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I have plans to convert my 60 gallon FOWLR tank into a reef tank. Before I ask my questions, here's my specs for my tank as it stands now: 60 gallon FOWLR (about 50 lbs of live rock) Eshoppes Wet/Dry Filter w/ bioballs Coralife Super Skimmer (rated for 65 gallons) set up in the sump of the...

Hey all. I wanted to get some thoughts/opinions/ideas on stocking suggestions. Here's my specs. I've got a 55 gallon FOWLR with about 60 lbs of live rock. I've got a wet/dry filter as well as a cannister filter as backup/mechanical filtration. I also have your run-of-the-mill protein skimmer...

Hi all. So a little over 3 weeks ago I lost one of my ocellaris clowns. He (I'm assuming it was a he because he was much smaller than the surviving clown) disapeared and that was the last I saw of him. I was wondering how, and if, I can replace the dude. My female seems lonely and I really...

So I've got a 60 gallon tank with what will soon be 60 pounds of live rock. I'm running a wet/dry filter and a cannister filter too. I've got your basic protein skimmer. As for livestock, I've got 2 ocellaris clowns, 2 firefish, a royal gramma, and a coral beauty. I've also got a turbo...

So I'm stumped. I've got a 55 gallon set up with a wet dry filter and a cannister filter for mechanical filtration. I've got a coral beauty, two firefish, and two ocellaris clowns. About two weeks ago, one the Coral Beauty's side fins decayed almostly completely off. Where the fin met the...

I have a 55 gallon tank running on a wet dry filter. I've got two occellaris clowns, two regular firefish, and a coral beauty. My parameters are all fine. Ammonia - 0, Nitrite - 0, Nitrate - 20. Out of the blue today, I noticed that one of my firefish is being really aggressive towards the...

So I finally listened to all the advice and I'm setting up a quarantine tank. I bought a simple 10 gallon tank from petsmart today. I also bought a submersible heater that was rated for 20 gallons. I have a 55 gallon tank thats been up and running for around 5 months now. I have a coral...

So I was looking for some advice regarding stoking options. I have a 55 gallon, fish only with a wet/dry filter and a cannister filter. I'm running a coralife protein skimmer as well. The tanks been up and running for a little over 4 months now. Right now I've got two ocellaris clowns, two...

So in the past couple of hours, one of my two ocellaris clownfish (George and Jerry), has started breathing heavily. I've had him for about 3 months now, and he's always had this little bump/growth thing on the bottom of his "chin". Now its not that lyco...whaterver you call it disease, the...

So after being told my numerous people I needed a protein skimmer, I finally bought one. It's a coralife super skimmer. I have a wet dry filter with a sump. So I put the skimer in the sump. Now maybe it's me being a paranoid newbie, but I have a question about the water level. So my sump...

After reading around for quite awhile, I've come to the conclusion I'm going through a serious bacteria bloom. The water became extremely couldy last night in a manner of 1 or 2 hours. My fish all began to breath very heavily, and I immediately did a 50% change (on a 60 gallon tank I with a...

I bought an eibli angel last week. Long story short, sometime in between transporting the fish, and the first day in the tank, she developed what I originally thought was a skin lesion on her left side of some sort. I treated it with stress coat, which I used on previous occasions to fix a...

I have a relatively newer 60 gallon tank with a wet dry filter. It's fish only with artificial decorations. I am now experiencing a serious growth of brown algae, and my water (about ever other week) turns clowdy. I think the water gets that way because of the nitrates, so I treat it as a...

So I had 4 chromis, and one by one they have been dropping like flies. Each week, pretty much on the dot, one more goes. I'm now down to just 1. Now my parameters are perfect, ammonia 0, nitrite 0, nitrate 20. My temps fine, and the salinity is in the perfect range. So my first question is...

I have a 60 gallon fish only with a wet/dry filter and a cannister filter. Right now, there are 2 smaller ocellaris clowns and 3 blue green chromis. So I originally bought 4 blue green chromis, I was told they do better in bigger groups. I was also dissuaded from my original plan (two...

About three weeks ago I bought two tank raised ocellaris clownfish. They were doing awesome for a while, but the past couple of days, I've noticed the one is relentlessly picking on the other one. I know this is normally part of their pairing off, but it's been going on for like 4 or 5 days...

Okay, so I'm a little nervous right now. I just did a 20% water change and my ammonia has spiked up to .25. Before this change, I was at 0. I put two clowns in about a week and a half ago, so I'm assuming my bacteria was built up enough to handle the bio load. It's a 60 gallong fish only...

So I finally got my tank up and running and fully cycled, and I have my first round of fish in there. It's a 60 gallon tank with a new and improved wet/dry filter. Right now I have 2 ocerllaris clownfish (I wanted to start slowly, make sure everything was working properly). They're doing fine...

So I just lost two clownfish because of a severe ammonia spike. I waited until my ammonia and nitrite were 0 before I added them. They both read 0 for a day or two before I added the fish, and the nitrate level was at 20. I made the mistake the first time around so the second time I waited...

So yesterday I went to the LFR and got two ocerllaris clownfish for my first attempt at this saltwater stuff. I made sure it was fully cycled this time (I had a little issue the first time around and lost a couple of damsels). But this time I was patient and made double sure my levels were all...

I have a 55 gallon tank with your standard eheim cannister filter (rated for I believe 75 gallons, they told me to go up a step with the filter) which is close to being done cycling (I believe). After an epic failure where I lost a couple of damsels, I decided to let mother nature do her thing...

So I have a 55 gallon tank. I believe it finished cycling two weeks ago. Right now all I have in there is one yellow tail damsel in the tank right now. I bought two but unfortunately the other one died. Now, after about 2 weeks of normal behavior without any real problems, my surviving...