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    Clown fish breathing fast with tattered fins

    Today when the aquarium actinics came on i couldn't find one of my clown fish. I searched around everwhere but couldn't find him. After the white lights came on he finally appeared from where ever he was but he was breathing really fast. Today when I got home from work he was swimming around...
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    Baby snail?

    Are turbo snails known for laying eggs in tanks? I had a PVC house for a snowflake eel that I had a while back. I returned the eel a while ago and just go around to taking the pipe out of the tank tonight. When I got it out there was what looks like a snail stuck to it. Its about 3/4 of...
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    A few Ich questions.

    First off I just started Hypo this week on my poor lionfish who had fin rot then in qt got ich. He in a rubbermade right now as I didn't have a dedicated qt at the time but have since bough one and cycled it but I have a few questions. Will hypo totally kill my live rock. I bought 2 new cured...
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    Torn up fin

    I was just feeding my clownfish and Hawaiian blue puffer and out of no where the puffer starts chomping on my clowns left fin. Its all shredded up now, will it grow back? He didn't seem to mind at all, he still swims and goes for food like normal. Please help.
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    Coralife skimmer Micro Bubbles

    While doing water change an hour ago I decided to clean off my Coralife super skimmer 65. I took it to the bath tub and cleaned off all the salt creep and drained all the water out of it. When I plugged it back in the bubbles went nuts and now the whole bubble tube if full of bubbles and its...
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    2 puffers 1 tank?

    Can I keep a Hawaiian Blue Puffer and a Valentini Puffer in my 65 gal together? Also anyone have any tips on how to catch a 15'' snowflake eel?
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    Dwarf Puffer Question

    I have a 3 inch Hawaiian Blue Puffer and I was wonder If I Could put a Valentini Puffer in with him. They would both live in my 65 gal tank with 2 small clown fish. Can it work? Thanks
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    Eel help and puffer question

    I have had a snowflake eel for about a month and he is a royal pain in the ass. Hes really aggressive and swims around alot. Hes already eaten a damsel and has tried to eat my 2 clowns. I just got a Hawaiian Blue Puffer yesterday and the snowflake has taken a shot at him already too. What...
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    Strange white specs

    I have recently noticed alot of white specs all over the glass of my 65 gal tank. At first I thought they were just sand but after looking at one up close i noticed there not sand at all. They look like a thin white tube maybe 1/8'' long and there curled up so they look like a tiny white...
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    Diatom Blues

    My 65 gal tank has been up and running for about 8 months. At the beginning I would get diatoms on my rocks and sand so for like 4 months I stoped running my lights. I assumed this was because I was using tap water insted of R/O. About a month ago I got a R/O unit and have since done 4 15 gal...
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    Clown Question

    I bought two clowns about a month ago, there doing well in my tank but I have 1 question (may be stupid). I always see people calling there clowns a mated pair. What does this mean? Will two clowns put together always make a mated pair? Do they act different when they are? Also, I havn't run...
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    Snowflake Eel Question...Again

    So I have a 14-15 inch snowflake I just got this weekend and I was wondering how much and how often to feed him. I ask this because I read in "The Conscientious Marine Aquarist" that they should only be fed once or twice a week. I fed him on Saturday (a few pieces of krill), but today when I...
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    Help shed some light on buffers

    So I have a little bit of hobby experience but oddly enough I still don't understand the concept of a buffer. Please help. -Does it raise your PH or does it just make it take longer to decrease? -Is Baking soda a Buffer? -Will Baking soda raise my PH? -Will adding it to the tank hurt...
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    New Snowflake...Quick Question

    So I bought a new Snowflake Eel yesterday. Hes about 14-15 inches long, very healthy looking at the store and eating well. I brought him home and he swam around the tank exploring most of the night. I woke up to find him in the PVC house I made him in the sand. He looked good but when I...
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    Picking out a Snowflake Eel

    Can someone tell me what I should be looking for when I buy a Snowflake eel. I know what to look for in fish but eels are kind of different haha. So what are the signs of a healthy eel?
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    Broke my New R/O unit

    So I just got a Coralife Pure-Flo II from my LFS. I set it all up and turned on the water, things seemed to be working except for there was a leak in the fitting connecting faucet to the tube going to the unit. I went to tighten it more and I stripped the threads on the plastic fitting...
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    Valentini Breathing Fast...Help!

    Like the title says my 2'' Valentini puffer started breathing really fast all of a sudden. I woke up and he was fine. I went downstairs and came up half an hour later and he was in a corner against the glass breathing very fast. I just did a 20% water change but the water wasn't bad to begin...
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    Lionfish Question

    Hello My 2'' dwarf zebra lionfish isn't looking so hot as of late. Ive had him for about a month and since then he seems to be looking weird. First he had some blotchy fading parts on his body, just looked like a patch of skin turning a little white. It seemed to clear up after a while but it...
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    Lionfish Question

    Hello My 2'' dwarf zebra lionfish isn't looking so hot as of late. Ive had him for about a month and since then he seems to be looking weird. First he had some blotchy fading parts on his body, just looked like a patch of skin turning a little white. It seemed to clear up after a while but it...
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    Lionfish Question

    So Ive had my dwarf zebra for about a month and he seems to be doing ok. I started him off on ghost shrimp and have been weening him on to frozen. The problem is when i feed him the krill he goes for it, sucks it half down and then starts coughing and flaring his gills. Hes been eating the...
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