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My husband is making a sump for our tank and cant find a plastic hose clamp, so he got a stainless steel one. He said this is ok, and i really don't know one way or another. I know that many metals are a no no, and i'd really like some advice on this before it is intergrated to our tank. Is...

I have a 20g tank with two female and one male calvus. two have paired up several times before, and they used to be in a larger tank with many other calvus. Today i noticed that there were some fry swimming around in the tank, and i totally missed the spawn, and the hatching in the shell. The...

I have 5 julidochromis, and i'v been reading up about sexing, and venting them. I'v also read that the female is usually the larger one. The largest juli in my tank is about 4.5 inches, and has a verry obvious "thing" next to it's anus. The problem is that all my julies seem to have a "thing"...

I was so sad today to move a shell, and discover not one, but two dead caovus in there. I noticed that i hadn't seen my beautiful male in awhile, so i was moving the shell around trying to swoosh some water in there, and that was when i found the terrible sight. I thought he and another fish...

i'v never had any live plants in my fish tanks, but i'm interested it giving it a try. Is there a particular type of lighting that i will need? Anything I should add to the water to help the plants grow? Any infromation would be great. It is a 25g tank with some neons, a barb, and a loach...

this guy is a barb, but i'm not sure what kind. He lives in a 25g tank in my daughters playroom, and is really pretty and quite active.

He everyone. I think i'm going to have babies again! The two most beautiful fish in my tank have paired up, which i'm supprised about because for the last two spawns, this female has picked a "not so handsome male" She is the only female allowed to spawn. I thought it was strange that she...

I took my yellow tang out of my tank, (he was swimming funny, and seemed to be scratching, and was not out in the open swimming the entire day, so i know something is wrong) I stuck him in my 33g tank to observe him better (there is no rock etc) and i looked through my box of fish stuff, and i...

130g reef tank 1 tang, 1 clown 2 yellow tail blue damsels one three stripe damsel one sargent major damsel crabs, snails an anenemie a few corals (two deceased gobies, and a royal gramma, over the weekend) Today when i got up my tang was not acting right. Usually he would be swimming back and...

i have a 130g tank with a yellow tang, two yellow tail blue damsels, a clown, and a three stripe damsel. These are all fish i'v had for a long time, and they used to be housed in my 33g tank, and i'v up graded. In the last week i added 2 sleeper gobies, and a royal gramma, but yesterday, they...

ever since i moved my 3 stripe damsel to my 120g tank he is such a jerk! He attacks me when ever i'm doing work on the tank, ramming and bitting. He is pretty small right now, but when he gets a little bigger, he might really hurt! any one else have any really mean fish?

When we got our 33g tank, it came to us established, and there were all these incredable little things moving about in the crushed coral on the bottom. We'v just set up a much larger tank about 2 months ago, and i was wondering how i get them to be in that tank as well? I was assuming that...

we got a mushroom coral the other day, and i didn't come on a piece of rock, just the mushroom. When we got it home, i thought i setting it down the right way, but it wouldn't hold on to the rock. I put it on the bottom of the rock, but it flipped over. Maybe had i put it down wrong? I was...

when i saw a few fry swimming about I picked up the shell in my 5g tank that my calvus has been in for soooo long , and a bunch more came out when i picked up the shell, but also some mouldy eggs came out. What would have caused more then half of the eggs to not hatch? I got as many of the...

how long till the egg sacks are gone on my baby calvus? I found my first baby one week ago, and the mother is still in the shell with the babies, but i can't see any of them anymore, but i'm sure they are in there cause she never comes out! How long after hatching will the egg sacks be gone?

just days after installing our mh lighting, there is a brassy corored something all over the rocks, and coral. The "stuff" is only within the illumination that the mh light covers. I don't know what the heck this is, but if you might, then please let me know

we just hooked up our mh lighting, and i really have no idea how long they should stay on in a 24h period. We have no moon lights yet. .......Actually, i don't even know how long the reef has sunlight, having been no where tropical in my sad 25 years!

I understand that amonia turns into nitrites, and then nitrites into nitrates, but when cycling a new tank, how do you lower the nitrates with out doing massive water changes? will regular small changes eventually lower the nitrates? mine are sitting somewhere between 5 and 10, and my amonia...

i got my mh lighting system in the mail today, and we hooked it up, and the fish just love it! they stay under the lighting and don't move to the outsid of the illumination! it's incredible how much of a difference it makes!

i have baby black calvus! I moved a shell into a small 5g tank when i saw that my paired up black calvus were acting strange.....she was in the tank all the time, him hanging out right outside, and chaseing away all the fish that came too close. Well three days later, i saw a wiggly little...

I have a 55g tank with calvus, julies, and two tanganyika cats. A pair of the calvus have spawned before, and about a month ago i noticed that they were acting like they were ready again. For the longest time they hung out side by side, and then the female would shake about, and swim into her...

this morning i noticed that my female sword was acting really strange. She was swimming around at the very top of the aquarium, slowly, just round and round. She wan't really eating, and her stomach was soooo bloated. Her vent looked rather large. Could she be almost ready to give birth...

anyone who has ever had trouble cycling a tank is gonna want to kick me in the ass, but only a week after setting it up, my amonia has gone from 0.3 down to o.1, my nitrite has gone from 0.5 down to 0.1, and my nitrate is now at 15. i know the basic chemistry of cycling a tank, but is it...

hi again..... i read a lot about ro water, and i'v talked to all the people in my aquarium society, and ifs's and i keep getting the same answer......tap water. Every aquarist i know is using tap water, some not even declorinated. I use declorination, but tap water just the same. I'v alwayse...

just wondering what you guys using in your marine tank once you have a good biological filteration system in place, live rock and all. lets hear you ideas :)