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Hello all, I have a juvenile yellow mimic tang I just recently added to my tank. Other inhabitants are 1 firefish, 1 blue damsel, and 1 false percula clownfish. My tank is 75 gallons. I was wondering if it would be safe to add a blue hippo tang my girlfriend bought for her 45 gallon tank. "It...

well i posted a pic or two a few weeks to a month ago of this coral that i have no idea what it is. i got many responses saying it was a blastomussa of some sort however it does not look the same. this coral seems to have a calcareous skeleton with a blastomussa looking top that is about as...

ok so i have a dilemma. i currently have a 100 gallon tank with the following fish: 1 large tomato clown (pretty peaceful) 1 royal dottyback (kind of territorial) 1 zebra damsel (peaceful) 1 electric blue damsel (a little terror!) had: 1 mandarin that was doing fine til one day i saw the blue...

hello all, i recently bought a few corals the other week and i cant remember if i got a name of this one and if so i cant remember the name of it. any help would be greatly appreciated! here is a photo. its the one that is purple with the green spots on the inner side. it has long stony tubes...

so i am thinking of purchasing Synchiropus picturatus, a mandarin for my 75 gallon FOWLR. i have had outbreaks of copepods out of nowhere in the past but currently do not see tons all over the glass at the moment. is it absolutely necessary to have a breeding population of copepods to keep a...

Can you use indoor grow plant lights for a reef tank and be able to support LPS and possibly any SPS corals and anemone? I have a friend that owns a hydroponic store and can get me this 4 bulb T5 light fixture for $60 no tax which is normally marked at $125.99 and up to $164.99 depending where...

well i came home from work today and i noticed one of my maroon clowns (who was healthy as an ox last night) was swimming very weird. he seemed to have lost his sense of up and down and was swimming upside down, on his side, and then would bob up and down with his head toward the sand, swimming...

can i grow candy cane corals, ricordea, lps, disk corals, or anything really with a coralife 130 watt 4 foot fixture. its 50/50 power compact and actinic bulbs and i also have a four foot actinic single bulbe fixture.

i recently added two small maroon clowns and a long tentacle anemone to my 60 gallon. there is more rock on one side of the tank than the other an my maroons spend most of their time hiding and swimming around the rocks on the right side of the tank. the anemone decided to mount himself on the...

i bought this anemone a couple days ago and it didnt really catch my attention til today that his mouth is almost always open. is this because he is just constantly feeding or is this a sign of a problem?

ok so i went to my LFS today and bought an anemone. the anemone was in a tank that had a sign that said "long tentacle anemone" along with a picture (but this particular LFS is known for having outdated signs on their tanks and having livestock in multiple tanks..most often mislabeled). well...

My friend has a 70 or 75 gallon acrylic tank with a built in overflow and a sump (about 2.5 ft x 2.0 ft) set up below with roughly half of the sump bioballs and the other half the return pump area, heater, etc.. It is currently setup as a freshwater tank but he wants to convert it to saltwater...

i have a 60 gallon tank with a 48" coralife light fixture (130 watts) that has both power compacts and actinic bulbs and i also have an additional 4 foot actinic bulb and fixture and i was wondering what kind of corals i can keep under these lighting conditions. thanks. here is a picture of the...

well i bought this stress zyme live bacteria that comes in a bottle, so far it seems to be working pretty good. the cycling has been going by lighting fast. its only week two and my parameters are all in check except maybe the pH which is at about 8.0. (BTW what can i do to raise the pH)? back...

well i decided to waste the money to go out and buy myself a skilter 400 for my 60 gallon FOWLR because it sounded like a solid investment and unique style of HOB filter/skimmer combo. well turns out i should have done some research AHEAD of time (which i will now do on everything i buy) because...

ok so i bought my gf a starfish to put in her 40 gallon aquarium and it died in 3 or so days. i dont remember the exact species but it was small and orange and had tiny tiny black spots almost not noticeable. the LFS we got him from was our first time visiting but had some amazing corals and all...

ok so i am setting up a 60 gallon FOWLR which is almost into its second week of cycling. i have a rena xp2 canister filter and a HOB style filter/protein skimmer combo. the canister filter is rated at 300 GPH and the HOB is rated at 400 GPH so i have about 700 GPH of flow. is this enough...

hi i am in the middle of cycling my tank right now so i am nowhere near getting any livestock yet but i am in the process of planning out what i want to get. i am using crushed coral/crushed aragonite combo for my substrate that looks approximately this size but a little rounder shaped pieces...

hey i just started up a 60 gallon tank that was sitting in the garage of a friends for a few months but was a fully established saltwater tank for a couple years. the rock has been out of water for a few months so im assuming its "dead" rock for now. well its been set up now for a little over a...

ok so im not sure if this is the right forum to be posting this question in but i need a lil help. so i bought a 60 gallon tank with about 60 lbs dead "live rock". i also added a few pieces of fully cured live rock from another tank i have. the uncured/dead rock has been sitting in the guys...