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I don't believe in obsessing over a tank, I don't dose my tank, and I don't do water changes every week. I don't let my tank control me because hobbies should be fun, not consume every free moment you have. I also don't believe in not having a mixed reef. I have softies next to sps, sps next to...

Thank you. Do you suppose she can leave the breeder box after 24 hours? Id hate to keep her in there and have her starve. Right now, she is in the same cup I took the pic in, but I cut some holes and put her in the vicinity of a power head so she can get some good flow to help her recover. Poor...

my urchin got herself stuck halfway out of the water between my egg crate and tank wall. i didnt notice she was there until i went to go rearrange a coral that had fallen. one side of her body looks healthy, tenticles out, moving all over the place. shes also cruising around the cup i put her...

Hmmmm I'll remember that, thank you. I've always heard the freezer is the quickest and within a few minutes he was completely dead. Either way, poor lil guy.

I put my fox in the freezer to give him a quicker death, there was no coming out of it. I also took him out so as not to lose him and have him decompose behind the rockwork :( my water is fine, all fish and corals look great. It must have been the squirrel.

Oh, and he is not eating anymore :(

He is floating around and tumbleing. If he gets within shot of the water jet, it blows him across the tank. Hes sorta flapping his fins, but not much. He is discolored, almost black, even the white is dark, which is unusual for him. His breathing is heavy. My squirrelfish keeps swishing his tail...

My foxface is currently on the brink of death and i really dont know why. He eats fine, gobbles everything up, and my water is good. I feed him formula two pellets, which is what the store had been feeding, so he was used to it. Ive only had him a couple weeks. Could i5 be the food? He seemed...

Yeah mine kept "fake dying" when i was floating the bag lol. Goofy little critters. Okay btl, thankyou for all your help. Much appreciated! :hi:

Ok, thanks for bearing with my paranoia lol. I think the black spot just worried me because its dark black and very defined, not patchy and hasnt gone away today, but ill give him some time to adjust and keep an eye on it. Id immagine if he did get bit, the spot would change color since theyre...

I learn something new every day :) Now he has one small dark black spot (not his color pattern black spot, its small and in the middle of his body). Its been there all day, could have been there yesterday, but i didnt notice cause he was hiding all day. Is this what happens with an injury? Like...

Thanks BTL, they do seem to be more calm today. "Beer nuts", my red striped squirrel, is still a bit on edge, but he seems less pissed off. My foxface though, since ive never had one, had some odd slime stuff comming off him today. What was it? It was very thin and had a little white tinge to...

I never see my squirrel fish, so when considering compatibility, i completely forgot about him. Now i have a new foxface, hes been hiding behind the rockwork since hes so new. My striped squirrel fish (named "beer nuts") is chasing him a bit.... are they compatible or is he just upset that...

And a striped squirrel and blue spotted watchman goby and a coral beauty (but they arent the problem). I was thinking a 6 line wrasse? What else is bossy enough to hang with my dottyback and clowns and is reef safe? I have a 75 gallon reef that looks very empty, fish-wise. My dottyback and...

Wow! Nice pics, Awesome tank, awesome lighting. I can really see a big difference! Have you used the plastic scraper yet? It works pretty well!!!! Thank you, the difference really is incredible, i was all goo goo eyed the first month after getting my new lights, i kept finding new things i never...

Unless ca and alk drop in a couple of days after a water change, you shouldn't need to supplement just yet. Calcium and alkalinity have to be relatively stable and relatively equal ... and magnesium keeps it all "stable" and able to be used and should be right around 1350. You can dose single...

If your dKH is 9 - 10 and you can keep it there, and your calcium is 350 - 450ppm, and you're not getting good growth, then adding more Calcium will not help.  You need to look elsewhere.  Are the coral feeding?  Is the water temperature appropriate for the species?  Is the PH appropriate?  Is...

oh.... heres my tank as i was setting the leds up. the ugly half was my mh, the pretty half is my leds. the camera distorts the mh a tad, its not QUITE as ugly as it shows, i think it was 175w 15k bulb :) regardless of the camera, the difference is undenyable! i stare at my tank all the time...

^^^^^ all lights off in the room ^^^^^^ lights on in the room i have 2x A150w "ocean blue" kessil led pendants (shown in the first pic). i also have 1x 54w daylight t5. it is a super old bulb, i just use it to tweak the color to my preference, since its at least 2 years old, i dont think the...

I have the LED's at the very top of my Christmas list. I hope Santa will cooperate. Do you have any pics of yours? Sure give me a sec and ill post some (cant post pix on my phone) Btw, uncle sam always cooperates for me lol. Every year my tank will be getting something new and fancy with my tax...