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90 gal with left over damsel hard to catch. He deserves to live after cycling "That was before I found out about using a shrimp"

I just noticed a few of my lg snails look dead. I checked all my water perameters, and the only reading that is low is calcium and mag. My calcium reads around 300, and mag at 1180. I know that is low so I did a water change but would that kill my snails?

I noticed my naso tang acting funny tonight. one moment he is swimming fine and the next he is on his side with all his fins out. then back to swimming. I have noticed him not eating like he should in the last couple of days. I have had him about a month now.

I just purchaced 4 fire fish and I acclimated them slowly. I did this with the main lights off and just the house lights on. They were swimming around doing just great, but when I turned on the main light they freaked out darting all over the tank and then into hidding. It's been three days now...

I have a 90 gal wave tank. My question is how many power heads should i have and where in the tank should I place them. Right now I have two and they are both pointing to the center one a little higher then the other one.

Does anyone know how to get rid of red algea it is all over the rocks , plants and it forms bubble on my live rock.

:mad: Does anyone know how to get rid of this red hair like algea, not sure what it is called but it also looks like little bubbles.It seems to spread all over the tank and consumes my live rock and sand??

I'am stumped? every time I add new fish to my 90 gal reef they do great for about two weeks and then start to die. But all the fish I have had in there for months are doing great. I allways follow acclamation procedures and all my water readings are outstanding Its allways the new additions. Any...

I have a well established tank about a year now. And I consantly check my water condition about three times a week. I have a 90 gal reef with 50 gal sump. water readings as follows..... Nitrate- below 10 ammonia 0 nitrites 0 SG 1.025 temp 79 Ph 8.2 My problem is in the last two days I have lost...

I finally set up my RO/DI and did my first water change with pure water. My question how long does it take to get rid of the brown algea and if I use RO/DI water from now on will it ever come back? :thinking:

I have been strugeling to keep bolth u tube going, it will work for awhile an then one will fail. It looks like one will fill up with bubbles and then quite working. Is it normal when water fills into the overflow to create some bubbles then inturn the bubbles collect in one tub or the other. I...

This may seem silly but how long can you store RO/DI water. I have about 50 gallons in a container it does not have an air tight lid will it get stale and should I leave a power filter in it to circulate it ? :notsure:

I just added a small fuge to my tank and I have about 8 lbs of rubble and some alge growing in it , would that cause a slight jump in ammonia it has been at 0 for the last 3 months ?Now it reads .25

I have had my powder blue tang for about two months now and he was doing great even last night eating great and everything. then all of a sudden he just freaked out jumping out of the water darting across the tank and then turning up side down and then laying flat on the bottom.He would then...

I was checking into a RO system and came across the triton 3 stage RO water system Has anyone heard of them or currantly using one?:thinking:

My tank is now three mounths old and my filters are keeping up with the Bio load My question is can you change the water to much to try and reduce nitrates. My nitrates were at around 40 so I did one today about 30 % I reduced them to about 15 which is not bad for a FOWLR should I keep going...

I just added my last fish to my tank. A 5 inch powder blue tang I heard some where that you could use lettuce or spinach leaf to add to there diet is this true?:notsure:

I have a aggressive tank with a clown trigger, Humu Humu, passer angel, and a hog fish. Just put in the hog today and the Humu humu just wont leave him alone. He just stays in one corner most of the time, he is actually a little bigger then the Humu Humu should I give it some time to see if...

Ok my tank is cycled sump and filters working great fish are still alive NO ICK. Now what, People don't actually sit down and look at their tank do they:notsure: Here are the latest pic's

Has anyone ever tried hyposalinity treatment? I just started couple of days ago. gettin close to 1.009 seems like it's almost fresh water. I was told that it was actually easier on the fish to run lower salanity they dont stress out as much. Infact my LFS said I could leave it there if I was not...