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Message: <blockquote data-quote="djs4him" data-source="post: 10551068" data-attributes="member: 198393">Regarding livestock, I have two juvenile Ocellaris clownfish that were added to the tank about a month after it finished cycling. They lived happily for several months before I decided to buy a royal angelfish. The angelfish seemed quite happy even with my very clean algae-free tank. One day, as I was headed out the door, I found him lying on his side on the tank sand bed gasping for air. I had almost no time to address this so I placed him in a bucket with heavy bubbler, heater, and some holistic fish medicine (the only thing I had on hand at the time). He died later that night.Our awesome fish medic [USER=156390]@Jay Hemdal[/USER] mentioned it could have been velvet, so I've been running the tank fallow and keeping the clowns in a small 10 gallon QT with CopperSafe beneath the MT in the cabinet. They have never shown a single sign of distress or disease and are happy as ever. But I know with fish, that can all change in an instant.I do intend to add more livestock in the future, but for now I am being patient and taking this opportunity to improve the filtration, turn off the lights to reduce diatoms, add some pods, and purchase some legitimate reef lights to replace these freshwater lights.</blockquote>