Recent content by shjuho

I am considering purchasing RO equipment for my home. I am looking for recommendations and lessons learned by others. I will need equipment that makes at about 1 gal per day RO water I have a 55 gal Salt Water Fish Only tank. I am very tired of buying RO water at my LFS. Thx for any...

Thx for all the help. The tank eventually cleared, but the sediment remained after 2 full days. I did premix the salt into the RO water and let sit for 36 hrs w/ occasional hand stirring, my std procedure. I like the powerhead idea. I do believe there is something wrong w. the salt. I...

Today we did a 30% water change in our fish only tank (55 gal). Unfortunately it appears that salt did not fully dissolve, leaving the water cloudy and a white sediment on everything. The fish appear to be OK, but are certainly not behaving normally after about 8 hrs. The Ehiem filter...

The hawkfish and tang are about 2 1/2 inches. The clown is about 2". The damsels and chromis were about 3/4" to 1 ". We don't have any live rock. We have an Eiheim filter, protein skimmer. Our water checks out good at the fish store.

The clown is a percula clown. Yes, I did mean Hawk fish. - should have used spell check. We do have three large pieces of rock and a couple pieces of dead coral. You're idea of re-arranging the rock is a good idea. Any good ideas on what type of fish we should try next time?

We have been having problems introducing new fish into our 50 gallon fish only tank. We have had a clown, blue tang, and scarlet hawf fish for about 6 months. We have tried introducing green chromies and most recently some small damsels. Our three fish ate the new fish. What type of fish do...

We have a fish only 55 gallon tank with dead coral only - no live rock. Currently we have a clown fish, blue tang, scarlet hawk, and 1 green chromi. In the past we have had a coral beauty and lemon peel however they died. One of the fish books said that the dwarf angels like to graze therefore...

Yes, we have an Eiheim filter - dead corral and crushed corral - no live rock.

We have had our aquarium active for about 10 months. Recently we lost two fish and discovered that our nitrates are at 50. We've been doing water changes frequently to try to lower the numbers. Someone told us that a protein skimmer would help - is that true?

Yes, we know about the tangs - our LFS recommended we get those - now you see why I don't trust their advice anymore. They still arre fairly small but when they get larger we will have to sell them back to the store. What is Formula One?

I'm wondering if we are feeding our fish properly. We presently have a percula clown, henacious butterfly, yellow tang, blue tang and just lost a flame angel last week. We presently feed our fish 5 times a week - every other day switch the following flake food: Brine Shrimp Plus The...

The heni as well as all the other fish are doing great!

We lost our Flame this morning ... :( Probably won't replace with another due to your warnings about the cyanide - so sad.

We have added a henicious butterfly recently but I don't notice it acting aggressive to any of the fish.

So .... back to my original question What do you think might be wrong with the flame angel. iIt's so sad - he used to swim all the time with the other fish and now he hides in the rock and coral. He came out when I fed the fish but didn't eat anything.