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Sounds like tissue nurociss which attacks and eats away the flesh of your coral what I have done to cure this problem is make a freshwater bath the same temp as aquarium and dip untill brown jelly is gone.The fresh water kills the bacteria, then place in a moderate to high current and if...

I just purchased a 100gallon tank and plan to move the inhabitance of my fifty five over to it once cycled(niger trigger,achellies tang,moon wrasse all 8-9 inches)my Q is what is a good angel to start with I like the koran and regal angels would they mix with current inhabitants any help would...

Have paitence it took about a month doing five percent water changes on a fifty gallon tank once a week before I seen a change and I just wanted to say I've been there and phosphate pads and filters and any other quick fix are just that there not long term and will come back to haunt you.

The first problem I see is your light, no three lights won't be enough you'll need at least five blubs that are the length of the tank and of high output(two atinic and three ethier 10,000 or 20,000k lights)and the other problem could be your disstled water.I used disstled water for a long time...

I would have two say no,over my fifty five I run four 48inch 40watt bulbs over my anenome tank(two atinic and two 20,000k)you should have at least 3-4 watts per gallon of water to be safe.And I have found that most of the host anenomes available like to bury in the substrat and attach to a rock...

Sorry to hear about your problem but I think large hermits feed on feather dusters because I moved one from my fish only tank to my anenome tank which had two large feather dusters and numerous small ones and now there herbe food.(and to think I moved him becuase I was afraid he would be dinner)

Well in my case it was the water I used untill I changed to R.O. water for water changes and top offs I had the same problem. By the way my nitrates were zero and it still grew.

You say your test are fine but it would help me answer your problem if you could post them also when you do water changes do you use R.O. or deionized water or are you using it straight from the tap.

I had the same problem and what I did was move them around the tank untill they were happy.So it was either to much light or not enough current becuase they are now mid level and in mid current.

I agree with ranger one more would do it.I run two 175watt 10,000k halide bulbs and two atnic 03 bulbs on my 55.And I have had great success with my leathers and lps and sps corals and clams with this arrangement.

Im sorry about your losses but I went through much the same thing fish disapaering but no culprit to blame.But as a last resort I didn't feed for a week(also I traded what fish were left back to lfs)the I hung a peice off shrimp tied with fishing line in the tank and let it float pertty soon...

I'm thinking on purchasing one for my anenome tank.To give a little info on the tank it has lucious growths of calpera and other micro algaes and has a refugium my manderin is fat. Would this setup work for it or not have heard differing opinions in different forums on the net about this fish...

I don't quite understand your Q but if you have live rock and you don't have a manderine goby or other fish that feeds off the rock you probly already have them.Otherwise buy some live rock there should be plenty on it to get a population started as long as your fish don't eat them.

If your sure they are dead by all means remove them.leaving them could start a algae bloom.But make sure there dead I've had them loose there feathers and thought the same thing then felt them and they moved a month later they regrew there feathers.

I think you better be looking for a mantis shrimp has all the tell tale signs of one.Be carful they can harm you as well.

Don't want to worry you had a crab that fit that description and it liked to roll the live rock over to get at stuff underneath.Luckly cought him before he broke the tank.

Well if your going with a dwarf lion I'd go with a large tomato clown or sebea something bigger than it's mouth alsoyour going to need at least 3-4 watts a gal of light for the host anenome to survive and puffers and box fish can be a gamble when mixing with enverts plus there ich factorys...

Sounds like there courting my percs did that when pairing off as far as breeding do you have a carpet anenome and if so look around it to see if there paying attention to a certain spot on a rock by it if they are you could have eggs.As far as raising the young they need to be removed as soon as...

Yes it should be enough light I have a 55 gallon anenome tank and I run 4 48inch 40watt bulbs two atinic03 and two 20,000k corallife but as far as corals I'd stick to polyp rock of which theres many varietys also mushroom rock and some leathers such as toadstull and coltcorals and xenia.And a...

When I started my anenome tank I had six one inch percs and a large sebea.Everything was fine untill two paired off and kicked everybody else out.So I bought a bubble tip and one of the outcasts went to it but wouldnt share so to make a long storie short I now have four carpet anenomes and every...