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If you can find a relatively small angler (relative to the hawkfish) you could be OK. Anglers will ambush prey nearly up to their own size, so a larger fish will be safe with the angler, and the fish you are describing will remain larger than the angler if they are larger to begin with. Of...

If you are getting algae growth there is no point in measuring phosphate in the water - it will probably be zero because the algae are using it to grow. A sump can be easy and inexpensive - you can make one from a 10 or 20 gallon tank using plans online. Then you can put your skimmer in the...

Of all of Bang Guy's suggestions, I like algae scrubbing the best. You can build a scrubber following the plans readily available on line, or purchase one ready built or in semi-kit form. Alternatively, you could add some chaeto to your sump. Wither way, the algae will remove nitrates and...

I would not recommend using the copepod culture tank as a qt tank also. Culture tanks are relatively low in oxygen and you will not be able to treat for things like ich without killing off all of your pods. A 10 gallon dedicated qt is inexpensive, easy to set up and run, and will always...

Sure the grouper and the blenny are good friends - the grouper is making sure that nobody else eats the blenny before it gets large enough to dine on it himself. A 75 just isn't large enough for a panther grouper. It is small now, but it will be noticeably bigger by next month, and will...

Harlequin tuskfish can be shy at first, and may be bullied by a trigger. Besides, sooner or later a humu humu is going to lose its sanity and kill the tuskfish. I'm not sure about the Picasso, but humu humu's are, IMHO, destined to be a problem as they grow.

It is a fascinating fish. Be sure you see it eat in the store, but don't automatically assume that it will do so at home - you may have to train it to take prepared foods. I have often thought about starting my own pod culture for the fish.

My mandarin shares his 40 gallon tank (+20 gallon sump) with an ocellaris, and they get along fine. If I feed the clown first, then he just lurks near where the roe is and eats whatever gets suspended in the water. If he is hungry he will dive into the roe pile and gulp that.

You might want to post this over in the disease forum, but I would guess that you have some type of parasite infection going on. The question is, what kind? and how to treat? How long have they been flashing? If it has been more than a few days, and nothing has died then it probably isn't...

Bang Guy is right, but don't think that an ORA mandarin is an easy undertaking. Mine only eats frozen prawn roe, which means that I have to shut off all of the pumps, wait until there is no current int he tank, then deliver a dose of roe in a small pile in front of the mandarin. It then...

A 30 gallon system may not be able to keep up with the consumption of pods by a mandarin. You might consider an ORA mandarin - many of those will eat prepared foods so are easier to keep.

You will probably find opinions all over the place on this. In 40 years of saltwater fishkeeping I have never used carbon except when it was specifically needed to clear something from the water. Others,equally or more successful than I, run carbon all the time.

Small generators, enough to power a fish tank and a few lights (maybe not a refrigerator) should be well under $500 (maybe not now, but wait until the panic subsides). I used a 5 kW generator for 2 weeks during this last blackout. By the second week it was getting difficult to get gasoline for...

Update from the storm wars: [list type=decimal] Saturday the electricians at work powered the entire building and moved the cables powering the fish tank to their normal outlets. Unfortunately, they did not know that the GFCI had tripped, so even though the tank got power, the heaters did not...

Two questions: 1. How, and when did you cycle the tank? 2. How have you validated your test kit? Try analyzing your RO water - that should read zero.

Thanks for your concern. The generator is holding out and the tank at home seems normal. I just got back from checking on my 40 gal reef at work, which has been without power since early yesterday. My borbonius anthias is dead, the clown and mandarin are alive, but not happy. The corals look...

Tried out a new macro lens today and got some nice pictures of the gang, including the sea grass wrasse, who is now on close to a good day/night cycle. As soon as I get power to turn on my computer I will do an upload (may be several days).

Take a look at the fairy wrasses. They are stunning, friendly, hearty and many come in at your price point. Also, consider a flame hawk fish and clowns. They are like having a very wet puppy dog, except you don't have to walk them.

Our power went off at 6 pm but, for a change, the generator started right up. I have it wired through a transfer switch to 6 circuits, but I am only using the fish tank circuit to conserve gas since this could be a long outage. I also got a message that my building at work is without power, and...

FWIW, in birds, they start as males, and some become females. And don't get me started on sex determination in wrasses:laughing: