Recent content by dld65

Yeah, my other fish are fine and I have 2 powerheads pointed at the surface and then the canister moving water near the surface as well. But the powerheads are plenty big enough for the tank size as I learned what to purchase there from reading all these great posts! My fish never hover near...

It was a brilliant color fish and never lost that color in the time I had him. This fish was from That Fish place, the other one was from another store. However, all my other fish are from that fish place too and they have been fine. So far I don't have any corals, I was hoping to make that...

A hydrometer. I haven't invested in a refractometer yet. I acclimated my fish VERY slowly exactly to the parameters That Fish Place recommends. They have you do it in a bucket and then every few minutes add a cup of fish tank water. I think they acclimated no problem, they only hid for a...

Only that one fish was breathing heavily right before it died. I didn't see anything wrong with it at all when I took it out of the tank. No spots or marks anywhere. I have also taken my water to That Fish Place to be tested when my nitrates were a little high and everything tested the same...

I am trying to figure out what I am doing that is causing my fish to die at 3 weeks. This is the second fish that I have had die right at the 3 week mark. (They were from 2 different stores btw). My specs are I have a 40 gal tank with about 50lbs of LR. I have a 2 inch sand base. I run a remora...

Forgot to clarify- I did let all my fish and live rock in the tank during the changeover- the fish just hid on the other side while I was working but they were fine with being in the tank. I didn't take any water out either, I waited until the next day to do a partial water change after I was...

I just did what you are asking about and I had no problems with a sandstorm when I took out the coral and put in the sand. After getting great advice from people on here, I decided to do it one quarter of my tank at a time. Now my tank is only 40 gallons so each section was fairly small. I only...

Thanks for the responses, my other inhabitants are bank in the tank and seem fine. I only have 3 green chromis in there since the gramma is gone. The tank is only 40 gallons so I had planned on only adding 2 clownfish after I got back from vacation and then I would have been filled to capacity...

I woke up this morning and found my royal gramma dead and he was acting fine and eating normally yesterday. Of course I tested everything right away this morning and I had no changes in my water parameters. However later this afternoon I noticed I had rust spots (real rust, not an algae) on my...

I'll be going away for a week shortly, do you think if I just started to take out some of the crushed coral now and got it down to a thin layer it might help for awhile? Then when we are home I can start the switchover? I am already freaking at having my neighbor take care of my tank while...

Once again, thanks to all for the advice- as much as I HATE the thought/chore of switching out my crushed coral, I would do it for the fish and to ease my worry over these nitrates. So now can I ask how you recommend I do that? The tank isn't that old, will I have any problems switching it...

I actually have that book, that is what got me started on everything. I've poured over that book for weeks and weeks. That book is what got me to decide on the crushed coral which I've learned since then isn't the best. I test my water that I've got mixed up for water changes every week...

Hello, I've looked throughout the forums and I think I've tried most of the things I could find that seem to apply to my problem. Some background: I started a 40 gallon FOWLR tank in Feb. I cycled the tank with 1- 1/2 inches of crushed coral (at the time I thought I read this was the best...