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Don't get me started on Chromis!!! I kicked off with 3 in the tank, the biggest bullied the other two to death within a week or so. I then introduced another 2 (of similar size to bully boy) and he did the same to them over a 4 week period.....no more chromis for me!

Water parameters are fine amm - 0 Trite - 0 Trate - 0. 50lb LR, Eheim 2215 external, 2x MJ 1200's, CPR Bakpak 2R skimmer

Okay all....looking for some advice/suggestions I have a 55 gall FOWLR which currently houses; 1 Green Chromis, 1 Double Saddle Butterfly, and 1 Tomato clown. I definitely want a Flame Hawkfish for the tank. Would this then be fully stocked, or could I squeeze one more in? Any suggestions of...

It's certainly not hair algae as there's no growth off the rock, it's just solid on the rock (if that makes sense!). It doesn't look slimey either (I'll have a feel of it tonight...ooer!)

It seems to have coincided with the appearance of purple coralline in my tank. I buffered for KH and pH about 4 weeks ago as I couldn't sustain Coralline growth. I thought coralline was just purples?

Hi all, Over the last 3 or 4 weeks, I've started to notice patches of bright green algae appearing on some of my LR. It's not particularly bad at the moment, but if it carries on at this rate it'll take over within a few months. I switched to RO a couple of months back and my nitrates are...

work it out as 48" by 48" by 30" and then halve it. I reckon it's around 150 gallons

Thought I'd jump in here! If you stick your hand into saltwater with exposed live terminals (which was the case here) the electricity uses you as its path to earth (Ground as you yanks say!). It doesn't matter what the appliance is rated at, as much electricity as possible will go through YOU to...

Hi, I have the very same skimmer. The way I have set it up is as follows. 1. Get 3 foot long piece of air tubing (this reduces the noise a bit) 2. Leave fully open (no valve on it or anything) 3. Adjust air intake so that stream of bubbles just about hits the bottom of the skimmer body. I...

I have the same skimmer. I adjust the air intake so that the bubble stream just about hits the bottom of the skimmer. My collection cup is about 1/4 inch below the top of the bubbles in the reaction chamber. I pull out about 1/2 cup of dark green skimmate once a week. Hope this helps Phil

Morning all, My tank has been set up for around 7-8 months now and I'm having problems sustaining Coralline algae growth. When I add new LR with plenty of Coralline on it, it disappears within a few weeks. Do high nitrates affect it? My nitrates are currently around 50ppm (due to the way I...

I think you'll find we're talking about a 17G not a 175G! For a 17 Gallon, 30-35 lbs of LR will be enough for your filtration. Weigh what you've got and pick the best bits out. Return the rest to the LFS or a friend. 10 times tank turnover is required so you need a powerhead or two that will...

Was the LR cured or uncured? If cured, it may have caused a mini spike which the bacteria within the LR dealt with quickly (if that makes sense!). When I first set my tank up 6 months ago, I had a similar small cycle but when I added livestock, the tank started cycling again and it took bloody...

Big Time Wind-up me thinks!!!!!! Nice one!! Hope so anyway!!

Thanks.... I only feed once per day (usually have 1 or 2 days per week without feeding) so I'll continue using it with every feed. Phil

Hi all, I have used Extreme Garlic in the past to encourage new fish to eat......is there a safe amount that can be used per day/week??? The bottle just says do not exceed 2 drops per feeding. How many feeds per day is that safe for? Phil

I did some digging on WetWebMedia and found the necessary info.....one of the easier to keep butterflies from what I can gather. Went ahead and got him this morning.....acclimated him for a good 2 hours (think this was where I was going wrong with my earlier fish losses). Left him for a couple...

Double Saddle Butterfly Fish........http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/prod_Display.cfm?pCatId=214 Does anyone here have any experience of keeping these fish? I am thinking about purchasing one for my FOWLR (55G). I noted on the Live Aquaria site that the care level is 'moderate'. Anything in...

Please....do yourself a favour and don't buy the Seaclone! I had one for around 12 months which I thought was skimming ok.....I upgraded to a CPR Bakpak a couple of months back and the difference is amazing Pay the little bit extra if you can

I'm using ammonia at the moment to recycle my tank after unexplained fish deaths. I started off by adding enough to give a reading of 1 ppm and dosed this every morning. My ammonia is now dropping to zero within 12 hours of dosing...nitrites were at 0.3 last night (3.0 the night...

Update on re cycle of tank........ I've been dosing with ammonia for about 4 days now to simulate bioload and the filtration is now dropping the ammonia from 1ppm (when first dosed) to zero in less than 12 hours....just waiting for nitrites to zero (they've already spiked). Once cycled, I'm...

That's exactly as my two recently dead puffers were acting....... The difference in my case was that the tank was fully cycled. I still don't know what caused the death of my puffers (search out my threads)...some guesses about possible acclimitaion problems...I've now got an empty tank while I...

Thanks for the responses guys... At the moment my tank is fishless......I intend to re cycle it (using ammonia) and once I'm satisfied it's fully cycled I'll do two 50% water changes (with RO this time). What would you recommend as the best fish to start out with after that? I don't want to...

Red Sea.....this OK?

The tank was originally setup using tap water with a dechlorinator. I've only managed to do two 10% water changes with RO over the last couple of weeks. I acclimated the fish over about an hour....floated the bag for 20 mins, then opened it and started adding small amounts of tank water every 5...