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Wow -- guess what????!!! He's now doing well. He looks healthy and wonderful. I think maybe it was my clown. She is relentliss when it comes to her mate or her anemone (She hardly left the first anemone's side). I am sooooo happy. I am doing a water change today and all the tests so if...

I have an anemone that is about 1 year old. He has been healthy and happy until just these last few days. Now he is shrivelled up in his (foot? or bottom). In the past few monthes I have had an algea problem and I have been really working hard to get everything back to normal. I have been using...

Thank you, I live on Vancouver Island in B.C. Canada and so I will have a look to see where I can get them here. I am so excited to be getting my tank back to looking good! Tahnks again Betsy

Thanks Ziggy, I use RO/DI for everything now -- I even rinse my filtersand skimmer in it after I have cleaned them. I have been testing my water and my levels are normal ?? I may have to make my next purchases more exact kits. Having the Phosban filter with Rowa seems to be helping a lot as my...

If I can get all the tec stuff with the camera figured out Yes I'll send a picture. I should take one now for a before and after. Thanks again Betsy

Thanks for all the great advice! I now use only RO/Di water and I age the SW for one to five days depending on my time constaints. I use Coralife Scientific Grade Marine Salt. I am scubbing two to three large chunks of rock every two to three days in SW and my tank is starting to look...

Hello, I have a 75 G reef tank with 75 pounds of LR and live sand. I have been fighting a battle with algae. I have been doing WC and aging my salt water, but the algae continues to grow. I just got a Phosban reactor and Rowa. Next I am going to scub off the algae on the LR. I read putting it...

Thanks, I have fish, live rock, corals, shrimp and many other little critters, so I won't put the bio balls back in. Thank you Betsy

Thanks Mark for your thread. I too have been having an incredible algae bloom that sounds so similar to yours so this is very helpful. My fish also beg every time I go into the room and so I have been reluctant to feed them less -- they just tug at my heart strings and I crumble, but will lessen...

Hi Everyone, I bought my tank 2nd hand and it came with bio balls in the sump. I read somewhere ? that I shouldn't have the bio balls so I took them out of the sump. My tank is 75 G and has been up for 1 1/2 years, during the past 6 months I have been fighting with an algae bloom (I have a...

Thank you everyone, I am glad to hear it is most likely curiousity. I am sure my fish know me as they come out to see me when I come into the room (I'm in often as I'm always curious what they are up to), however when there is a stranger with me only the clowns stick around. If the stranger is...

Hi, Lately I have had an incredibley big algae bloom. That's not what this thread is about. I have a thread with really good advice for that. My question is: I go in with my big gloves on and pull out algae as well as do two to three water changes a week. Does this stress my fish to have a...

Sappy is really good and I am so glad some one else feels sappy about thier fish! I just love them and get so much joy out of them. I was just cleaning some algae out with my big rubber gloves and my cleaner shrimp came over to see if I was dirty and needed a clean. I was so touched. Next as I...

One more question. What do you feed them? Thanks Betsy

Thanks I found them and some good info about them. Betsy

I have two ocellaris clowns. When I brought them home they kept space between them and only one would go in the anemone. After about 1 month the one in the anemone was much bigger (honest!). Another another month and they were swimming togehter. In the third month she would let the smaller clown...

Hi, I have two fish I inherited with my tank and would like to know what type they are. I don't have a set up to take photos yet. Can anyone tell me a site to go to where I can identify them? Thanks Betsy

Thanks so much, If the open brain doesn't have it's tentacles out does that mean it's not hungry? Do you try to feed it even then and how? Thanks Betsy

Hello everyone, This is all so helpful! When you say you feed it with tweezers do you mean a special kind of tweezers. I have the long big ones that I got at the pet store. They are rather clunky and hard to coordinate. Do you take it out of the tank and put it in a container to feed it...

Thanks, I want my next fish to be a Tang so this is great to know. Betsy

Wow it's a beautiful sun coral! How often do you feed them? I put my sun coral in a spot like you described and she is much happier. Thank you Betsy

Thanks again this is soooooo helpful, I do target feed my sun coral Living Reef food -- this time live Rotifers. I do have a sump. My fish are a Manarian Dragonet goby, lawn mower blemmie, 2 clowns, and two fish I inherited when I got my tank. I don't know thier names, but they are common...

Wow thanks to everyone! I have changed from tap water to RO/DI I get it from the store that has a unit -- is that okay? I also read on this site that aging the water for 24 hours after putting the salt with a power head in is a good thing. So I'm trying that. I have a Coralife Super...

Thanks everyone! Great advice. My tank is 1 1/2 years old but I am still so new at all this I will hold off on another anemone. Today while I was making water I saw my clowns swimming together out of thier side of the tank. I silently wished they would find the other anemone and suddenly...

Hi I am a newbie with a 75 gallon reef tank for 1 1/2 years. In the past six months the algae has been getting worse and worse. I had a thread that got closed and it gave me a lot of good advice and asked some questions of me that I never got to answer and so here goes. I am going to read up...