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hi guys, since a bit of a clean out i've actually got a spare 4ft tank, i tried to sell it on ebay, but no one wanted it. so i've decided to keep it and set up up as a cichlid tank, the question is.. what breed? its 55g - 4ft long, it''ll have a sand substrate, moderate lighting and...

hi guys, i remember being told that 5 discus for a 55g tank is just enough, and thats what i have, but i think that i also remember being told you should always have the pairs.. so my questions are. 1 - is 5 too many? 2- is the odd one out (blue turq) going to suffer socially? he is also...

inspired by some coll aquascaping i went out and sepnt little under $75AU on rock, plants, and pebbles for my new discus tank. some of you might of seen the blank canvas i had to work with in aquascaping. if not here it is.. tank info... filtration : 1x ehiem cannister (250L) 1x aqua one...

sadly, my threadfin butterfly fish and my smallest percula clown have died in the last 48 hours. this is the part of fish keeping that sucks. i think my butterfly died after stress, overnight it looked like he got himself stuck between 2 live rocks and couldn't move, thats where i found him...

hey guys, i have a pair of o clowns in my tank(ocean caught), they came with the tank when i bought it, i was wondering if there would be much trouble if i added another pair? i have the room for them, (55g) but i don't know if it;s a done thing? i can remember my dad had a tank when i was a...

hey guys, firstly here's a few pic's of my new addition the butterfly fish. the tank's front glass needs cleaning, so please forgive the mess. a few questions too... 1. how should i be feeding the butterfly brocoli? i've been having trouble getting him to eat since his arrival, but he has...

hey guys, on sunday i nought home a gorgoeus butterfly fosh for my FOWLR tank, i bought home some of the same a stuff that the store was feeding him, but he's not eating. its almost friday and i haven't seen him, the foods i have avalable are flakes, blood worm, brine shrip frozen, marine...

i have this little 30L Aqua One tank that was given to me by my sister. at the moment it's housing 4 platys and a male guppy and live plants, when ever i seem to add plants and leave the light on for more than a few hours a night the water begins to go green. eventually pea soup. i have...

Hey guys, i've been calling a few places around melbourne here, and a few have asked me to come in so i can chat to them in relation to getting employment. i've been to this one place before, and failed. so i've come to you guys in the hope that you'll have some advice for me on how to nail a...

hi guys, i have a fowlr tank 55g, going well housing 2 percula clowns a humbug damsel and a yellow tailed blue damsel. i want to start keeping anomie (sp?) but all i have is a POWER-GLO fluro tub for the tank. is this sufficient to keep 1 anemia? or do i need to upgrade to metal halide...

i bough 3 turbo snails 2 weeks ago for my 55G FOWLR tank to help with the cleaning of the tank, eat the algae off the glass etc. they seem to be making more mess than they are cleaning, snail poo everywhere! i tried vacing it up, but it's near impossable with the CC substrate as it's...

hey guys. i have a Discus tank thats got 3 peices of driftwood, small, medium and large, i use a small light, on a 4ft tank it's a 18" light. it's seems the water, although ALL the water chemistry is excellent (and i change 30% of it every 3 days)that it's got an softy brownish amber tinge...

hey everyone. my tanks going well. my 1st marine experiance is turning into a good one. i have a questions though regarding fish waste, and substrate vacing. fig1. to me looks like the build up for fish waste yes? fig2. again a whole pile of it? is one of the fish collecting it? i know...

hi guys, sad news.. well i hope not. one of my silver dollars has developed a growth in the last few days. it looks like he might have burnt himself on the heater or something? background: a few days ago, in the 3ft tank he was fine, no marks. i moved all the fish into a 60L tub with...

hey guys, i have a pair of clowns in my tank as well asa a humbug damsel and a yellow tailed blue damsel. tonight i saw the blue damsel lieing in the substrate and wiggiling its tail really fast kicking up the sand. this wenty on a while, it kind created a hole then i noticed the humbug...

hey everyone, soon, i'll be setting up a 55g. anyways i want to go for big and peacefull. what would the biggest fish i could get for a 55g that wouldn't harm another others i might add in the future? i'm open to any kind.. so guys throw your ideas at me! cheers

hi guys, i have a 3ft tank that i was going to set up as marine, and i bought a coral, sand for the subsrate. then i hit a few financial hurdles with the marine plans. so i made the tank a freshwater tank keeping the coral sand substrate. the fish lived happily in it i've since bought...

hey guys. yesterday went out and got a 4ft 55g tank and stand for under 100$ US new. with cover glass. but that catch was they tell me i shouldn't fill it wednesday. but i was allow to take the tank home with me. i assume they make there own tanks and they just want ample time for the...

hi guys. i was wondering what the signs to look for were when an an inverabre like a starfish is dieing. i put one in my 3month old tank last week and he's moved to the back of the tank, and stayed in the 1 spot now for ages, his lost a little color eg. the tips of his arms ar darker than...

hey guys i bought a established tank of a mate and it's my 1st marine, i've been kepeping discus for a while now so i know the importance of water changes. although how important are they for marines? the tanks been in operation 2 months, i've had it a week and i've just done a 40L water...

hi guys, i've been doing a bit of reading and i've made a few slight changes to the tank. 1. the light - it was marine-glo as pictured here: now it's power-glo as pictured here: i've also added a small red star fish. i didn't notice how dirt it was with that brown algae before. shoudl...

ok... i got some joe's juice fomr my LFS and i blasted all those nasty aiptista's a day after, they are all shiverled up and just hanging on the rock. the biggest one has fallen off the rock and is lieing on the sand bed. for all the small ones should i just let them be and they...

well my 1st week as a marine tank keeper is nearly complete, sicne the tanks move everything seems in good order. i had an aiptsa (sp) break out but i got some of that "joe's juice" and it seems to be killing them off. i have a few questions. 1 - when should my 1st water change be? and...

looking in the tank last night i've found a crab lurking on one of the live rocks i haven't been able to get a good look at it, so i don't know if its a nice crab or bad crab. anyone got any info on these kind of crabs, it was brown, and was hard to see against a hard brown rock, i assume he...

hi guys. i bought an existing marine set up off a guy, and got it moved and setup this weekend, the anemenas are starting to sprout and i've noticed that there was one Aiptasia on one of the rocks, as this tank is a FOWLR tank how concerned should i be with this Aiptasia and it breeding...