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Hi, First, post the actual readings of your test results. A picture will help quite a bit too, descriptions are not very reliable. As to what slightly ich'ish could mean I am stumped, Ich is a parasite, the little critters look like salt that is sprinkled on the fish.

As long as the corals are not being blown around and pushed over... flow is great, like Imforbis said. "these critters like the flow". The more you match the ocean, the better. Fish grow stronger fighting the current, but there should be a place with a little calmer water for the fish to be able...

Hi, Welcome to the site. Yep, get a good beginners book. If you don't have live rock, you will need to seed the fake coral with the tiny critters needed to keep your SW tank balanced. You get those critters free on rock, but one way or another, you need them. You can use black sand, but it...

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Hi, Prime is to reduce ammonia, not nitrates. It sucks up the oxygen, which why you lost fish. Fish don't care about nitrates, even into the 100s, inverts suffer and die over 40, and most corals over 20. API test kits are not reliable, they read 4Xs higher than other kits. There is nothing...

If you treated your display tank with copper, you have poisoned more than just the little Hydroids. All the critters in the live rock and sand will die as well, which will unbalance all the eco system that helps keep things stable. The thing with SW tanks is this...If you see something you...

I used a canister filter on my 90g reef for 14 years without a hiccup. The ONLY time my nitrates read high... was when I used API test kits, once it was discovered that the API ran high on Nitrate readings, I switched to SeaChem kits...the nitrates were at 1. They don't cause problems, that is a...

Hi, I think they are only a threat to dwarf seahorses. In my tanks, the population always died off on it's own. I don't think you need to worry about it, and I doubt their die off will pollute the tank. I have kept Kuda, Erectus and Potbelly horses, bristle worms were a problem, but never the...

Hi, Welcome to the site!! Damsels are very evil little pretty fish. They are cheap for a reason, they kill any fish less timid than themselves, including each other... The firefish doesn't stand a chance in a tank with it...even perfectly healthy. Firefish are very shy and timid, and they are...

Hi, I Like the SeaChem as well...but the most easy kit to read is the Instant ocean. They have a plastic color tile that sits next to the test tube, to match the color, no guessing.

Hi, Your tank should be topless, a glass top creates problems with gas exchange. You could use egg crate to create a lid if you have jumpers... otherwise just leave it open. I paid Snakeblitz to make me a canopy, it turned out really nice, the top is open, but the canopy gave it a beautiful...

Hi ... Look into LEDs, no Metal Halides, they give off heat, and in an all in one tank setup, that would be a nightmare.

Hi... Well I guess welcome back to the hobby, glad to have you around!

Hi, API tests read high, you can have 0 reading for a long time (even years), then as soon as nitrates are actually present, it reads 4X higher than any other test kit. I thought something was bad wrong with my tank (the API test said 80+). I would do a 50% water change, and right after the...

Hi, What test kit are you using to get a reading that high? My API wouldn't go any higher tan 80. at 40, inverts like anemones and shrimp die, over 20 will kill coral... So nitrates could be the cause for sure. You have to figure out how nitrates got so high and fix that. If you are doing...

Congratulations... you should post some pictures.

Yep...all of the above. It's air inside the canister, when you first clean it,, all the air has to get out before it runs smoothly with no bubbles, if there is a leak and air gets in, bubbles result as well. I have never had the problem Bang Guy mentioned, but it makes sense. I always used a...

Just something to consider... I doubt this is your issue, since you have hair algae and other problems because you couldn't do water changes. I'm going to put it out there anyway, just in case. I drove myself batty over nitrates. I would do a water change, and by morning the kit would read 80...

Hi, A NEW (unused, mark it fish only) Turkey baster (use it like a giant eye dropper) blast the sand off the rocks. A Mag float will get anything that settled on the glass.

Hi... just a little reminder, make sure the "clean up crew" has something to CLEAN up before you add them, or they starve. Most new tanks get the brown algae first, snails can be added at that time.