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I have the same cr## in my tank. My tanks been up since March. This is what I did. Feed 1 time a day, cut back the lighting to about 6 hours a day and went to my local fish store and they told me to use this stuff call ed Algaefix-it works slowly. Then I got this idea and scrubbed all of my live...

I have a QT set up with a few pieces of lace rock in it and some sand on the bottom. When I medicate i'm not worried anything that shouldnt be in there, and the fish who have been in there have a place to hide.

I have a small fan that sits by my tank- it will gradually bring your water temp. down. My water has gotten up to 86 degrees during the summers here, the fan kept it cooler @ 78-80 dgrees. My tank is also just a 20 gallon long.

I have a pretty much non existent clean up crew-2 snails that I never see. Wont my trigger eat them??? Is there anything that I should add to the water to get rid of the algae problem??

This is my dilema, I've got a 20L FOWLR tank, it's been up since March. The water params are: SG .022 PH 8.2 Ammonia 0 Nitrates/nitrites 0 temp. 78-80 degrees I use Instant Ocean salt and do water changes every 2 weeks. I cannot get rid of the red brown algae thats covering my LR and sand, I...

I also have a humu humu trigger-and I also had a fire shrimp and a cleaner shrimp-the trigger and the shrimps did OK together for almost 2 weeks, then one morning I saw a piece of shrimp shell floating in the tank, my trigger ate both of the shrimp for dinner. My trigger is about 1-1/2- 2 inches...

Hi EL GUAPO No my trigger is only about 2 inches long. He does dig under the rock though.

I also have a picasso trigger that waits for me to clean the sand off of my LR, as soon as I'm done he picks the sand up in his mouth and spits it out all over my clean rocks. I have 2 clownfish that also ride the current from my water circulation pump.

I am aware of the toxin thay excrete if they die or get really stressed out. I'm sure it will take him awhile to get huge. He's in a peaceful tank so he dosent stress out. He pretty much eats what ever food I put in the tank-he needs to have his "greens" though. He eats krill, frozen brine...

I bought a small boxfish about 3 weeks ago-he is the cutest fish with a personality-are these fish common and does anyone else own one??

I lost a large fire shrimp and a cleaner shrimp to my small humu humu-they all were in the tank for alomst 2 weeks together-no problems, one day I noticed that both shrimp were missing-they became the humu humu's dinner the night before. :(

Hi everyone, need a little advice. This is what happened-last week I changed out the CC in my 10 gallon DT tank and put in Aragonite sand-had a sand cloud for a few days, nitrates went up. but the fish are all fine. Yesterday my tank sprung a leak, luckily the leak was discovered before all of...

I also have a 10 and a 2.5 gallon tank. Right now my 10 gallon is my DT, the fish in there will eventually go into a 75 galllon. I just started cycling my 2.5, can never have to many fish tanks-right??? I'm gonna put some LR in the 2.5- it will eventually go into my larger tank.

Thank-you all for the great advice. BTW didnt even think about taking the carbon out of those cheap filter cartridges-great idea!!

I am glad to hear that the Caribe Sea sand is not bad. This is my first time using sand. I've had another tank up since March with CC and it just dosent look as nice as sand does. I did rinse the tank between the 2 types of sand and dried it out before putting the good sand in there. My sand...

The sand thats in there now is a white carribbian sand from *****- I believe it's called Caribe Sea? It was about 8 bucks for a 10# bag. I did have Real beach sand in this tank, but after reading about the "dont's " of beach sand on this forum, I dumped it out. The Ph of the beach sand stayed at...

Hi Robdog, the tank is too small for a protein skimmer-10gallon-I do have a Tetra power filter on the back that is for a larger tank. This tank will be eventually used as a QT, or an extra tank while I'm cycling my 75 gallon. I do have an extra powerhead not in use, should I put it into the...

Just a quick question-this is the first time I've ever used sand in my tank. I set up a small tank yesterday with a very fine white sand I bought from a lfs. Filled the tank up with water, the sand cloud has gone away as of this morning, but I have small bubbles at the top of the water all...

I cycled a tank with damsels awhile back, my kids even named them, I thought for sure they would survive the cycle, bought 1 at a time, and one by one they died. Ended up going through 5 damsels and am now using the cocktail shrimp to cycle my tank.