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I got ich in my tank about a week ago. I have two clowns and a fox face. I know the life cycles of the parasite so you don't need to explain this. I was told by a LFS owner that is an aqaintance of my sister ( never did bussiness with him so I don't know if i can trust him, but why would he lie...

I,m Having a problem with hair algea. I know you have to find the problem before you can fix it. but with all the algea in there I beleive I am getting false readings on my tests.. (algea using up nitrates and Phosphates giving me good readings ) I use RODI water. One Problem is I don't have...

I posted a few days ago about my sand sifting star laying eggs. It got up on its toes and released a bunch of yellowish eggs into the water column. It stayed on its toes for about an hour and released so many eggs my water looked cloudy. when it was finished it buried itself in the sand for a...

I was wondering what my star was doing one day. Looked like it was releasing eggs in the water column. I'm not sure if they do that or not anyone else ever see this.

we've already got over a foot of snow and it isn't letting up. Suppossed to get close to three feet when its done. Hope my power does'nt go out.

I just got a pair of coral sea clowns and they seem to have taken to the brain. the brain dosn't seem to mind. Anybody else have pics of a clown hosting in diff. corals?

I took the bio-balls out of my wet dry a while back. All water tessts perfect 0 amm. 0 trites 0 trates. with bio balls trates were about 5.0. I read a thread that said the bio-balls add a lot of oxegenated water. My question is, is this a good trade off. oxeganated water VS. trates. or is there...

pic of my new fish

I,ve been looking for a mated pair of maroon clowns and was wondering what my chances of getting a mated pair if I just order two juvies off this sight.

I found a recipe to make your own live rock(base rock) using portland cement and crushed oyster shells. have to let it cure for about two months in tap water with weekly water changes. But it cost about 7 cents a pound and you can get the shapes and sizes you want. anyone ever try this? I might...

I have a bicolor blenny and was wondering if I could add a lawn mower with out any probs. has any one had these two fish together before?

found a little white star fish in my tank. I think I remember a post saying these eat corals and to get it out. its about a half inch ,white on the bottom and brownish on top, three bigger legs and three smaller legs,and hard . right now its in sump. should I take it out or leave it in.

I have a 55 gal with 60# lr. 30# on 1 side and 30# on the other side. The algea seems to grow only on one side of the tank and not the other. skimmer box is on side with no algea. should i put it in the middle? Or move power heads or add powerheads or what? its like I have two seperate tanks...

Deuce_Bigalo lost his password and cant get back on the board. He tried a new name but it said somebody else has his E-mail address. he has e-mailed SWF to no avail. Any suggestions would be greatly appriciated since he is addicted to this board.

Just got my cleanup crew from SWF.com. everything looks good except one brittle star lost all legs during shipping .Iacclimated them and put the good one in tank and now this one is losing peices of his arms also. he seems to be moving around good and everything. Is he OK and should I put the...

I read an old post that said SWF.com ships their anemones without water. I just ordered one , should come next week. How do you acclimate it if you have no water to start with? Thanks for any advice you can give me.

are they reef safe? has anyone had any luck with them? (periclimenes pedersoni) sometimes called ghost shrimp

I'm cycling a new 55 gal tank. 50 pounds LR, 40 pounds LS. Amonias now at 0. trites slowly going down (about 4.0) trates holding at 10. LFS told me to wait for cycle to complete before water change. Is this good advice, or is water change in order. Thanks in advance.

Ive read differant stuff about the temp the water should be in a reef system. What is the ideal temp?

I found a pre packaged bag of live sand made by Natures ocean and was wondering if anybody has heard of or tried this and if its any good.