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This is probably a really stupid question. My husband saw some horseshoe crabs for sell & would like to get them to stir up the sand (and b/c he thinks they're neat.) We have a parrotfish and a grouper in our tank now. Any chance of that working? The compatibility charts I've looked at put...

all our fish recently died from something. (i posted about it before.) but when the last one died, we didn't get it out the first day. when we did go to remove it, it looked like it was surrounded in some kind of foam or jelly. does this mean anything?

They died very quickly after we noticed the first symptoms. Our foxface looked healthy but started having jerky movements. We had just commented on how he was fattening up which i guess, now, may have been a swollen abdomen. (Another fish had the belly as well.) When the last ones died (our...

our fish-only tank got wiped out twice by, i believe, internal parasites. (all the symptoms fit.) my question is, will the parasites die off if i leave the tank unstocked for a period of time or do i need to do something else to it to ensure that they're out of there before i try adding fish...

can frozen foods introduce parasites into the water?

pretty recently. i guess i've probably had him a couple of months & i did use a net. he was in in QT for 2 weeks. i've noticed now that the 1 eye actually looks like it might be scraped & there's tiny white specks.

my raccoon butterflyfish is acting a little strange & one of his eyes looks kinda glazed & bluish? all the fish were QT'ed & none have been added in the last few weeks. any idea what could be going on? thanks!

awesome! i just checked out the pic & he's really cool-looking. i'll have to look into that. thanks!

I fell in love with this fish at the pet store yesterday that was in a tank with 2 anglers. the label on the tank said stone fish but it doesn't look like the ones in the pics. it looked more like a big clod of mud than a stone. it was light brown/orangish color & was walking around on the...

thanks so much! you're absolutely right. i looked up lymphocystis on a search engine (after i read your reply) and the photos looked just like what's going on with my fish. it's such a relief to know that the entire QT isn't messed b/c of it!

Neat! I'm kinda disappointed that they won't keep it up. It's pretty cute:) Thanks for all the replies!

i have 2 blue green chromis that look like they're kissing. they keep puckering up & pushing their mouths together. what r they doing?

i'm guessing that the fish in my smaller tank have a fungal infection. One has some kind of whitish growth under its mouth (like a beard) and another has a spot of it starting on its head. My question is, if i remove them from that tank, does the water in that tank still need treated before...

thanks for the replies! i keep the house pretty warm (like 74). i think all the equipment must bring up the water temp a little. i'll try the fan over the sump. i don't see any reason for big fluctuations in my temp. i suppose my lighting might make a difference; but i don't think it would...

i haven't even bothered putting my heater in my tank b/c it stays above the ideal temp range anyway (around 82F). i've tried floating bags of ice in my sump but it doesn't bring it down. (i really don't want to buy a chiller!) i was wondering if fish can adjust to the higher temp & thrive or...

thanks! i'm waivering back & forth between aggressive & non. i was going to go aggressive so i could get a puffer & bigger fish. i hate the fact that you can't have detritus eaters & things in an aggressive, though (on top of the fact that the puffer causes more of that than other fish.) i...

i'm, actually, not getting a yellow tang. i haven't made up my mind which tang to get for sure. if i go aggressive, i love the purple tang. if not, the blue tang's really pretty.

cool. thanks!

my husband picked out a foxface lo to go in our new tank. i know foxfaces are usually ok with aggressive fish b/c of their venomous dorsal fins. then, i noticed that the foxface was grouped with the tangs on this site & since you shouldn't house tangs together, is it ok to house a foxface with...

Oh! (Well, I guess I should have been able to figure that out myself.:) Thanks a lot! Do u know if it does well with aggressive fish?