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You might want to find another test because if your nitrates are truly that high you would see it in your livestock.

What sort of filtration do you have for the tank? Live rock acts as a great filtration system so that will probably help, and then a protein skimmer would really help. Have you tested for nitrates?

What most people do in their QT is throw in some PVC pipe or coffee mugs to give the fish some hiding spots to swim around in. Not quite sure what the green stalks are but the rest of it is hair algae. I good way to get rid of it is just pull the rock out, put it in a seperate bucket and scrub...

If is a shame to hear that, then I would go with marinedepot.com as my preferred online retailer.

You might really really want to look into start using some RODI water. There is something in your tap water that is causing the algae outbreak. If you want to keep on using tap water, get a phosban reactor or chemipure or phosban to pull out the phosphates.

Go to Alfreds (I believe that is the name) for their conch chowder. Had it there 8 years ago and still want some.

tfjpetcenter.com is a sponsor and a great store. If they carry it, you can do local pickup in Toms River which means no shipping.

If my local LFS does not carry something, I order from marinedepot.com I have ordered several skimmers and other various things from them with no problem at all. They also have just about everything.

We used to dose copper in our QT in the beginning but now we just go with food. PE mysis seems to be the mysis of choice around here so I would look for that. Also realize that these are cures WHEN you get the problem. If the fish does not have signs of ick yet you don't have to go to extreme...

We are the same way, when our AC went out temp spike to around 84 which was way to high.

We use Brightwell garlic, you can buy it at most stores and we like it. We don't have tangs but we use garlic to boost all of our fish. We have been using selcon for about a month as well to help out with the fish. So far so good, and our flamback angel got over his ick with no problem. We did...

We had some heat issues with our tanks last week and lost our xenia (among others). How is the temp in your tank been?

I have never kept a tang, however from what I have read adding selcon to your food can help. Read the reviews on this site, I use selcon and love it...

Beautiful tank, very nice deal with the whole setup. I don't think you would have any problem doing an anem with clowns. In our thirty we have 2 Koralia #2s and 2 maxijet 1200s providing flow for the skimmer and the refugium and our anem is fine. With a 6 bulb T5 setup you can pretty much do...

Make sure you cover that bad boy tight, ours jumped a few weeks ago and I was not thrilled.

If you can get them, try blacksworms my duncans loved them.

Those blue dots are escape artist so be carefull, they also love to reaquascape anything on the sand bed. Before he jumped (through half inch grating) he rearranged all of our frags on the sand and one vanished on us. Mandarins are tough and unless you have a huge pod population, or are adding...

Biospira and the like are to speed up a cycle by adding bacteria that is not there. I have never heard it being used to reduce ammonia, I guess in theory it might work but a water change would probably be better.

Here is the thread I was talking about. http://www.njreefers.org/joomla/index.php?option=com_smf&Itemid=26&topic=18900.0

There are a couple of benefits to moon light that I can think of off the top of my head. Most people try to create as natural an environment as possible and moon lighting ties into the theory (check out Rehypes build with his led lights). Secondly, most bad things in our tanks like to come out...