Terrible Advice Tuesdays (T.A.Tues): Store Made Dursos Are Better?
Terrible Advice Tuesdays: A (local fish) store or pre-manufactured durso standpipe is more efficient than one made by you.
The rest of the story: Really?! Let me guess who started that idea.
Every “store made” or pre-manufactured durso standpipe I’ve ever seen is made from the exact same PVC pieces that you would buy at any hardware store. Furthermore, they are put together in exactly the same way. To make matters worse, a lot of the store made dursos have some bad design elements like reducer pieces before the bulkhead and standpipes that are glued into the bulkhead. Therefore, I’d give preference to a properly made “hobbyist” durso.
For the hair splitters out there, perhaps a store made durso has pieces that are pushed together more so there is slightly (big emphasis on slightly) less turbulence through the pipe. What effect does this infinitesimally small reduction of turbulence have on your tank? NONE.
Build your own dursos and your tank will be fine.
(For those of you with the No-Nonsense Guide to Setting Up A Saltwater Tank, Vol 1, (currently 50% off for Virtual Tank Build Participants), watch the Durso video to see how I build my dursos for the trick that keeps them completely silent).
Browse the Store! Questions?
You could also suggest the BeanAnimal method.
The “Ole’ Dirty Fish Store strikes again… I have one of those in my town, I’m not a customer anymore because they are guilty of all the scams you list in The No Nonsince Guide Vol. 1 and they’ve invented a few new ones.. It’s awful!
Sorry to post this here, but I’ve googled this and got nothing and I come up blank when I do a search here. Maybe it’s because I don’t know the exact name of this condition but I have no idea what it’s called. I’ve named it cottonball disease although it may not even be a disease. Anyway…
My Emperor Angel has a small white blob on his tail. It’s definitely not Ich. I know what that looks like. It looks like a cottonball. My Queen Angel also has one on each fin. Do you know what it is and how to treat it? The closest thing I’ve come to an explanation says it’s not a disease or contagious and is caused by stressful handling (I did have a problem transferring the Emperor to the main tank). Any ideas what it could be, Mark?
You can see it at 51 seconds in the video below. I also noticed that the Queen did not have them when I shot this 5 days ago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZRbynKqE44
One other important point. Neither of the fish are exhibiting unusual behavior. Both are swimming around, eating, looking for food, and NOT glancing at all. Neither are any of the other fish in the tank. Also, I have another large angel, a Majestic, which is perfectly clean.
Duke, even though this isn’t related to this post and is probably not the right venue, I have to bite: Looks like Cryptocaryon to me (what you’re calling ich).
You should try a forum where you will get a lot of voices giving you their opinion on what it could be.
Yeah, I know it’s not the right topic to have posted on but I couldn’t find a related post. Sorry. I’ll google that and see if that’s what I’m looking at. Thanks.
EDIT: No, after looking at various images in Google that’s not what my Angels have. It’s just one spot dead center on the very edge of my Emperor’s tail and one each on my Queen’s pectoral fins. It’s not Lymphocystis either.
Sorry for the second post, but I wanted to add, I’ve tried all of the message boards with no luck. Mr. Saltwater Tank was my last hope as he has answered my posts in the past. Anyway, I’ll stop clogging this board up now.
I had my Tomato Clownfish with spots like that on its fins. I used Chloromycetin. I got it from my vet and mixed it with distilled water (it was concentrated liquid). Dosed the food before feeding so that the tank water would not dilute the med. All the tank critters ate, after a short while, the spots were gone.