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Naso et al. not for reef tanks?

April 26, 2017AL ET naso Reef tanks

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Naso et al. not for reef tanks?

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Matt from Critter Cabana in Newberg here, We have a customer who was told by another local fish store that his Naso tang and a couple other fish needed to be pulled out of his reef tank because water parameters were very unstable in a reef tank due to the necessary chemical and mineral supplements in a reef system. This seemed odd to me, but it came from the person who most people in the Portland area consider the local authority on fish health issues, just curious if you knew where he was coming from on this. Another strange recommendation, I know that most if not all of the wet web crew highly recommends dips as preventative disease control and acclimation into the quarantine system, and it has been the only success we have had with ich control here at the store. Anyway, we won’t offer guarantees for customers unless they use our recommended Fw dip acclimation. Well, the other local stores in the area have caught wind of this policy and are telling our cus