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Hello, I recently bought several yellow Chromis, they picked on each other till I had but one! The one left has doubled its size and every once in a while picks on some of the smaller fish in the tank. My Flameback angel chases it once in a while too. I think only the green and blue Chromis are...

Hello, Here is another pic of the whole unit.

Hello, My unit is different from your pic. I just took a digital photo and uploaded to my server and will try to post it here.

Hello, Unfortunately there is no customer service # listed anywhere on the single photocopied instruction sheet and only a web page listed on the outside of the box. I e-mailed them several hourse ago but haven't received a reply yet. There web page is <a href="http://www.esuweb.com"...

Hello, I just bought one of the Coralife Pure-Flo Reverse Osmosis Water Purification Units and I believe my unit has the waste and "good water" tubes reversed from what the instructions state. The blue tube is suppose to be the "good water" and red the waste. My red tube has a slow flow of water...

Hello, I always use Nature's Ocean packaged live sand. It has all the bacteria needed to instantly cycle any tank when used at the rate of 1 pound per gal of water. I have used it with great success in tanks from 20 gal through 75 and never a problem. You can start to add fish a hardy fish or...

Hello, You may be surprised what can eat a hermit crab. My hermits are fine now that I took back a Coral Hogfish which had no problem sucking them out of there shells in a split second. I lost most of them before I realized what was going on!.

Hello, Sorry to take so long to respond, but you can just pour it in as it doesn't cloud the water. You could also fill a cup with the ls and slowly lower it to the cc and then dump it out.

Hello, If the "other tank" had healthy fish and things in it, there is no need to do anything other than just add it to your tank on top of some other substrate. If the other tank was less then healthy don't use it at all.

Hello, It is live in that it has all the bacteria types in a dormant state. It doesn't have any other live things in it, but considering how well it works you can start to add fish and snails, hermit crabs right away. I can't think of any reason why anyone would not want to use it, since it...

Hello, Instead of lr I would recommend using a package of Nature's Ocean ls. This product will completely cycle your tank within hours as long as you use it at the rate of one pound per gallon of water and only add a few hardy fish. I have personally used this product 7 times and never had a...

Hello, The sand will not all go down through the CC. I have 4 tanks with undergravel filters with CC and red sea scallops shells mixed with live sand on top. I have a total of 6" deep substrate. 4" of the mix and 2" live sand on top. The tanks have been set up over a year and the powerheads...

Hello, You mentioned the fish shock till they died. That to me sounds like the fish were not real healthy when you bought them and they shock and stress of bringing them home was too much possibly. Did you slowly over a hour or longer let the bags floot in your tank and add very small amounts of...

Hello, To get the film to go away you need more to increase the water movement on the surface. To do that make sure either a power head shoots water at the surface or add an outside power filter or possibly both. I have 4 powerheads on my 55 plus a Prism and an outside power filter, the film...

Hello, I have used Nature's Ocean live sand 5 times now and as long as you use 1 lb/gal you will not have a cycle. That is providing you don't add more than a few fish at first. The product produces an instant cycle with their patented process and contains all the bacteria needed to cycle the...