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My sand sifting star isn't the brightest star in the sky. The poor guy ended up on the wrong end of my PH. It wasn't there when I left for work but it was stuck to it when i got home. I reversed the flow and it spit it out. It cut the poor thing open or something. It now has what looks...

The clown was the last fish added and that was about 3 weeks ago. I also have a yellow tang and a yellow tail damsel. Neither of the 2 are showing any signs of what the clown has.

I don't think it's either of those. The white bumps look like pimples. I have no idea what it could be.

Get ready to spend a lot of money on your tank and a lot of time with your tank. I've spent upwards of $2000 on my 80 gal and I'm still not done yet.

The last couple days my perc has become lethargic. Upon looking at it there were no signs of anything on it. This morning there are little few little white bumps on it, almost like pimples. I don't have a clue. Isn't ich flat and covers the fish like a film. I'm setting up the QT right...

If you have hermit crabs, just leave them in there. The crabs will find them and move in if they are bigger than their current home. If there are hermits in the tank the snail inside has most likely already been eaten. If you don't have any hermit crabs at the moment go ahead and pull them...

Last night my yellow tang had a half inch cirolanid isopod on it's anal fin. When I tried to remove it, it wouldn't come off. The tang wasn't out of the water long, but was showing signs of stress. I felt rushed and used my fingers to remove it. As I pulled it off it tore a straight line...

I once again had my arm in my tank. I was pulling my "sand sifting star" off of a limpet (spelling?). All of the sudden my cleaner shrimp is on a rock getting closer. I thought hmmmm let's see if it will really do it. Sure enough, it jumped on my hand. I called the wife over to look and...

I have a Won Bros. pro-heat Titanium LCD II heater. Here is a link. Cheapest I have found them. http://www.kensfish.com/heaters.html It has a sensor that goes into the tank anf gives a digital temperature read out on the display. I have it set at about 78 degrees. The digital read out says...

Astreas are the worst for flipping over. I bought 25 a couple months ago and put them all in my tank. I spent the next week flipping them back over and I'm still pulling the occasional snail off the intake of my PH's. :roll: I still have 15 or so left. Pleanty of shells on the bottom for...

Not owning the Monterey Bay Aquarium.

Add your aquarium to your home insurance policy. Most companies will allow you to put a specific coverage amount on specific items. As far as I know it will cover the cost of the aquarium it's inhabitants, any aquascape, hardware and the water damage it may cause to anything else. But then...

I'm getting a lot of coraline on my filter intake pipe, my powerheads and spots all over the back of the glass. Ca and ALK in balance close to NSW levels Is it safe to say the water quality is pretty good for this to be hapenning?

My tang had it too. Following advice from here, I did a fresh water dip. Close to 10 minutes he/she did fine (though I wouldn't reccomend that long). There were a couple left on him. I had to put it back into the main tank for the night so I could get the QT set up the next day. That...

I have a tall piece of rock that stood straight up when I first put it in. After the last few months it slowly leaned against the back of the tank. Just the topis touching the glass and it is now at an angle so the water flows around it fine. But I wouldn't intentionally place a rock...

$24 on Ebay.

You can either purchase them in pairs. Or the female will be larger than the male. Clown fish can also change sex from male to female.

From what I've read on here distilled water is the way to go.

If you can't afford an RO/DI unit go to a store that carries camping supplies and get drinking water jugs. I don't mean the bottles for an offce style water cooler (jerry can style). Take them to the water machines at the gricery store and fill them up there. That is what I have been doing...

That looks great. But I don't think you gave enough... lol

I use Oceanic myself. Love the stuff. Can't beat how fast it disolves, the crystals are alomst the size of powdered sugar. I know this was brought up in another post, but Oceanic has been out for a while now. How much is everyone paying for the 200 gal bucket? I paid $49.99 for mine at the...

If you use the turkey baster don't blast it off. What I said was suck it into the baster and squirt it into a bucket or sink.

Here is something that I have heard. The larger the tank the more drops of water it has. Ok if you have say 12 oz cup of water and you put 1 drop of ammonia in it the toxicity is higher than say a bath tub with 1 drop in it. Though it's more to take care of I think you may have a little...

Well your tank is too small for a yellow tang to take care of the hair algae. Mine sucked all the hair off my rock within 3 days. If the red algae is red slime algae, it should go away. I kept an eye on it and pulled it off when it got bad. After a few weeks it was gone and hasn't been back...