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My Dad has tried to join me in my love of aquariums and has had a 40g freshwater tank set up for 2 years. He had about (3) Gouramis, about (7) very small Tetras, and a few bottom feeders. Overstocked a bit, but I gotta say they were thriving for about 18 months. It's also a beautifully...

Differentiating the colors of a liquid against the colors on the cards has always been difficult if you ask me...especially as the nitrates peak, the card shows blue, and then 5 slightly different shades of purple. At any rate, this is what I think I've seen... Day #1 - Day #2 - Day #3 -...

OK, I went with the raw shrimp to cycle the QT tank. I didn't see the first suggestion to use just part of a shrimp for a tank that small, and I used one single "medium" sized shrimp. Today makes it 3 days, so I started testing thinking I wouldn't see much the first 2 days until the shrimp...

Since jawfish like to have a hole in sand to hang out in, and Sand-sifting Gobies like to sift through the sand......how do you QT them if your QT tank doesn't have sand in it? I haven't put any fish in my show tank yet....I'm not there yet, so I could put them in first, and if there is a...

Thank you. :-)

To cycle the tank before adding the fish for the show tank.

Why what?

I'm coming down the home-stretch of having my 75g FOWLR set-up ready for fish. I barely saw a cycle spike with all of the live rock (and a little live sand) in the tank. At 4 weeks I added a bunch of various types of snails and a few hermits, and they did an amazing job on the bit of obvious...

OK...I must be missing something obvious. I THOUGHT I followed the directions... * I poured water into overflow until it overflowed into the main chamber of the sump * I then added water to the main tank until the level rose to 1/4" above the teeth of the skimmer box. * I started siphoning...

Setting up my first FOWLR tank... Here's my latest dumb question... When I add my live rock and begin cycling the tank, should I add the critters (snails, crabs, etc) right away or should I wait until the tank has fully cycled?

Well, I removed the Spring Water. I do have a TDS tester on the way, but I thought I'd remove the water anyway even before getting it. I dont' suspect I was going to get good results anyway. I really don't want to get an RO/DI unit...I am the worse plumber ever. The idea of installing it is...

I don't have an RO/DI unit, but I do live practically next door to a natural spring water place, so I thought I would be doing better than tap water if I filled my new 75g tank with Natural Spring Water. Now I'm reading that Spring Water can be worse than tap water. I've done nothing else so...

My LFS has SEVEN different types of Live Rock... * Tonga Branch * Kaelini * Tonga Slab * Cultured Fiji * Cured Tonga * Nano Rubble Rock * Solomon Island Is there a major difference between any of them? Is one better than another? (FWIW, I'm setting up a 75g FOWLR tank.)

I have had a Black Ghost Knife for about 6 months. He seemed incredibly healthy and happy - in fact, I just commented to my wife how much bigger he was getting ... until tonight. I just looked in the tank he shot from one side to the other, slammed into the side of the tank, and started...

Setting up my first saltwater tank (75g)... I have a Fluval 404 that I am planning to use from a freshwater tank that has been dismantled. Now I'm reading bad things about canister filters and saltwater tanks. I've read to leave all of the floss out. I've read to leave the bioballs out...

Setting up my first saltwater tank (75g)... I got 90 lbs Caribsea Aragonite Aragamax Sugar-Sized Sand (Bag labelled Oolite #00930 whatever that means). There was another size at the LFS that was a bit more corse, but I went with the smaller grains. I figured that would be best for the Jawfish...

I am buying everything I need for my first 75g saltwater tank. I already have a Fluval 404 from a freshwater tank I dismantled a while ago, so I was planning to use that and not get a sump system. I just bought a Coralife Super Skimmer 125. I heard it does a great job, and didn't stop to...

I read somewhere that Coral Banded Shrimp shouldn't be kept with other shrimp and crabs. I'd like to get one, but I'd like to also have some cleaner shrimp and hermit crabs. Is that really a problem?

Dumb Question for a newbie...All of the "How to start your saltwater tank" FAQ that I've seen on-line say that it's OK to fill your aquarium with fresh water initially and mix the salt directly in the tank since there's no fish in the tank. Buuuuuuuut, this sounds like a bad idea if I'm putting...

Awesome. Thanks, that helps. I'm slowly gaining speed. Next trip to the LFS (in a couple weeks) I need some more power heads, I'm returning the skimmer for a better one, and I still need the sand and the rocks/live-rocks.

You're the second person who has told me that. That would explain why it was on sale and cheap. It's still in the box and I have the receipt so back it goes.

Yep, all set! Thanks. Now I just need to buy the sand and the LR and I'm good to go.

Do you guys have a good suggestion on about how many inverts to start with for a 75g tank? Obviously that's a tough question to answer without specifying which inverts I'm talking about, but can that general question be answered?

I'll be setting up my first 75g fish-only (with Live Rock) aquarium after years of keeping freshwater. Can anyone recommend the best/favorite tank cleaners to purchase (Shrimp, snails, etc.)? I know I shouldn't add them all at once until their sufficent algae for them to munch on. But (1) how...