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Wow... this is a doozy. I lost Skittles, my Royal Dottyback one day. Took me a while to realize it was gone. I thought that it was just hiding like it always did. I never found a corpse, and I only have a couple of small snails that hitched in on some live rock. I assumed that my cats either ate...

I had a two day outage last winter. Thankfully, I didn't keep my freshwater level up to the brim. So, as time went on, I would put in about a quart of hot water every hour or so until the water in my water tank got too cool for this to be feasible. In the first day, this wasn't bad. The temps...

I had a rope fish once. He loved to curl up and hide in all sorts of things. Actually, my rainbow shark got rather upset with him when he tried to steal his home. So, I put a conch shell in there, and he ended up spending the days in the shell (letting my rainbow go back into his home), and he...

What's the thing on the very bottom of the picture? Is that another type of sponge? It's exactly what I have growing on the underside of my live rock that I was curious about in another thread.

I don't know how well this would work, but why not get an old chest freezer, clean it up real nice on the inside, cut the front of it, then use glass to cover the hole, then make a tank out of it? Maybe it's just me, but I've always had it in my head that picking up an old chest freezer...

I can understand how hard it would be without a picture. Even so... why would going from a tank with a 50/50 bulb to some generic plant bulb from the hardware store cause such interesting growth on my life rock?

To make a long story as brief as possible, I'm moving soon. This means that my tank needs to make the move. Thankfully, I only have a clownfish who has been doing very well, so I'm confident he'll make the move. Even so, the stand that my tank is set up on is the one I want the tank on when I...

Still pretty new to SW, but I use Instant Ocean. The price was decent, it came recommended by many as a good budget salt, and it comes in a nice bucket. So far, so good.

That puts my 29 gallon to shame. Then again, I had some financial issues a couple months into setting it up, so things haven't gotten to where I'd like them.

I wish goldfish ponds didn't have a $10,000 fine in Maine. :(

Personally, I wouldn't bleach anything that's going to go into a tank. That might just be me though. Usually, I stick with thorough rinsing. I don't seem to have many problems from that.

When I cycled my first SW tank not too long ago, I didn't even use shrimp. I just threw a large dose of fish food into the tank, then I let it sit for I think close to a month. That worked out very well for me. After cycling a freshwater tank with fish and having major die-off, I learned my...

I like to keep my tanks at home around 80. So far it's done very well for me.

Being new to this, I have to ask. What is so bad about those things?

Seeing as I myself have never used a sump, I can only assume that the biggest advantage to one is in keeping levels more stable more easily.

Spartan, my first fresh tank was that way. I had a 29 gallon tank with over 25 fish in it less than a week after setting it up. I was told to give the tank a few days to cycle (while nobody explained to me what that actually meant), then to go ahead and stock things up. So, I'd get a fish, then...

All the more reason to praise the good things. Hopefully it'll teach him a few things.

Here is what I've done so far with my first saltwater, and my only death was due to a cat stealing one of my fish >.< You will probably need a new light. They're not very expensive. $10-15 for a 50/50 bulb seems to do well with my clownfish's health and color. I don't know the specific reasons...

I'm actually giving up on freshwater because of this. It's too easy to overstock a freshwater tank, and it seems that saltwater fish (in my limited experience) are far more resistant to less than perfect water conditions than my freshwaters. But, that could just be inexperience talking. I've...

Whether it be SW or FW, I feed mine once a day. If they don't seem all that interested in the food, I'll feed them very little and try again later. Every once in a while I skip a day. I probably skip a day once a week, partly out of laziness and forgetfulness. Everything I'm told though is that...

Yup, that's it! I'm glad my description was good enough. Personally, I like the little guys anyhow, so I wasn't too worried, but I like knowing what things are. Here's a related question. Do I have to be concerned about them getting on my heater, or will they let go and fall if they get too hot?

I have recently come upon what appear to be two little sea slugs in my salt tank. Currently, I only have a clownfish as my cats ate my royal dottyback. This is a 29 gallon, so there's not a lot of life here. A little bit of that red algae, but cutting back on feeding and lighting did a lot of...

Same here.

I have a 29 gallon on my dresser in my bedroom. It's an old beatup dresser, but to test it's support ability, I sat my 300 pound butt on it with minimal creaking and no shifting. So far so good. The fish don't seem to be bothered when I open and close my drawers, but I don't slam them either...

I can understand the overcrowding thing. Right now I have a 29 gallon with two fish in it, so it feels pretty empty, but I'm sure I could overcrowd it easily.