Search results

what is the best remedy for pop-eye my lfs told me iodine. It did not make sense to me though so I thought I would ask the true experts ...you guys

I am asking all you guys for your personal recipes for feeding your tanks. I would love to see all the different varieties. Thank you all in advance... .

I am planing on moving from the east coast of florida to the west coast(about four hours). I have a 55 gal tank with abot 75lbs of l/r and a misc # of anenomes, fish, and cleanup crew. My water is not home made it is right from the ocean. I have a ecosystem filter with live mud and grass's...

is it possible for fish to get worms?? My tang has like a bunch of little worms hanging out of his anus. This is not a joke I really need advice.

is it possible for fish to get worms?? One of mine looks like he has all these little worms coming out of his anus ?? I am totaly serious this is not a joke?? Please help....

I was doing some tank maintenance and was moving my rocks around and accidentaly riped by bta in half . What is the likely hood on its survival ??? :help:

up until recently I would consider my 55gal reef a complete sucess. But in the last week I have had to fish pass away to the ocean above. My butterfly was doing great, fed him and watched him for a couple of hours the next day barely a few bones left. Then my blue hippo has suddenly...

So I kept on seeing alot of you recommending books to read so on your advive and the advice of mys lfs I bought "The Reef Aquarium" volume 3. It is the most expensive book I have ever purchased in my life.........lol It was $82.00. Now coming from a newbie I figured the hobby is expensive so...

any ideas/plans on building a hood for a 55gal :help:

If I add approximately 50lbs of cured L/R to my tank will this create it to cycle again? :help:

I have read a lot of different posts on feeding, what and when are the best foods for my tank. I have clowns, anenomies, gobies, butterfly, and a coral beauty, and of course a cleaning crew. I currently use a pelleted food that my lfs told me had everything in it. I feed once a day...

Ok so i guess im not a good landloard, I recently purchased a bubbletip anenome from my lfs and after about 3 days of tumbling & turning ( with the tomatoe clown in it....lol) it has found a nice home in the back of my tank partialy under a piece of l/r. Can i simply just move the l/r or will...

:help: I am confused my lfs told me the reason my snails kept disapearing is that my scarlett's were killing them for their shells, so i got rid of my scarletts and now i have detrtitis showing up, I noticed all saltwaterfish.com cleaner packages come with both snails and scarletts. Is this...

i currently have a 55gal reef tank with a wet dry system I am thinking of using a old 30g tank for a sump. If anyone has any step by step photos/plans i would greatly appreciate it. If i dont do the sump i am considering a echo system any ideas??? Thank you, you guys that respond to these...

Does anybody have plans for a lighting hood for a fifty five gallon tank, I bought a sun system tek light t-5 and it is just sitting on 2"x4" 's and not only looks rediculous but cause a temp prob. Looking for ideas to enclose the lights and add fans. Thank you guys in advance for any and all...

How do we post our photos here???? :help:

I seem to be having a probleom with my snails it seems like I buy them and they do great for about two weeks, then all of a sudden one will just fall off the glass and thats it it hits the sand throws its little protective shell off and dies, but yet the others will be fine it is really...

Everybody in here is so helpfull to novices like myself but I do have one favor to ask of all of you. Everybody constantly uses abbreviations in their posts, and I have no idea what they mean if you guys could compile a " abreviation list for dumbies " I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks...

how important is a protein skimmer, I have a 55 gal reef tank with a red slime probleom. It has been set up for 6 weeks. It has fully cycled. I have had people tell me it is necessary, and then it is not. I have a wet dry system with a rio 1700 pump operating it. I also have a 350gph...

:help: Any advice would help i have a 55 gal live tank, and am getting a constant build up of a orangeish red slime algae on the tank, If i use the magnet cleaner or brush it is back within 45 mins... Could it be lack of circulation ??? any advice would be appreciated. I have a wet/dry filter...