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the banggai seemed to stay on the left side of my tank and not swim around. Do you think that death was a territorial problem with the yellowtail damsels or maroon clown ?

puffer32, do you think it's a nessesity to think about getting rid of the damsels? I mean notto kill them, but take them to my lfg.

ok. I'll continue my weekly weater changes and weekly testing.

slimfrady. Do you have the book the conscientious marine aquarist? I f you do it have a great chapter o lion fish feeding. It not I'll try to quote. Feeder fish ( gold fish ) are not the best diet for lion fish. They can choke to death on them, and they are not a good source of...

thanks for the info. They seemed to eat but I could be wrong. Am I correct about the anenome a good judge of water conditions???.

I bought a pair of banggai cardinalfish from my lfg. One died two days later and the other in 9 days. My water parameters are no3=0,no2=0,ammonia=0, ph=8.0 and specific gravity= 1.023 and water temp = 78.5. Tank is 72 bow w 75lbs lr and 40lbs ls. Inhabitants are 1 maroon clown, 1 royal...

I've had a prizm pro on my 72 gal bow. Fish and rock only. It skims pretty well, but need constant adjustment. Called the company. They said set it once and you're good to go. I don't know ?????????????????????

sebae09, Not a problem. I did a ton of reading on this site and in the archives. Sometimes when you HAVE to research yourself, YOU LEARN. It seemes that I need more water flow to circulate water and get rid of the dead spots on the rocks. I stated to get tons of purple algae, (cynao). Once...

I have a 72 gal bow. Live fish and lr. Plan to make it into a reef eventualy. I am looking to buy the maxi-jet wave maker system. My question is, do I get the 690 gph or the 885 gph. Right now I have a cascade canister rated at 300 gph and a rio 1400 rated at 400gph. I also have a prizm...

I am in the process of setting up a reef tank. 72 bow. I have about 600 gph flow . I am finding that I have a lot of sediment on the LR. Is this normal. Should I direct more of the flow directly at the rock. I have been using the power head to clean off the rock. Looks like it is snowing in...

lion crazz , thanks for the info. Well now I know why the cat is growing so quickly. Maybe I can find a home for them. I'm trying to take my time this time around. These two guys were part of my of ( still up and running 29). Is there any place reference material for reef stocking?

fudukeford. I'm not quite sure what kink of shark or cat it is. My wife liked it so we bought it about 10 months ago.

I am planning to finish my 72 bow as a reef. I have a shark pic enclosed. Can I use him?. Right now I have hermits, turbos, 5 damsels, 1 marron clown and a koran angel, and two pepermint shrimp. I plan to put anenomes sponges and aquascaped rocks, and a FEW more fish. Is the shark a good or...

lion crazz and chickadee thanks for your help. What a great site. I look foward to the day when I can give advice

can I do any water changes during my curing cycle?. Its been about two weeks and my phosphates are rising and I have brown diatoms on all the live rock and on the sand substrate. I will be using ro water. I have no skimmer, is now the time to buy? Can I put some clean up crew? amm=0...

will the diatoms indicate rhw cycle progressing? I thought that the ammonia was supposed to rise before the nitrites!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I hope you guys (and gals ) can help my tank out. 72 bow. cascade canister,315 gph , powerhead 400gph. 40 lbs live sand, 40 lbs sand, 40 lbs live rock cured, 20 lbs semi cured rock, and 5 damsels. I don't have my ro water set up yet. temp = 79.8 phosphate= 1.5 mg/l ph = 7.8...

can I use uncured rock to cycle my new tank? :help: I will be putting in 80lbs of sand 50% of it live sand. This is for a 72gal bow.ps I ordered a ro unit

travis89 thank you

for a reef tank should the gph be 20x ? fish and live rock 10x ???????????