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I have a hi fin in an 8 gallon and he is a great fish, doesn't move around a whole lot but cool to watch when he does.

Thanks guys, I will give the scraper and acrylic pad a try.

Hello Everyone, I have a fair amount of corraline algae growing in spots on the front of my tank which I haven't been able to remove with a magfloat or a toothbrush. The tank is acrylic so I am worried about using something that will scratch the surface. Any suggestions?

Thanks guys, I will give it a couple days and see how he does. In response to Lance's question, he swims around a lot, seems to be pretty active/curious about what is going on.

Hello All, I picked up a chromis earlier today and gave feeding him a try. I read that they are big eaters but when I gave him some (previously frozen) mysis shrimp he wasn't a big fan. Do you think the pieces were too big for it? He did go for the sinking pellet food, however. The LFS I got...

thanks Thanks guys I will try the toothbrush and if that doesn't work I will spring for the magnet.

Hello All, My tank has been up and running without any major issues for a few months now but I had a question about cleaning the sides of the tank. As the tank is acrlyic on the sides and not glass the local fish store I use recommended I not use a magnet to clean the sides of corraline algae...

thanks for the suggestions, the green star polyp I have in there now is very easy to care for, I don't have to feed it special or anything. I add some iodine every few days for the shrimp but I don't know what effect that has on it. It produced a few pale white buds a couple weeks ago which have...

Hello All, I was interested in adding some easy to care for soft corals to my nano set-up in the near future. I currently have 5 purple mushrooms and a green star polyp that has started reproducing, plus some colerpa (which I have been trimming lately). I was interested in Xenia but I have no...

Hello All, I had a question regarding green bubble algae which has started to show up in my tank. From what I have read the best way to go is to cut back on light and food, scrub the live rock and hope for the best. However I was talking to a friend of mine who suggested adding an emerald crab...

Thanks for the advice guys, I tried some brine shrimp this morning and he ate it right up, is there much of a difference between mysis and brine? I read somewhere that mysis is supposed to be better in terms of nutritional value.

Thanks for the advice everyone, I tried soaking the pellets and turning off the filter during feeding time today and it worked well. On a side note, do bristleworms ever bother corals? There were several wrapped around the green star polyp (thats what it was!) today and I couldn't tell what they...

I had posted a question a couple weeks ago about adding a hi fin red banded goby to my 8g oceanic biocube. I picked one up from my lfs today and he is doing great so far, I just had a couple questions on feeding: I bought the same type of pellet food that the store has been feeding them but in...

Hello All, I usually stick to the saltwater section, but I also have a freshwater set up as well. I have a kribensis in my tank that has been there for over a year, he has always been okay with the cory catfish that are in the tank but for the last week or so he has been bugging them a lot. I...

Thanks for the advice, I will do some research on the firefish and let you all know what I decide on adding in a couple weeks