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My two fish tanks and I are heading to Baltimore from Pittsburgh at the end of the month and I have some questions. First I'll let you in on the plan so far then anyy suggestions you have would be great. Get up at 4am and take down 30 gallon FOWLR save about 15-20 gallons of that water in blue...

I was recently given a tank (20 gallon) That my wifes grandmother had in her attic. Dunno how long it had been there but lets say uhh 2yrs. The problem is That I have heard her talk about treating her fish before with copper to clear up ich. Under her current tank she has a bottle of Mardel...

Got a quick question for you pros out there.. I put in a new Sailfin tonight that I had Qt'd and all and in about the first I dunno 3 min My yellow tang started an all out assult. Any way it only lasted like 3 minutes but now my cool little sailfins top little fin thing is tore up REEEAALL...

Hey guys sorry I have been a bit absent from the site for a while... new job and all..and on top of it setting up a home office has been a real process. Ok here is the situation and I am looking for some suggestions. Reef tank --up and running no problems to speak of (knocks on wood). FOWLR...

Ok so I come down stairs this morining and am kinda sleepwalking through getting ready etc... when I notce an orange dart in my tank so I look a little closer and crap my clowns are going crazy. Well it seems that the Haddoni they host in decided last night he wanted to eat the intake of my...

Hey guys it's me agian and I have a quick question before I do something stupid... I have a 20 gallon I got over the weekend and I have the penguin filter bio wheel thing in one of the compartments of my fluval 404 so it can get all cycled. I put it in last saturday so it has been in there 10...

Well, Today could really be it. I am about done I have never been this upset about anything I am just done unless this is normal. I told you I had my 2 clowns in QT with my flame angel (my first fish lived through 2 bouts of tank ich and was just the coolest fish ever) Something happend...

My wife and I have come into a second tank a 75gallon. We have a reef up and running for a while but she wants to just put a pacaso trigger in the 75. My question is can I just throw my fluval 404 on there and that would be enough filtration. Also it has been running on my reef for months...

Hey guys as alot of you know I have been having horiable luck with Tangs latley and I am through with them for a while (read until I buy a different house and have a 225 built into a wall). I have my refractometer and my 2 clowns and flame angel are now being treated with Hypo and I finally...

You were right (as always) I was wrong (which happens way to much :) ) I was stupid you were wise. After losing my second tang to ich even though he was in QT and I was trying to use copper, and I think my mandarine has it.. I am done with this whole situation. I just ordered my refractometer...

Ok as some of you know had ich on my tang again.... Tried kick ich for the last 2 weeks was not working. Last night she looked a little better and was even eating again by the time I got home. But My reef really could not take another week without a skimmer.. and I felt like dumpin more stuff...

Ok I have to come clean here... bought my powder blue tang towards the end of feb. Had him in Qt till about March 18thish no parasite problems it seemed, and she was just darting all around the 10 gallon qt going nuts So in to the main tank she went. Sure enough once in the main tank yup ich...

I know everyone always complains about the LFS did this or said that... But at what point is it ok to just pipe up when you hear something bad? I was asked to leave a fish store the other day by an employee and have really been struggling with it.. I mean really I know by no means am I an...

I read this on here a while back and finally got talked into it. My corals are open more than I have ever seen them. I went to the Home Depot and got some of that eggcrate stuff for lighting after one of the guys in my fish club explained how much the salt creep on my glass tops was just...

Hello all. First off let me post my tank params.. 55 gallon 5 gallon fuge. calc 450 alk 14 amm 0 nitrate 0 nitrite 0 Coralife aqualight power compact 265 watts firing down in there:) Ok here is my real problem it's not that I don't know the problem I just don't know how to fix it. I have had...

Hey Fishfreek, I know you have a PBT as well and I see your on here this morning so I thought I would ask a Fish specific question. As you have seen in my gallery I got one he seems happy and all and eats the algea off the clips like it is going out of style and picks the algea off the rocks...

Today I am getting 2 bags of bugs for my goby. One contains 100 mysis shrimp one contains 100 copepods. I was just gonna dump um all in my fuge and be done with (after acclimating them of course) but I was told that the mysis will eat all the copepods and I don't want that ... you know the...

Hello, all first off lvls are all at 0 except nitrate which is at 5ppm.. But that is going down as my new fuge breaks in. This is the second time I have tried Xenia and I can't seem to get it right. I went to fellow reefers house he fraged it for me for the second time it looked great. I drip...

check out this link. It is just so sad. But it also seems a bit strange that all were found to be in good health. http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/science/03/17/dolphin.deaths.ap/index.html

I swear my bubble coral has eyes or something.. EVERYtime I put in a new coral the sweepers shoot out like crazy. Tonight I picked up a small Plate coral and after acclimation and all I put him in about 2 feet away from my bubble. Low and behold I look into the tank just now *about 10 minutes...

Hey all this question concerns mostly Powder Blue tang owners. I was reading in the concentious Marine Aquariust trying to do some homework on them as I want one as the super-star for my tank. It says that most of them just keel over for no apparent reason after about 3 months. Is this still...

My wife just called and my Refugium was just deliverd by the fedex guy. So that means I get to set it up tonight yay a friday with the fishes. It is an aquafuge 18 inches long 12 deep and 4 wide. I am just gonna get some Live sand and some rubble on the way home to stock it. Is there...

Hello all I really need some input. I have a bubble coral that as many of you know that is my pride and joy. Look at the feb 19 pic in my gallery :) well needless to say for the last 10 days it has been steadly going down hill and I am at a total loss. Everything else is going great look at...

Hello all. I would really like to set up a 10 gallon tank I have underneath my 55 to use as a refugium. Eveyone at the LFS says I need to put it on top of the tank for it to be feesable but I am just not buying it. essentally what I want to do is put the tank in the stand and use gravity to...

I have 52 lbs of live rock and would really like to get some more going and am looking for a good seed rock. I was told not to go with the lava rock so I am asking what you guys are using. I am afraid to put in more LR as I dont want to spike my lvls and stress out everthing so I was thinking...