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Hello everyone. I bought 2 ocellaris clownfish exactly a week ago today and the bigger of the two is doing perfectly fine. The smaller one is not. He died overnight and I scooped him out this morning. I noticed some symptoms earlier in the day yesterday and it wasn't looking good so I'm...

I am having a problem controlling/reducing nitrates to nothing. My tank is 1.5months old and cycled in about 3 weeks. Using the API saltwater master test kit I just tested to ammonia-0, nitrites-0, nitrates-20ppm which is unacceptable. I have performed 5 10% water changes since the start(20...

Hello again, I'm bumping up a few gallons from my current 1.5month old 20 gallon to a 30 gallon. I have about 20lbs of live rock and a 2" sand bed. I also have 2 ocellaris clowns and a damsel that I will be donating to the LFS. As far as corals are concerned, I have 5 small shrooms, 3 frags...

I am looking around for ideas of reducing nitrates beyond water changes and I would like to do so naturally without chemicals. I have a monster Aquaclear 500 HOB filter on my 30 gallon and I was thinking of drilling a few holes in the lid and popping a few mangroves through the lid and into the...

Hello again. As we all know, we want to always be going bigger. Well, we are about to go bigger. We are bumping up from our 20 gallon to a 30 gallon and I have a question on substrate. I want to have at least a 3" deep sand bed possibly 4". I want to stay away from live sand and I would...

I recently got 2 Ocellaris Clownfish and I have been feeding them Aqueon marine flakes in the morning and frozen, rinsed brine shrimp at night everyday. After further research I have found out that this is wrong!! I have a 20 gallon reef tank and I have read that feeding flake food is not the...

Hello everyone and thank you for the great info and knowledge. I have had a 20 Gallon set-up going for 5 weeks now. My numbers are ammonia 0, nitrites 0, nitrates 20, pH 7.8, calcium 450, dKH-8, and phosphates .5. There are a few things I need to do and that is lower nitrates and get rid of...

In a piece of live rock I picked up I have found some neat things, most notably something that extends some translucent arms at night that wave around. I have no idea what it is. Its very small and about 2" in length. There's several of them in a piece of rock I got and they come out when the...

Hello everyone. I'm looking for general opinions on acclimation time for the following fish and inverts. I will be using the SWF drip method with a gang valve to control the drops to 3-4 drops/sec. Today I will be receiving the following and I am looking for how long you suggest to acclimate...

When testing water quality, assuming you have the test kits with glass viles and white indicator cards, do you hold the glass right up against the card physically touching it or just off the card a bit? It makes a big difference in the darkness of the color depending on whether or not the card...