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Hello. I want to run something by the experts here, mostly for a sanity check. TL;DR, two tangs died suddenly in my quarantine tank and I suspect it's because the hyposalinity treatment I did affected the cycle-bacteria in the tank, causing ammonia poisoning. I'm wondering if this is...

Hi, This Friday I'll hopefully be picking up two angel fish for my FOWLR tank -- a flame angel and an emperor angel. I already have a quarantine tank set up for them, but I've never had angel fish before so I wanted to make sure there wasn't anything I was missing. I've quarantined tangs before...

I have a 150G saltwater tank, and I just put together a beautiful plumbing system with my sump and refugium behind a wall in the unfinished part of the basement. It's working nicely except for one thing: my pump is too strong. I just moved and I used to use flexible tubing, it turns out that...

So I got engaged recently, and my fiance is going to be moving into my house to live with me soon. One of the things that needs to happen is that I want to re-imagine one of my fish tanks. I have a 55G Freshwater tank that I'd like to make into a nano reef some day, and this will make more room...

So my g/f saw this in her shrimp tank, there's nothing but shrimp in there but we added some new plants so I'm pretty sure that's how it got in there. What could it be? It really creeps her out, I'm thinking that getting a fish would help, we had some success in the past with a guppy or two in...

I'm looking to add a puffer fish to my 150G Saltwater tank. For details on the livestock of the tank, go here: Roll Call | Adam's Flog. For details on the specs/hardware of the tank, go here: Tank Specs | Adam's Flog. This weekend I'd like to start cycling my quarantine tank, so I'm a ways off...

I've had a 150G FOWLR tank for about three years now. I've been able to keep fish in the tank pretty successfully, but the dream was always to have corals. I've been trying for quite a while to get my nitrates to the point where maybe I could have corals, but it hasn't been working so well. I...

I saw something in my SW tank today on my LR. It's bright orange and I don't recall ever seeing anything like it before. Any ideas on what it is and if it's an issue? Here's a page with the tank specs: Tank Specs | Adam's Flog It's up to date except for one thing. I've added a biopellet...

I have a 150 SW tank, it's been established for close to three years now and I haven't had too many problems with it. There are about 250 pounds of live rock in there right now -- I did a fishless cycle on the tank back in the day and the LR was in there during that process. I've been having...

Hi everyone. I'm looking at doing a couple of very large water changes on my SW tank. The system has about 180G of water in it and I'd like to be able to do water changes of up to 100 gallons. I have several trash cans on wheels that I use to move waste water around my house -- I use a siphon...

Can anyone identify what's in these pictures? http://www.adamhorton.com/files/flog/good/ID/slug01.jpg http://www.adamhorton.com/files/flog/good/ID/slug02.jpg I find these things really strange: they don't seem to be bad for the tank but I'd like to know what they are. Here's the story: I have...

I'm looking to add corals to my 150G FOWLR tank soon. I took some measurements last night of my tank: Ammonia: 0 Nitrite: 0 pH: 8.0 Nitrate: between 40 and 80 ppm Phosphate: 5 ppm Calcium: 500 ppm KH: about 11-12 dKH From what I've researched, these values are acceptable with two exceptions...

I have some ammonia, nitrite, and nitrate test kits by API that say they are for freshwater and saltwater. I've taken both FW and SW measurements with them and they seem to work great. I recently bought their "Saltwater Master Test Kit" which comes with those tests, but it doesn't say anything...

I've had a few fish deaths recently and I'm worried about it. Here's all the details: Tank: 150G SW tank, FOWLR for now. Cycled using pure ammonia in November 2009. There's a 20G sump and a 20G refugium for a total of about 180G in the system. There are about 250 pounds of LR in the system that...

Here's the story: My girlfriend is in college and will be moving into an apartment for the next school year. I wanted to get her a small tank to keep on her desk. She likes the refugium on my SW tank and also my planted shrimp tank, and the appeal to her is something like this: She likes the...

I've spent several hours looking for a protein skimmer for my SW tank. I've read around a lot and can't seem to find any definitive answer as to what is the best type or brand to get, and not many of them give dimensions, since I have a limited amount of space in my sump to put it in. The sump...

I have a 20G planted tank. I was keeping a colony of shrimp in it and they were doing well, at least until I stupidly added in a fertilizer that I now know had a small amount of copper in it. I don't have any living shrimp left, just the plants. I want to remove the copper from the system and...

I have a 150G Saltwater tank that is currently FOWLR. The tank has been going strong for about a year and a half, and it's currently in a stable state -- I haven't added fish in several months, and I haven't had any casualties in even longer. Here's a page on my tank specs: Tank Specs |...

I recently got two Bolivian Rams for my 55G tank. I'm not trying to breed them or anything, I just wanted a couple of larger fish to keep my tetras in their schools. They are doing that quite well. I don't know how to tell the sex of them, though. The people at the fish store couldn't help me...

I have in my SW tank an Atlantic Blue Tang. I got him in February and he spent 6 weeks or so in a quarantine tank before he went into the main tank. Neither he, nor the other tang in that QT showed any signs of ich or any other disease during that time (or since then, up until now). In early...

I've had a planted tank, the tank itself has been around for around 4 years, and it has been planted for at least 1 1/2 years. Something has been going on and for some reason, the only thing I've been able to keep alive in the tank has been the plants. I've started other threads on here trying...

So here's the story: I've had a freshwater tank going for about 3.5 years. It started as a 10G tank, but has upgraded over time into a 20G long planted tank. I've successfully kept fish and shrimp in there before; I've had ghost shrimp and even RCS in there, which all lived for a while until the...

I'm trying to get a hold of some Red Cherry Shrimp and I'm not having much luck, I'm looking to get about 30 of them. I've ordered some online and when they arrived, every single one of them was dead. I'd really like to get them locally if possible, or if they have to be shipped, I'd like for...

I've done a fishless cycle a couple of times before with some success, and I've been doing a fishless cycle on a 55G Freshwater tank for a few weeks now. Here's my process, each day I perform whatever activity I do sometime in the evening: DAY 1: Add ammonia until 2 ppm. This was a little more...

It's almost time for me to stock my 55G tank, I got my first sign that my fishless cycle is done and this weekend I'm planning to get fish! Here's the plan: The concept for this tank is to have a few large schools of tetras, and one or two larger, more aggressive fish to keep them in their...