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Hey guys, I did some looking around and could not figure out exactly what this stuff is that is growing on my live rock. It grows fairly rapidly and is almost like a skin that covers my live rock. as it build up it has a bunch of strands floating around. It seems like it is starting to...

I've got a 55 gal setup with two clowns, an assortment of snails, one hermit crab and two emerald crabs. I recently finished quarantining a small imperator angel and added him to my display tank. That was about a week ago. He seemed to be doing fine, grazing on the rocks, was not fighting with...

Hey guys, I set up a 10 gal quarantine tank about two weeks ago. I had the saltwater aging for about a week while I had my filter from my hang on the back filter sitting in my display tank. I put the filter into my quarantine tank and the next day I added a small pinch of dried fish food. Two...

Hey guys, I was just wondering if these fish can go in my tank. I want to get a yellow tang and a flame angel. Will they be ok together? I currently have a 55 gal tank with about 75 lbs live rock, approx 2-4 inches live sand on the bottom. Two power heads and a protein skimmer. There are two...

Hey guys, I've got my 55 gal setup with a protein skimmer, two powerheads, about 100lbs of live rock and about 3 inch live sand on bottom. My friend sold me this setup and in addition to this stuff he was running a fluval 404 canister filter with the output running through a corallife uv...

Hey guys. Just wondering if ich and other saltwater fish diseases can be spread by hermits, snails, or emerald crabs or are they only introduced on fish? I want to pick up a few more snails and an emerald crab for my 55 gal that has cycled. Currently have two clowns,4 hermits, 5 snails. I am...

hey guys, I was just wondering about my quarantine tank that I set up. I set up a small 5 gal tank and aged the saltwater for a few days. Took out about a 1lb piece of live rock from my tank that has already cycled and has good parameters. I rubbed the HOB filter one the rock to transfer some of...

Hey guys. I just set up a tank that I took over from my friend. I have had the tank cycling for about 3 weeks now. My corraline algae is starting to spread but it also looks like I am getting some hair algae and a nasty diatom bloom. I have read that the diatom bloom is natural and will pass...

Hey guys. I JUST took over my friends tank and have had the live rock in the tank after it has been moved from his house to mine with new water and a major clean up for about 3 days. He told me he had some pieces of coral in there but they were dead. Not sure if this is a piece of coral but I...

Hey guys, just new to the site and the hobby and I have a few questions. I have a friend that has a Salt Water sytem going, rather, half going. He started the system up about 8 months ago and it was doing awesome. He moved away and left his brother in charge of the tank. The brother did not look...