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I have a 55g with fish-less now- and corals. Its been up for a couple of years and water parameters are fine. A couple of weeks ago, a couple of my small fish started disappearing like a goby, small wrasse, and clownfish, I tested the water and the parametes are fine and continue to be, and...

whats wrong with the frozen brine shrimp? Is it not healthy?

Mine is friendly and always swimming around and doesnt bother any other fish and was like that after the first day or so. It did take him a week or 2 or so to really start eating when I fed all the other fish but now he's all over the frozen brine shrimp dipped in garlic - he tries for...

Woke up this morning and saw my foxface basically face down in the corner all brown. Turned on the acrylic lights and shortly later, the main light and when I returned to feed them he was his normal bright yellow again and swimming around like normal and eating great as always. I know that...

Bailey52-where in South jersey are you? I'm in Toms River...if you're near me, which LFS do you trust?

am I putting the fish and corals in there in danger or is it something to constantly monitor and keep testing the water and I should be fine??

Here are my fish which I'm now thinking may be too much and I told my LFS that I wanted to add one more - a foxface - my LFS said I was ok but wanted to get some opinions here. I have a 55g with LR and LS substrate with a couple of corals. bicolor angel coral beauty clownfish 2 firefish...

its a seaclone 100 in the 55g tank. I have it along the back wall in the far right corner - also have a power head along the right side wall pushing water straight across the tank--if that means anything. I also opened the valve almost all the water to have minimal flow returning back into...

I have a 55g and a couple of powerheads and just added a protein skimmer. I kept it on minimal flow and for a couple of days nothing happaned--finally yesterday the cup started to fill up but I also noticed a large increase in bubbles all over the tank and now I'm nervous so I turned it off...

I'm new to the corals and such-just wondering what the netting is for...I'm hoping to get shrooms soon

thanks for the input. How many more fish can I put in ? I definitely like the idea of the goby. Also, should I have all the fish in before I start with the corals and other sorts to start the reef?

About 2-3 weeks ago changed my substrate in my 55g from cc to LS and everyone is doing fine. Currently I have LR in there w/... 1 clownfish 1 lawnmower blenny 1 coral beauty 2 fire fish 1 very small wrasse (forgot the name though) 1 serpent star Want to converet to reef soon but wanted to get my...

I want to thank everyone that helped, especially Jmick in advising on changing my 55g from CC to LS on Saturday. It was a real pain and it went better than I had expected--even with cleaning off most of the massive green algae, as all my fish were still alive and kicking when I woke up Sunday...

Feel better. And yes I was going to clean it all out as I was going to remove all the substrate and scrape all the walls and clean it up during this whole thing. But I was going to clean up each piece of live rock, put it in the tank bare bottom , and when all the live rock was back, put in the...

Jmick... 2 more things. After cleaning the rock can I rinse it off with fresh water before putting it back in the tank since the tank water I'm cleaning it in will get dirty? AND, how long can I keep the rock in the tank without water before adding the rest of the rock back as each gets clean...

Thanks for everything Jmick but heres a couple of questions that may be stupid for you but I'm still not too experienced. When you replaced the water 5x did you use regular water or keep refilling with tank water? if you used tank water, and it kept getting dirty, how much water from the...

Jmick....did you put the live rock right back in the tank after you cleaned it? Are you able to get all algea the hair algae off or just most as I have never done this before? I was planning on putting it in the tank, then putting in the new substrate-live sand, and then putting back the water...

well I went to the LFS and will be getting the live sand and trying this procedure and hope all goes well. I plan on scrubbing the LR with a metal brush instead of "cooking" it like you had mentioned previously and replacing it the same day in the tank. Should this effect the tank when I put it...

sounds very simplified and easy--well, do-able for a beginner like me. Question about replacing the substrate-if I put in live sand, and then put back the water (I do put back the same water right???) does it need time to cycle before the fish go back in or can I put the fish in right away when...

The lights are usually on for about 10 hours a day and the phosphates are running about 5 right now. Interestingly enough, while I do use tap water, I did a phosphates test on the tap water and it was near 0. Also, is there a safe way to replace the substrate and keep the tank going? Thanks