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How can you quarantine scooter blennies or mandarins? They can't survive in a bare environment. What about shrimp? They can't be in copper. I just had my 210 gallon wiped out from marine velvet and do NOT want to go through that again.

After a round of marine velvet wiped out $400 of fish, I have become a believer in quarantine. My hospital tank for the survivors is a 32 gallon roughneck trash can. I intend to use this as a quarantine. My question is this- can I acclimate my new fish to water with copper in it just like I...

This coral is spreading everywhere. Can someone tell me what it is and how to get it off my live rock? It doesn't peel off very well. I've tried that. It's the kind of pinkish tan carpet looking stuff.

I bought some zoas that had/got a bacterial infection. I got this toadstool at the same time and today I notice a weird place on it. Does anyone have an idea what this is?

Marine velvet has pretty much killed all my fish: yellow eyed kole, royal gamma, pair of black clowns, lemon peel tang, brown powder tang, yellow tailed damsel. I'm trying to save the few that are left. My question is how do I remove it from my tank? It's way worse than ick and I want to make...

I have a new fox faced rabbit fish. He had 3 or 4 small places on him that I've been watching. Today there is another, bigger spot on the other side. I can't find any pictures that look like it. Does anyone know what this is?

Can I put a coral banded in with other shrimp? I have peppermint and cleaners. It's a 210 gallon.

I bought a canister to put media in. It has 4 trays. The top one has a sponge in it and all four have a filter media in the bottom. What is the best way to set this up so that it is not the "nitrate" factory I hear about?

After fighting hair algae for almost a year, I broke down and purchased a 4stage canister with a uv sterilizer. I've never used one and would like some advice about what media to put in it and in what order. It came with carbon, ceramic rings, sponge, and filter floss. I have a 210 gal tank...

I watched a video of a copperband butterfly eating aptasia (which is over running my tank). I was thinking about putting an adapter on my shop vac, putting it on the aptasia, and letting my husband hit the switch for a couple seconds and suck it up. I have an adapter that's used to blow up air...

Am posting some pictures. In February we bought a used 210 gal, 75gal sump set-up and replaced our 75gal. The sump is really too big for the cabinet and cannot be removed without breaking the whole thing down. The protein skimmer is the same way. We had our local lf guy do the move and I don't...

Had a fire shrimp and 3 cleaners. We recently added a harlequin tusk and one by one all my shrimp have disappeared. I also have a long nose hawk who has been in the tank with the shrimp for at least a year. Would you suspect the harlequin of eating the shrimp?

I don't know the names of these but I had the flowy coral on a rock and it grew onto the big rock next to it. I need to get it off or kill it because it covers everything. I've had no luck trying to peel it off. It's like a coat of plastic when it's not opened. I really do not want to try and...

This coral has stopped opening. It has been this way for about 3 weeks. If you look closely at the picture, there seems to be some white spots on it. I marked some of them. Ideas appreciated. I've had it a long time.

Can I keep a diamond goby and a watchman goby in a 210 gal tank?

Had a very skinny Lawnmower blenny and was advised that they eat pods in addition to algae. I bought 3 bottles of Zooplanktos-M for him but now I'm not sure it's the right thing. The bottle says its copepods but recommends target feeding. I wanted them to grow in my tank. Can someone tell me...

My Lawnmower Blenny was fat when I got him but now he is looking much thinner. He eats algae from the tank and I have been making sure to keep algae sheets and algae tabs out. It's a peaceful tank and no one bothers him but I'm afraid he's not getting enough to eat. Any ideas? I don't want him...

Got a pair of B&W clowns. One looked good but the other was kind of raggedy and very skinny. He eats good but I can't get any weight on him. You can see his backbone clearly. I really thought he would die but he hasn't. Any ideas? If its a parasite what do I treat with?

We purchased a used 210 gal set-up with a 75 gal sump. From what I have read on this forum, I do not think the sump is set up in the best manner but I don't know enough about them to decide how to change it.The overflow runs through a trickle filter down to the rock and the skimmer is sitting in...

Saturday we upgraded from a 75 gal to a used 210 w a 75 gal sump. We (the lfs that we hired) did a direct swap using the sand from the original tank and the used tank (it was set up and running at the guy's house) and the water from my tank. I tested water morning and evening but didn't test...

We did a direct swap from a 75 gallon to a 210. The LF came and did it. He reused the sand. I'm concerned about an ammonia spike. Does anyone know what the normal time frame would be for one to show up? Is there anything else I should be watching for? It is a 210 gallon with a 75 gallon sump...

I'm upgrading from a 75 gallon to a 210. The problem is that the new tank must be set up where the current one is. The new tank is up and running with live rock at the guy's house and we're going to move it Saturday. I'm worried about doing a straight swap but see no other option. Has anyone...

Had a RBTA in my 14 gal biocube. It split yesterday and I wanted to move one to my 75 gal. I have a decent amount of corals in there. How bad could the anemone hurt them before it finds a spot?

During the night my bubble tip anemone crawled over the side and into the filter area of my 14 gal biocube. Anyone have any idea how to get him back into the tank? He's attached himself in the corner and I don't want to hurt him.