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I purchased a small blue hippo tang this weekend (aka 'dory' to my 2 yo). Within 5 mintues of introducing her into the tank, after acclimating etc, my red lipped blenny went after her! I thought maybe it was just an intial rude 'hello and welcome to the neighborhood', but for the next hour every...

I've had a sebae for a little over a month now. After a few days getting it home from the LFS it changed from white to the brownish/tan that its supposed to be. It has since settled nicely into a spot and not moved for a few weeks. I've been feeding it chopped up silversides 2 times a week. 80...

Im thinking about getting a Lemon Peel Angel and wanted to hear thoughts on if it is reef safe and will play nice in my existing tank. I have 80 gal tank with about 60lb of live rock and: 2 cleaner shrimp 1 Blennie 2 false per clowns 1 sebea 4 mushroom color 1 green favia coral 1 brown zoo

Hoping someone here can give me some advice on this problem I cant seem to solve. Its driving me CRAZY! Background: I bought a used 80 gal bowfront tank from my LFS that they had up on consignment for a pretty good deal about 2 months ago. I'm not 100% sure of what brand all the equipment is but...

I just purchased a small sand sifter star, at least thats what my LFS guy told me he was. He is much smaller than the blue linkia and is a redish/purple color. I acclimated him for 2 hours and appears to be doing fine. My question is - since hes been in the tank, he has been on the tank glass...

Just posted this on the Clownfish board, but ive since been doing further investigating on the web and many people say that its likely that my clown has some sort of internal infection. Last night I noticed a long stringy white substance comign from one of my clowns. Is this definetly something...

hi last night i noticed a long white stringy-like thing coming from the bottom of one of my clowns (i have 2). i did a 50% water change yesterday, so im not sure if thats just a coincidence or not. this morning the 'string' has disappeared. anything to be worried about? what the heck was it...

I'm debating whether I should get a foxface at my LFS. I hear that they are poisonus which is the only reason why I'm debating it. He looks like a really cool fish. I've read a few posts about them changing colors and such when you first acclimate them. I have an 80 gal tank with 2 clowns, a...

I've had my 80 gall tank for over a month now, I live in FLA, therefore I have a generator ready to go (for hurricanes). In the event of a power outage, I will only have have minimal generator power to run one thing on my tank and was wondering what that should be - my skimmer, my lights or...

My new Sebae has moved underneath a rock. I've read that moving is not uncommon, but I thought they only move until they find a spot they are happy with. Ive only had him for a week and for the first 5 days or so he stayed put. Yesterday when I got home he was under a rock. Its hard for me to...

I just purchased a white sebae with purple tip yesterday. I've searched the boards this morning and have been reading up on other posts regarding keeping sebeas. A few people here mentioned that White Sebeas were NOT the species to get and I was wondering why and if people who have white sebaes...

Im about to purchase my first bubble tip anemone today. I have a 80 gal tank with 2 clowns, a blenny and 2 blood shrimp. I currently have the lights on timers for 9 hours a day. I have MH lights, whites and blues. My question is with the new addition of the anemone, should I increase the light...

Im about to do my first offical water change for my 80 gal tank. I was hoping to get some opinions on what the best way to go about this is. I'm assuming that I should remove 20% of the water first, do I remove that from the sump or from the tank? Do I need to shut down the skimmer and all the...

I saw someone else's post today about feeding algae sheets to Blennies - I read that but I have another question. How do you know if you need to feed extra algae sheets or not? My set up: 80 gal tank about 50 lb of live rock 1 blenny 2 clowns 2 shrimp several blue leg hermits. There is alot (so...

I have an 80 gal tank with 2 blues and 2 whites that are on a timer, both on for 9 hrs a day. The small moon lights are on 24hrs, plugged directly into the wall (no timer) Should I leave the moonlights on 24hrs? Is there an advantage/disadvantage to having the moonlights on at night when the...

Whats the consensus on using PH Buffer as an additive? I went to my LFS yesterday and he recommended adding it every other day to keep PH in check. My PH is fine so far, should I start using this?

I recently bought a used 80 gal bowfront tank with about 30 lb of live rock. I just started so alls i have in there so far are 2 clown fish, a cleaner shrimp and bunch of cleaner crabs. I am getting a "toilet flushing" sound about every 10 mins or so as the water level in sump gets to the Max...

When replacing evaporated water - how do i know whether i should add R/O water or saltwater to top off? I undersand that if i keep adding salt water, since salt does not evaporate, I would be increasing the salinity. However if I keep adding fresh water, I am decreasing the salinity right...