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i'm using red sea salt but i find that it isn't very good. Most of my friends who also keep marine fishes who have used the salt told me that the salt has caused alot of problems in their tanks so i am thinking of changing the brand,can you guys give me some recommendations?

Hi,i currently have 2 common clowns in my 10g FOWLR tank. I just noticed that 1 of the clownfish has a swollen eye and i am guessing that its because of the salt i use. My LFS has already told me that the salt i'm currently using is not very good so i'm looking for a new brand. Do any of you...

i did the drip acclimination method but after a second test with a different test kit the ammonia level in my tank was around 0.3 but i'm not sure if thats enough to kill a fish...

Hi,i just bought a baby yellow tang from my lfs yesterday for about $20 which I placed into my 10gallon QT to monitor the fish before introducing him into my main tank which is abt 75gallons. When I was observing my yellow tang in the QT,it looked perfectly fine and I even saw the little guy...

Hi,I have a 10 gallon tank which has been set up for abt 2weeks after cycling and i have to common clowns in the tank and they are all eating very well. I use a HOB canister filter and i have about 5 live rocks. I noticed that afew days after i did a pwc there seems to be brownish "grains" of...

Hi,i am currently using dymax glass hydrometer which is a hydrometer which bobs in the water. When i did a partial water change 2 days ago,i checked the salinity level and it was fine but when i checked it today,the salinity level has dropped! I don't know whats wrong because i had placed a...

Thanks for the link,it really helped me out alot in picking the right fish for my tank. When my tank is up maybe i'll post some pictures. :)

Hi,i'm new to saltwater fish keeping and my tank is currently cycling. It should be done by the end of next week and i was wondering what types of fish i can keep in a roughly 8-10 gallons tank? Can someone please help me with this?

You could try to seprate the 2 hermit into different tanks and place empty shells in each of them till both hermits have found a shell they are comfortable in and then you can put them back together.

Firstly,THANK YOU!!! Ever since i got the rock and read from some link that my live rock may not be alive i have been worried sick. So when i read your reply i was elated and relieved. Thank you so much!:D

Hi,my friend just gave me a couple of "live" rocks but when i checked the rock it has no colour on it at all and looks just like a normal plain,dull rock. I was wondering if my so called "live" rock is really a live rock or not and if it is when till it start growing coralline algae on it??? Can...

I used to have a 50 gallon tank but it's in pretty bad condition and if i were to buy all the equipment again it would cost me afew hundred so i decided to start a 10 gallon instead and see how things went. If i can actually keep the fish alive after cycling i think i will start up the 50...

Hi,i was just wondering if a scarlet cleaner shrimp will actually help me clean fishes like clownfish and gobbies. Can someone please help me with this??? Thanks

Oh ok thanks for the links,it really helped me out alot but i was wondering how long does it take for the tank to cycle the ammonia and nitrite before i can start adding fish??? And can i just continue leaving the cleaner shrimp in the tank to help produce ammonia for the tank instead of buying...

Hi,i just started my tank yesterday and a introduced 2 clownfishes and a scarlet cleaner shrimp to my FOWLR tank which is currently running on a canister filter and a roughly about 10 gallons. The clownfishes and cleaner shrimp were doing fine the day before but when i woke up this morning, both...