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NEVER use live animals to cycle a tank. Live rock will work or you can add live bacteria then feed your bacteria ammonia chloride to get it going. Fritzyme bacteria is excellent and you can get ammonia chloride from Aquatic Ecosystems! Live animal sacrifices is old school aquarium keeping...

guppy, many invertebrates do not adjust well to shipping stress. You should do a slow drip acclimation on all new animals to make sure they adjust properly to your tank parameters. Double check that your tank parameters are what the snail needs (NH4=0, NO2=0, NO3=0-10ppm, pH=8.2, salinity...

Jessica, P.S. If you get cleaning animals (which are beneficial), you cannot use in tank medicated treatments that are not reef safe. Cleaner shrimp would be your best bet if you go that route, and feed the fish medicated fish food. Don't buy cleaner gobies because they tend not to do well in...

Jessica, You have a whole lot of problems! First always know what species of fish/invert you are adding to your tank! A good rule of thumb is to quarantine all new inhabitants, in a seperate system, for 30 days to keep all of your show animals safe! I'm assuming that this is a fish only...

Steel, I agree with anthem, I'm not familiar with that brand of copper, however 2.5ppm would mean death! I think you do mean .25ppm. You may have problems keeping the prophylactic level with the rockwork in your tank (you'll see varying levels). You need to maintain at least .15ppm for 3-4...

Channah, Lots of activites happen at night! I would first suspect your trigger, then the puffer...they both could easily do the damage! You have too many aggressive fish in your aquarium. If the aggressive behavior continues, your lion will be more prone to disease due to stress...potentially...

bubba, The lionfish and eel will get along fine. I would reconsider the triggerfish. The previous posting was right about fin nippng! Also, keep in mind you may have difficulty in feeding everyone properly...the lion and trigger are greedy and you may have difficulty getting food to your eel...