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I would suggest getting rid of the hermits. In my tank, they began to devour my smaller fish.

I just bought and installed a cooling fan over top of my aquarium. It is a desk fan that can be improvised to hang off the back of your aquarium without any modifications. Its low voltage, designer black, can be battery operated and has foam blades! This thing is great for smaller aquariums...

I have a bit of a compettition in the tank right now between who is going to be king of the castle. Right now it's between a velvet neon damsel and a henoichus butterfly. The butterfly appears to be holding his own. Who is going to win this one? They are not at the nipping at stage, only the...

Believe it or not same thing happened to me with 3 Chromi's. Disappeared without so much as a trace, no bones, fins or anything! I thought this was the wierdest thing. I finally figured out that it was my hermit crabs. Problem solved whin I took them back to lfs and gave them to the owner...

My wife cleaned the carpets this morning with a hoover steamvac machine. We ended up with really clean carpets and a dead yellow tang. The tang was perfectly healthy before we started cleaning the carpets. I didn't realize either how toxic these carpet cleaning chemicals are or how sensitive...

Lost my last chromi last night. It disappeared just like the others without a trace. Ok, I think I know what is happening. They were eaten by the hermit crabs. It is the only explanation! I did some research and discovered that the hermits do have the ability to turn into predators. They...

I have undergravel filter with two risers and two powerheads - water flow is drawn down through gravel. I also have an Emperor 280 over the top. The aquarium is fitted with about 30 lbs rock with holes big enough and probably deep enough for fish to get lost in. My son thought that maybe the...

I started a new tank about 3 months ago. I started small with two chromis and two yellow tailed blue damsels (each fish about an inch). The water was great, they were doing fine and in perfect health so I added 4 hermit crabs (smallish about the size of my thumb). Eveything still fine, so I...