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Hello, I am new to the board and the hobby and am looking for some much needed direction. My 44 Pentagon has finished cycling about 2 weeks ago (90 lbs LR, 45 lbs LS) and have just recently added clean-up crew. Can someone help me with deciding on fish to duplicate a Florida reef.

Hello, I am new to the hobby and my tank has just complted its cycle and has been stable for almost 2 weeks. I added the clean up crew a little over a week ago and am looking for fish. I posted on the aggressive area as I am having trouble deciding. I was looking today and saw a few groupers...

I saw one today while looking for fish for my new tank. Is this fish acceptable in a reef setting? Sharks please help

Any help would be appreciated. I am new to the hobby and was leaning towards reef tank until I started looking at stocking the tank. My tank has cycled and clean up crew has been in for 10 days. I am having second thoughts to the reef after seeing some of the colors on groupers, wrasses, etc...

Hello, Brand new to the hobby....love it so far but I have to do something with my current hood. I have a 50g. pentagon tank with standard hood and 1 strip flor. My tank is in its 3rd week of cycling. tank includes bak pak skimmer, marineland HOT wet/dry, approx. 90lbs LR, and 35lbs LS. The...

Hello, Hello, I am new to the board as well as the hobby. My tank is in the middle of cycling and someone suggested adding a couple of damsels to help the process. After about 2 days I noticed one of them had pop-eye. I took him out treated hime with Maracyn-two as instructed. Today will be...

Von_Rahvin. Thanks for the info.....actually everyone. What is your email address

Thanks everyone, I appreciate the help.

Mark, Thanks for the help. I will take the fish out and put them in a small tank I have. I thought the live rock i bought (on-line) would be similiar to the stuff I saw in local stores but was really surprised upon opening it. I knew I was a little over my head when it had so much life. I...

what should I do from here. it doesn't appear that much is dieing on the rock but the white algae or whatever it is concerned me. The clams and everything are still alive and they have been in there for almost 10 days. What can I do to keep all alive...if anything. Thanks

Kelly, Thanks for the suggestions and the welcome. I am really learning that knowledge is king in this hobby and you can never know enough. The live rock is uncured. I was told that since the tank was new it didn't matter. The corals, clams, etc. were on the rock when it arrived. I was...

Hello, I am brand new to the message board and to the hobby. I have a couple of problems going on during the cycling process. I have a 44 pent. tank with 35 pounds live sand, 90 pounds live rock, protein skimmer, wet/dry and am currently in day 9 of all up and running. My salinity is...