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Hi everyone, as the topic suggests I had a question about sea horses. So I had a 12 gallon nano reef. Then after 2 years converted it into a growing frag tank for my big 110 gallon tank. Anyway now my big tank is finished and all is well my 12 gallon only has 2 shrimps in it. So I was wondering...

Hi all yet another question. I have a 110 gallon tank and wanted to know if I could have a a bicolour blenny, long nose hawkfish and a yellow spot jarhead goby? At the moment the tank is stocked with: Maroon clown Fox face Bicolour blenny Flasher wrasse La marks angel Long nose hawkfish...

Hi all, wanted to ask if you could mix a kole yellow eye tang and scopas tang. I was hoping I could because they have different body shapes but wanted to double check. Sent from my iPhone using Aquarium Advice

Hi everyone I have a large problem with my psk 150 eshopps skimmer. It is brand new un boxed it today. But when I plugged it in the Italy sicce pump that comes with the skimmer worked for about 10 seconds but then stopped working. Took it out and tried it out of the tank in a bucket and it did...

Hi everyone as the title suggest I have a bristle worm infestation. To boost Coraline algae growth i put my razors up to 100percent and overfed my tank. Doesn't matter to me as only have a foxface, maroon clown and bicolour blenny in the 140gallon tank. Anyway this obviously meant there was a...

Hi everyone as the title suggest my question is about the Maxspect Razor lighting unit 16000K. How long and what percent should I run the lights? I would like to keep corals that need a decent amount of light but I don't want to fry them or starve them of light. I have softies on the bottom of...

Hi everyone, again need help with choosing a skimmer. For no reason my v2 skimmer packed up this morning. It will not be fixed spent all day on it and took it to an expert. So have to get a new. With a limited space and budget there are only 3 suitable candidates: Reef Octopus Classic-110 SSS...

Hi everyone much appreciated if you can give me a helping hand here. So I have a 630 litre system(140 gallons) and have decided on a fish list but would like your help on the routine. I wanted to double check they were all good with each other. The first 3 on the list I already have and it goes...

Hi everyone. I still have a diatom problem. It just will not die down! Any idears? I thought it might be that my lights are extremely overpowered? But I'll tell you some background info so you can try and piece together why the problem is still going on. It's a 630litre system. It has...

Hello once again everyone. Today my question is about types of clownfish. For my 600litre system I would to get a clownfish or clownfish pair that will host an anemone. I don't really like clownfish on there own but swimming in and out of anemone it's just amazing. I have a bubble tip anemone...

Hello everyone again. At the moment I have a small bit of diatom on my sand bed. I know it will continue to grow unless I do something. I have a deep sand bed and want it like that so bacteria that processes nitrate into nitrogen gas can live at the bottom in their preferred low oxygen area...

Hi everyone I wasn't really sure wether to go for this fish or not. However a friend who owns a marine fish shop ordered one in for me because he knows how much I love them. It is about 5inches and goes crazy for any food. Mysis, brine, flake all of it goes crazy for. seen it eat pritty much...

I have added about half a handful of shrimp and it's been in the tank 2 whole days. The ammonia is only 0.3 what should I do? Leave it there? Or should I take it out and add about a handful more? Just got ordinary sand and a tiny bit of live rock to seed the dried rock. I want 1ppm or more to...

Hi everyone i recently got a 500litre display tank. I need serious help. So I got a load of sand from the person selling the tank. I cleaned the tank and was adding the sand today. It stank!!! To the point I was having nearly throwing up. I wanted to know what to do? It was obviously live...

Hi guys and girls. I recently got 130lbs of dried rock. I am curing it in my sump and 2 buckets. I have never cured rock before only read about it. I just wanted to double check on what I needed to do. All the rock is exposed to high flow by many power heads. I have heaters that are keeping...

Hi guys and girls very happy to say I came home the other day to my early Christmas present! ? It was a 130 gallon saltwater tank! ?Came with sump and all equipment! I am making a fish list now. I just wanted to ask if with this size tank I could keep a flame angel and a coral beauty or if I'll...

Hi everyone I have a problem with one of my corals. This is the only coral in the tank that I don't know its id. It was doing fine and when it comes out it has loads of green and waves in the current like anthelia. However in the last week it has closed up and and purple has started to grow...

Hi guys and gals I was thinking of upgrading to a 400litre tank. I was looking at the stocking for my tank. I was using the general rule of 1inch of fish per every 4 gallons. After using this I worked out that with a 400litre tank/88 gallons I could have 22 inches worth of fish. However I...

So I was thinking of getting a 400litre reef tank. I was looking at stock today because I got bored. I really like 4 different types of tangs. I know that tangs are aggressive to there own kind, however I was wondering if they had a different colour formation and are from a different genus so...

Hi all I have a 55l coral tank. I brought the tank for a bundle it included pritty much all I needed. I later found out (1 year ago) after adding all my corals and my beloved bicolour blenny that the lighting it came with was only suitable for corals with low light needs. This was after I...

Hi all, my friend had a tank that he wanted to totally gut so was selling his stuff at mates rates. All I know is that it likes medium to low flow. Please can you tell me what it is and what lighting, feeding it needs. Thanks in advance for any replies. Sent from my iPhone using Aquarium Advice

Hi I recently got this mushroom off of a friend. It was doing very well and looked perfectly healthy. Now it looks like it does in the picture. I have checked my parameters and they are all fine and pritty much exactly what it had in its old tank. I have had it for 10 days now and only...

Hi all, I just wanted to check that 3 bristlenose plecos in a 40litre tank was ok? Don't think I am a monster too fast. They normally live in a 110l long tank. This is sparkling clean and has no algae anywhere. However my 40l tank is covered in it. I have manual removed most. But some still...

Hi, I have had a 55l reef tank with a bicolour blenny. Yesterday I noticed a white colour that looked like frost on the top of part of my bubble coral. I have no idear what it is can you help? I have had the coral for about 2 months and it has being doing fine. I have some harder corals to...

Hi all, I wanted to know if you could help me. I have 3 freshwater tanks. Everything is happy and healthy. I know enough information for their wellbeing. I just wanted to know more. I have been to many sites and forums. The info is good especially on this forum but I just want to know more...