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I had to move all my fish, powerder blue tang, butterly copperband, bengai cardinal, chromie, damsel and a clown, to a 10 gallon tank untill I get my new tank. my amonia is spiking and I dont have anywhere to put them. is there somthing that counters amonia in a hurry? I dont know what to do...

Any one have any experience with this fish? It not eating anything I give him, he just picks at the rocks. He looks like he's a little stressed out. he's got some body bumps and I dont know what it could be. The issue actually gets beter durring the day but in the morning its more visible. I...

For anyone who is familiar with red sea alk pro test kits, I am reading the directions and it says to fill the vile to 10 ml with water to be tested. did that. next it says to draw exactly 1.0 ml of alk pro titrant. did that. then it says to carefully add titrant to vile of test water until it...

I bought a little frag of pulsating xenias and in the mourning I see that they were gone. Im trying to figure out who in my tank would eat coral. Help! I have 55 gallon w LR and: sailfin tang, two damsels, chromis, coral beauty, clown, hermits of varouse colors and sizes (about 10), sifting...

I had my lights off and no food for two days because of a algae breakout. I got home from work turned on the lights, I checked my tank and I notices that my wrasse was in a rock and he seemed not to be moving, as if in a deep sleep. 5 min.later he is moving around swimming on the bottom kind of...

Last week I had a green algae out break so I scraped it off and I turned off the lights for 2 days and everything looked ok. Now I got some sort of brown algae outbreak, I mean overnightperty much the whole tank was covered with brown. Seems like I cant get rid of it.I got about 10 snails, 5...

The water surface in my wet dry is looking kind of slimy. Is this a sign of something bad? I got lots of cheato and I got some rock with some mermaids green wine glass growing on it in the sump. Also I am having a green algae out break. How can I control this? I cleaned the glass and really...

I got a mean crab, he is awesome though. I got to get rid of him because he is eating starfish and giving my hermits a bad time.Ill trade for a frag in west palm beach area. I also have too much cheato.

Dont what kind of crab he is but he is eating starfish and other crabs. I need to get rid of him. any one want to trade? west palm beach area. he is about 1 inch wide. I also have too much cheato.

What the best most reliable test kits available? I cant stand testing and getting different results from the LFS. Am I wrong or are they? Im useing api salt water master test kit. looks legit bit if you look at the test tube at different angles the color changes. how do you use these kits...

I had a bi color damsel died last night. had it for 4 days. noticed white stuff around mouth looked like dead skin could see teeth as if skin was eaten away. only thing I put in tank was coroline stimulator. I got a 55 gallon with sailfin tang, very colorful wrasse, chromie, yellow tail damsel...

I got the nova extreme 4X54 watt t5. 2 of the bulbs are Actinic 460 nm: 2x54Watt and the other 2 are 10 daylight bulbs. what are those bulbs for? Do I turn on all for all day? Are the actinic bulbs for night time? what do I need a timer for. Someone help.

My ph shot up to 7.8. Only things I did were added coraline stimulate yesterday. I added a handfull of cheatomorpha 2 days ago and I possibly stuck my hand in the tank after washing dishes. I added 5 gallons of ro water I got from the local water filter company. where I met a fellow aquarist and...

Good or bad? My shrimp love the little purple hair algae on it but should I get rid of it?

Something is eating my barnacles. I have sailfin tang, chromi, hermits (one big jade and a bunch small blue leg), 2 peppermint shrimp, 4 turbo snails, many small starfish noName?, 3 pistol shrimp small, 2 types of small crabs, bristle worms and stars. I wonder who the culprit be. I wish my...

Im at the point where I need lights for my 55. Dont want heat issues so metals are out. Anyone have good experience with a perticular brand? I was thinking oddysea, nova, glo dual t5 from hagen or coralife. Dont know which. Are they all pretty much the same? is it the bulb that matters?

I did a water change and stired things up a lot to clean the tank. I blew debris off LR with my powerhead to filter out. an hour later i came back and he turned pale. what happened? is he sick? Help...

I got lots of new creatures again when I bought this rock. Can anyone tell me what this is? Plant, algae or what. Also does anyone know anything about tiny little lobster looking creatures. Looks like a tiny baby lobster about 1/4 inch long. Its got baby claws, fantail just like a lobster. As...

Will my system crash if I clean out my sock filters? Does bacteria live in the water or does it live on surfaces?

Is it possible that a p. shrimp can eat a baby chromi? I seemed to have lost it and I spent hours trying to find it, I took my filters apart, checked hoses, checked nooks in the LR. No sign of it anywhere. I also have a sailfin tang but the other p. shrimp gets along very well w/ it so I dont...

I am new to this world. my first step is to buy a tank suitable for 30 - 50 gallons. Id like to have coral and rocks. I'm not sure about getting something like an all in one already set up, or getting everything separately, that way I could learn as much as possible about the hobby. Either way I...