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Coral banded shrimp have been known to go after fish.

Looks like somebody had fish for dinner. Do you have a crab or such in there.

The place I buy mine (reef cleaners) only deals in inverts so there are no fish in any of the tanks. I understand the caution and it won’t hurt to do it.

I think you’d need to QT at least 6 weeks maybe more to make sure all parasites have died off. Essentially the same as the fallow period.

I don’t typically QT inverts. I do purchase mine from a vendor who doesn’t have any fish in their tanks. It is a risk.

Its that $0 per hour. It adds up over time.

You can put the sand in a glass pan. You will want to target feed the fish. Even once it is out of QT you may need to target feed. They don’t often get enough food from the sand and can starve to death even in a large tank.

Could be the damsel too

Is it the coral banded shrimp with fuzzy red and white claws. Coral banded shrimp have been known to take fish.

A maroon will claim the whole tank as territory.

In my opinion they are not worth the money and can kill off some good things.

She may be seeing her reflection in the glass and trying to scare the “other” fish away.

I agree one piece of live rock will do wonders to populate the dry rock. You can also add a bottled bacteria like Dr Tim’s. It will get the bacteria cultures going for your biological filtration but it won’t help with the other types of life that you’d get from live rock.

i transfer every 72 hours (no more) five times. The last transfer is into a observation tank where the fish remains for at least 2 weeks. If there are no issues then they can go into the display. This has never failed me, I have put a couple tangs through this protocol. I have managed to...

You need to do more water changes to get the ammonia down. What kind of parasite?

I don't like to treat with harsh meds unless absolutely necessary. I use the tank transfer method initially which will get rid of ich and treat with PraziPro twice during the transfers otherwise only observation.

a rubbermaid tote will work fine. It just has to be food safe. You can put a second smaller tub inside the bigger one for the return pump. That way the water flows into the big one and when the level gets to the top of the small on it flows in and the return pump can pump the water back to...

I would remove the real anemone. They need very intense light to survive as well as a mature tank.

You need space above the sump as well. Big skimmers are tall. I build my stands around 38 inches tall. Easier to view standing. For a large tank I’d use at least 2 x 6 for the top support especially if you want to be able to remove the supports. A 220 is damn heavy and you don’t want...

Agreed. That is kind of the same across most salt water fish. Only one of a specific genus. You can’t do more than one centropyge. You also need to watch out for body shape and color. Royal gramma (genus-gramma) looks like the bicolor dottyback (genus-pictichromis). They are different genera...