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Ok, thanks for your advice. I try to be as much proactive rather than reactive when it comes to anything dealing with my fishes. Thanks again, Tor

My Achilles Tang always tries to eat little chunks of krill that I put into the tank for my Humu Trigger. The Achilles Tang is never successful in eating the krill. It looks as if the AT's mouth just isnt designed for eating krill, which makes sense because I was under the impression that the...

saltysyd: There is a pretty good place in Fairmount (west side of syracuse) its called Fairmount Aquarium (its on milton ave near rt 173). They have quite a few fish, they have anemonies that always seem to look well, they have snails and other inverts and the owner of the place has an awesome...

I agree that Naso Tangs are difficult to coax into eating. I failed once and don't plan on trying again. Tor

Is it possible to have the oxygen levels in a salt water tank get too high? I suppose the end result would be really "happy" fish. --Tor

From what I understand, they can get pretty big. so be careful what one you get (there are a couple out there that stay relatively small). Also, one important task that you will be faced with once you get the fish will be getting it to eat frozen food. so you will need to be ready for that...

I purchased 2 turbo snails 1 week ago. So far, one of the two snails has acted very healthy (Each the morning I can see his path of destruction through the algae). The other snail didnt move more than a couple inches during its first 4 days. The past 3 days it somehow managed to flip up onto...

jwtrojan44, I don't mean to disagree with you and I dont doubt that you have seen 15 inch blonde naso tangs. But I am a bit puzzled (though I dont know why I am as everywhere I turn in this hobby I get conflicting information). I have a book, "The encyclopedia of aquarium fish" by ---- Mills...

Your LR has a nice pink color. That looks really neat! --Tor

Armageddon, I have seen my trigger do this as well. I was trying to figure out if he was trying to: A). Eat something on the rock (algae??? But I didnt think that triggers ate algae) B). Sharpen his teeth C). Just being obnoxious I really like my triggers personality. Yes he eats really messy...

My humu humu trigger fish has this habit of hiding pieces of krill I give him in his special hiding spot. He will chew on the krill for a while (spitting it out, then eating it again, over and over). Eventually, he will take whatever he doesnt eat and hide in behind a rock (he always hides the...

Terry B, Thanks for the advice, im on my way to read your post right now! --Tor

Yeah this sounds like a possibility. Though I didnt know tangs could "sword" other fish. This morning the cut did look pretty clean. There was no tearing on the cut at first. Then as the day progressed the cut did seem to fester. Thanks, --Tor

Hmmm, ok well the butterfly died. That was faster than I thought. When I removed him from the tank his cut looked like it was still bleeding slowely. I wonder if he passed from loss of blood (stress probably contributed as well)? Would stress be a resonable cause of why his cut didnt clot...

This isnt really a disease question, but rather my fish is injured. Last night I put some new fish into my 55 gal tank. (trigger, naso tang, pearlscale butterfly). Aside from how scared the fish were they all seemed to be ok. I did notice that the tang and the butterfly were swimming "laps"...

From what I read about puffers, your cleanup crew may become a snack (puffers have teeth designed to crack open shells). This of course would make your algae problem more difficult to control. This is the main reason why I have not gotten a puffer myself. My opinion would be to go for the...

I just took readings tonight: 55 gal tank temp 79 salinity 1.022 ph 8.0 - 8.2 ammonia < .5 nitrates near 0 nitrites near 0 50 lb live rock 50 lb CC Tank has been up and running for about a month 2 percula, 1 scooter blenny (have been in tank for about a week) LR is from Tonga, LFS said it was...

aaron, after learning more about aquariums I was thinking the same way that you are (that is what caused me to post this question). My initial concern was that the "smelly" LR would cause excess ammonia (or some other level to increase beyond what is safe or normal). So far I havent seen this...

the LFS said that it was a Tonga Live Rock and had been curing for 4 months. (whether they were lying to me or not is another discussion). Its basically a rock covered in this white pattern that looks as if something was growing on the rock at one time (the LFS said that coral was growing on...

I should have probably posted this question sooner, but about a month ago I bought a piece of live rock that was mostly dead coral. I am not sure if I like it or hate it. On the one hand it looks really neato, on the other hand it is dead coral... kinda freaky. In either event, is this piece...