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David: Cycled for 3 weeks - used live rock and live sand. Added 3 red leg hermit crabs and 4 turbo snails. Then 1 cleaner shrimp. Lost the first cleaner shrimp in water change -entirely my fault. Have since lost the turbo snails- they were lying upside down and crabs keep attacking them. My...

Hey Kurt - see My 6 Gallon Fluval Edge - Office Tank - Nano-Reef.com Forums Just seen another link there for a corlife 50/50 - I will look into that. Cleaned up the filter yesterday, and another water change- nitrates now down to 80 :) Getting there very slowly...

Will8 - very nice indeed!!! What forums on uk are you using? I'm in the UK too.

Thanks everybody for your comments - sorry for the late delay. Kurt - you are correct about the stock lighting - but I swopped the standard halogen for LED's- used MR11 bulbs - equivalent to 20w output. The stock halogens were bleaching the live rock - and I noticed a big difference with the...

OMG! Update: The dead fish was swallowed whole by the anemone! Only the tail sticking out is evidence that the fish existed! Lol. I'd asked my hubby to take the fish out of the tank as I had to rush to work, and when he went to do so, all he saw was the tail sticking out of the Anemone's...

Thank you so much for your comments, everyone. Sad to report that fish went bellyup this morning - lesson well learned here. Feeling very foolish and naive here... thincat: Tank is about a month old. This was my first attempt at marine fish :( Never mind - onwards and upwards we go... Did a...

mrgo2d: LFS perfectly aware that it was marine tank - they sold me the fish in the first place! thincat: They also sold me the R/o water with explicit instructions - no salt to be added! this was after testing the water for salinity, nitrates etc. Anyway -water under the bridge now. I need to...

Firefish Thanks guys - I have started with 25% water change (SALT WATER) and will repeat over the next few days until salinity reaches 1.025 again. I will definitely NOT be taking advice from LFS henceforth!!!! Their advice - feed 2x daily, and when nitrates shot up, 25% water change using pure...

Hi - I have had my firefish for about 4 weeks now, and it was doing good. Did a water quality test at my lfs on Sunday, and my nitrates were at 160ppm, and salinity at 1.025. LFS recommended a 25% water change with only r/o water, provided by them. I did that, and salinity dropped to 1.019, but...