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Guys, Here's a shot of my tank a few hours after I cleaned it again. There was almost no cyano today so the small changes that I made have made a huge dif. I think the big water changes helped me out quite a bit. Thanks to all for the great advice!!

Maybe i had a snail or hermit crab die, causing a small ammonia spike???

I did forget to mention that when I had the tank cycling for the month and a half before i put the clowns, i was putting some flake food in there about once a week, just a moderate sized pinch until i saw ammonia/nitrate levels. Then I backed off until my readings were 0

Both the bulbs are only a month old. I have been trying to do a pwc at least once a week of about 5 gallons. Over the last couple of days I have done two pwcs, 10 gal each. So In total I have done about 20-25 gal water change over the last week. My tank is looking dramatically better with the...

I bought a coralife 3 stage ro/di unit and have been using that water for the last 3 months

I went to his place at about 5:00 Pm, only took me an hour to take his apart. Put the live rock in two tote bins with water from his tank and left them in my living room with a htr to maintain temp over night. When I got home after the initial breakdown I immediatly cleaned the tank and filled...

The tank was also ran for at leat a year before I got it. And all that live rock was in it. The owner just stopped looking after it other than the ocasional top up and clean up.

55 gal

Ok thanks guys. 8 hours for "treatment" or 8 hours all the time?

Guys, Figured I'd give you a bit of an update. I removed the crabs and about a week later I noticed that the yellow tang had ich :( I removed him and put him in my quarantine tank. Still noticed the emeralds picking at him so I gave the emeralds to a friend. Treated the tang for ich and after...

I realize that the ultimate goal is for 0 ammonia but you guys made it sound like .25 is going to kill my tank. Is it still possible to kill the whole tank with .25? I am just curious because I thought that .25 was not that much and that the natural process of the tank would take care of my...

Tank has been up and running since august. I let the tank do a full cycle because it was a tank that I had gotten from my friend and he did not take care of it. I added two pieces of live rock that I got from my LFS to help kick start the cycle. I did notice a bit of this cyano a couple of...

Hey guys, I did some looking around and could not figure out exactly what this stuff is that is growing on my live rock. It grows fairly rapidly and is almost like a skin that covers my live rock. as it build up it has a bunch of strands floating around. It seems like it is starting to...

My button polyp looked like pic #2 before it fully "bloomed", mine had a purple stalk and has turned brown with green center. hope this helps...

Here's a pic of the two hanging out together. I have since removed both crabs.

ok thanks Kurt, I am going to remove my crabs and put them in my quarantine tank

Guys, I went ahead and put a yellow tang in this setup that I had quarantined for about 2-3 weeks. He was eating fine, eating brine shrimp and flake food. I put him in one of those baskets that hang on the inside of the tank to acclimate him to the clowns and vise versa. I let him out after a...

Ok sounds good. Thanks to everyone for the advice

I was planning on getting corals alot farther down the road I want to set up my tank with the fish first before I jump into corals. I do want to get button polyps, will these fish eat those? And if I just get a yellow tang, will it be fiesty enough to fend off the clowns? Or just make sure I...

Two ocellaris clowns. Bought them about 3 months ago, one is quite visibly larger so, 1 male/female combo, no anemone. They always swim together, don't see any aggression between the two. I just don't want to keep adding fish if these two are going to stay defensive and attack all the time.

Would splitting up my clowns reduce the amount of aggression?

haha thanks MFDROOKIE, I can obviously read the previous post. what I meant was some suggestions on fish other than the dwarf angels. As you can see I have already selected the dwarf flame angel as another possibility. I thought maybe the other guys would have some advice on specific fish that...

What fish would be better suited for my tank then?

What do you guys suggest for adding more fish? I would like to get another imperator, a flame, and a yellow tang. Should I put the clowns in one of those hang in the tank baskets for a week or two until they get used to the other fish?

I've got a 55 gal setup with two clowns, an assortment of snails, one hermit crab and two emerald crabs. I recently finished quarantining a small imperator angel and added him to my display tank. That was about a week ago. He seemed to be doing fine, grazing on the rocks, was not fighting with...