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I have a flame hawk in a 65 gallon tank. Can I add another hawk fish? My wife really likes the red spotted hawk.

I have a 65 gallon tank with fish, shrimp, star fish, crabs, snails, and a scollop. One of my fish, a swallow tail angel has fin rot. I think it is bacterial. Can I safely treat the entire tank? I doubt I could ever catch the fish due to a large amount of rock.

I put a new blue tang in my tank 7 days ago. The first day he swam around a little but frequently retreated to the rocks when my sailfin tang (who thinks he owns the tank) harassed him. Since then the blue tang stays almost exclusively hidden in the rocks, it come out just a few inches every now...

I'm not familiar with a mantis. The hermit is about the size of a mans thumb.

I have an established 65 gallon tank that has been doing very well. I have a sailfin tang, 3 clowns, and a damsel. Until recently I also had a firefish, an arrow crab, sally lightfoot crab, and 2 cleaner shrimp. Over the past few months I have slowley lost the last ones mentioned. No sign of...

I have a 65 gallon tank with fish and a lot of live rock. The lighing that came with the tank is 96 watts described as follows: 50/50 Fluorescent Lamp The Coralife 50/50 lamps are a mixture of 50% 6000 Kelvin natural daylight and 50% Kelvin Actinic 03 blue. Is this good lighting for fish and LR?

Is there a "best" anenoneme for clown fish?

I have had a couple of outbreaks of ich over the past few months and each time my cleaner shrimp cleaned the fish and I feed garlic soaked food. My lfs lady who seems very knowledgable swears by garlic soaked food!

I have an angel which about a week ago developed what appeared to be an injury on its gill plate. I have a couple of cleaner shrimp who have been attracted to the injury and keep it very clean. It is just red and raw looking, no whites spots or fungus look. It is getting larger and I am worried...

I'll tell you what I think worked for me. I had a new tank and went through the same thing. Ich - fallow tank - reintroduce fish and more ich. Then I got two cleaner shrimp. Now when the ich comes around they go crazy cleaning the fish. My LFS also said to feed food soaked for 20 minutes in...

I have had a new flame angel in my tank for about three days. It seemed to be doing fine and was swimming and eating this morning. I noticed this afternoon that it was not swimming around. I later found it on the bottom being eaten by my hermit crab. Do yo think the crab is capable of catching...

What are your thoughts on buying fish from the online stores as opposed to the lfs? Which do you recommend? What are your thoughts on arrow crabs? OK for fowlr tank or too aggressive?

Here's a question I've never seen on this site. I have a 65 gallon tank with an overflow that drains down to a sump filter. The return has a mag pump rated at 750 gallons per hour. My question is this, there is usually a gurgling sound coming from inside the overflow. It sounds much like a bath...

I have some fish in in my QT tank due to an ICH outbreak. I plan to leave my display tank empty for 6 weeks. How may fish can be put back in the main tank at one time? Can all five be added at once or should it be done more slowly? Assume the main display (65 gallon) will have good chemical...

Here's an update. As you can see my original problem started over two weeks ago. I now have a QT tank set up and ready to go. I plan to QT all new fish. Here is my question. Over the last two weeks my two remaining fish have shown no sign of ICH. They seem very healthy. Should I still QT them...