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I had asked but they didn't know... the fish has since died or they got rid of it :( lemme look at your links.. I remember thinking it resembled a wrasse... but I didn't know what kind... It was a rainbow orange purple type color now as I remember more vividly. **edit** yea I looked through...

I have a couple false percs... This is long and has the body like my firefish but is big... and orange oh and it has some purple in it also

There is a orangish fish at the local restaraunt in their SW tank that has 2 front fins it flaps like crazy to move its body around and my wife calls it a broken butted fish because the way it swims around it looks like its butt is sagging so the whole fish creates a half moon type shape heh I...

I have upped my PWC's and used to do 2 jug PWC every 7-8 days now I do 1 jug every 4-6 days the green algae has gone down... I will go back to 2 jugs I suppose every 6 days.

I don't like the idea of chemicals :( I will manually remove it though... how do I do it? I use a turkey baster and blow all I can off and change my skimmer cup often.

I just rechecked the water levels and they are still in ideal range even with the weakened foxface... I feel so bad for the foxface as his back is bent from being stuck to the intake but he is still breathing and separated from everything else now... I saw a goldfish do the same thing and he...

heck the reason I got the foxface was because many said it would eat the green algae up. I want the green algae gone... there is way to much of it. it caught me off guard when the LFS said the corals were bad he said it sounded like a type of feather duster.. shrug. there are tons of empty...

These corals have been there for awhile they are just growing so I mentioned them at the LFS... My parameters are all ideal according to my strips and my saltlevels are where they always are.. I was told by a friend the turbos were dying because loss of light fended them less food... they...

I had aiptasia and got shrimp that ate it... they look a LOT like TUNICATES that were on that page

I have been fighting off green hair algae for quite awhile even with the water parameters looking good, lowering the light to almost no light besides ambiant daytime light (which is pretty low) and lowering feeding.. Due to the lower light a lot og my turbo snails have died. Now the LFS after...

My tank has been healthy and going strong for about a month now with its current stock about 3 months since it began. All water levels are in great range and occasionally fall to a good/acceptable level. My stock is 2 clown false percs and 1 Yellow Tang. I have 2 turbo snails and 2 cerith...

I don't have a sump setup yet... I was told I could go awhile without one and add one later.

So now we are back to RO water being ok for freshies? lol

I wasn't speaking of LFS folks etc... I was speaking about some of the folks here at Aquarium Advice and ReefCentral who have said it was best to use RO/DI for all tanks fresh and salt... Perhaps they are adding something to the RO water to make it healthy for the fish? Perhaps running lightly...

Thats odd... Why do people and websites recommend RO units for freshwater and saltwater then? Also Is this true with only RO/DI or RO units with out the DI stage? This will make things easier as I will only have to run enough water per month for my SW tank and not enough for my 2 fw tanks and my...