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i believe that my first goby could have died of natural causes, but im curious on why my second goby died. he died in 2 weeks. i have sand.

i checked my water parameters not too long ago, and everything was fine (based on the chart). what do you mean by sand substrate? i had the tank for about 2 years now and my previous goby was very active and was always out and about, which is why his death was a surprise.

i had my tank for about 2 years now, and i got all my fish near the same time. i have a 40 gal tank with 2 blue tangs, maroon clown, and 1 diamondback goby. i have have a small crab and some snails. about a month ago, my Goby died. his head was basically the only thing left on his body...

i believe i saw that the ideal salt level is around 1.2 - 1.25. currently my meter reads at 1.31. this means that i have to add fresh water to my tank, correct? TIA.

i guess i will leave it for now. the trochus snail will not get off of it! they've been on them for the whole entire day. i will see what happens by tomorrow.

i have 2 bumblebee snails and just added 2 Banded Trochus Snails a few days ago. for some reason, one of the trochus snails attached itself onto the bumblebee snail, and i noticed that the second one did the same on my other bumblebee. now each bumblebee has a trochus snail on its back. are...

sorry, i was talking about this snail. it has a cone shape, so i thought it was a cone snail, but the name is Banded Trochus Snail.

homer simpson had one as a pet. eventually he ended up eating it.

my first two fish were maroon clowns. i had to return the larger one the following week because of the fighting. the larger one would always attack the smaller one and bite off all its fins. the weird thing was, that the smaller one would keep trying to follow the big one even though it kept...

i have a few bumblebee snails and had 1 Nassarius Snail. my nass got eaten by one of my crabs and the crab has been living in the nass shell for awhile now. my bumblebees are doing fine though. well, i got 3 cone snails a few months ago and they died within a couple days, so i thought maybe...

this reminds of the scene in Deuce Bigalow, where he pours the bottled Fiji water in the tank and then drinks the contaminated sink water.

well, i had my cleaner shrimp for awhile, but recently i noticed that he is missing one on his hands and his whiskers have been chopped off. i have 2 blue tangs, with a maroon clown, and a coral beauty. i was wondering if the damage could be caused by one of my fish. i also notcied that i...

thanks for the advice hara. i'm guessing the LFS store guy told me the coral food was HIGHLY RECOMMENDED because he wanted to make an extra buck then.

thats a litle strange that you can't find the goby. my goby is the most active fish in my tank. sometimes it takes a day or two for the fish to get used to the tank and they don't eat right away. also, being "shy", might just be the fish's personality. my maroon clown NEVER comes out from out...

how often are you supposed to feed these things anyways? and what do you guys recommend i feed them?

well, you guys were right. it sprouted up this morning. hopefully my maroon notices the coral.

so i got my first coral at my lfs, a pink toadstool leather mushroom, looks almost like rubber if you look at it closely. anyways, i brought it home at around 5p and accimiliated it for around 25 minutes during and after i was doing my water change. now it is 9p, but it still has not opened up...

well, still wating it out. hopefully i can get it by the end of this week but knowing this guy, i won't get it for another 2 weeks. i really don't know what he would have done if i had corals but i can guarantee he would say, "why don't you just buy another tank?" that's how the guy is. i...

i brought it back to the LFS that i got it from last week. he said that it will be a couple weeks, since he has to give it back to his supplier and the supplier has to send it to the manfucaturer, or something like that. anyways, i called him yesterday and he told me the guy didn't even pick...

thanks for all your comments. so i guess he will not have any compatibility issues with fish, and he might be able to live with the coral if i'm lucky. are there certain types of corals that they like to pick more than others, or is it just al the corals in general? thanks.

well, i wasn't planning to get another fish for awhile, but my dad brought home a coral beauty since he was just 'passing by' the fish store today. i was pretty mad that he was planning to just dump it in there w/o asking me, but he promised he wouldn't do it again. anyhow, right now i have a...

if you can tell me what to look for and how i can fix it, i can double check the the wiring to the ballast to see if theres a problem or if its just really low quality. i asked the LFS that i it bought and he said that he would replace it for me but it will take about 2-3 weeks to receive from...

the bulbs do light fully, so i guess it is the ballast. but one problem - i have no idea what a ballast is. can you guys describe what i have to look for?

i just want to say, thanks for all your advice everyone. i read all your posts and studied all your responses. i gathered all the information and researched everything so i could prepare myself to give a well deserved lecture to the owner of the store who sold me the copper medicine...

sorry, but i have to make sure one more time before i dump antoher couple hundred dollars - i talked to a guy at my work who says he's been into SW fish for about 10 years. he told me that what he did to clean copper out was get a hose that sucked the water out and clean the tank like that. he...