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possible a flatworm but not that colour. its a clear translucent colour. are they good/bad?

Hi just wondering i seen this floating around in my tank this morning. will have pics soon but its a clear looking thing about the size of half your little finger floating around. sort of looks like a clear plastic bag. Jellyfish? or just some sort of waste or something?

i knew i was right. well when i rung the lfs and asked them this i didnt get the normal guy i deal with who is the SW guru there. he was sick. anyway some lady there told me to top off with SW. i told her what i thought but she didnt listen. if she didnt know she shouldnt give advice at all. i...

hi all quick question. a lot of people say they top off with just a bit of clean fresh water in the tank? is it really ok to do this?? my theory was that when water evapourates i wouldve thought the water would evapourate and the salt would kind of remain behind. (eg the salt lake :P) is this...

thanks for the tips again guys. and yes i have already been to the Great Barrier Reef. Was a fantastic day but by car i live about i would say 18 hours drive to there then a plane flight across to the island and so forth. so yeah it isnt that easy. i do snorkel quite often around where i live...

ok then cool. thanks for the tip macman :D:D i have 3 crabs in there now that are going very well. ned to get more though. :) LPS corals include such things as what although i wont get any until its below 20 at least. and also my LFS wont sell em to me anywyas lol ps here is my LFS not much on...

hey. cheers for the tip. well get more LR in two days. skimmer is def removing gunk. emptied it just 3 days ago. as for the water im using. came back clear. checked the water tonight and it is back down to 40 the nitrate is :) maybe its going back down again. i dunno whats happening

yeah im really thinking there isnt enough LR in there. that is my guess. i started with a lot of base rock and seeded it withCured LR. the base rock is getting the coraline algae and there are worms and little bugs on the base rock now too. i think i need to add more LR in the tank. here is some...

i thought that to. i tested the water before i put the salt in and the water had no nitrates at all in it? could it be the salt then?

doesnt the emp angel change its colour as it grows. im unsure but thats what i thought. depending on how old he is though. they are a beautiful fish

i have the proper lighting i know that :) cant tell you what it is exactly until i got home but the lfs measured it all out and done it right. also some strange news. i did a water change on the weekend cause i thought it would be a good idea. now i have tested the water i use before for...

ok ill try and answer your questions. basically it was a second hand tank i got from someone. it was a mess when i got it but have brought it up to scratch. limited LR sponges in canister filter. protein skimmer was not working properly. i have had the tank now for a few months now. i got the...

yeah i dont understand the whole cant move empty either. i moved a 5ft tank that was full of fish and rock and substrate over 1 hour away and i did it by emptying it completely out. taking the water in about 4 seperate bins and what not. but i had no troubles with the tank being empty.

Finally i woke up today and i have tested my water :) after having trouble with nitrates for like ever. i have finally had a win. my nitrates have been 80-60 usually and now it has dropped down to 30 :D:D yey :) looks like they are going down. all other tests come back good. ph is up to 8.2...

no sorry i cant. should i take it to the lfs or should i set some kind of container or something up?

thanks for the help. but he was never a finicky eater until the ammonia spike :(:( he was always first to be fead. i woke up this morning and i seen him swimming slowly back and forward just under the surface of the water. swimming a lot better but kinda to one side. had a look and one eye seems...

No he hasnt eaten and no i dont. what is garlic guard??

the metal clip is one of them crap i forget what you call em. but its made from the same thing as a paper clip is. i am not sure. im guessing its been there for awhile. well i checked the thermometer and also the heater and both looked fine. so im unsure where this has come from. live rock...

What would this do to my tank? it is second hand and i thought i cleaned it out well when i got it but i found yesterday a rather large clip that was all rusted in there. what would this do to my tank?? also i have found a few things that look like glass shards from like a heater or themometer...

nah they seem fine.

everything is fine. ph is at 8 nitrite 0 ammonia 0 only thing is the nitrate is like 40. cant get it down. but its better then wat it was

Recently i had ammonia go up in my tank. slightly but its under control now. all fish were fine except my lightning wrasse. it seems to be not swimming as much now. (it used to be swimming back and forward all the time) it hides a lot. and when it does swim it seems to be crashing into the live...

ok cheers. thanks for the tip. i tried taking some pictures but none of them would come out right. ill keep trying though different angles and so forth to get some nice ones.

ok then thanks. so ill get a couple of the small snails then to sand sift :D thanks again :) looks like it could be a long weekend for me hehe Hi i just told my lfs i was thinking about changing the crushed coral to live sand. he told me not to as because the tank has been set up for quite a...

ok thanks guys well i will start doing more frequent water changes then to help remove the nitrates. i am adding more live rock each week so hopefully i can remove the canister filter altogether. actually a lot of the rock thats in there now (which was live rock that died off and dried out)...