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I bought 2 Percula Clownfish (wild) yesterday. After acclimating them the way that the site instructed me to, I placed them into the tank. At first they did the usual freaked out routine of swimming in one spot and breathing funny (not rapidly, but not normal either) - I made the mistake of...

I acclimated him the way I was supposed to. 55gal. And yes, the lights were on - I know that it's best to keep the lights off during that time, but I completely forgot. They seem to be doing better this morning though.

Our tank is already cycled. We've had it set up w/ water and only live rock for about a month and 2 weeks and we just now put fish in. Our fish seem to be doing fine, but we were a little curious about the crabs - it's something I never thought about until someone asked me about it. I...

Ah, thank you! After adjusting a little, it's working & not creating all those tiny little bubbles that were driving me nuts! I was really considering giving up this hobby if I was going to have to constantly look at those bubbles. You say that the skimmer will produce bubbles until it is broken...

This might be a silly question, but I recently got some blue legged hermit crabs, and someone asked me if they needed oxygen - like if they need to get above the water to breathe or are do they breathe underwater like fish? Also, between our power head and our protien skimmer there are alot of...

In every book on fish that I've come across has mentioned that this is a very relaxing and soothing hobby. Funny, ever since I've started this hobby I've wanted nothing more then to take a baseball bat to our tank and just be done with it. Setting up the tank was stressful enough then the added...

I just bought 2 new Percula Clownfish (wild) and after acclimating them & placing them into the tank, they don't seem to be doing much (they've been in for 3 or 4 hours). They've stayed in the same place together just kind of swimming forwards and back in the same spot. They arn't breathing...