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Originally Posted by 110inNC Put some shells in tank and theyll do themselves either taking the shell you put in or taking a snail shell. do you know where i can get some....my hermits are about 1/2 inches only?

how do i know when my hermit crabs will need new shells?

just wondering how long i should let the saltwater that i will be adding sit for before adding it....

Originally Posted by YearOfTheNick staylor, everyone has their own styles about how and what to feed an anemone. InvertCrazy is telling you to feed frozen or premade shrimp/etc... but I've also heard suggestions on the opposite end of the spectrum... to give an example, there's this lady that...

okay so what do i get and where do i get the food for the anemones because i really have no clue on what and where to get them their food...

Originally Posted by YearOfTheNick Tap water could kill everything! It vastly decreases your water quality because of the chlorine and other chemical contents, which are safe to us, but toxic to fish. It's a hobby standard to use reverse osmosis water, which is the purest form of water, free...

Originally Posted by SpiderWoman Could be that it wasn't ick that killed your fish, but ammonia and nitrites. Your tank is so new that the bioload may not have had time to catch up. How long did you cycle your tank? well i cycled it for about a month......and i dont think that it was the...

Originally Posted by YearOfTheNick Yes, you'll need to vacuum a little further away than you would with gravel... or you could get an unusually long vacuum... the one I posted a pic of has a very long suction tube. a HOB (hang on back) filter will not provide enough flow for your tank to do...

Originally Posted by SpiderWoman How old is this tank? From the sound of it, you have diatoms... the brown dusting on the rock and sand. It's part of the new tank syndrome. Do you use RO/DI water or tap water? Running your tank fishless means that you still feed your inverts/anemonies and othr...

Originally Posted by YearOfTheNick Sorry, I don't know why I said suction cup... although it is a cup and it does suck... it's a gravel vacuum and it uses the water gravity to suck the gunk out of the gravel or in your case, LS and LR. I put a pic of it below. You could also get a water pump...

Originally Posted by sepulatian Ich cannot feed off of your inverts. It can, however be transported into another tank via them. Ich falls off of fish to reproduce. It attaches to a hard surface. That surface can be your inverts. What is this brown powder from? You should do a water change if...

Originally Posted by YearOfTheNick Your anemone is a filter feeder... he filters stuff out of the water, as well as catching whatever food you feed to everyone else. The anemone NEEDS NEEDS NEEDS water flow... do you have pumps that keep the water flowing throughout the tank? If you have a...

Originally Posted by sepulatian Use this time to set up and cycle a QT large enough for any fish that you plan to keep. If you plan to buy tangs then don't set up a ten gallon. Set up an appropriate QT. Leave your display fishless for two months. Ich cannot host the inverts. It will die without...

so even though my tank is filty from the "Brown Powder", i should not perform a water change????.....its like all over the tank and glass and equipment and LR and LS and etc.....oh and my anemones dont need to eat anything???

so what will the inverts and anemones eat......also will i need to be running my skimmer and filter during these couple of weeks.....any water changes i have/can perform because my tank is filty from turning off my skimmer and filter.....there is like this brown powder all over my LR and LS....

all my fish are officially wiped out even though i tried kill ich and the garlic method....what still remains are my hermit crabs, my cleaner shrimp, my spider crab, and my two anemones.....there is obviously still ich in tank and would like to know how to remove it without harming the...

could my mix of fishes be causing my fish to stress out and create ich.....i have two false perculas, one porcupine puffer, one cowfish, two tangs, and a saddleback clown.....i also have two anemones and some hermit crabs and a spider crab....my two tangs, cowfish, puffer have ich and i would...

i have what appears to me as white worms running around my live rock and would like to know if they are bad for my tank.....they are white and extremely thin and they can stretch themselves pretty long.....

i have three clowns.....one is white and black with yellow fins and the other two are just regular false perkiis.....i have two anmones and that i was hoping they can share between them three but it turns out that my two perkiis are not hosting any of them.....my white and black one hosts both...

i have three clowns.....one is white and black with yellow fins and the other two are just regular false perkiis.....i have two anmones and that i was hoping they can share between them three but it turns out that my two perkiis are not hosting any of them.....my white and black one hosts both...