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  1. sldrdvm

    Help! Fish losses!

    I just did a routine water change (10 gallons for my 60 gallon tank) like I always do weekly. I woke up at 3 am and checked my tank...found one of my wrasses jumped out, my flame angelfish dead on the bottom, and now one my my skunk cleaner shrimp dead. Help! I don't know what is wrong...
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    HELP! Added pH buffer, now coral spitting out stuff?

    Help! I just added a pH buffer to my aquarium, doing as the directions stated (my pH was at 8) and my umbrella mushroom coral started spitting out these strings of white and brown stuff! Is it spawning, dying, or what?
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    Dumb question

    Just a (perhaps) dumb question, but are shrimp immune to the stings of anemones? My peppermint shrimp run across my bubble tip when I am feeding it to steal bits of food. No one seems to get hurt.
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    shaving brush question

    I recently got some shaving brushes, and the head of one was broken off. I stuck the "roots" into the sand bed and tried to stick the head into the sand bed as well. Do you think it will grow anyway?
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    Anemone placement

    I was just wondering, I have a bubble tip anemone, and it's doing fine. But, I put in onto the rock I wanted it to stay on (right on top with moderate flow, good lighting) when I first got it about 2 weeks ago. It promptly started "walking" off the back side of said rock, and by the next day...
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    leather eating nudi

    Ok, so I had a yellow Fiji leather a while back (about a month) and it suddenly turned white and died. I thought I just didn't know what I was doing (too much light, not feeding it enough). I have had this stubby finger leather from SWF for about 2 weeks, and today I noted a bleached out spot...
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    Garlic anyone?

    Sorry to start a new thread, but I'm about to start battling ich (yeah, already happened to me...knew it was inevitable), and want to help boost my fishes immune systems. I was just wondering if anyone had any tips on adding garlic to fish food. I couldn't find anything specific on here...
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    Guide for levels in tank where to put corals?

    I was just wondering if there were a guide out there somewhere that tells you where to put certain species of corals in your tank.
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    specific gravity question

    Hey. I am new to the marine aquarium hobby and have a question. I have both a swing-arm Coralife deep six hydrometer and a temperature compensating refractometer. I have followed the exact directions for both (calibrated the refractometer at 68 degrees with distilled water and let the...
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