my carbon.

I think I'm going to give my YellowTang a fresh water bath.
He's hard to catch!!!
Would a cleaner shrimp or wrasse do the job?

[dynamite]

Ok, so after half an hour of chasing my Yellow Tang and destroying my aquascape I gave my yellow tang a 6m freshwater bath to get rid of the black spots... and apparently they're gone. He's stressed and hiding And I hope he survives to this bad experience of swimming in freshwater.

I don't want to stress him more so I'll re-aquascape the tank tomorrow, I'm afraid to lose him

I also found my Candy Cane Pistol shrimp! I thought he died or something... Now he shares the same rock with my Yasha Goby but not the same entrance