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Saltwater from the ocean.....magic!!! Someone said it. Using saltwater from the ocean for water changes once a week...magic. I mean Everything is thriving and healthy. Nothing has died. The best part was the algae problem i had is gone in two weeks. thanks!!

STARFISH Pentaceraster DIET Aite after getting some more coral from the caribbean Ive learned that this starfish loves to eat coral. So if get a Pentaceraster, they love fan coral and other types of soft coral. But im tell u this its coolest looking, most active, best cleaner starfish u will...

Stage 4 My 10 gallon salt water tank is thriving. Been taking care of my tank like its a baby. Probably the reason it hasnt crashed...knocking on wood after saying that. Only problems ive had since starting tank...brown and green algae but all have cycled out. Not a single spot of algae as...

he has Uv light filter, water filter ( runs into another tank with sea plants), protein skimmer...he left those running. Turned off the lights. Did water changes using his reverse osmosis water filter...I the brown algae just slowly died off except in the sand and the coral opend back up. He...

alright i got some video action of stage 1 to stage 3 on youtube...check it out search " vpad fish tank "

Thanks....coral is back, brown algae is gone except for in the sand...

RIP: to the juvenile amberjack. prob died from stress...too small of a tank. But he didnt go to waste...starfish ate him so dont worry.

hahaha of course im joking but being in med school it does sound like something i would want to see. But i dont think i have the balls to cut off one of his arms...def looks like pentaceraster or oreaster. Its the only sea star i can find in st kitts reefs. So its looks like fan coral out and...

that bastard...im cut off his arm for killing my fan coral

This is a picture....

I had a fan coral in my tank that intially had some dead spots. After about a week my fan coral started healing up those dead spots. About week 4 in my star fish got on my fan coral and ate half of it???? I mean it climbed onto the bottom portion of the fan coral for a day. After it got off...

Update!!! my juvenile amberjack died...i think bc of the stress(small tank for something that avg 120 lbs but i didnt know i caught a freaking amberjack with my bare hands when all my life ive used a 20ft boat and a pole. The starfish ate his body...normal? I have another fish in there...i...

lol thanks thincat

i have a phosphate remover right now and the light have been off for 2 days. nitrates should be near zero alk is good calc is around 420 its all in range everything was doing well did a water change everything went down hill algae took off did more water changes corals stop opening fish are...

Tank Week 4.

this not my tank...buddy of mine

Thank you everyone for helping me out...def would of never thought i caught an amberjack with my hands when all my life i been on a 22 footer 8miles out using a pole catching one. After looking at some pictures and my fish...its def a juvenile amberjack (Seriola).

I have a 50 gallon fish with a live rock, fish...... Had it for a while. I checked my nitrate, amonia, Ca, Ph, salinity, temp....its all perfect. But recently green and brown algea has taken over my tank. Everywhere. All my coral has closed.

sounds way more complicated then getting bottled water and plus the risk of contamination.

hopefully this helps...but def looks like amberjack

Alright im post more pictures in a little bit. I put in a hemit crab that i found on the beach and it bit off the hermit crabs two claws and then let him live. I put in a crab and it fuggghed him up(murder). I put in some reef hermit crabs and it leaves them alone. It wont really eat fish flakes...

ya my bad

so u telling me SW from ocean is better than bottled water mixed with mineral salter? I was scared of contamination...

I live in St Kitts and Nevis, east caribbean. My first sw fishtank. 10 galllon, aquaclear filter 30, florecent light, snorkle, fins, and mask. I harvest from the ocean. Im see how this goes. Got bunch of awsome live rocks, Some reef hermit crabs and snails, starfish, two fish, purple fan...