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My pocupine puffer "buddy" is a riot. He watches for me at the end of the tank and when he sees me he follows me from one end of the tank to the other. When it's feeding time, he will eat out of my hand and if I tease him with a chunk of shrimp, he spits water at me. Also he will raise his...

Nope, no luck. I am gonna take the little guy back to my LFS they will give me 33% of my purchase price. It's not about the money, obviosly, just too much work for me and would hate to starve the poor guy. Will miss him.

well, thans for all of the great advice, but I still have had no luck with getting him to eat non-living offerings. I have tried almost everything that has been suggested and I guess he is one of a kind. I am very surprised that he has still not eaten the two very small damsels that are in...

Oh by the way, congrats on saving the tank and fish from your roomate. His loss, your gain.

Wow, I can't get my lion to eat anything but live food. Wish I had your problem. He is very docile and friendly to all my other fish right now and he loves to look at me(good natured so far), but won't eat anything I give all the others. What were you feeding yours?

Why did you get rid of the lionfish?

Still not eating, but he does seem more interested in my offerings lataly. A few people have mentioned krill, is that something I can buy at the grocery store or should I try my LFS?

Well, just got back from the store and tried to feed him shrimp soaked in garlic on a clear stick. My wife even tried to entice him with it and then it looked hard not to eat(ha ha). Seriously this is getting ridiculous, but I'm not giving up. Day 5 without him eating and we leave Saturday...

Thanx for the replies, the all tropicals I am feeding is frozen and in the shape of small salad type shrimp. Should I stick with that or go to the grocery store for fresh shrimp? I will coat my next offering in garlic and try to find a piece if rigid airline as the stick I have is cumbersome...

Hello, all. I have had a small(5" long) volitan lion now for two and a half weeks. He won't eat anything but goldfish. I know this is not good for him or the rest of the fish in the tank. I am trying to get him to eat frozen mysis shrimp and all tropicals1. Went so far as to buy a feeding...

How about a uv sterilizer? Haven't seen it mentioned yet, but I am getting one in hopes it will cut down on the algea

I am having an explosion of brown algae as well. My tank has been cycling for about a month now and the brown stuff has been getting worse for about a week. How long should it last? Will it dissapear overnight? I guess it is a good thing to see in a cycling tank, just wondering how long it...

Thanx for the advice, sounds like I am o.k. for now and could possibly get the skimmer and uv later down the road. Didn't know about the bioballs being a problem, I will look into the LR.

My new 100g. FO tank is almost cycled! I bought the tank from my LFS and it has a filtration system with bio-balls and 3 filter media trays(currently running 2 foam and 1 carbon)built in the back of the tank. My LFS told me that since it is not a reef tank, a protein skimmer is not needed, but...

Yep, I saw that one as well, but it seems so impossibly inexpensive that I figured it must be lacking something. I might try the 24W one and see how it works. Does it have a power cord on it?

Has anyone used the before mentioned submersible all-in-one sterilizer. I am new to this hobby and am looking at this one for ease and convenience. Don't have room behind my tank for a HOB type sterilizer and don't know if I want to tackle trying to set up an in-line. I have a 100gallon FO...

The only good side I can see to this is that I am not going to be putting ANY inverts in the tank(the LFS knew this), so maybe not terrible advice on their part, other than starting the tank with fish. My stock wish list will probably not do well with inverts 1-porcupine puffer 1-triggerfish...

Thanx for the quick reply. That is why I am glad I found this forum, I'm not sure I trust my LFS. Too bad because it is the only one around. But I am hoping that between this site and a few others I can make some more educated decisions and enjoy this hobby for a long time to come.

Hello all, been lurking since the arrival of my new 100g. FO tank about 2 weeks ago(still learning the lingo, so bare with me). Been cycling for this time with 8 damsels. My tank is brand new and has a wet/dry filtration system built in with those bio-balls and 2 foam filters. Waiting on a...