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I rent a townhome that has an exterminator come one a month. I always tells them not todo my place, but they did today... Should I be worried about my tank? The worst part it that they said we have termites and my tank is on the first floor which is above my garage.... This is just great a...

My poor little Peppermint shrimp is gone. I have a big pistol shrimp, but I don't think he ate him. I think it may be yet another mantis. I feel bad now.. That little guy had personality. He will be missed :cry:

After months of reading and searching on line and waiting and waintg :) I finally have some corals, but I still don't have any fish(Tang is still in the QT with ICH :(). I have been adding them over the past two weeks and so far everything is looking good. Just about a 100 more and I so be good...

I just went through a minicycle which stressed my new Yellow Tang (2 weeks old) Now he has little white spots which I think are ich. He has been eating fine. I feed him dried seaweed. This is the only fish in the tank. But I do have Coral and a startfish. Will it stress him more if I QT him and...

I have a green toadstool leather that is a little brown, but where it folds it is bright green, does anyone know why. I am useing 2x175 w MH 5,500 K (I think I need to go to 10,000 K), which are suplemented by 2x110w VHO actinics, it is placed in a medium flow area on the bottom of the tank...

Ok I posted the other day about the ammonia spike that I have .25 it still has not come down after a 25% water change. My polyp colony doesn't look to healthy and my brain coral is leaky the green center (did anyone ever see that before? does that mean it's about to die?) , but all of my other...

Well it's almost new. I had it for about 3 weeks now I am just trying to complete some other stuff right now so I didn't post any picks. I started with a 55 gal, seaclone and jbj pc lights. I was frustrated with the tank so I bought a new setup: I still need to finsh the canopy that I am...

ok I posted this over in the sick fish formun, but I now know why my fish is sick :( it is an amonia spike. I had 100# of lr from lr.com. I added another 30# to my tank, on tuesday, that had all ready cycled and had be running for close to 4 months. I had one yellow tang (which is now turning...

I just got my Tang last sunday. He has been eating, but is very shy and will hide behind the rocks if anyone is in the room. So I think he is stressed. I just looked at him late last night and he had a red blotch on his side that can be seen from botch sides. It looks like he is bleeding. The...

I was floating my coral (polyp colony) in a bag as I normally do with the top open. Well after about 15 minutes of floating the bad sunk to the bottom instantly filling the bad with my water. Do you think it will be ok. I havn't seen any of the poylp opens up yet. btw I did this yesterday.

I have a ton of Alagae in my overflow box. Does anyone else have a the same problem? I would image it would be good though kind of like a fuge and a place for PODS and such. What do you thinkg? Steve..

I have a few Crab hitch hikers on my rock, but I didn't want to dip the rock because I didn't want any of the good guys to die. But man these guys are pure evil. They are trying to eat EVERYTHING! I was just watching my one Gorilla Crab pouncing on top of my poor little porcelain Crab (One of...

I got this Coral Attached to my Rock from lr.com. It has some bleaching and a little bit of damage, but other then that I think it still may be alive. I feed my tank spray dried plankton and I use seachem reefbuilder. Do you think it will live. My tank is just about done it's cycle,but I got a...

I got 100# of lr from lr.com last week and I have been watch my tank almost nonstop for little critters. so far I have found: a ton of crab(they will be moved once I get fish) about 15 4 bristle stars Pencil urchin ton of feather dusters at least 40 Bristle worms and some sort of fat long worm...

I just got some rock today from lr.com and there is a little greenish semi-translucent ball about the size of a pearl, which is hard and looks like it is made out of glass. Do you guys have any idea what it may be:?: TIA Steve.

I bought a coral life 03 40w light for the 55 gal from petsmart. but the light it white and not blue like my 15w 03 that I have on my 20 gal. I have had the light for over a week now it didn't even know. The bulb is made by GE and it is called aqua ray.. Did someone switch bulbs on me? If they...

I have been looking for a RO/DI system So far everything that I bought seems to be the wrong thing and I which costs me a ton of money 8O So this time I am going to do the right thing and ask around before I buy somthing for my tank :D I am look for a cheaper RO/DI system. right now I am...

When I bought my live rock I was told it was going to be Fiji, but when I got to the store is turned out to be Tonga Branch. I don't live the way that is looks. Does anyone have a picture of a good looking Aquascape using Tonga. Or should I just get rid of the branch rock.. :cry: Opps I...

Ok.. I bought 50# of LR. He told me it would be FIJI, but when I got there it was Tonga Branch.. It was not what I was looking for, but I still bought it. Here is my problem; the guy told me not to wash the rock off, it had a ton of die off, but it didn't smell too bad. Well when I put the rock...

I am in the 4th week of cycling my tank. My NH was up around 7.5 now it is just around .25 and NO2 and NO3 are sky high > 1.5 so I asume that me cycle is almost done. My question is; I am going away on June 7th for a week so I was going to hold off on getting fish. Will that mess anything up in...

I put 50# of lr in my 55 gal tank to cycle it.The lfs told me not to scrub the rock because it would kill all of the living stuff. Against my better judgement I put the rock in without scrubing it. Now my nh levels are at 7.5 ppm and there is a ton of junk floating all over the tank. Do you...

Ok.. Here I go. First off I am new to the board, but I have been looking around and it looks great! :thumb: I have read all about saltwater tanks and have been surfing the internet nonstop for the past month prior to buying my tank. I finally bought one last Friday. I bought a 55 gal with two...