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For the Purple Tang? Mine has been great in my reef tank, I'd say it's proably my favorite fish. He is a bit aggressive, but it hasn't caused any problems. I recommended one because they're pretty good survivors.

PJ Cardinals are good fish, they do best in pairs. Purple Tangs are also good, though they are a little bit aggressive

If you have an acrylic tank use a plastic scrubber

I agree about avoiding a dragonet (manderin 'goby'), they usually need a lot of live rock to do well- I've read that they need at least 75 lbs. I wasn't able to keep one in my 55 gallon tank. You might consider a hawkfish and/or a cardinal fish instead of the Tang and the Dragonet

Actually, I take that back--I think copi's right

It looks like a redspotted blenny (Istiblennius chrysospilos)

I'm about to move and I'm looking for some good advice on moving my tank. (see my signature for details) It's about a 14 hour drive, not including breaks, so I may need to stay overnight somewhere. Help!

Glass is not affected in any significant way by ordinary houshold chemicals. Per the Corning Museum of Glass: "Only a few chemicals aggressively attack glass -- hydrofluoric acid, concentrated phosphoric acid (when hot, or when it contains fluorides), hot concentrated alkali solutions and...

What are the most effective methods to clean coraline algae off of the glass in your tank? I've got quite a bit forming near the sand layer of the glass in front of my tank adn was hoping to clean it off without stirring up too much of the sand.

Thanks!

Watch you tank and find out where it lives. If you can remove that rock while the shrimp's still in it you've got a number of options to chase it out and catch it.

Phyl- thanks for the info, I'll go put the rock back in

That would be poetic 8) unfortunatley I don't fish

I caught the mantis shrimp that's been terrorizing my tank. He hid in a tunnel in my live rock that had only two entrances. Unfortunately it was the biggest piece, and under a couple of other pieces, but once I cleared the path I was able to pull the whole thing out and get it into a bucket of...

I'm fighting the same battle right now, some things that have helped were to use the siphoning tube like a vaccuum cleaner during a partial water change (this is much easier than picking the stuff by hand) and the addition of a royal urchin (Mespilia globulus). Unfortunately the urchin was...