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I bought two small clowns on Sunday and drip acclimated them to the 10g quarantine tank. I am using a small HOB filter with a sponge that runs in the main tank. This morning the smaller one of the two was dead. I had noticed he was a little lighter in color yesterday. My water parameters are...

Well it's been 8 weeks since I lost my fish to ich. My tank has been fallow ever since. I am setting up a 10g QT this week and I hope to add a pair of Clowns this weekend. Any suggestions? I was thinking B&W O.Clowns.

Well I screwed up. I've have a yellow tang and maroon clown for over two years with no problems. I bought a coral beauty last week and against everything I know, I didn't QT. Now my fish are sick. The clown and beauty have what looks like a sugar powder on them. The tang looks ok but is...

My fish won't touch formula one frozen cubes. It seems like it is just gelatin when i defrost it. There is nothing solid in it at all. Is this normal? I have had success feeding with frozen brine shrimp and blood worms. The fish are ravenous over it. I'm sure more variety would be better...

I just got the RO585 unit today and now I realize it does not have DI. Is RO water good enough or should I try to exchange for one with DI, such as the R6100?

Well I just set up my "new" remora c with prefilter box that I bought from nycpassat (thanks again). Obviously I don't have any skim yet and probably won't see any for at least a few days or more from what I've been reading. I tightened the screws on the box down onto the mj1200 to hold it in...

Do astaea snails actually grow? I've had one for a year and a half and I thought he was full size. But now it looks like he's added a 1/4" to his shell recently. It's definitely bigger than it used to be and there is no coraline on the "new" shell.

Does anyone have experience using distilled water from a delivery service such as water.com? I can't hook up a RO/DI unit in my apartment and I'm getting tired of running to the grocery store and dragging 10 gallons of water up three flights of stairs. Plus the acme occasionally runs out of...

Hello everyone. Been over a year since I've checked in here. I checked this site every day for the first few months after I started my tank up, but got complacent after that. The tank seems to be doing well except for some algae. Anyway I thought I would share a few pics before I start...

Been awhile since I posted. I guess things have been going good except..... Here's what I got: 55g fowlr, 75lbs lr, 120lbs sand, skimmer, heater, 2 mj 1200's, 1 maroon clown, 1 yellow tang, 15 or so hermits, 5 snails. NO2 - 0 NO3 - 20 pH - 8.4 NH3 - 0 sg 1.021 temp 80F A few months ago I got...

does the water waste a skimmer produces contain salt or is it fresh?

I added a cleaner shrimp to my tank about three weeks ago. For the first couple days the shrimp tried to jump on the tang and he would freak out. It was pretty amusing. Now the shrimp doesn't even try to clean the tangs gills although he will clean my hand. Will the tang eventually accept...

Ok I read the article on setting up a qt. I'm setting that up tonight. I have a maroon clown and a ytang currently in 55. Got a few q's. Should I introduce the clowns to each other in the qt? Or should I just put the new one in the main tank after qt? During qt, should I do pwc every few...

there was a similar topic about this but I didn't want to hijack the thread... I have a tank raised maroon clown and a yellow tang. they have been in the tank together for about three months and get along great. I was considering adding another maroon clown in hopes they would pair. The clown...

When you measure your tanks, do you take into account the thickness of the glass? Considering that my tank is actually only 48g (according to the AA calculator) not the 55g I was told when I bought it. That's quite a difference!

I'm seriously considering making the switch to a dsb. How much trouble is it to do this? My guess is this job would take approx 4-5 hours. My setup is a 55g with 75 lbs lr, maroon clown and yellow tang. Here's my plan if I decide to go through with it: 1. buy a 50g trash can from hd and...

Ok for those who followed my post "Nasty Freshwater Tank", thanks for your help. After pwc's every other day or so and vacuuming the gravel and fixing the magnum 350 filter, everything looks great. My water parameters are ammonia 0, nitrate 5, nitrite 0...pH is still low however so I'm going...

last night i bought 20lbs of lr to add to my current 45lbs. i have the rock curing in a 10 gal bucket with a mj 1200 circulating the water. ammonia read 2.0 today. anyway the powerhead i am using is the same one i use to mix my fresh sw for the tank. can i stop the circulation in the lr for...

So here's the story. We have a bowfront corner tank in my office at work. Approx 35g. It has been set up for over a year but is severely neglected. The guys that set it up left and no one has even looked at it in months. There is bright green algae all over the gravel. There is a fish in...

i had a snail die today. should i take it out or is it okay to just leave it in and someone else can use his shell eventually? clean up crew includes 10 hermits and 4 other snails.

hey ya'll! i'm new to the forum, been here about a month. in fact new to the hobby as well. just thought i would say hey to the philly area. i live in feasterville. i've been going to the hidden reef (www.thehiddenreef.com) on the boulevard. anyone know of other lfs's?

well this isn't the greatest picture but it's the best i could get. i have these in a few different places on my lr. they look clear and tubular and branch out sort of weblike. any ideas?

Yesterday I went to the aquarium and had a blast! I went to the aquarium in Charleston SC a few times, but this is the first time I have been to one since I started my own tank. I was so amazed. My girlfriend love it as well although her favorite part was the hippo exhibit. Has anyone else...

I don't have a sump yet but was wondering when you add one do you have to increase the amount of lr as well? ie 20g sump = 20+lbs lr? or does that only apply to display tank? i know it is a good idea to add lr rubble to the sump, but how much?

I have a 3" yellow tang and a 2" maroon clown. The tank is 3 ft long. Should I take the tang back to the lfs? My initial research showed a 55g as large enough for the tang, but after reading more on this site, everyone seems to say 75 is the minumum.