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The rocks were so gross that I ended up rinsing them off in salt water though I know I should have used saltwater. Substrate I saved and didnt rinse since its sand. Currently, i dont know my parameters, school has gotten in the way of my tank cleaning. I think your right and i'm just gonn ahave...

I'm actually doing a water change tomorrow . I think the spike has finally started to happen cause my lil damsel isnt looking to happy. I wasw hoping the same thing about the spike but there was a lot of die off when in transit on the live rock (even the hermits died) and my skimmer has been...

I've just recently moved and I just reset up my 16 gallon nano tank. I brought all my live rock down with me in buckets and I made sure to rinse them before putting them in my tank. I let the rock sit in there for a few days and then added 2 damsels. So far one has died but i'm pretty sure it...

I do know someone who has mixed marron clowns and percula clowns but they both had their own anenomes on opposite sides of the tank. What out cause clowns generally do not get along at all. I wish you luck though

I had this happen to my tank, and i ended up changing about 90% of my water total before it went back to stable. Dont worry, just keep doin water changes

I use a Nitrex box and that helps a little in reducing nitrates. Its not that expensive either.

thanx, i think i will get a fan for the room at least. That should definitely help with the situation.

I have a 16 gallon nano reef thats been set up for almost a year now. It was fine last summer and i had no problems with it heating up at all. Normally the lights only change the temp in the tank +/- 1 degree during the day, but we're getting a lot of extra heat this summer and i need advice on...

Ii'm looking around for some better lights to put on my nano reef tank because i dont feel that i have enough on there. I have a sixteen gallon bowfront that is 17.5 inches tall and 20 inches acroos. Currently i have a 15 watt flourescent (actinic) and an 18 watt power compact on there. All i...

The cory's are barely reaching an inch in length, and the two puffers are currently only about half an inch. I do have a twenty gallon the cory's can be moved to if need be but for now they all seem happy and they do get cleaned regulary (3weeks) with my nitrates at only about 20. Thank you for...

From my experience you dont really need a skimmer to keep a nano healthy. Actually i had better luck with my tank when i took it off and just kept my HOB filter with an extra powerhead. Plus, the skimmer seemed to inhibit the tank cycling a bit. If all you want to keep in there are inverts or a...

We have just aquired two pigmy freshwater puffers and i was wondering what kind of food they eat. I have already looked them up on the internet and they said that they love bloodworms, but do they eat flake food? They are housed with two cory cats in a three gallon tank with plants, a biowheel...

Aiptasia's are really hard to try and get rid of manually. I used to take a needle and inject them with ph down at the base and then into the head. An easier way to do it is to buy some peppermint shrimp. They'll get rid of them really fast and they wont harm your corals either. Since i bought...

Well the tank is much better now after i did that large water changer yesterday. My blennie has his color back and everyone is looking much more comfortable. I'm still trying to find a home for my tomoato clown. My remaining anemone is starting to look a little better and i thin he might pull...

my remaining anemone still looks horrible. He wont attach to anything and he just kinda stays curled up. He is a long tentacle anemone, is there anything i can do to help?

Thank you very much, i'm going to do a fifty percent water change todayand maybe another small one tomorrow if it still looks bad. I know i have too many fish in there but i told a friend i would take some of his fish when he took down his tank. I originally only had the two percs and the...

I just did a water change on my 16 gallon nano reef yesterday and everyone looked fine when i went to bed. when i woke up the tank was cloudy white and i could barely see my fish. Residents list= 2 sm percula's, 1 lawnmower blennie, 1 sm tomato clown, 2 shrimp, hermit crabs, and 2 anemones. My...

I've kept betta's in with my guppies for years and never eally had any problems. I wouldn't worry about the swimming around thing much either if he isn't showing any signs of obvious stress. I've had some that like to swim around a lot and other s that didn't. it just depends on the personality...

There uncommon but not that rare to find in fish stores. I live in alaska and they run about $11 dollars for a small one up here cause we;re considered overseas. They are beautiful though and they dont get that big either, only bout six inches or so.

You might wanna try otto's but you'll need a whole lot of thm cause they only grow to be liek an inch and a half or so. If you wanna get a pleco get a rubber nose or a candy stripe pleco which only get tp be six inches long.

I've known brittle stars to eat fish if they can get a hold of them but thats usually not the case. Have you tested your tank lately? A mantis shrimp also sounds liek agood guess but i don even know how to find them if there is one.

Man the tank souds like a mess. I work for an aquarium cleanig service and i've found the best stuff for getting the hard algae off the glass is the scrapers made by kent. i prefer to use the plastic ones so they dont scratch anything. If that wont get it off then resort to a razor blade and a...

At an absolut minimum you musthave 2 watts per gallon in order to even start thinking of keeping corals. Most people tend t keep at least 2-5 watts per gallon. Also do you have any actinic lights on there? Corals need that spectrum of light in order to really grow and thrive. If you have a glass...

There's no fish or crustacean that i've heard of that just absolutely loves to eat them but most fish (such as wrasses) that like to eat your crustaceans liek to snack on them. How big is the tank and what kind of setup, fish etc are in it?

Yes garf.org is a great way to get some ideas but in myexperience they seem to propagate pretty easily by themselves. I've even see a few tanks almost overtaken by them. What kind of additives are you using in your tank? A good invert food is a great way to start and make sure you have lots of...