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  1. tsharkey

    Powder Blue Tang Sick?

    Yeah I'm going to wait quite a while before I attempt one of these fishes again but it was beautiful! Yeah I went from a 55 gal to 210 so it was a big jump! Favorite thing in my tank is my anemones and clownfish. Love watching them dive into my ritteri, sebae or bubble tips!
  2. tsharkey

    Powder Blue Tang Sick?

    No he was not quarantined. He was acclimated for 3 hours. He looked much better when I bought him. He lost weight but was eating algae off the rock all the time. I'm really worried something else might happen.
  3. tsharkey

    Powder Blue Tang Sick?

    It is dead now. But my parameters are: Ammonia:0 Phosphate:0 Nitrite:0 Nitrate:0 PH:8.2 Salinity: 1.024 I added four fish, powder blue, small blue tang, goldrim tang and a copper band butterfly. What remains is doing great but I do question what happened. I did not get a great look at the...
  4. tsharkey

    Powder Blue Tang Sick?

    I just added some tangs last week into my tank. They were all doing great. They were all eating and their colors were great! However, two of the three of them had ich which was no longer present on them after 48 hours which was a blessing! Their health skyrocketed and was impressed. When I...
  5. tsharkey

    Has anyone tried this before?

    My clowns favorite anemone is my ritteri. I love that anemone and they won't leave it hardly. They do go to my sebae and bubble tips every now and then though.
  6. tsharkey

    My Clownfish are fighting!!!??

    I had the same issue with my mated pair of black percula clowns. My female did the same thing and the male did the same thing. My male ended up dieing. I was devastated. Some clowns will be territorial for no apparent reason. Is she defending anything? My clowns now defend their anemone with...
  7. tsharkey

    Has anyone tried this before?

    Let them out of the strainer. Put the anemone on a rock somewhere so it gets the lighting it needs to survive. The clownfish will stay around the anemone if they are interested in it. Just let nature do its magic. It takes the clownfish a little while to develop the mucus over its body that will...
  8. tsharkey

    Help i have ick !!!

    Putting garlic directly into the tank did spur feeding but it also creates such a string immune system in the fish. Since I introduced so much garlic into the tank it circulated through the tank for hours instead of only circulating during feeding. Thus the fish are constantly digesting the...
  9. tsharkey

    Help i have ick !!!

    My 210 gallon reef tank was infested with ick less than a week ago. I put in some new fish and my gold rim tang, powder blue tang, my blue tang and my copper band butterfly. I raised my tank temperature to 86 degrees. (ick cannot reproduce at 86 and it begins to die at 86) I also use a diatom...
  10. tsharkey

    Converting FOWLR to Reef Tank

    Look at Aquatraders.com they have great lighting systems! They have mh t5 combo lights that you could get and then not have to upgrade in the future. As for the sump, I would keep the bio balls. My sump is loaded with them and live rock and algae. And also I use two large canister filters and a...
  11. tsharkey

    First SW Tank for the summer!

    The my and LEDs are both very high priced lights but if you want more bang for your buck go for the mh. However, you will have to pay more on your electric bill with mhs and they are hotter. But they are a bit cheaper than LEDs and will work bet for anemones. I would look at ThatPetPlace.com or...
  12. tsharkey

    Powder Brown + Blue Hippo Together?

    I have a 210 gallon reef and I keep a yellow tang, tomini tang, hippo tang, powder blue tang and a gold-rim tang together. I have no problems at all with them. They don't really pay attention to each other at all. My yellow and tomini tang have been in the tank for a while and the other three...
  13. tsharkey

    Converting FOWLR to Reef Tank

    You have a great setup already! But yes, you do need to look at adding things. As for substrate, it can be sand or gravel it doesn't really matter. Do however make sure that it is "live" substrate. If I were you, I would look at adding more rock. You should have 1.5-2 lbs per gallon. When it...
  14. tsharkey

    First SW Tank for the summer!

    The oceanic 29g biocube is equipped with a 150 watt hqi (metal halide). This would be about 5.2 watts per gallon. This would be efficient however, my tank has about 7.2 watts per gallon. This is a significant difference and my anemones are all located at halfway up in the tank or higher...
  15. tsharkey

    First SW Tank for the summer!

    If you are looking at a more common anemone such as the bubble tip, I would suggest t5 ho lighting. I am not sure of thy lighting bio cubes have but t5 ho is great for bubble tips. If you are looking for something a bit more majestic such as a sebae anemone or the ritteri anemone, I suggest very...
  16. tsharkey

    Anemone

    Sometimes, under select lighting, Haitian anemones will change color. It is possibility that yours is changing to a greenish. Mine turned green under my lighting which leads me to believe that same may be happening to yours.
  17. tsharkey

    210g Reef Update and Questions

    Hello Everyone! This is my first update of my 210 gallon reef aquarium. I have several questions but before I ask any I will tell about some of the progress that I have made. I have added another marineland canister filter. I have also added an xl diatom filter, metal halides, two maroon...
  18. tsharkey

    Cycling with fish and ich, unfortunately

    Hi, if i may, where did you buy your fish? The reason being is that ich comes from a parasite that is connected to the gills. If the platies are twitching then they have ich. The red on the gills may not be red gill but irritation of the gills from the parasite. This means that you r whole tank...
  19. tsharkey

    Reef Ready

    HI, I have a 210 gallon aquarium that i bought reef ready. For my filtration I use multiple things such as two protein skimmers, a 55 gallon sump with live rock and bio balls in it for top of the line biological filtration, two 1,300 gph. pumps that have a small sponge filter attached to them, a...
  20. tsharkey

    New 210 Gallon Reef

    Thanks everyone for the compliments! It just makes me love the hobby all the more. As for anemones, I have found several sites that I'm thinking about ordering from. But before I consider, would it work to put 3 carpet anemones in one tank? I want a blue, green and white one. I would also like...
  21. tsharkey

    New 210 Gallon Reef

    Yeah I have a lot of places for them but idk if I want to do mainly corals or anemones. That's really why I started this thread was to ask if it would look good and be ok to put multiple different types of anemones in one tank. Also if it would work to do more than one type of clown other than...
  22. tsharkey

    My new feather duster

    If you look up that type of feather duster they all appear to look like that. I don't know a lot about them but it looks pretty normal.
  23. tsharkey

    New 210 Gallon Reef

    Ok it has been changed, so try it now. I hope it works!
  24. tsharkey

    New 210 Gallon Reef

    Oh ok I see it. It's loading so ill see what happens.
  25. tsharkey

    New 210 Gallon Reef

    Oh sorry. How do I change that? Anyone know?
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