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Well they have seven more attempts to get Phelps's National Anthem right.

I'm not an insomniac... but there's not a drunk and bored at 1:30 am thread, so........

Originally Posted by paintballer768 The blue devil damsel is the most aggressive fish pound-for-pound in the deep blue Originally Posted by CedarReef Now, I would not go with domino, 3 stripe, or 4 stripe damsels at all because they are probably the most vicious damsels out there. I have 2...

Originally Posted by Keebler Let's see the other side: Unfortunately denitrifying bacteria is an anaerobic bacteria, meaning that it may only survive where oxygen is not present. So unless you have a dsb or a special piece of equipment, the bacteria isn't going to thrive in the aquarium. A dsb...

Yeah, one day of being out of the tank... especially in a bucket won't completely kill it... just torture it enough to make it stink. LOL! Good luck!

Originally Posted by SueAndHerZoo Very good info, and explained in a way I can understand - thank you. But it brings me to another question (of course): After adding some "rot" to the tank and waiting for the spikes and levels to take place, why do I then want to CHANGE 50% of it? I can...

What did the previous owner do with the rock to make it dead? If it's having die-off then it's not completely dead. Baking it in the oven or setting it in the sun for a few days will "kill" it. But you don't really want to do that. Are you changing the water? You should be doing 100% water...

You've got everything down to a science. You're just missing one piece of information. Saltwater fish are ten times more sensitive to ammonia than freshwater fish. So what you are waiting on, like you said, is for the beneficial bacteria to spread to every available surface area in your tank...

Yes. RO/DI is nice to use whenever you can, but not absolutely necessary. You might get some diatom blooms on your lr, so you'll want to weigh the risk of dealing with diatoms. But, personally, my cleanup crew decimated my diatoms when I added the lr to my 150 and I haven't seen any in...

I don't see any nuisance algae... in fact I don't see any brown algae at all. Look at the sandbed. There's no signs of diatoms, and that's where it would be obvious. There appears to be no outward growth of the green algae, which is why I am pretty certain it's coraline. It is encrusting on...

That is green coraline algae. Coraline is beneficial, in both it's purple and green colorations. It has a calcerous cell structure, and grows by encrusting. Your rock looks very healthy.

Watch for "glancing". Twitching alone is hard to diagnose, but you need to look for other symptoms. Think of the way a dog will try to rub their back against a corner of the wall to itch it. Fish plagued by parasites will do something similar called glancing. If you see the fish slowly...

Originally Posted by maddog0118 but can u have more than 1 in a tank when i looked it up on this site to buy them it says 1 only..i like a few u guys popsted...also will it be ok with the fish i have.. puffer cow niger trigger powder brown yellow tang 3 damsels wrasse My three favorite large...

The cleaner wrasse probably starved. He was probably half starved to death when you got him. Cleaner wrasse are one fish that is better left in the ocean. I did a ton of research on them, and found a lot of info on them to not be completely accurate. However, given the ease with which neon...

I thought you said your lfs is going out of business and selling everything cheap? If they don't have mh/t5 light fixtures for sale I'm sure they at least have a fixture on a display tank they're not going to be using any more. You got an awesome deal on the tank, and I'm just saying that's...

If I were to spend that much on fish it would without a doubt either be a black tang or a Hawaiian flame wrasse pair.

Welcome to swf.com! I'm not one of the friendly people, but they're right. The members here are soooo much nicer than at many other competing forums. Just wanted to make a suggestion. When converting from a freshwater to saltwater aquarium I always let it sit out in the sun for a few days to...

Originally Posted by Mr_X i cycled all of my tanks with live rock successfully. LOL! +1 The only reason for "cycling with chromis" is that they will poo in the water. They will supply ammonia, which is needed for the cycle. However, if even one dies you will probably get an ammonia spike the...

Originally Posted by azul1994 Coral yes. Fish no. But if the tanks all have hair algae in them i would question the quality of the water and the health of the fish. I personally wouldn't buy any fish from a store with heavy algae in their tanks. JMO I slightly disagree with your last...

First of all, you have probably damaged its mouth by "jamming it in there". It's doubtful he will eat any time soon after that. Second, it sounds to me like your lighting is not enough. The purpose of eating in an anemone is simply to create CO2 which is needed for photosynthesis to occur...