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Cant tell from the picture but I have also seen the Brookanella be a huge issue at a bunch of stores in the Dallas area.

I have ran into this disease on two different occasions
Thank God for QT tanks

http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x84/Jeeper0309/Fish/653A222B-8B7A-4698-B964-C8E43DC1F49A_zpszuhhrjbt.jpg Hey Guys long time no talk. I am inquiring to see if you guys can help me out. My Hawaiian Blue Spot Boxfish is finally home in his 105g rimless. He is always begging for more food by spittin...

bertie 83 wrote:Puffers will also shred your corals in a reef system and make short work of any clean up crew.

Never planned on putting them in with corals. 105 would only be turned into a reef tank after the puffers would have been settled in the 300g

Ummm... because I've been in the hobby 40 years & have heard every story there is to tell on this. I am just going off what the local stores are telling me from service calls they do. Couple guys they take care of have a dog face and a mappa together and they are insuperable. A mappa will easil...

Please do NOT combine puffer species! It never ends well. :( http://www.melevsreef.com How can you definitively say that? (Playing devils advocate here) I have spoken to quite a few people that have introduced the puffers while very young allowing them to grow up together. The only issues seem to b...

So I am currently in the process of going saltwater. I have a 105g rimless tank with a custom removable egg crate top for when I am not home and while sleeping. http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x84/Jeeper0309/Fish/2416AA35-A1C1-46E9-885D-CFF1D48D5EB1_zpsld09ko4f.jpg At first this tank will be a te...

Also just a trick I found that helped me. In my shower I have something similar to this http://www.lowes.com/pd_65468-72981-144710-I_0__?productId=4718345&Ntt=shwoer+head&pl=1&currentURL=%3FNtt%3Dshwoer%2Bhead&facetInfo= The hose on the shower head that goes to the hand held portion ...

Couple things
Where did you get the food at?
Anything that was raw could have carried some disease that he is fighting.
I would look into possible internal issue.

But what you can also try is the garlic route. see if he will eat the shrimp with a bit of garlic on it.

So the one thing I didn't realize was how wide the base of the stand was for the 190g
I would have to build a custom stand in my house because of the doorway angels in my current home.

I might go back to the drawing board and keep searching.

Pufferpunk wrote:Puffers will jump out of both those tanks. So will wrasses.

Sorry I forgot to mention with both tank I will have glass tops made.
Kind of like the ones that come with the JBJ Rimless tanks seen here

Pufferpunk wrote:What are you putting in it?

Everything is going to based around the Puffer.

So honestly not sure. Still kind of doing research. Probably a Wrasse of some sort and a flame angel maybe some tangs

Any help on that would be great

I like the used one! I buy used ones all the time and I don't have any issues other than cleaning. I think in general puffers prefer length over width as long as the width is adequate for them to turn around. The Porcupine i am going to have ordered in will be around 3" Caribbean Porcupine Puf...

So help me out here.. I cant decide on a tank.. I have it narrowed down to 2 different tanks I am eventually looking for a showtank style for the living room. But until then these are my choices. 1st one is a 105g Rimless from 48 X 24 X 18 http://www.rrasco.com/AquaticPics/105neo/Model%20NEO%20105%2...

So last night I ran across a deal on a tank that looks like the one below. Best picture I could find on the net. 4ft X 4ft X 2ft tall (Cube) https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-_Gu4s0Gu7TU/UCkA_AsjIKI/AAAAAAAAM28/QwivUM_bZ3o/s1370/DSC00830.JPG I believe its 190g possibly bigger. The overflow is cente...

Salmon wrote: I got frozen krill and he was interested but didn't take it I'm thinking the medicine was why.

Dexter wanted nothing to do with food soaked in meds had to go with much lower dosages to get him to try it.

Try just the food and make sure you using the right garlic