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I read on a website that scarlet cleaner shrimp will eat red slime algae but no other source says this to be true. Do scarlet cleaner shrimp actually eat red slime? Thanks.

How do you care for a chalice? Lighting? Water flow? Food?

Hi. I got a colony of zoas about two weeks back and it had a cool looking black and white checkered snail on it. The snail disappeared but I just saw him today in my other zoa colony. I remember seeing a picture of a similar looking snail that ate zoas but I'm not sure if this is the same snail...

Hi. I got a birdsnest coral in the mail yesterday and he it was doing fine. Today when I looked in the tank the bottom half was kind of white. My parameters are all fine. Does anyone know what's wrong and how to fix it.

Hi. Today I just got some new corals in the mail. Usually to attach them I would just epoxy the little rock there on to my live rock. The only problem is, is that one of the mushrooms i ordered has come of his little rock. Also the birdsnest I ordered his attached directly to its plug. Can I...

Hi. I went to my LFS today and got a pair of Bolivian Rams. I don't know if there male or female and I would like to know. So how do you tell the difference between the genders?

Hi. I have a clown fish in a ten gallon with a yellow tail blue demsal. My demsal has taken over most of the tank and left my clown with the very top and the far left side which has a frogspawn coral and a power head. I'd like to get my clown to host the frogspawn but he seems to like the power...

Hi. I just got a new light system with a built in timer and I'd like to know how long I should have the lights on. It has a white light a blue light and a night light. Which ones and for how long should I keep on?

Hi. I have a 10 gallon nano reef. I have a fair amount of corals and there doing alright but I'm not sure if the lighting is really good enough. I have a 20 gallon strip light and a 20 inch HI (high intensity) light. Is that good enough? If not what should I upgrade too?

Hi. I have a 10 gallon nano reef. At the moment I have a perecula clown and a yellow tail blue damsel. My first question is is that alright? My second is if it is alright is there anything else I could add or should I just leave it how it is? Thanks.

Hi. I recently got a candy cane coral which I really like. I've looked up other candy canes and I really like their colors. I was wondering if I could get another candy cane of a different color and put it fairly close to the one I already have. Eventually they'd probably grow close to each...

Hi, I have a 20 gallon tank which I'm trying to make an amazon tank. Right now it has six glow light tetras in it and that's it. I'm not really sure what else to add. I'd like two get a centerpiece fish like maybe a pair of rams but what else is out there. Plus two rams wouldn't fill the tank so...

This is just a question for future reference but I wanted to know if you could keep a bigger cichlid ( like a jack Dempsey, Texas, ect.) alone in a 40 gallon tank. If not what would be the biggest cichlid you could put in a tank that size? Thanks.

Hi I've had a bumblebee cichlid for about 8 months now and he doesn't seem to have grown as big as I thought he would. I read online that they get to be 8 inches and at the moment mine is only about 3.5 inches. He was about 1.5-2 inches when i got him. I got him at the same time I got my acei...

I have a 10 gallon nano reef. For lighting I have a fluorescent strip light for a 20 gallon. Fish wise I have two clownfish and a yellow tail blue damsel. The corals I have at the moment are zoanthids ricordea Xenia frogspawn and pipe organ corals. I'm not sure what else to get. Any suggestions...

Hi. I've been looking online to find a place to get a few corals. While looking I found a lot of sites had a tab marked aquacultured. What does that mean? Are they bigger or healthier then other corals? This might be a dumb question but please answer it. Thanks.

Hi. I have a ten gallon nano reef which has been set up now for about five weeks. I've been doing research and looking at possible corals and fish to put in the tanks. The other day I went to my lfs and bought a few corals. While I was there I saw an anemone called an Atlantic condylctis...

Hi. I recently purchased a pipe organ coral accidentally mistaking its polyps for the polyps on a green star polyp :/. I'd like to know there care requirements because I couldn't find any real useful information online. Any help would be great. Thanks.

Hi, I have a ten gallon nano reef that's been running for a little over a mounts now. Yesterday I went to my lfs and got my first corals. I got a total of four. I know for sure two of them are zoanthids. The third I'm pretty sure is a green star polyp but at the moment he's still closed up so I...

Hi i always thought shrimp looked cool and at my lfs they had bamboo shrimp. I looked online but couldnt find much. Does anyone know what they need for care and feeding? Thanks

I have a 40 gallon and i wanted to put african cichlids in it. I read there supposed to be over stocked so i was thinking these would be my fish 1bumblebee 3acei 3scolfi 3arutas Is that a good stock or am i horribly off Thanks

Hi. I have a 38 gallon aquarium. It has a quite flow 55 filter and a heater that keeps the tempature at about 78 degrees. I was wondering what kind of turtle i could get. Id like to still have fish which would probablly be pictus catfish and angels. Are there any turtles that i could get and if...

Hi I have a 38 gallon with a featherfin catfish in it at the moment. I'd really like to get discus fish but ive read there really hard to care for. Does anyone know how to care for them. Also how many could I have in my tank. Thanks

Hi i have a 38 gallon with a featherfin catfish as its only occupent. What other fish could i put with it? I want discus or angels but i dont know much about discus so probaly not them. Are they compatible? Thanks.

I was at my lfs and saw a plant called a peacock fern. I read online that it is a terrestrial plant but at my lfs it said it was aquatic. Does anyone have any experiance with these and can tell me a bit on how to care for them?