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Okay so i will go ahead and upgrade my lighting to 20-30 watts/g.

well my hood will only take small lamps, and right now i have an 11 watt flourescent. i was thinking of upgrading to an incandescent mini power compact 50/50 10 watts. or maybe 15 if i can find a 15 watt power compact...

Thanks, that will help me out. i do want to add some colour, and i'd like to have something easy to care for and inexpensive. the live rock that i have has lots and i mean lots of holes and crevices so is that a good thing?

yea, i can see that i have a shell from a snail... but no snail. and the worm that was there before is nowhere to be seen.... oh well, i'm sure he is around somewhere on that rock. I'm hoping some mushrooms will maybe grow on my rock. *sigh* only time will tell...

I was just wondering.... what would i be able to grow on my rock? i saw at my lfs they had a live rock that already had a mushroom on it... i'd really like to see more stuff grow on my rock, instead of buying a coral or two in the future...

I do, it helps to reduce my ammonia and nitrites. i think that's why my ammonia has dropped so quickly :) next are my nitrites...i agree that i wouldn't want to chance cycling a tank with fish whether they are hardy or not. you just never know.

lol thats neat! i just found a hairy worm, looks like a centipede or something... all brown, doesn't seem to like the light... any ideas what it is?

I just got some new live rock and noticed there are some really strange things growing on it. what has grown or is growing on your live rock?

I think you are right about the percs not going near the replicas. one of my friends has percs and she says they never go near her replica lol i think what i am going to do instead is get a nicely shaped big piece of Live Rock and have that in the tank, and when i am ready i will get an anemone...

Well I am not in a rush to be adding anemones, but idealy I do not want to mix corals with anemones. I would most likely be getting only one anemone because i am not going to have a large tank for a while. but seeing as I am new to this i will probably stick with replicas of anemones until i...

thanks for the reply's. i guess i could just try my luck with bubble tip and see how that goes. thanks.

Hi everyone, I just started cycling my FOWLR aquarium a week ago. I don't plan on adding any corals or anemone's for at least 6 months after my cycle is complete, but I am having a hard time deciding.... I want to get an Ocellaris Clownfish, and was reading into getting a Bubble tip anemone, but...

one of my friends who is also starting a sw aquarium said she has green algae (dots) on the glass from her previous fw setup. does she need to get rid of it? or is it okay to leave it be? i noticed some of those also in my tank as mine also was previously a fw setup and i never noticed the algae...

hello, i know how you feel about those bettas.... i'm a betta lover myself, although right now i only have two, a male and female. i don't have any photos of my female, but i could show you my male if you'd like. I've been caring for bettas since i was young, so i am fairly experienced with...

Don't be sorry for posting late, people have lives too lol thanks, i figured out that mousing over the abbreviation shows you what it stands for. very cool. i was thinking about starting with a damsel as i don't plan on having any real sea anemone's in my tank just yet as they are really...

lol oh goodie

okay cool, i can already see some stuff growing on the LR. I am going to take the shrimp back to the shop tomorrow as i don't want to kill it with the spikes.

i added the peppermint shrimp to help with the cycle, but i do plan on taking the shirmp back tomorrow as the spikes would end up killing him... sorry folks, forgot about that part hehe as for the raw shrimp, does it have to be straight from the gorcery store? or can it be frozen? just wondering...

well he seems to be doing just fine, very active in his new home. i am just as worried about his well being as everyone else here, so if i see that he's not doing well i will take him back to the aquarium store. but can anyone tell me if there are any special requirements for the live rock?

i also just set up my sw tank and it's been 6 days. my readings are the same as yours. if you add fish they will surely die as your cycle is not yet complete. i was told to add a raw shrimp and that should kick start your cycle. we both have yet to experience our ammonia, nitrite and then...

well i went over to my local aquarium store and picked up a pepermint shrimp and one pound of live rock to start for now. i will get some more live rock next week. are there any special requirements for the live rock? i am not worried about the shrimp dying as he would end up being my raw...

Thanks for the help. i will go over to the grocery store and pick up a raw shrimp and let it decay in my tank... lol i was thinking of acclimating a mollie to start the tank in 3 weeks so that things will be better when i add my first saltwater fish. anyone have any luck doing that before?

raw shrimp? lol what is lr? i'm not used to these terms hehe

i am cycling fishless, and i just started the cycling last monday. i do like damsels, but i also like percula clownfish. my tank is a ten gallon, so i could only keep 2 fish until i upgrade my tank. i was just wondering what i should use to break in the tank without killing it... my first try...

Hello everyone, I'm new here. I just started cycling my first Saltwater fish-only aquarium. I did all my research, and everything seems to be going smoothly so far, all except for my ammonia. although it is low (0.4), i still want to get rid of it. everything else is sitting at zero (nitrite...