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I have a koi pond in my backyard and my son wants a turtle. So I was thinking of getting a soft shell turtle,but I have a few questions any help would be appreciated. 1. Will the turtle eat or bother my koi as some are expensive? 2. Will the turtle crawl out of the pond and leave? 3. Will a soft...

Thanks all for the advice

Hello all was thinking of go from a 55 gallon to maybe a 200 gallon tank but I was thinking of the task of water changes. With a 55 it's not hard to do changes but I was wondering how do people accomplish this with larger tanks meaning do you have to set up a secondary tank to prepare water. Any...

Hello all and thanks for any replies. I have a 55 gallon FOWLR. I have 3 clown, 3 firefish, 1 chromis, 1 foxface, 1 mimic saddler. 2 choc. star and some hermits and nasarius snails. Tank has been up and running for about 6 months after a month and a half cycle period. Levels have been fine until...

i have a yellow tang, foxface, coral angel, mimic puffer, and clowns. i already have hermits and snails, son wanted some crabs but im not sure if they will nip at the fishes fins or attack them all together at night when they lay on the bottom? Thanks for any help or advice.

not really sure of the different kinds, are there kinds i should avoid?

hello all i have a FOWLR tank and was thinking of adding some crabs to the tank as the kids would like ot see them in there. My question is will they mess with the fish at all or the snails? Thanks to all.

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Hello i was at the LFS today to pick up some more LR was speaking to the guy as i was getting LR and he told me that if i have FOWLR set up that the salinity needs to be higher to mantine the LR but by doing so the fish would get sick. Then stated if i dont raise the salinity the rock would die...

started it about two months ago and after two weeks i put three damsels in as the LFS told my i could its a 55 gallon feed them twice a day once a pinch of flakes and once a pinch of frozen brime again as advised by my LFS. should i do a pwc or just keep adding niteout or both or any other advice.

i have started a fish only saltwater tank and after about two weeks the LFS told me i could put some damsels in there because there hardy and can adapt so i did. I know now after reading that i should have not done that but i cant give them back and obviously dont have anywhere else to put them...

thanks for the advice lfs told me i could put damsels in in the begining as they are hardy and will adapt. As far as adding prime or niteout should i do that on a regular basis or just let the levels drop on there own. Also should i be doing water changes during the cycling phase

hello i have a 55 gallon tank that i have set up for sw fish only. I set it up june 24 and had it going for about two weeks levels were good so i added a few damsels (3). Abount another week to week and a half went by and i started noticing brown alge like stuff on glass and sand so i did about...