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The thing is that you're likely going to see the disease surface sometime in QT. Be it in the 1st day or the very last day. I've never had a fish that I QT'd ever come down with any sickness or disease. There's a specific lifecycle for most marine parasites, so it's definitely easy to break them...

Well, by disease, I mean the common ones. Velvet, brook, and crypt. All 3 can be 100% prevented with Quarantine. Plus, I don't want to see the guy who's new to salt water get dejected when he loses fish like I did when I first started (and didn't QT).

Make sure you quarantine your fish in a small tank for a month! Quarantine everything and you will never have disease.

Less than most, I would assume. I know that Euphyllia species and their relatives (frogspawn, bubble, torch, etc.) are all EXTREMELY susceptible to it, unfortunately. So susceptible that they should always be dipped before placed, IMO.

If it was velvet, which it sounds about 90% likely to me, you're going to want to let your tank go fallow for at least a month (frankly, I'd go 2 months...) to make sure that nothing of it is left in the tank. - WWM I would definitely go a while without fish, though.

Flex PVC also builds up algae and everything else much, much faster than rigid PVC. It needs to be cleaned once in a while.

I see Emps in reef tanks, but not normally reef tanks with clams. I urge you to check out the Annularis Angel. They are tremendously gorgeous fish (if you get a chance, check out Trop's in their FOWLR show tank). I didn't mention it in my post, but they are normally considered fairly reef...

Too bad I will not be allowed to go to that!

I would get rid of one or the other (and really, a 90 is probably about 50 gallons too small for a Sailfin long term), in all honesty. Otherwise, the yellow is likely to die from the mental damage it's receiving.

\ Immediately take it out and QT it. Give it an iodine dip. If you don't do that, you're likely to lose the whole coral and any other LPS you have. In fact, I'd give all of your LPS iodine dips just to be sure. Use a Lugols and saltwater solution (WWM should have info about the dip make)...

I wouldn't. Never know what minerals are in there. Use something called "drinking water". You can get it at places like Wal-Mart. It is RO water.

Haha, very true. I was utterly *SHOCKED* to find out that it happened, as well. At least it was the expensive fish eating the cheap fish, this time! Usually it ends up being the other way around!

Any of the swallowtail angels mentioned (the Bellus and the Wantanabe are only 2 of them) are almost completely reef safe. Also very, very reef safe is the Golden Dwarf angel. A true beauty if you ask me. Runs around $100 or so most places and seems to be hit or miss availability wise. One of...

I don't think it's a bad idea at all to add some live rock from your already cycled tank to the new tank. Will help seed the base rock during the process and will help cycle the tank a bit faster. Would definitely also use the filter media from the 55 to jumpstart the 180. Like, if you're using...

I keep mine at 81 and everything is immaculate.

I think most people know I work at the Howell Petco. Well, we just got in a nice shipment of fish from A&M Aquatics. One of them being a tiny little colored angler. He was about 3/4 of an inch or so. I put him into a tank with a snowflake eel (which is in a critter keeper). We had a lunare...

The last time I ordered Monos and Scats for the Petco in Howell where I work, I did a 7 hour acclimation (basically my full day) and they were extremely healthy and sold. Never heard about deaths, either. But yes, obviously the longer the acclimation the better, but I'd say a MINIMUM time of...

Those are what I have! I love them! They even eat flake food! Haha, it's insane to find an Anthias species that eats freaking FLAKE food right when you get them from the store (and in the store as well)!!

When I did them, I gave them about a 7 hour drip. It worked perfectly as far as I could tell. They were passed along between a few people after I got rid of them. Always did the trick in cleaning algae. A great saltwater tool!

Keeping a few mollies in a reef tank is a fantastic idea, anyway. They are fantastic at eating ANY type of algae. Even hair algae. It's why places like Trop keep them in their coral tanks. Every larger reef tank with a fish or so to spare should have at least one, IMO.