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Originally Posted by Aztec Reef And then the shrimp dies! due to starvation. But not before he goes through some mini brittle stars.. nah he could be sold then could feast on chocolate chips. I never said he'd stay permanently haha.

Originally Posted by PissyFish well i'm learning that. thank you! i'm gonna definitely use no more tap! You'll notice though after running the Rowaphos, chemi pure, and using RO/DI water, the tank will turn around quick and look good. Do you already have a refugium? when counter lit to the...

Originally Posted by Aztec Reef I hear u, it takes alot of planning and patience. But hey, anything challenging is worth while.. I have daily rituals where i sit in front of my tanks and have 1 on 1 conversations.. When buildng a reef, you have to play God.. ROFL... I talk to my frogs...

Originally Posted by PissyFish you think? he loves the clown and and can't stay away until the clown chases him off. my experience has always been a loss of color due to stress. does the damsel have adult coloration already? it may have been one that looks nice as a juvi then "browns" out.

Originally Posted by PissyFish thanks for the advice! I hate bringin badnews sorry.. there's just alot of nasties in the tap water.

Originally Posted by PissyFish my blue damsel lives with my ocellaris clown in a 30 gal fish only. the blue went from bright blue to a darker blue the last couple of days. no change in behavior, tho. any ideas why? stress?

the UFOs have landed!!

Originally Posted by PissyFish i'll try that. the lfs guy got me to buy a chemi pure bag...hasn't done anything. says it gets rid of silicates and phosphates...oh well. i need an ro system! the chemipure elite? eh... it doesn't absorb silicates or PO4 anywhere near as well as rowaphos...

Originally Posted by PissyFish it was out a week after a storm in september. i kept the tank running, but things died. just got some new lr 2 weeks ago. Run rowaphos on the tank and have some way of exporting nitrates too... tap water.. eek.

Originally Posted by abrand I have just set up my first saltwater tank and decided to start slow with a 20 gallon tank that I had from when I experimented with freshwater fish. I decided to just do fish and live rock with such a small tank but was considering buying a nano tank in addition to...

vlamingi, sailfin, and yellow tangs in 75G...and porcupine puffer... lol.

Originally Posted by Alexknight So I went up to Cedar point to see the parents after work to day, me and my dad where heading down to the grocery store when we stopped to look at a new building that we are trying to talk my boss into opening another restaurant in it but anyways. So its freaking...

If you run into any problems, you could make use of harlequin shrimp lol. They'd run through an asterinas population in a heartbeat

Originally Posted by marineang If 2 have it now, does that mean they all will? I CANNOT become a fish slayer of that magnitude. I'm crying out of frustration right now. crap happens. its not your fault by any means. I guess stick all the fish in a separate tank.. hypo it and hit it with...

Originally Posted by Coral Keeper LOL so you wanna have a coke bottle reef build off? HAHAHA.

Originally Posted by Coral Keeper There is no such thing as a stew without meat!! So, if you don't add meat to the stew, it aint stew anymore! Its....Its.... I have no idea, but it aint stew! :P +1... now if you added your veggie friends to the croc pot, it'd be soilent green hahaha. Always...

I'm too afraid to use a DSB.. I don't want to nuke a tank like that haha.

Originally Posted by marineang Thanks rotary, everywhere I go, there you are to advise - thank god for that. I was reading on reefforum that hypo doesn't work on velvet so I was confused. it may not, but it does on ich.. I've never had any fish turn around from velvet personally.

gotta do water changes!

film=velvet. velvet is typically a death sentence.. get all the fish into a hypo QT ASAP!! do not put live rock in the QT.. you'll have to do daily water changes and watch your feeding.