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Ihave a new 2 gallon tank what if any fish can I put with this fish a siamese fghting fish?

I want to buy a magnet for cleaning a 75 gallon tank. What would you suggest?/ Any other advice for cleaning?

I have a 75 gallon LR tank that has been up and running since December. I had help and i find it is all wrong i think. I have a skimmer with a ramora pro, a 18 watt coralife sterilizer and 80 pounds of LR. At the moment I have a maroon clown , a hawk fish a coral Bandy shrimp and a chocolate...

9 watt too weak?? I was told th 9 watt may be too weak to get the job done in a 75 gallon/ Also been told get the 18 watt but then told it may sterilize my rock too much waht do you think??

Well I have been told get a 9 watt coral life sterilizer for a 75 gallon tank with 80 pounds of llive rock. My tank is new since January so its still developing and lots of add ons. Othners have said I need a 18 watt coral life sterilizer because the 9 watt is too little. Others have said with...

I have a 75 gal tank live rock and fish. I've been advised to get a UV sterilizer to prevent ickk and all other diseases. Will that help I had 3 fish die of ick. What would you recommend getting if you agree.

What would you get for a75 gal tank?? Pros and cons for UV sterilizer

Hi I've been up and running since February. I finally hired a new guy starting his own fish fish service. He comes weekly and stocks my tank. 3 weels ago my entire tank died. Now I have one maroon clown and a new angel that has ick. He has added clarpa algae. He has treated my tank 2 times...

I used RO water and have a protein skimmer. Do I try to clean it out by hand? How do you keep the glass clean if the snails and hermit crabs don't do enough. Can you have too many snails?

I have anew tank that has 80 pounds of lie rock in a 75 gallon tank. I've added 3 damsels and all looks good for adding more fish . The algae has gone crazy in my tank on the glass and all over the rock. I scraped it off once but now its on the bottom of the tank from the glass. Do I need to...

Ammonia is on the high level. I have a skimmer going do you just wait it out and it rights itself?

I just started my tank and ended up buying the good rock from liverocks.com. After tons of research I decided I wasn't willing to wait the 5-8 months for my tank to look good but my deciding point was when I heard about the stench that you get from purchasing uncured rock while it goes through...

How did you catch the crab? I'm asuming the crab wouls also injure fish?

The rock arriveed in 24 hours. It was shipped in water and lots of cloths that were saturated. The rock arrived with tons of pink growth and green better looking then I've seen in the fish store.

I just received 80 pounds of live rock from Live Rock .com and there was no bad smell at all. Will I receive die off and stink like people talk about or is this almost as good as buying cured rock? I Have live sand 40 pounds in so , a 75 gal tank and used distilled water and had my tank at the...