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Thanks for your help!

I have a 50 gal with about 60-70 lbs live rock, a cucumber, a few snails & crabs, 3 clowns, watchman goby, yellow tang, flame angel, mandarinfish and a grouper along with a clam, some corals, polyps etc... I am upgrading to a 210 gal. I will be moving the filter (a fluval fx5) from the 50 gal...

What is GAC?

salinity .0245, ammonia .1, nitrite 0, nitrate 0, ph 7.9. i wont have pics but i'm going to try to get a video and post it. the clown is still eating and acting relatively normal and looks normal except for the lips.

Recently my false perc clown has been acting wierd...he keeps touching his mouth against the frogspawn coral I have, almost like hes kissing it. Then I noticed he was keeping his mouth open wide for long periods of time. Today his mouth is swollen and open. There aren't any other signs of...

Its the Hagen Glo T5 lighting. There is a picture at the top of this page: http://www.petsandponds.com/securestore/c293075.2.html

They are T8's even thought they say T5 high output? There are 2 bulbs under each reflector (2 reflectors). The color has faded a bit and the inner polyps aren't extending as much while the outer polyps rarely extend at all.

I don't dose any chemicals. I have a yellow hawaiian tang, a false percula, firefish, flame angel and watchman goby. I do have 4 bulbs, 2 are only 18 watts and the other 2 are 24 watts. I have an elegance coral in the display also. The 18 watt bulbs are a coral life blue actinic 03 and the...

Ammonia and nitrite 0, nitrate 5, salinity 1.023-1.024, calcium about 400, pH 8.3-8.5. I've had the hammer for about 3 weeks.

I have a 50 gallon tank with 2 systems of 2 T5 bulbs. My hammer coral has been shrinking. I haven't changed my light bulbs in about 5 months. Could that be why? Also, the hammer coral is under the same lighting system as an elegance coral. Should I move the elegance coral under one system...

When the guy at the lfs put the featherduster in the bag there was some of its tube coming off. More of the tube has come off since I put it in my tank but there is still some attached at the neck and it has moved into a different spot and buried itself under the sand. It still opens and moves...

I have 2 percula clownfish, an emerald crab, a red starfish, some astrea snails and 2 featherdusters. What should the pH be at? Mine is 8.1. I thought that was on the low side. What is the safe range for pH or is it kind of the same with most freshwater... high or low pH isn't as important...

I just put a featherduster in my tank yesterday. It has come out of its tube and buried itself under the sand. It has a wierd film growing around a section on the feathery part of its body and half of the crown is flowing but the other half is kind of laying on the sand or flowing against the...

I want to start a 25 gallon brackish water tank. I'm planning on starting with baby figure 8 puffers and baby green spotted puffers. My first question is what kind of salt and how much do I use to get brackish water? My second question is I have heard green spotted puffers eventually need full...

I know it can be done when you keep up with water changes and tank maintenance, but a 20 gallon tank doesn't give much space to replicate their ecosystem. I don't think she changes her water often so its a good thing I didn't order this fish for her before hand! Thank you for the suggestions...