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Is there any hermit crab or snail or any invert that will eat that cynobacteria (red slime algae)? TIA

he gets plenty to eat they just grow slower. he eats algae all day long and gets pellets and freeze dried krill at night. i'm not stunting his growth . he has eveything he needs, so sorry if i wrote that in a way to mistake it. he is housed with a blue throat trigger , a marine betta, and an...

if you have a quarantine tank i'd treat with coppersafe . it is the best treatment for ick that we have found. good luck.

it sounds like he has columnaris.try an antibiotic that contains furan or kanamycin sulfate.if you can't find one then ask your lfs for the best medicine for it.also you want to treat as a bacterial infection.HTH

i have one that is just a baby.he is only about 2.5 in and we keep him in a 29 gal for now. we have hadf him for 1 year . cowfish grow really slow if you moniter their feeding.

him jolting at the decorations is how they scratch themselves. it's not a disease it is a parasite. you can use a formalin bath.i know there are other kinds of medicine you can use but off hand i don't know what they are.definitely keep an eye on him. good luck.

if you get them as babies you could get away with it for awhile but not for their entire life.be careful on how much you feed them. then they grow slowly in my experience.as babies i mean like 3.5to 5 inches.

the overflow you buy will probably be adjustable so you set so water is always flowing into your sump but you do have to keep your eye on evaporation in your sump. HTH

i know eyeball urchins ,which are all black,love to eat coraline algae.as for reef safe i'm not sure.so i'm guessing other urchins like coraline algae to.

he has already ate one fish and tool out the eye of your tang .he is probably going to eat or attack the rest of your fish . by leaving him in there you just creating unnessicary stress. you need to figure out if you want an aggressive tank or a docile tank.

does it scratch on the rocks or stay in the jet stream? does it act sluggish?if your answer is yes to any of these it is possible that it has a parisite like gill and skin flukes.

we had one and it like to stay at the top where it could feed off the stuff in the jet stream. we also fed it krill and it loved it.ours was a tough little buger it lived through eveything.it was extremlyy hardy but our fish got sick and we didn't have any place to put him and had to treat with...

the only thing i would suggest is get the rock a little at a time .we are on a budget to and that is what we had to do. HTH

we have a baby snowflake and he leaves eveything alone but he hides all the time until it is time to eat.i think he will be fine for now in a 30 gal tank. i don't think they grow vary fast at all but it usally depends on how much you feed them.we feed all of our fish evey other day but the day...

the niger is not one of the most aggressive trigger you can get.their two triggres that tie in the most agressive and they are a queen and a titian trigger. it also has to do with each ones personality.they say niger are suppose to be more laid back then some other triggers but i know ours is...

yes size does matter you want to keep them roughly the same size because when you add it they will size each other up. also rearrange your tank decorations evey time you add a new fish because triggers are very territorial.what do you mean by clown picasso? if you mean clown trigger,yes. also...

you need a copper testing kit and that will tell when it would be safe.

basiclly any fish that is aggressive and can hold it's own.

i'd wait at least a week before you add anymore fish because ick can live 3 to 5 days without a host. ick is a parasite.

try using a copper clumping agent. there is one called CupriSorb and you can find it at www.petsolutions.com. HTH

ther is a copper clumping agent you can get to take the copper back out it is called CupriSorb you can find it at www.petsolutions.com. you might want to check it out. HTH.

does the fish wobble,act as if it has chills or fans its pectoral fins to maintain balance if so they are having chills. if that is not it can you explain in more detail how the fish is swimming?the reason i ask is because we have a great book to look in for the answers. it is called the...

your half fuschia half yellow minnow like fish sounds like a royal dottyback and they ar very hardy. i agree with what eveyone said about tangs they are prone to get ick.the clownfish however is usually pretty hardy.

we love our 180g acrylic tank.yeah it scratches easy but you can buff them out with a scratch remover. it weighs less then glass,holds temperature better then glass,there is less salt creep if you get a built in overflow.

you might want to keep an eye on the niger trigger because he might be attacking the tang. nigers are supposed to be a bit nicer then some triggers but i know ours is very aggessive.he is even worse than our undulate trigger and they are supposed to be highly aggressive.the puffer could be...