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I have total wrasse envy....but I only have a 29g tank. <sigh>

Sifting through the nano threads... The shrimp below that is referenced to add after 2-3 weeks of weekly water changes...is that live shrimp or the raw seafood shrimp for cycling? Sorry so many questions. I need to get it right this time around and I feel like I am trying to read a different...

Wow...that makes it sound so simple! :) Certainly beats killing fish. Hopefully I can buy a single shrimp somewhere. I despise seafood and won't let it enter my house as a rule. LOL How long does it generally take for the ammonia to rise? We didn't have any spikes with our initial cycle...

So in this instance, cycle would mean adding saltwater and nothing else for 4-6 weeks? Aside from Stability? How do you get bacteria in there without anything?

We think we have a friend with a 14 gal tank we could have for free as a QT. Do we need live rock? Sand? Does that tank need to cycle too? And do corals get qurantined?

Thank you all for all the great information!!! I love forums. :) I am sure I will be a great lurker and sometime poster on this site from now on. BTW, do most of you get your items from a LFS or an online presence? Even though I am in FL, it seems sometimes our options are somewhat limited...

The LFS didn't take advanatage of Nemo...it is what inlaws/hubby were thinking...I find fish that everyone knows on sight rather boring...but, the LFS didn't try to talk us out of it either. Wow, 15 more lbs of rock...that is a lot. Also, is it easier to grow corals? We don't really care if...

We have a hydrometer and the API saltwater master test kit that tests pH, ammonia, nitrite, and nitrate. He would probably give us more rock...how much more should we get? Readings as of yesterday were gravity 1.0215, pH, 8.0 ( have been adding buffer but reads are always a little on the low...

I have been reading the 100 thing thread. Do you think that the fish could have had Brooklynella since the clowns were the first to go? And because they all lost their color? I would love to go to a new fish store...but we are down over $200 at this point in fish (a reasonable sum for us) and...

I have the biocube tank. 14.5 lbs of live rock, and 20lbs of live sand. All levels were at 0 when we started adding... Too much too soon I guess. What 4 fish do you have? Do blennies count as fish? Or do they count as a cleaner?

Yes, we test 2x a week. All levels have been good except for the NO3 that was a little high yesterday (5-10). Hubby took the midas blenny and the domino damsel to the store so they could put them in a quarantine tank and see if they could get them not to die... We have a starfish (brittle I...

Purchased biocube 29 gal tank before Thanksgiving so we could have fish at Christmas. Added 1 blue damsel, 1 green chromis 2 weeks later. Green chromis died a few days later and we replaced with a domino damsel. Got a cleaner pack including a lawnmower blenny at around 3 weeks. Did a 20% water...