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he died, there was a cone snail on his side, dont know if it killed him or was just having a feed

my snowflake is really sick, i think hes a goner. He ate two days ago and seemed fine. This morning he was swimming around poorly, like totally uncoordinated, then he lay on his side. He is still like that this afternoon and starting to look grey, his gills are still moving otherwise he looks...

mine eats every night,i just drop the food in the tank and he comes out to get it, he went without food for 6 weeks a while back which had me pretty stressed, but he came good again after a full water change on the tank

yes i have corralimorphs (differnet types) that are multiplying, leather toadstool, golf ball (still alive after 12 months) sponge(not doing so good) xenias(multiplying), button polyps(multipying) gorgonians, zooanthids(multiplying) plate coral, torch coral, brain corals, i also am really...

sorry for your loss

i have heaps of LR and only use my skimmer occasionally, E very one will tell you you need a skimmer but i personally dont agree, i used to run a skimmer all the time and my corals were dying, now they are multiplying all over the place. I think the wooden diffuser skimmer is a good start as...

i have a snowflake eel he is great, spends most of the day in his hole (make sure he has plenty of hiding places) and comes out and does a few laps every night before we feed him. He is very placid and isnt interested in my fish i have had him since last christmas and i have not lost a fish so i...

it is good to see that your lion already takes prepared foods, i wouldnt worry about him going without food, in the wild they are opportunistic hunters, they only eat when the food comes to them, if he doesnt eat for a while try a live fish, this will pep him up. The lion is a great fish...

garlic guard added to food makes all fish and infact all life (corals, inverts) in my tank go on a feeding frenzy, only my snowflake eel wont touch it.

i have been buying seawater for about 8 months and havent seen cyanos since, it also saves time as i dont have to mix the salt and water and i know the water is right first time. I used to mix tapwater and i had cyaNOS problems also it cost me more to buy thesalt than it does water

can anyone identify this. It has been in my tank ages but i only ever seen a green flat forked tongue looking worm, and his middle stretching around thru the rocks sometimes up to a metre long. Today i saw the other end, it was a blobby looking green ball that bounced around and contracted to...

how often should u add the garlic.

mine appeared to change when i added an anemone to the tank, one became possessive of the anemone for a few weeks and headbutted any fish that came near, now she is much bigger than the other one. they were the same size when i got them.

increasing currents on cyano areas also helps, but clean it first or you will just spread it around the tank.

i use sponge filters on mine, it also gives me extra seeded filters i can move to QT if needed

was there something wrong in the tank before you did the big clean. were the fish already showing signs of stress or is this your regular maintenance. Maybe there was a problem already and the shock was too much for them.

I had two guppies and a diamond tetra in tank for 1 week. today i found 1 dead guppy (the male) and it looks like something has eaten off his tail and had a few bites elsewhere. is there likely to be aggresion between these fish.

i think it will not be fun but this drastic measure should be carried out, have you cleaned and maintained your filters. the nitrates could be in a dirty filter bed, or as you said under the rocks. i vacuum under the rocks about once a year and the nitrates drop dramatically, if you seen the...

i put snails from rock pools in sydney and they didnt hurt anything, they didnt like being underwater though kept coming to the surface, i think because they are from intertidal area. my trigger thinks they are a great food source and the price is right....i know this is a different climate than...

not sure how i would seperate them http://www.flickr.com/photos/melissamurray/ and if i should trim the tips

my clownfish often look odd as they attempt to hover stationary in one spot, with a slight bobbing up and down in the current. I think they are resting, the corner they have chosen probably looks safe, my clowns dont attempt to shelter in the rocks at night, they stay out riding the currents, i...

the eel was added to the tank while it was fishless and had alrteady been empty 8 weeks, have added corals and rock but rock was most recent. should i treat all the fish or watch and wait. i plan on adding the fish 1 at a time to the qt to help the biofilters catch up.

my dwarf lionfish used to sleep with my snowflake eel in the same cave in the rock, sadly lion died of hunger strike, but i never noticed any aggression between them.

also check that currents are strong, i used to get a lot of cyanos (red/ green slime algae) growing and an extra powerhead made a big difference.

i personally dont think that reef safe treatments work well for ich, i used malachite green and tri sulpha and it did nothing, i only got rid of it after moving the fish to QT and treating with copper.