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Sarcasm aside I'm sure Lando was curious about what and how you feed since it can impact how much extra junk you add to the tank. Flakes for instance are pinched and dropped over the side after which you observe the fish feeding, good call. But its recommended to remove the extra food the fish...

I have had my copperband for about 2 weeks now in a 125 gal reef tank. He shares it with a couple clownfish, a velvet damsel, and a yellow tang. He seemed fine till this morning when i saw him hangin out inside my cup coral just hovering. Just now several hours later i found him laying on the...

I could see pieces of the frogspawn coming off and floating around the tank.

Has anyone had any problems with peppermint shrimp attacking their frogspawn? I witnessed my new frogspawn being picked at by one of my peppermints.

Sorry about the confusion i forgot to update both the info files. THe fish are a planned addition to my 135 gallon. Thanks for the input so far. I too was a little worried about the copper band with corals but a friend of mine keeps a copper band with all kinds of corals and he says he hasnt...

I have had the tank up for 2 months now. I want to make it a Reef Tank with a few fish. I would like to have all kinds of corals and several anemones. Do any of the following fish not fit with this plan. I have read differing profiles on different websites. -1 yellow tang -1 copper banded...

Ok, i just got a used 135 gallon sw tank out of the local paper. Ive been wanting to upgrade from my 40g for a while now. Anyway, im having a bear of a time getting the water going into the sump to match the amount of water coming back into the tank. Also the sound of the water draining down...

Great idea with the yellow tang. THe tank already has 6 or so fish that i could see. A domino, a blue damsel, a pair of tomatoe clowns, and a couple of different wrasse. Since I expect the tank to go thru quite an ordeal and a drastic change in chemistry i was considering keeping the several...

cool. I am planning on upping the cleanup crew substantially. Lots of different types of snails and a mess of hermits. I also wondered if i could possibly cheat a litte with Chaeto. Would it speed up the process of removing the bad (undesired) algae if i put a huge ball of chaeto in the...

So tomorrow I transfer a 135 gal reef aquarium from its old owners to my house. I looks like it was a beautiful tank at one point. Now it has Zoanthids spreading all over the rocks and worse it has green hair algae and some bubble algae on most of the rock. It looks like they may have had the...

I really like Seahorse aquarium which has moved to the corner of Columbia and 22nd I believe. It is a bigger place and they are adding more tanks. It has a great variety of coral and anemones as well a a great variety of fish. Second favorite is Soutas. THey have tons of coral frags. And a...

I have had a sole green chromis and blue damsel in my tank for over six months now and they both look really healthy and are getting larger.

cool maybe I'll try that if they get too annoying.

I say didnt jump out because there isnt much on the ground around my tank and I did a search of several feet. I moved all the rock around checking every possible crevice for them. They were very active in the tank and never hid for more than a night at a time. Now it has been several days.

I have noticed a couple of small dime sized mojano in my tank. How harmful are they? Could they eat a goby. I ask because I cant figure out what happened to my mated pair of Twin Spots. One disappeared and then the other a couple days later. No remains (not surprising with my cleanup crew)...

could a bristle worm eat a goby. I have seen a couple of these red centipede looking things too.

I am not up on all the intricacies of a reef yet but would it be safer to exclude leathers due to possible chemical releases? (i've heard it referred to as chemical warfare:) Though I have also read that keeping carbon in the filtration system will counter this. Please set me straight.

So I got 'Pepe' a week ago and drip acclimated him. He seemed to do just fine. He molted a day after I put him in and ate the flakes and stuff that I target fed him. Well yesterday morning I saw him and he was alive but looked a little lethargic. Within the hour he was laying on his back not...

Re: Changing from fine sand bed to crushed argonite -- any t Are you talking about Crushed Coral or a larger grain aragonite sand?

Wow, maybe you should trade your emerald in for a newer model:) My emerald is all over the tank constantly stuffing his ?face? with whatever he can find. As to the killer hermits, I would think they just take advantage of an overturned snail. I doubt they have any pack hunting instincts ...

I agree, with gsxguru2. Many fishstores will be happy to take your little critters off your hand and even give you in store credit. I just took an emerald crab back that got too big for my tiny tank and got a bunch of snails and dwarf hermits in exchange.

Even after adding a cleanup crew it did not go away completely in my tank. Maybe if you add a large enough crew it would work that way? I noticed a big bloom about 1/4 of the way through my light cycle each day and it died down a bit about the last 1/4 of the light cycle. I left my cleanup...

What live stuff in the tank is considered bio load? Is it only the fish, or can you have too many snails, hermits, sea cucumbers, urchins, anemones, or coral?

First, keep an eye on your water parameters just to make sure you broke through your cycle. Next, if you do use bio spira, (which I have done and I believe it works) then you can simulate fish for a few days just to make sure that the cycle really occured. What I mean is, you can add about 4...

I have had my Bak Pak 2 for a month now and continue to have micro bubble problems. How new is "new"?