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no live rock. i have never looked into lr before just allways had fish. i used 4o# bag of live sand and 100#'s of crushed coarl. what would be some good live rock for a person to start out with? i have just purchased another 72" strip light with two 10000 actinic day bulbs so that i can get...

i have a 125 long tank. it will be fish only. i have a magnum 350 and a wet dry system with a 650gph pump on it, and protien skimmer. i was thinking i may need to add another magnum for extra filtration and more water movment. what do you guys think?

my yellow tang seems to change color ever hour. goes from his normal yellow to a pale yellow and back. water is in parameters. he had black ich a few weeks ago then a damaged lip but has no visible signs other than the color switch. he is eating well. feeding him brine,keen food with alge...

i saw in a post while reading, that feeding fw fish to my marine fish was a bad idea. can someone explain this to me. i kept a trigger and snowflake eel for over 4 years and all that i feed them was goldfish. the trigger would get some brine shrimp every now and then. i never had any trouble...

i am new to this board but not the hobby. in saying that i am learning from peoples posts everday. some of the things i read i dont allways agree with but in turn some of the things i say im sure others dont agree with. thats how we learn. read and read some more. then make your best...

yesterday i put two cleaner shrimp in tank. they went right down in the coral. a few minutes latter the tang went to them and they hopped right on his back and started to clean him. note the tang had black ich on him about a 1.5 weeks ago. now the tang will go to the shrimps and stay a few...

the fw dip was to get rid of black ich. i did do a water change so i will see what happens. today there is no visible sign of the white cotton ball and he seems to be in better spirits, and eating like a pig. ill keep an eye on him. thanks for your posts.

while fresh watter dipping my yellow tang on the last day of his treatment his lip got caught in my net as i was putting him back into the tank. the next day, i noticed he has some fuzzy white stuff on his lip and seems very uneasy. should i get mycan 2 or something else to try to treat it...

diceman what all did you run off the backup supply?

Mr. Salty not sure i follow you. put a small hole on the return line? should that be the siphone line between your two cups are the actual return line in your tank? sorry for not seeing what you mean. why we are talking about this has anyone thought about using a backup battery supply for a...

thanks for all of the good info.

if you look on this site and do a search you can find more specific info on the nitrate cycle. in short you must put something in the tank that produces ammonia. usually damsels because they can get through the ammonia spike. after a few weeks the ammonia will go down and in the mean time...

hey guys that sounds real good for me, because i live in paducah. it would be worth my time to drive to nashville to get fish. thanks for the link and info.

who has one in there tank. i know he will eat hermit crabs but will it eat all cleaner shrimp or maybe a banded shrimp. just curious who has one and how it does in ther tank.

probably a leak in a tube. on my wet/dry when the water level gets so low it will let air in through the top of the return pump. also check the air valve if you have power heads.

i cycled my tank just fine leaving my ps running the whole time. just my two cents.

Yes i have been away from aquariums for a while. back when i was doing this after the cycle i would add one fish to my 55 gal. tank every 30 days until i got what i wanted in the tank. what is the practice today. same time period and same nuber of fish in my 125. just curious what the rest...

thanks Beth, Is this a ich brought on by stress or did it come with the fish? Will catching the fish cause more stress and hurt the chances of cureing it? of all of my years doing this i have not seen this one yet, thanks again for the advice.

I have a new yellow tang in my tank. its been in for 5 days and when i came home from work today it had brown/black spots that look like ich, but i have never seen ich that color. any suggestions or treatments for what this may be? i have no QT so what would be the best chemical treatment for...