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I think Hybrids are kinda luck of the draw if they pair up. my suggestion would be to start with two juveniles that are both small, or you could start with a large perc and a small maroon in hopes that the large perc would become the dominant female. I have a feeling that an already dominant...

its usually best to let your new salt water aerate and mix for 24 hours before you put it in. It can take that long for the salt crystals to dissolve. if its not fully dissolved the salt crystals can burn gills and corals. And not only that but newly mixed salt water usually is lacking O2 big...

just out of curiosity, how long have you had your mandarin?

looks really nice, I run a similar system, but with macro in a sump. I pulled my skimmer a little over a year ago, and everything is doing well.

Mine will do the same thing sometimes. Its been in my tank for over 5 years and has always done it.

85% of the fish that leave his store are dead in a week because he only cares about making money, not if the fish survives. They die because he tells people to put fish that need 6-10 feet of swimming room in a 24 inch tank. And I am sure he tells everyone that their water is just fine and that...

Personally I would say it is already too big for your tank. No, you wouldn't be able to keep it for life, they do in fact reach close to 24" in captivity, and need a much larger tank. What is the foot print of your current 150?

not to be the "tang police" but since you asked. doing a little research liveaquaria suggests a 360 gallon tank for them, and the list that they have compiled over on reef central for tangs says min tank volume 350 gallons, and min length of tank 10 feet. your 150 would be a step up from what...

what he was saying is a 90 gallon cube I am pretty sure. which means 24"x24"x36" (not sure if that's 36" high or long) which in my opinion is too small for tangs. Its not so much gallons they need, but lateral swimming room; that's why most of the time you see tank size for tangs listed in...

its 150 gallons minus a few gallons for glass thickness. as a reference: tank volume in gallons = (length (in inches) X width (in inches) X height (in inches))/ 231 so (60x24x24)/231 = 150

what they were getting at is if your power goes out the pump in your sump will stop working. Meaning your display tank will drain until the water level is exactly even with your overflow that is drilled. When power shuts off on my 125 I have about 5 gallons of water that has to drain into the...

I find that playing some Lionel Richie seems to help during the acclimation period... On a more serious note, it is kinda 6's on which is better. Maroons are not the most even tempered clowns, and going with a smaller one it could be just as aggressive as the one you currently have. Or, with...

its a 125 with 20 gallon sump. I have a mimic tang, a diadema dotty back, a few damsels, a big 4" tomato clown, some green chromis, a few serpent stars, coral banded shrimp, snails, hermits. it is a fairly small bio load, for the size tank. I sell corals from my tank every now and then and...

Yeah the only thing I see as terribly strange is the temp issue. I am like you when it comes to all the mechanical filters and there are many different ways to do a reef tank. I dont use any mechanical filters in my tank, I dont run a skimmer, and honestly the last time I did a real water...

depending on where you are from there are a lot of cost effective alternatives. here in utah, our home depot/lowes sand is silica based so thats not a very good choice. However, we have oolitic sand that can be collected from certain places by the great salt lake (it is the exact same chemical...

the polyps are a type of zoa.

Im pretty sure the magic erasers have cleaners in them.... they specifically say to keep away fro. Children and to not mix them with products containing bleach, implying it has an ammonia based cleaner in it.

perhaps they are sending him mislabeled fish. Quite often it happens there, not too long ago they had a mimic tang labeled as a lemon peel angel at the petco by me. The royal gramma and the royal dottyback could easily be mistaken for each other, especially if they are labeled as one of the...

200 liters is equivilant to ~50 US gallons. this thread just made a light bulb go off and makes me want to try experimenting with a few things. seeing that all a water wave is, is a very low frequency sound wave.....

The next thing I would say is test your new saltwater for NO3. Also I noticed you purchased the tank used and they apparently had some messy eaters and detritus build up, you didn't happen to reuse the used sand did you?(without cleaning it). if you cleaned out a 1/2" of muck from the sump I...

sounds like you are doing 10% water changes, correct? if you are reading 30-40 ppm nitrate before you do a pwc you wont see any change after because the most your nitrate could drop during that change is 4ppm leaving you still in the 30-40 ppm range. when you do your water changes are you...

It is the other way around. Monti's in general are the more hardy of sps and can live through less than perfect conditions. Acro's are some of the more difficult sps to keep.

Lowe's and home depot should carry the screen you need. it is an exterior grade uv screen that has .325" openings I believe. I know at the Lowe's here it is over by the screen material and in the gardening section by the fencing materials. I believe it is around $11 for like 20 feet.

Iodine is actually one of those supplements that you can overdose on, so you should be testing for it if you are going to dose it (but even then testing is very inaccurate because the tests do not test for all forms of iodine) . This is because corals don't use all that much of it, and if you...

what size tank do you have? what is your SG? Also, what is your pH and temp at? To me it almost sounds like suffocation. Is your tank covered? and do you have good surface agitation. A low pH and high temp means that there is not very much dissolved oxygen in the water.