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I do understand about the water changes and about adding the fish. I have cleaned the skilter (not in vinegar though) except for the sponge that hangs on the air tube. I have to clean the cup quite often. Sometimes twice a week. What is that sponge for anyway. It just sits in the aquarium. It...

The first thing you said do was to remove the sponge from the aquaclear filter. I did that so the sponge filter is gone. I left the carbon in that filter. Then you said since all I had in the canister was carbon that I could go ahead and remove that too. So that is also gone. You didn't...

You are not going to believe this because I didn't. I tested my water tonight and ammonia was 0, nitrite was 0, and nitrate was 60. This is totally crazy. I had at least a couple of more weeks for the cycle to finish. Especially with what all I did to the tank. I could tell the fish were...

I am so thankful to have someone guiding me through this. The air pumps are gone now. I also took the canister filter off. On the millinium do I take out the plastic cartridge that is in back of the carbon when I use it for water circulation? I have it out right now and it is just...

I just added two power heads. Where do I need to put them in the tank. Right now I have one on each side close to the top. Do they go right up at the top or a little bit down like I have them, or does one need to be at the bottom? I have also started removing filteration.

I use Instant Ocean salt. It is supposed to be good. Our tap water is on the hard side of average if that makes sense, but I run it all through a tap water purifier that says complete deionization of water and that it removes all impurities and it list everything imaginable. It is supposed...

I don't have that much live rock. I bought it piece by piece so I am not exactly sure. I would estimate about 35 - 38 lbs. Would I still need to take off some of the filtration and at what point do I do that? I am in the middle of another cycle at this point. If I do take off some of the...

I have really just started doing those things in the last four months. Before that I was really too afraid to do too much. I was recently told that it was good to change out the carbon in your filters so I started that. That has also been in the last four months. I can get the tank...

I have 2 percula clowns and 1 dottyback right now. I have done a 6 gallon water change every week for about the last four months. During that time I changed my filter media in a different filter each week so each of them were changed about every 3rd week. If one seemed to be clogged I changed...

I set up my tank in the spring of 98. I have really had nothing but problems. I finally got the ammonia and nitrite down to zero, but the nitrate level was off the scale. Every once in awhile I would have an ammonia spike and the tank recyled. All of the critters in the live rock and live...

The advice I received from this board a long time ago for long power outages was to replace the filter media in my filters when the power came back on. I haven't lost any fish since. I do put a battery operated air pump in for my fish.

We discussed the seahorses you were getting and I was curious about how it turned out. Do you still have them? If not how long did they live?

Thank all of you for your help. I will definitely not add any clowns. If I added an angel now, what other fish could I add later since I would be allowed two more? My clowns are definitely a mated pair. They fight and make up like most couples.

Thank you for your advice. My dottyback did kill a firefish so you are probably right that I have to be very careful. I was afraid that I couldn't add any more clowns. They have been a pair for a long time. I will look into the angels. They do have a different enough color and shape and are...

I have two percula clowns that I have had for a long time. Can I add any more or will there be a problem. Also I would like to know how many small (say 3 inch fish) can I have in a 38 gallon aquarium with live sand and rock. I have a protein skimmer, a small canister filter, a millennium 2000...

I do use tap water, but I run it through a tap water purifier made for aquariums. The water test out fine. I think I messed up this time by cleaning the rock, but everything looked so bad and the water smelled really bad. I did stop doing water changes and the water has tested out better...

I have a 38 gallon tank with 40 lbs. of live sand and about 30 lbs of live rock. I have a millennion 2000 filter, a small hangon canister filter that I finally took the carbon out of and used one of those paper filters that cleans the water, and an Aquaclear 200that uses carbon and a sponge and...

My tank is completely peaceful. I have two clowns, a purple firefish, a flame hawk (very interesting), dottyback, and a manderine. I never have any problems with any of them. I have also had a lemonpeel angel and it never caused any problems.

It is a store called Pet Land. It is in a little shopping center on Broadway. It is across the road from Broadway Mall. If there is something special that you need they will even order it for you. I used to get that food there when I had dwraf seahorses (which I lost during a power outage)...