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that doesnt sound like a good idea to me at all. the egg crate is just a trap for bad bacteria. I was told to set up my live rock on bare glass then add your substrate.

for the most part gobies are so beneficial for your tank, more so than your mandarin. but if you have to have a mandarin set up a refugium and grow your pods in there for him.

it would probably be a good idea to get phosphate magnet anyways in put in your sump if you dont have one already.

they dont look dead. it may take a little bit to open up.

we also suffered from this problem. Lawnmower blennies and my 2 dwarf angel fishes seem to like the hair algae. you cant really get rid of it. what we did is vacuumed it out, we set up a syphon that vacuumed it and ran the tube through our filter in the sump underneath then cleaned the filter...

we have a gonipora that is about 1 year old and doing very well. we have i place high in the thank and we feed the frozen rotifers coral food 3 times a week. it is also in a medium to high flow location. we have strong MH 250 watts 20,000 K I have also spot feed mine with a mixture of marine...

okay.... i believe it can be done with only miminal maintence. the story of our tank. Our tank is 3 years old. the first year we had a 150 gallon tank and a 15 gallon sump horrible lighting and horrible luck with the fish and anything else we put in the tank. Truth be told the tank was an...

Xenia's like Medium flow

yes, another lighting question.... How often should you replace MH bulbs and Blue atinic bulbs? we have a 135 gallon reef tank, it is 3 years old we added 2 175 w 10000K MH bulbs, and 2 Coral life 48" Atinic 03 blue lamps 7100K last January (2005). Since we added the new lights the light...

get some scooter blennies... I like them they are cute and scoot along. Or a sand sifting goby is always good for your tank and fun to watch too. I hope you have good luck with your tangs. Our tank is 3 years old, and we very hard to keep corals and all kinds of fish but in 3 years we have...

yeah triggers are bad news for your reef tank. I have lots of Xenia in my tank and it acts like that whenever ANYTHING changes. It is very dramatic, and in my personal experience they are pretty hardy but I have heard quite the opposite from several others. I would wait a few days and see how...

you can also feed your anenome some squid, just put it on a feeder stick and put it in the tentacles and they USUALLY will just take it and eat it. In my experience if it is real big piece it may take it awhile to eat, but they usually do.

jobob... we buy fish from about 4 different stores, so I dont know what is wrong, we also ordered fish from swf.com and they died too, especially any kind of tang, We just cant keep them for some reason. Now i have a goby that I have had for almost 2 years. So i dont know what the deal is

YES!!! we get so many compliments on our elegance, it truly is beautiful. We have had it almost a year and it has almost doubled in size. we left it on the sandy bottom and we target feed it brine shrimp about once a month, we have also fed it pieces of squid and it eats it :notsure: . We...

This may sound like an odd question but I am sure we are not the first to come into contact with this problem. We are having new flooring put in our home. What do people do with their tanks? Take it down completely, put it in temporary containers, or set up a temp tank in another room. Is...