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I'm devastated... Nearly all my fish were killed last night when the powerhead I was using to distribute co2 bubbles got clogged and sucked most of the yeast/alcohol from my 2liter bottle into the tank. I managed to rescue 2 fish who are now in the QT but everyone else is dead. The tank is...

I am shocked... I have bought a total of 7 fish, 4 boesemani, 1 yoyo, 2 stiphodon gobies in this tank. As of about 4-6 weeks ago, I was down to 1 boesemani, 1 yoyo and 1 goby. Today, I noticed 4 baby fish in my tank!? I think it has been too long for this to be from the last rainbow to jump...

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I have a 54g corner tank that was salt, but I ran out of time and money to maintain it and it has been dormant for over a year. It's not really big enough to do salt properly and I can't afford the reef tank I really eventually want to have. I had a crazy idea last night to clean it up and...

I want to shut down my tank. I haven't had the time to take care of it, and the only thing left alive is copepods and maybe a hermit. I want to keep everything in the hopes of restarting it in a year or so, but I don't want to keep paying the electric bill if there aren't any fish or anything...

I have an O clown which was hiding under the rocks for a few weeks and wasn't eating much (wouldn't come out until food had fallen out of reach). I recently added a bunch of snails and hermits, and since then he's been hanging out on the sand. he has been eating a bit better (frozen mysis...

I asked for the free red mushrooms with my reeftopia order (which is arriving in a few hours) and realized I have no idea how to handle these things. I have a rock picked out for them, as I understand they should have their own. Do I just need to place them on the rock by hand? How long does...

I have been making the same mistake over and over, thinking I was being clever. I was mixing my SW overly salty and then adding RODI just before adding to the tank to get the sg right. This lets me make a 6g water change in a 5g bucket. also my rodi pressure tank is 2.5g which means I don't...

I don't know if i'm blind or what, but my seachem nitrate test to me just looks like <none------some> ... is there one that's easier to read? I can't tell the difference between 10 and 40+

54g with 63lb LR, 3" sand bed, Remora, lonely O clown fish, almost no cleanup crew left High nitrates, but otherwise OK params. Minor cyano and other algea problems. Not great alk, but no corals to speak of so I'm not worried. I've been lazy and my tank needs attention. Trying to get back...

I have a couple huge hunks of lr which don't look that great (the worst 2 pieces from my hirocks shipment) which I'm thinking of replacing in the display tank. I want to smash them to bits to use as rubble in a future sump. They're about the size of a canteloupe. How can I smash them without...

I've got a 54g with just one small clown and some inverts in it. My Remora (mj1200) seems to be working, with dark brown sludge building up in the tower and on the lid of the collection cup. I get maybe 1/4" of wet skimmate a week, plus whatever dried gunk sticks to the top/sides I've got a...

I have a relatively new, small lawnmower blenny (7 weeks?). I added a phosphate reactor to combat cyano (which works) and have been blowing off and trying to siphon out cyano a couple of times this week. Last night my blenny was hiding in the macro and sort of panting with his gills open. Now...

I've had a lawnmower blenny in QT for a week and a half with not-so-great water parameters. I don't think he's eating any of the food I'm giving him, and I've tried 5 things. He is however munching at the bare walls looking for something to eat. Is there some other food I can try? I think...

I have a 10g QT with a duetto 100 filter and a sponge filter in it, I thought this would be PLENTY for this size tank and just one lawnmower blenny. Maybe I didn't cycle it enough (not enough amm to start, or waited too long to actually put a fish in the QT) Anyway, I checked the AMM just...

I've had a couple power outages lately, but fortunately I've been home for them. They tripped my GFI, and it had to be reset manually. Are thereGFI's that will reset after a while? Is there something wrong with mine that an outage trips it?

Well, I finally have another fish to join my little O Clown. He's a smallish lawnmower blenny and I got a cleaner shrimp with him because my wife wanted him. They're hiding in the pvc in my QT. Is the cleaner going to be OK in the QT? The LFS said he'll eat pretty much anything, so I hope...

I just got a nudi the other day, and he did a great job cleaning off one of my rocks. I had high hopes. Then today, he's 1/8th his original size. Basically just a head and part of the body. All the pretty fin parts are gone. All I have in my tank is an O clown, a mithrax and some hermits...

My clown LOVES to play in the rodi water I pour in for topoffs. Is there any problem with this? I usually only put in 1-2 gal at a time, since it's only a 54g tank.

Wow are these weird.... http://forum.openwater.ru/index.php?showtopic=611

I've got an O clown which has been in QT for almost 2 weeks and has only eaten a few nibbles since I got him. He chases food around, but either spits it out or turns his nose up at it when he gets close. I've tried live brine (which he ate one or two of), frozen mysis, various small pellets...

My 10g QT had just a sponge filter in it, and there was a lot of buildup of junk on the bottom of the BB tank despite my siphoning it I had the bright idea of adding my old Duetto power filter which claims 37-90 gph (it's adjustable). I didn't use the carbon blocks since I'm running copper...

the clown in my qt, which is being treated with cupramine for apparent ich, won't eat anything. the first day I had him he ate frozen brine, and now nothing I've tried 4 different kinds of food now. ideas?

My little O clown was fine when I brought him home. ate right away after a fw dip. He seemed happy in my QT the next day he had a couple sugary white spots (ich, I think/thought) the next day he had brownish spots on his white bands I am trying cupramine and dropping the salinity as...

OK I asked a similar question earlier, so sorry for my newbieness... I took 6 gal out of my tank for my QT and I don' t have any water made to replace it. consequently my waterline dropped and the 5 or so astrea that were at the waterline are still there, only now they're out of the water...