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Thanks. I'm really bummed. They've both died quicky in the same exact manner. I hope it's not anything we're doing. :(

Well, looks like I won't have to dip him. He's gone. He was fine this morning. Came home and he looked bad and is now gone. :( Second darn picasso we've lost now. I think we're done with them for awhile. If it is clownfish disease, do I need to worry about the canary blenny or orange firefish...

Yeah, same LFS. I'll try the dip route. Thanks.

14g biocube with a picasso b, yellow blenny and orange firefish. Also has some coral ranging from acan to gsp to frogspawn. Parameters seem good with 0 ammonia, 0 nitrite, 0 nitrate, 480 calcium, 8.2ph, 1.024Sg and 77 deg. This would be the second clown that's died in the last 2 months (this...

That's very cool. My 7 yr old son is fascinated by stuff like that. We find them when hiking around the water gap all the time.

closer view of my new open brain

Congrats on the startup. When you read my comments below, please keep in mind that I’m a total newb and have only had my small 14g up and running for a few months now. So there is a ton that I need to learn as well. Hopefully the comments will come across as constructive as that’s how they are...

Updated pic below: All parameters right where they belong and everything appears to be thriving. Lots of new growth on the corals and we found tons of baby snails the other morning.

I have a 14g and between putting in some phosban, scaling back the lights to about 2hrs a day for 2 days, and dropping in 1 emerald, almost all of it is now gone. I've also pulled out what I could. Main reason for the emerald was the bubble algae I was starting to get. Are your phosphates up?

Thanks all. Only took a week. Of course I kept up the water changes, but my levels are now 0.

Couple more additions, 'nother feather duster, canary blenny, couple acros and fire coral. Think I'm done for now.

You'd likely do better by putting this in the for sale section ;) I must have about 200 pairs of skis in my attic and another 20 in the garage lol.

UPDATED PIC Phosban has helped me clear up the water a bit more over the last few days and I've added 2 sps.

Finally got a metal halide on my 14g biocube. We want a yellow clown goby and I've been told that they do better when you have a few acros in the tank. So I'm looking for my first or two acros. I'm trying to avoid anything that's going to require any dosing as I currently am not doing that and...

Wasn't planning on going the reactor route. I currently have it tossed in the middle back chamber (it's the all in one biocube 14g with 3 back chambers). The chamber it's in is between a chamber that has a heater and the chamber that has the pump.

Phosphates were up to .25 (had never checked them till last night). Chris from OGII suggested phosban. For my 14g I put in 10g (cause I think that's about how much water it actually holds). So how quick should I notice a drop and how long do I leave it in? thx.

Thanks everyone. Starfish is a purple brittle star. We're getting rid of it regardless. Maybe replace it with an orange linkia (sp?). The only other fish in the tank was a yellow headed sleeper goby. The two of them would pal around and appeared to be best friends. Clown was doing well, even...

Yes, was grade b picasso. Still haven't found him and at this point, since the tank is so small, I have to assume he died and that the brittle star consumed whatever was left. I need to get rid of that damn star, but would really like to know what made the clown die. :(

Thanks calaxa. I was hoping to pick up some Oraglo or one of the others today after work, but the clown was MIA this morning, so now I don't know if it died and the brittle ate it, or if it was just super well hidden. It's only a 14g so there aren't a million places it can hide. :(

So we've had our picasso now for almost a month and everything has been fine. It's been eating, and swimming around. For the last week it's been hosting a small rock anenome that we've had for just over a week. I noticed last night that it was just swimming in a back corner where the flow is...