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You can take the fish out of the ocean... I'm always amazed at how strong fish are.

I worked at an importer and was in charge of caring for several tons of live rock and the system it was in. Millions of dollars of livestock entrusted to me based on my knowlege of this very situation.

Your live rock was improperly cured. I find this article accurate: By Drs. Foster & Smith Veterinary & Aquatic Services Department Must you cure your live rock? You must cure your live rock, even if it arrives precured. Precured live rock is harvested, then continually sprayed with a mist of sea...

You live rock was improperly cured. I find this article accurate: By Drs. Foster & Smith Veterinary & Aquatic Services Department Must you cure your live rock? You must cure your live rock, even if it arrives precured. Precured live rock is harvested, then continually sprayed with a mist of sea...

Your live rock was not properly cured. I find this article accurate: By Drs. Foster & Smith Veterinary & Aquatic Services Department Must you cure your live rock? You must cure your live rock, even if it arrives precured. Precured live rock is harvested, then continually sprayed with a mist of...

Your live rock was not properly cured I find this article to be accurate: By Drs. Foster & Smith Veterinary & Aquatic Services Department Must you cure your live rock? You must cure your live rock, even if it arrives precured. Precured live rock is harvested, then continually sprayed with a mist...

Did you cure that rock before you put it in there? The white stuff is called "die back" . The sponge and stuff on live rock grows in layers like skin. It gets too much air exposure when collected and transported. Basically what your seeing is a blistering sunburn. The bad things in a nutshell...

You need to remove that. Your base rock must have had some life on it. turn off you filter, squirt it with a turkey baster and try to net as much as you can.

Heres the worst thing I ever heard at a lfs. The vice president in charge of aquatics for the chain I was working at says to me " I know it took me a year to get you to leave your distributor job to come here and be a district aquatics manager, and you certainly proved to everyone that you're...

The white stuff is called "die back" . The sponge and stuff on live rock grows in layers like skin. It gets too much air exposure when collected and transported. Basically what your seeing is a blistering sunburn. The bad things in a nutshell are; thats way too much dead stuff to cycle a tank...

Heres a fun fact I learned from a contact at a collection station " for every yellow tang bought at a LFS, several hundred will die to replace him" . This came up because they had a sale on YT so I called to ask how they looked. He was very exited that over half of them came in alive and only...

When you consider the different sized angels you have to look at what their adult wild size is. A pomacanthus thats 18" in the wild may get along with one thats only 10" in the wild even though they may only grow to be a couple inches apart in captivity. You'd need to have the smallest species...

Maroons would have to be a mated pair. They have a reputation for being kind of mean. With most other clowns if you get 2 you end up with a pair when they mature.

Yeah, doubt that will work.

Cool Was he tank raised or wild?

Careful, that puffer is scaleless! Make sure meds are safe for scaless fish!

How about a pic?

People keep talkin about how dumb lfs workers can be, you should hear the customers. I told some guy something about his choice of fish not being compatable. He told me that the other fish guy said they were. I told him I was the only one working, and he took me around the isle and pointed at an...

You won't beat this one. I was breeding Pearl Danios and 2000 4 day old ones got ich. I grabbed a bunch of different meds and asked the guy "which of these would be safest for fry?" he said " dont be usin that on fish yer gonna fry" !!!!!

I was breeding Pearl Danios to support my SWF habit. The heater died and 2000 4 day old fish got ich. I grabbed a bunch of meds and asked the guy "which of these would be safest for fry", he said " dont be usin that stuff on fish yer gonna fry" !!!!!