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Just want to make sure I'm not overdoing anything. I am adding Kent brand Iodine, Strontium, Liquid Calcium and Essentials Elements. I have a 20g tank, and the measurements on the back are for 50g (or 55g, don't have a bottle handy), so I'm essentially halving the doses of them. I'm adding...

so I'm upset...my good friend/mentor of fish keeping, has come down with "salt fever"... The obsessed need to tear down a beautiful 180 gallon brackish tank that he's had for 4 years, and set it up as a saltwater tank. We both have a freshwater/"brackish" tank, and a saltwater/reef tank, and...

Posting this for a friend of mine without net access. He recently bought a french angel, and he's sizing up some of the stars, and xenias, but has not actually nipped anything. My research on this is conflicting, some says they're ok, some say not recommended. Are angels in general reef...

Was looking at my tank last night, and noticed a dime-sized starfish in my tank...must have been in a rock when I purchased it, but I have had all my rock for about 3 weeks, never seen it before. Anyway, it's a white/tan color, with pink and blue/green spots on top. Anyone know if this is a...

I have a 65 gallon tank, that's been set up since 5/01/06 (13 1/2 weeks). The tank is healthy AFAIK, 0 nitrite, 0 ammonia, 7.8 pH, 80 nitrate (should be zero after a PWC). I am successfully keeping healthy, happy fish in it, and the only death, to date, was a Bristlenose Pleco, whom I purchased...

a friend of mine bought a bicolor blennie and had it in his tank for a few weeks. Normal Blennie behavior. Sitting on the rocks, taking swims, looking around. Then he found a tailspot blennie, and bought it. Put it in the tank, and the bicolor was all over it like a cheap suit... Bit up it's...

Just wanted a put a few pics up...show off my tank. Enjoy! Whole tank Then here's a pic of just the scats and loaches I have 2 more red scats (nickel-sized) that have been added since this pic, but they're too small to notice right now away...but that's my freshwater tank. Will post my...

Got a target mandarin a week ago, and an additional 6 lbs .of Live rock after I read that they only eat copepods which come on live rock. He was bullied by my Damsel for the first 2 days, but that has stopped. He spends all his time nibbling on rocks on seems to be happy. Hardly ever swims...

Picked one up about a month ago, and it's a really cool fish! I still had 4 fancy guppies from cycling my tank, that he made short work of. He ate both of the males the night I brought him home, and the females the following two nights. Now he wiggles at the glass with my scats and follows my...

Well, I bought my first coral on Monday, an "Octopus Coral", from the research I've done, it appears to be part of the Euphyllia Coral family (taken from: http://saltaquarium.about.com/od/coralidprofileresource/ ) I put it in my tank (a small 20g reef tank with 20 lbs. of live rock, 3 fish, and...

So, I was the owner of a hand-me-down condy anemone. I got him from a friend, that was tired of dealing with him, and figured, "hey, I have the room, sock it to me!" Had him for 6 days, til I get home last night, and the whole thing (minus about 50% of his stump body) is sucked up into my...

So, I just got 4 clown loaches on Saturday, and decided I would give my 2 peppered corys to my bro, as I don't need THAT many catfish... I have a 65H tank which is 24 5/8 inches tall. I'm 5' 11" which means, even with the net, I'm up to my elbows in the tank, making a huge mess, trying to catch...

Hi, Just found this board on google, while looking for a aquarist hobby forum. I'm in Milwaukee, WI, USA. Have been in the hobby for 2 months now. Got into this from a friend, who has nice large established tanks set up, and have always liked his fish tanks. I have a 65 gallon high...