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Thank you all for your info. i realize that i have a small tank, so i decided to go reef. I know that i cant have very many fish, but was just wondering if i would be able to safely add another fish and if so what type. It seems that everyone pretty much agrees that i cant *safely* add any more...

I have a 24 gal nano cube with a Percula Clown , 2 firefish, a diamond goby, yellow polyps, and a flowerpot... i would like to get another fish or two, any recommendations? I would like to get the Percula Clown a friend since everything i have read o them says that they do best in groups. how...

Keep an eye on your fish as well... my damsels saw a weakness in my clownfish and killed it. you might also want to get some bio-spira from your lfs to help replace some of the bacteria you have taken out with the drastic daily water changes. Hang in there, my water completely cleared up a...

Thanks so much! I totally forgot about curing the ls! i would have killed off everything in my tank! I would be buying bagged live sand so im sure it would need to be cured.

nope nothing like that in my tank...all i have is cc (trying to get it slowly out of my tank and replace it with ls) and about 20 lbs of lr. any sugestions on how to introduce the ls? should i use a cup and put it in little by little? should i set up a QT, put my fish in it, and dump the ls in...

I actually got REALLY tired of looking at the green layer in my tank so i took drastic measures. i did 20% water changes for 4 days in a row, so i basically changes most of my water. The green layer is now completely gone, but the water is still cloudy, but not quite as much. I was going to do...

I have been changing out the carbon about every 3-4 weeks and rinse it out with r/o when i change my water weekly. when adding a new carbon bag, I would usually rinse it out with tap until it runs clear, then run it under a little r/o in case of stuff from the tap building up. Is this ok...

the lights are 36 watts each and there are 2 lights sooo i guess that makes 72 watts for the approx. 20 gal display. it was the book i have been reading that said to leave the lights on, not the lfs. plus i trust my lfs they have not steered me wrong yet. all have had their own sw tanks (except...

just looked up the lighting on another site "(2) 36 watt 50/50 CF lamps " is that enough for the about 20 gal display tank (it holds about 4 gal back w/ the filters)??? i have heard several different things all on this site (3watts/gal???, 5watts/gal???) the lfs has my exact tank as a display w/...

i just got the tank at the begining of Feb, so i dont think that the bulbs should be having probs yet. the window is completely covered so the algae wont bloom. plus i always think of algae attacking the glass...my water is just green and my glass is completely clean...its weird. About the...

im not sure what kind of lights i have. im sorry i am very new to sw. Got a 24 gal NanoCube and the lights are standard (would they say in them what they are?). the lights are pretty bright, but again, not a clue what i need. Before *the problem* i had the lights on about 12 hours a day, but now...

i get ro water from the lfs. learned my lesson about tap shortly after set up. after reading the disease part of the message board i am beginning to think that the clown doesnt actually have ich, but a stress problem (prob from all the water changes), but no i dont have a qt tank, but might have...

it is soooo frustrating!!! i stumped the LFS guys too! they say they have been around sw tanks for 10-15 years and have no clue whats wrong with my tank. btw, i think my clown is getting ich, any way its related?

the LFS tested for ammonia, nitrites, nitrates, alk, and ph. I havent added anything to the tank yet, but was thinking of adding a oxyboost that the LFS recommended. I do have a carbon filter and i did rinse the bag of carbon out for about ten minutes before putting it in my tank (the lfs...

My water recently went *REALLY* cloudy then a green layer settled near the bottom. I originally thought it was alge, but it never attatched to the glass at all, the water was just green! I did several water changes in a few days and the green as pretty much cleared up. I took a water sample to...

LOL!!!! i didnt even think of "Finding Nemo"!!!

Hi all, i just set up my 24 gal nano cube a month ago and this is my first attempt at salt water. I really love the way reefs look and figure i might as well my mine a reef since i would have no room for more than a couple of small fish. I have a couple of questions to start off. 1) is the...

very alive and swimming. it was just hanging out in the filter portion of the tank

My goby just likes to make mounds and valleys of sand randomly throughout the tank. Somedays it will take piles from the day before and level it again. I did a water change yesterday and i always worry about stressing out the fish, so i pay extra attention to the for te next couple of days. I...

My tank is small (24 gal) and I do have a diamond goby that likes to burrow and sift through my sand. So am i doomed to a life of cloudy water as long as i have him? he is absolutey the favorite of my tank...besides the abalone...