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I would suggest getting rid of the damsels. They are going to cause to end of trouble to new fish. They are just too aggresive!

Hate to be the bearer of bad news, but 99.5% of flame scallops die in the home aquarium. They are one of the animals almost everyone will caution you agains buying - like Moorish Idols, Gorgorians, Flowerpot corals.

Originally posted by oracledba72:<strong>I've decided to do a fowlr setup after reading many different posts and researching. I don't want a reef because of the cost of live rock. I just want fish only with a little live rock/sand.A few questions if anyone would care to answer:My tank is 65...

If you are going to get an eel, you are going to have to make your other choices carefully. Small fish will become expensive meals.

Invertebrates will not survive if you put them in your tank before it is cycled. Don't do it :)

Turn them off.

Just as in humans, a varied diet will benefit your anemone. Pieces of shrimp, scallops, any type of saltwater white fish. Soaking it's food in vitamins such as Zoe or Selcon will also help you keep a healthy anemone. I feed mine 3 times a week.

The reason they are fighting is they are establishing the pecking order. They will do this until one of them backs down. The dominant one will become female, the subordinate will be male. With Maroons there is a chance that neither will back down and one will eventually kill the other...

Are there enough copepods/amphipods in your tank to feed two mandarins? Do you have a source to replenish the copepods once they go through your established population? If not, they will like starve to death.

A 29g tank is way too small a tank to keep a purple tang for any length of time. You are going to have to upgrade or trade it in for credit. The two species of clowns may be a problem as they mature. A 29g is kind of small for them to establish territories.

Your tank needs to cycle before you add any clean up crew. Invertebrates are particularly sensitive to ammonia/nitrites that occur during the cycle.

I wouldn't add anymore live rock until the ammonia levels retreat. With ammonia that high, any beneficial critters that came with the live rock are going to die!

You should remember, that here it seems to be the quanity of posts rather than the quality :rolleyes: Kind of reminiscent of high school - so many people are obsessed with titles.

Here's a really good picture of a Mantis shrimp:

Originally posted by yardrat: <strong>i have a puffer in my tank with inverts and no problems.. some people have had different experiences with different fish.. imo you should be fine with him in a 30 gal.. go with what you feel and not with what some people say.. good...

How long do you take to acclimate them before adding to your tank? Most inverts are extremely sensitive to changes in salinity, pH and temperature. And yes, your salinity is way to low for most invertebrates. They do best with sal. levels of 1.023 to l.025. I would raise it before adding any more.

This is an answer I got from Robert Fenner (author of Conscientious Marine Aquarist) in response to a question I askied about this. Susan, the idea that fish will only grow to the size of their aquarium is an old one, but is only slightly true. Freshwater fish are fairly easy to stunt and...

If you are going to set up the 125g as a Fish Only tank, there is no reason to use the VHO's. Unless you like give the electric company your money. They aren't cheap to run, in other words. The wavemakers are basically used if you have corals as they like chaotic current. Won't bother your...

I totally agree that there are local stores that would tell us anything just to get us to spend money. That is why these BB's are invaluable to helping people who have questions. But some people here are also telling you the same thing as are the LFS's that we all complain about. Someone asks...

If you want it to stay in place and not leak, you will have to use PVC glue - there is no way around that.