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ok so till now i have been feeding my damsel just plain old fish flakes that i use for my freshwater fish, but i know i need something else. what is the easiest and safest to make/ use and am i doing it any harm in feeding just fish flakes?

ok thats good. after all this stuff disappears will this still be enough of a cuc? one of the hermit crabs is either dead or its just an empty shell, so really i only have 4. also i decided on what fish i want. after i return the yellow tail damsel ill be getting two clownfish and a mandarin...

I have a 30 gallon that finished cycling a couple weeks ago. Now its growing a brown/orange colored stuff all over the top rock. (Diatreates? sp?) So i bought 1 peppermint shirmp and 5 blue legged hermit crabs. Is that going to be enough to take care of my problem?

Originally Posted by dinki How big is the tank and what kind of turnover are you getting from your powerheads? I had a terrible problem with my tank (set up in Nov diatoms in Dec-Jan) that went away really quick when I increased the flow over my sand bed. I was running two maxijet 1200s in my...

Hmmm.... if that was the case, wouldn't everybody do that? Doesn't sound right to me. One of these days im going to test the water from my lfs after i buy a fish there.

Thanks a lot. I did a water change yesterday and filled it all the way up to the edge and the bubbles went away. Should i use the powerhead to move the water around the LR now? I was using it to push the bubbles from the filter back up to the surface, but now i don't have that problem.

I have asked this question a couple times before but no one has answered me. Everybody keeps telling me bubbles are bad, but not how to fix it. I have a penguin biowheel HOB filter in my 30 gallon and it makes a stream of bubbles about 5 inches deep. How do i get rid of the bubbles? i have my...

Sorry it doesn't have to do with saltwater, but yesterday i was in my girlfriends room and she was staring at her beta. Then out of nowhere she asked me where it was from. I was completely stumped. There a freshwater fish, and don't like currents or large places so i could only think of lakes or...

Well thats good to know. And the bubbles are from my filter. Its an HOB filter so its always going to cuase them.

Ok yesterday i changed my filter from a Whisper 30-60 to a Marineland 350 bio wheel. Its a 30 gallon tank btw. Today i go check all my levels and i notice that i have dog hair in my tank. Now i have seen it in there before, but now its a lot since i was adjusting and playing with the filter. I...

Yeah doesn't the biowheel help the biological filter grow? As long as its spinning your in good shape, but if it stops, it can cuase problems. So im taking it as you are for me switching the filters. If im not mistaken, they use the same pads as my whisper, so i could swap those in. Will it mess...

I Just put a powerhead in my 30 gallon a couple days ago. I placed it in the back left hand corner and angled it toward the middle. It also does a good job of interupting the flow of the air bubbles from my HOB filter.

Ok I just finished cycling my first marine tank. Its a 30 gallon with about 15 pounds live rock, a powerhead, 20 pounds of argonite, and a damsel. Im currently using a Whisper 30-60 HOB filter. But i have a marineland 70 gallon HOB filter sitting brand new in my room. Its the one with the bio...

I was under the impression that it builds up on your filter pads and on the live rock and sand, but i have read that you should still replace the HOB filters. Wouldn't that get rid of your Bio filter, Making the tank have to cycle again?

Yeah dude, slow down. Its a game of patience with saltwater. Slow down, take your time. I guess it helps if you are broke like me. Lol i can't help but wait it out becuase i don't have any money to spend on stuff for my tank.

Do you still need to go through a cycle if you really need a qt tank right now? Like say i had a fish that was sick and i don't have a qt tank set up, would it be ok to make a qt tank but not wait for it to cycle before adding the sick fish?

i Would imagine that someone in the higher ups in SWF.com is on the boards as an admin or something. Try taking it up with them.

Was your tank ever used for freshwater fish? The Silicone could have absorbed something that could be deadly to your fish. Is it cycled all the way? Basically all that he said above.

Yeah sometimes a notice a small lag, about 8 seconds or so. Then it loads. But other times it does great.

I have a 30 gallon, but i want to make a (not sure which one i want as i really don't know which one does what) refugium/sump. I saw a post earlier the had 3 sections in a seperate tank. 1 section was a pump into the tank, the other was LR with LS, and the 3rd was a return pump. What does this...