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My Duncan has developed many heads and I would like to frag one or two of them...but I am scared to hurt the head that I frag off and/or the other heads still attached. Anyone have any pointers?

I bought a yellow finger gorgonia last week that has been doing great. It is high in my tank with mod-strong flow. Recently it starting have hair algae and a white substance growing on it. I brushed it off with a toothbrush but now it is back. I read to do a freshwater dip but they are not...

I have a clownfish, wrasse, firefish, and a scooter blenny.

I am wondering what kind of corals would be good for the top of my rocks that would grow up. I have a 70g tank with T5 HO. I know I can't do acropora but I want that look. Any suggestions?

I am going out of town for 10 days. I can only find someone to come over and feed my corals and fish 3 out of these 10 days. Do you guys have any suggestions? I am reading about these battery powered feeders but I don't know if they are any good or if I can trust them.

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I have had my green acropora for about a month now. I has been doing great until last week. I kept finding one of my snails attached to the lower branches. Whenever I saw this I remove the snail. Since then the lower part that the snail was attached to is now white. The upper branches...

My lfs set me up with some formulin in my freshwater dip and told me to add copper to my quarintine tank. What kind of infections are you talking about? Do these infections still come even if you get rid of the ich?

I just had 2 fish disappear in my tank...a cleaner wrasse and royal gramma. Today when I got home from work my yellow tang has tiny black spots on it. It is acting fine and eating well. All my tank parameters are great. I don't understand what is going on. Everything in my tank has been going so...

I have just had 2 fish disappear in my tank...a cleaner wrasse and royal gramma. Today when I got home from work my yellow tang has tiny black spots on it. It is acting fine and eating well. All my tank parameters are great. I don't understand what is going on. Everything in my tank has...

I tested my water and specific gravity 0.123, ph 8.2, ammonia 0, nitrite 0, nitrate 0. Why are cleaner wrasse so hard to keep? These 2 new fish also have not came out to eat for 2 days!! Help!!

I adding a cleaner wrasse and a sailfin tang on Wednesday. Wed and Thurs the 2 were out swimming with my clown but all day yesterday and today they will not come out. The wrasse just sits in a piece of rock lying on his side looking out. I know they lye on their side, but I am worried about...

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I have a 70 g tank. What are the guidelines to follow to make sure I do not crowd my system with too many fish?? Right now I have a sailfin tang, perc clown, cleaner wrasse, candy coral, zoa, 10 hermit crabs, 15 turbo snails, 2 sand sifting stars (one looks like it is about to die). Thanks!

I don't have any corals yet and the only fish I have is a clown. I was reading about Royal Grammas and Skunkback psuedo. Can these be put in the tank together? I also like angels and tangs. As far as the corals go...they intimidate me. What are some of the good ones to start with? I like...

I have a 70g tank that is on its 9th week of cycling. All my numbers look great and I have coralline algae growing on my rock. I have 1 true percula, 10 snails, 10 hermit crabs, and 2 sand sifting starfish. I am ready to add some livestock to my tank. I want a coral and fish tank. I am...

Thanks! I turned my lights back up to around 8-9 hours a day. I am also going to try to return the stars. Thanks for all the help! Oh, by the way I am a she not a he!! LOL

Is there no way to feed them myself? I have only read about feeding them shrimp but not usually with very much luck.

I started the cycle with 15lbs of live rock and 70 lbs of dead rock. I have 2& 1/2 inches of live sand. Two days after setting up tank I was advised to buy a true percula (damsels were to aggressive and hard to remove) and 5 hermit crabs. Testing every other day I never saw a nitrogen spike...

I am a new to the saltwater world. I have a 70G in its 4th week of cycling. I have one true percula, 15 astria snails, 15 hermit crabs, and 2 sand sifting starfish...all recommended by my lfs. These guys quickly cleaned up all the diatoms from my tank. My lfs also advised me to turn my...