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I have never had any salt water snails reproduce. They are exellent cleaners. Your friend is probably thinking of fresh water snails, which can take over a tank.

Sometimes fish or inverts seem to have personalities, just like people. I also have a 75 gallon. I was assured I could add two cleaner shrimp with coral banded and would be okay. I did and the cb killed them both in one night. So its a little bit of a gamble. Fire shrimp are pretty...

I use tap water. You have to be sure and add one of the additives that removes chlorine,etc.

I had some about 25 years ago. I was new to the hobby, saw them in a store and thought they were cool. They school in groups. I bought six. They looked great in my tank but in less than 3 weeks all were dead. They weren't cheap either. I have since heard that they are hard to keep. They...

Originally Posted by Dammar Is anyone else here from southern california? Trying to find a local store or something that could get me moving in the right direction, the more i read the more complicated i realize everything is, trying to find some people i could actually 'talk' to, be it on aim...

My experience has been some clean, some don't. The fish have to be large enough to support the weight of the shrimp. Your 29g is small for larger fish. I had a skunk cleaner that cleaned my tangs all the time. If i stuck my hand in the tank he would clean it. He would even take shrimp...

I started with 5 yellowtail damsels. Eventually two died. I added two more and the three remaining killed them in a day. I guess they didn't want them in their terrority. You might want to add more than one.

I think it's just luck. I've had a lot more failures than success stories.

20 years ago I tried keeping Spotted Sweetlips. They were very peaceful and shy, but mine kept dying on me. Never had one live more than a few months, so I've shyed away from them. Unlike the Panter Grouper, Sweetlips should not eat your other fish. SWF.com says they are reef safe. I've...

About two hours.

I had one a few months ago. He cruised around the tank for two days, then died. I have lots of live rock and live sand, so I thought it would have found enough to eat.

I have a four-stripe damsel and a yellow tail damsel that are still around from when I set the tank up in the spring of 1996. that's the longest I've had any fish live.