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Butterfles are not really considered "reef safe", all will potentially eat corals and most might find some inverts a good snack as well, especially shrimp. If you want to try one of these for a reef tank the best is the "schooling bannerfish" aka Heniochus diphreutes. You will need to feed it a...

Give em time to get accliimated, but if they continue to spit out what your feeding them, you might wanna try something else. Mysis, fresh clams, shrimp, maybe just spirulina... Some fish are picky eaters, though I haven't heard of clowns being to picky, but you never know. Good luck

These corals are still a mystery to me and many other hobbyist. For what ever reasons these corals, the frogspawn and hammer corals, can and will do splendid under almost all environments in captivity. I have had both types with mixed results. A very niced branched frogspawn that I had to move...

I have 4 tangs in my 135 and I would love to get a few more, but I know that I am already pushing it with the fish I have. With that said, I would say no smaller than 135 for the 3 tangs you mentioned, but to be safe if you could go bigger, I would. I know I regret not getting the 240 now, but...

Personally, I believe longer is better than taller for two reasons. First, the longer the tank the more lengh the fish will have to swim back and forth, which is better than just up and down. Two, the taller the tank the harder it is to keep clean. You might need a ladder to reach the bottom of...

Try cyclopeeze. Use the plastic container trick, once I did this the sun coral would open up anytime I added cyclopeeze to the tank. Cover the coral with a plastic container with a small hole drilled into the top of it, and dose the coral with whatever you want to feed it through the hole. Leave...

Cyclopeeze works good for me with all corals and fish, but my sun coral really loves it. If you are unsure if your sun coral is eating, then take a plastic container that will cover the sun coral and drill a small hole in the top of the container. Cover the sun coral with the container and take...

Well, I have kept an Atlantic Blue tang now for over 3 years with much success. Though somewhat aggressive toward tangs with the same body shape, I have a Kole tang, and they do quarrel from time to time, but nothing to worry about. This variety of tang is supposed to be problematic, with both...

Hey everyone, I am looking for some berghia nudibranch. If anyone has some for sale or knows where I can purchase some, please let me know, thanks. I would be interested in 10 to 20 of these little guys if the price is not too high. I am aware of a couple of online stores that have them, I am...

I was lucky enough to find a juvenile Hippo about a year ago now...it was less than an inch long and very shy. I know these fish have a poor record when they are that small but I thought it would die where it was, so the price was right and now after a year it has more than doubled in size...

Just wondering about the typical build-up of your coraline algae. I average a water change every three weeks now, instead of two, to coincide with the algae scrape. It really surprises me how fast it seems to grow on my glass. My tangs love it when I scrape because of the treat they get, they...

I like what niskyvaulter says, I love to buy smaller things and watch them grow to fill in, but you can do that without spending a fortune too! Fish are a kinda feel out thing, IMO, you know what you like but you have to know which fish will get along together. You said you have had problems...

Powder browns are really nice, but for the money IMO, I would get a Kole tang and a yellow tang. They are stunning opposites and will help keep your tank nice and diatom free. They are very hardy, you can get both aquacultured, and they both have the same temperment. My tangs love everything...

I am keeping everyone in my 135 gallon, and I would find it hard to believe that my wrasse would only harrass this one fish over food or territory. I am going to take the mandarin to my LFS for trade regardless. I have a very large population of pods to sustain some large appetites. Oh well...

I am surprised to find my six line wrasse harrassing my green mandarin. Has anyone had any similar problems with these wrasse and any other fish? I know my mandarin should be fine, since it will exude a slime that should protect it, and the wrasse shouldn't like that, but occasionally I see the...