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I know this should be in the diseases and treatment section but people answer a LOT faster in this section. My fish have ich right now, not terrible, and I don't have a QT so I'm going to see if just feeding them frozen food soaked in freshly minced garlic will help kick the ich. So do I just...

I'm starting to find tons of critters living in my live rock and live sand. I have found quite a few white-ish serpent/brittle stars, the biggest one I have seen is only about an inch from one end of a leg to the opposite end. Does this type of star get any larger than this? There are at...

I have this magenta-ish film starting to form in one spot of my tank. I circled the spots in the picture. This is in the upper right hand corner of my tank. My powerhead is in the back corner on that side and I have it facing the middle front of the tank, Millenium 3000 on the right backside...

The more I stare at my tank, the more I notice things that I didn't put in there! The first thing is this snail-like animal. At first I thought it was a snail on the side of the glass, buried in the sand, and it hadn't moved for I'd say 2 weeks, so finally last night I dug it up, got it to...

I know I know, there are a million of these posts everyday. I just tried giving my clownfish a freshwater bath to see if the spot would come off, but it didn't. I have another clown and a royal gramma in the tank with him and neither of them show any signs of ich. I have had the royal gramma...

I currently have 3 blue-legged hermits and 6 "scarlets". But when I got the scarlets, there were these other hermits mixed in with them. They have red antennae like the scarlets but their bodies are green. One of my scarlets was killed, ripped in half, so I'm wondering if it was one of the...

Right now I have a prizm skimmer that says its for up to 100g, don't know what the gph is though, a millenium 3000 and a penguin 660 powerhead on my 37g (24x18x21"). I know that with the millenium and powerhead, my water is being turned 12.2x/hour. Is there any way to find out what the gph on...

When is a good time to start adding coral to the tank? I need to buy a kit to check the calcium level because I know that's important, but my tank has been cycled for over a week, I have a royal gramma in there right now and will be getting a pair of clowns this weekend and then probably only...

I've been looking at numerous pictures of coral beauties and I'm wondering for those of you that have them, do they look more blue or more purple? A lot of the pictures I've seen are blue but there is one at one of the lfs that is more purple. Just wondering what you've seen.

OK, I just went through all of the corals offered on this site and made a list of the ones I really like based on the pictures. I have a 37g (24x18x21") with a 130w PC light - 65w 10,000k daylight, 65w true actinic. I know I'm able to keep most LPS and some softies but I don't exactly know...

My next fish to add to my tank will be a pair of clowns, but I can't decide which clowns to get. My orginal plan was percula, but false percs seem to be a lot brighter. What are your opinions?

OK, my tank has been cycled for about a week now, my royal gramma is doing great as are my cleaner shrimp and 2 peppermints. And of course the hermits and snails are fine too. But now my glass is covered in magenta/purple-ish algae and there are spots where it's green too. Not a whole lot of...

Is there anything special you have to do to care for feather dusters. I know they're filter feeders and I thought it'd be nice to have 1 or 2 in my reef tank. But I'm not sure what I am supposed to feed them, if anything, and I simply just don't know exactly how to care for them.

Do hermit crabs molt? I have a molting in my water just now but it isn't from my shrimp and the only other inverts I have are hermit crabs and snails.. Just want to make sure I don't have any hitch hikers in there.

Just a question for all of you that spot feed your shrimp, starfish, etc. What do you feed them?

I left for about 3 hours and came back with about 30 white dots on 3 of the 4 walls of my tank. I watched a snail move over one and it didn't disappear or smear. I've been watching them closely to see if they're moving at all but it doesn't look like it. They don't have tentacles and aren't...

I just added my first fish last night, a royal gramma. Also added a skunk cleaner shrimp and they're both doing great. When can I start adding more fish? I'm wanting to also add 2 percula clowns (at the same time) and an eibli fish and probably a yellow-tail damsel unless I can find another...

I'll be able to start buying my fish soon, tank is almost done cycling. I currently have about 20 pounds of live rock and about 16 pounds of lace rock, plus 11 snails and 10 hermit crabs. I'm also planning on getting 3 peppermint shrimp, 2 cleaner shrimp and 1-2 serpent stars. Here's what I'm...

I have about an inch of space to fill up to top off my tank. I don't want to buy an RO/Di unit, so how else can I put water in? Can I just get a bucket, a powerhead, a heater and distilled water and mix the salt until its at the right salinity and the water at the right temperature? Any other...

I'm wanting to add a blenny to my stock list, but I'm not sure which I want. I'm thinking either the bicolor, midas or lawnmower. What are your thoughts and experiences with these fish in a reef environment? Persuade me to choose the "best" one :)