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I've searched several sites and looked through my books, and while there's plenty of info on the dangers of cyanide collection I can't find any info on what it does to fish after the fact. I bought 3 small chromis Thursday evening and put them in a 6-month-old QT tank that had been housing 2...

Well, my computer crashed about 3 weeks ago and my replacement just went up yesterday, so I was forced to go through the whole "actually getting the tank started" thing without everyone's advice! Yikes! It probably saved y'all a lot of annoying questions, though. :-) But I do have some...

but after 6 months of planning and waiting, the display tank is finally up and ready for 120 lbs of LR from liverocks.com, arriving Friday. Woo hoo. Anyway, I'm planning on doing a carbonated water dip to try and catch Unwanted Hitchhikers. So the dumb question is . . . . what do I do with them...

Okay, I finally have a display tank with a plumbed sump, so it's time to get serious about figuring out what fishies are going to live there. It's a 75 w/ 29 g sump/fuge; I'll have ~120 lbs LR, chaeto in the fuge, 4" DSB. Euroreef ES5-3 skimmer. FOWLR for right now, moving into some corals (PC...

I'm usually over in the SW forums, but I've got a problem with my small FW tank and I could use some honest advice. I've got a 10-gallon tank (specs below) and I've got a sick neon tetra. Here's the story: about 2 months ago I first lost a dwarf flame gourami (stopped eating, died three days...

I'm trying to upload a picture and I keep getting this message: Warning: imagecreatefromjpeg(): '/home/aquarium/public_html/photopost/uploads/6079/sump21.jpg' is not a valid JPEG file in /home/aquarium/public_html/photopost/image-inc.php on line 81 Unable to create image...

I'm going to be the newbie from hell from the next few days as this display tank goes up. I apologize in advance. I promise to do searches before asking . . . anyone want to help with my mag 9.5? ~it's okay to operate on its "side," right? with the . . . outtake . . . return . . . whatever...

We're trying to get the tank/sump plumbing done tonight and have roadblock--can anyone help? We're using a megaflow pipe kit, the "new" kind. Here's the problem: what attaches to the bottom threads of the bulkhead--the part that sticks out under the tank? We were just at Home Depot and they...

Okay, gross question, but . . . I put a couple of snails in my QT (no meds, just a QT) to help with an algae problem. It's a BB tank, so everything shows--and dang, those guys poop a lot! There was never any fish poop to take out (with two clowns) but I'm sucking out literally little piles now...

This is hardly earth-shaking, but I do wonder about it. One of my Astrea snails has two little green things growing on (I assume not out of) his shell--they look exactly like two little antennae made of grass. They are about halfway up his shell. I assume it's some kind of algae, and frankly...

I'm starting to get a little paranoid about how much I feed my 2 ocellaris. I feed once a day, alternating flakes and various frozen (mysis, formula 1, etc.) I give a pinch of flakes or a few scrapings from a cube--not much at all. They run around like idiots eating for a couple of minutes and...

I've got a black moor goldfish who's been with me for a couple of years, always healthy and hardy (he survived the newbie learning curve). His tail has always been beautiful--longer than his body. Last Saturday I realized with horror that part of his tail is gone! --around 3/4 of an inch. The...

I got an emerald crab the other day to help with the hair algae problem in my Qt. There's a piece of LR in there (I'll move it to the display when the current fish go in) and the crab settled on the rock and started shoveling algae into his mouth as fast as his pinchers would go. Problem is...

I know I've seen this discussed but I can't find it now . . . how do you get a crab from bag/tank when he's acclimated? I usually dump fish into a net so I don't transfer any LFS water, but it doesn't seem like a good idea to net crabs with their itty bitty feet . . . should I risk the traces of...

I'm still trying to work through this whole DSB thing. I usually can figure stuff out, but the more I read about DSB the more confused I get. (Note to self: next life, take chem in high school or college instead of weaseling out of it.) I have read all the links I can find and browsed the "Ask...

So my QT has been up for about 2 months and it's got a nice little case of algae going. Any harm putting a single turbo snail (or another kind?) in there? If I did, that wouldn't start the quarantine period all over again for the current fish, would it? It's not like the algae's hurting anything...

The pH in my 20 G QT has been running low--scraping 8 or just under. I've read that pH fluctuates a lot in new tanks, so I haven't worried much. But I mixed up some new water yesterday . . . 6 gallons of IO in a covered rubbermaid tub for 24 hours with a maxijet 1200 (using RO water from the...

Sorry for inventing a verb. :-) I'm asking this because I'm putting together my first SW tank and I'm just flummoxed over the DSB thing. Every other choice I've had to make as I plan the system has seemed clear to me after some research, but not this one. I've read and read on the subject, and...

Okay . . . I've been struggling with a sump/fuge design for several weeks, and here's what I finally have come up with. Please note that I know absolutely zip about plumbing so that part is very vague. (Husband is in charge of implementation.) 75G twin overflow tank 20L sump/fuge Mag 9.5...

1. I mix my SW in a big ol' rubbermaid container with a powerhead then store it in 6 gallon water jugs. How long should I aerate before adding to the tank, and can I use an airstone instead of a ph? The airstone fits into the jug but the ph doesn't. (And yep, I do check the salinity right before...

I've looked through the ID FAQs and don't see anything like this--hoping it's not some pesty thing. I've had this rock (cycling a QT tank) for about 5 weeks; these guys only appeared last week and they are spreading fast. They are small, milky white--polyps?--that have a little bulge toward the...

I often see folks mentioning the 1 inch of adult fish per 5 gallons rule on the board, but when I think about it, that's not very much fish: that would make a 30-gallon tank with 2 clownfish (adult size 3.5 inches) overstocked. When I look at everyone's fish lists, it seems like not too many...

I have a 20 G QT tank running with a sponge filter and HOB filter (carbon, filter pad, no biowheel though I could add one). I cycled it for a month with a chunk of LR, and it did go through the cycle (I tested every few days and did water changes. It was a pampered rock.) After my nitrites were...

. . . and just say I am in love with my new true black percs? (I wanted false percs, as some of you recommened, but I couldn't find tank raised.) My toddler has named them Smudge and Squish (I thought for sure they would be Nemo and Marlin) and they seem to be headed towards pairdom (no...

and I could use some long-range fish-pickin' advice. My QT has finally cycled (took a month with 5 lbs of LR) and if my readings stay at zero for a few more days I'm ready to add my first fishie. The excitement is palpable. Anyway, if anyone has comments or suggestions on this fish list, I would...