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I can’t grow it either

Para guard won’t cure ich or velvet. Only copper for velvet and copper or hyposalinity for ich.

Most of your bacteria should be on the surface and in your rocks. You could take the filter media from the canister, rinse in salt water then put in a mesh bag in the fuge/sump. Then you can remove it slowly over a couple weeks. I’d also keep a bottle of prime on hand just in case. Also a...

Give it time.

A pair doesn’t mean they will breed just that they tolerate each other. If they lay eggs, you will know if they are a breeding pair. My single clown behaves that way too.

They are all born male and one will turn female.

Realistically you can only have 7 or 8 small fish in a 75. In my 120 I only have 8 small fish. One of them will get bigger but most are tiny reef fish.

Make space for QT. It will save you a huge amount of grief. Once a parasite getts in your tank you will have to remove every single fish and treat them and leave the display tank fishless for around 10 weeks to eradicate it. You will get parasitic diseases. The wholesalers are infested and...

In a 75 you are technically dealing with a small tank. Many of the fish on your list are not compatible with each other or a small tank. You can have two clowns from the same species. Color variety doesn’t matter but species does. Not a perc and an oscelaris or a maroon, just one species...

1. You will need a return pump. Wet dry filters are not really recommended any more. You can probably turn it into a kind of sump though. 2. Yes you will need water 3. Normally you add rock first then sand then water. Rock first because you want it stable on the bottom the sand then...

You can’t stock a salt water too full especially with large fish like angels. You do need to stock in the order of least aggressive to most aggressive. Also set up a good Quarantine system. You don’t want to introduce a disease into your tank. Once in diseases can’t be treated in the display...

We don’t usually use full hoods because they can inhibit O2 transfer. A 40 breeder is a standard size, The dimensions of the tanks haven’t changed, I suspect the hood you have was mislabeled and is for a different size tank, most likely a 29 gallon. I like the look of hoods. Since I build my...

They are damsels.

It is a typical situation. Often happens exactly the way you describe. I suspect it has to do with one reaching sexual maturity and seeing the others as competition. Contrary to common belief they are not schooling fish and unless you have a very large tank one is the max that you can keep.

Some sort of tube worm.

I hate it too and it is illegal many places. If it is going back to the same ocean in the same area it should do fine. You can’t put something from the pacific into the Caribbean, there are laws about that, just look at the lion fish issues in the Caribbean. Also you don’t want to return...

Won’t hurt it. Run it a few minutes before you use it again.

The fish won’t get over ich without treatment. Some may be more resistant but they all can get it. Ich in their Gills is the most deadly as they can’t breath. Ich is easil treated. That isn’t the point of QT. qT is to keep disease out of the tank. There is no way to eradicate it from the...

The live rock is the problem, not really a problem. They were already colonized with bacteria. Don’t chase pH, it always backfires, 8 is perfectly fine. Mangroves won’t be contributing much.

How are you measuring your salinity