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I've just acquired a dwarf fuzzy lionfish and would like to know how careful I really need to be when performing maintenance.

A couple said they have given their cichlid tank cooked chicken and raw bologna. Is this good? Dont seem to me that it could be, being they would never come across anything like this in their natural habitat. Also this same couple successfully battled ich in their tank (55 gal) using rid-ich...

They dont have LR or invertebrates, usually because copper is used in the system, and they wouldnt be able to survive . As for the fish, the idea is to bring in fish that the store knows will sell quickly. Sometimes mistakes are made and fish that wont sell, or are priced to high may have to...

If your water is a little hard it will sometimes do this. Adding an aquarium salt pillow to your filter chamber for 48 hrs. once a week may help.

Real plants will act as a bio filter for some of the debris that collects in the gravel, but you would still need to vaccuum the gravel regularly. Plastic plants will become a farm for the debris to collect and grow, and you would definitely have to vaccuum the gravel even more often than real...

I have to agree with Scuba Steve. There is always another species I would like to have, but no more room.

OK then. Thanks for answering. I'm going to go ahead and remove them, and see what happens.

I have a 46 gal with about 50 lbs live rock. The tank has been running for a year and a half. I havent added anything in a couple of months, nor has anything died. My tests have always been fine, but recently I'm having problems with nitrates. They keep testing in the 40 - 80 range. I do 25%...