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Well this could be a great moment in aquarium history...hopefully it will last. Here's what happened regarding my original post... I have two pairs of clowns. Maroons and Skunks. I have 2 anemones, a rose bta and a massive green carpet. Well each pair is hosting in their respective anemone...

Yep Flower you're right...mine nips on the corals but doesn't appear to do any damage. Never knew that peppermint shrimp eat aiptasia though. Luckily it's been quite a while since I've had it in my tank. :)

rainbow get 1 copperband butterfly and say bye bye to all your aiptasia. joe's juice and aiptasia x won't cure the problem. the copperband definitely will. i had horrible aiptasia when i first inherited my 180 and used to get on milk crates with loaded syringes full of joe's juice. got the...

Tank is 180gal with 3 anemones. Any chance all 4 clowns will co-exist peacefully? The maroons are agressive towards the skunks which I just (stupidly) added. If I have to, and I believe I do, I will move the 2 skunks to my fuge along with a purple lta. Does anyone have maroons co-existing...

I have three anemones. A green carpet, a rose bubble, and a purple lta. The carpet is huge and seems to enjoy the heavy water flow in my 180gal aquarium. The rose hosts 2 maroons, with the female being very agressive. However it is planted. The lta however moved around and was getting...

So here's the link to some new pics of my 180 with 30 gal fuge and 30 gal sump. The first pics are the most recent it appears: http://s1177.photobucket.com/albums/x352/adaminelpaso1/ Anyway my tank has fully cycled and I've just started to add (slowly) more livestock. Parameters are good and...

hey meow i had been doing 30% changes and no change in the ammonia. just did an instant-read test strip and the ammonia is down, but still at 3ppm. hopefully it will keep dropping. amquel+ is what i've been using to bond it...still of course i want it ALL GONE! yes i have about a 3" sand base...

for the sake of my learning curve i'm going to start to run my 55 gal with new sand and rock and let the tank cycle WITHOUT fish. just to see what happens and how long it takes. then eventually i'd like to keep my 160 as a FOWLR and make the 55 a pure reef tank.

hey friends so i hit the tank with the start-smart cycle bacteria and dosed with amquel this morning. i lost my cardinal, which i've had for the longest time (since i had my first 55gal.) both my g/f and i were really bummed and still are. amazing how losing a fish is so upsetting when i know...

i hope my kits are off, but i don't think so. i think i had dying corals and some fish that caused the spike. i added 'smartstart' that i got from my local guru and waiting for the 24hr cycle to complete. fish seem fine though. i'll take a new pic and post it at noon when the lights come on...

@prh: people have told me that instant cycle stuff is snake oil. i'm afraid to put it in my tank. should i???

here's pics: http://s1177.photobucket.com/albums/x352/adaminelpaso1/#!cpZZ1QQtppZZ16 my skimmer is a EURO-REEF CS

hey everything is surviving and the fish are ok. i did bond it and really what we did today was a total housecleaning for them. i have a huge skimmer, i just don't know the make and model but i'll look and report right back. i'm going to post some photos right now and i just think the...

i had a dead anemone in my tank and i never knew it as i thought it just moved behind the rocks. anyway we're in the process of organizing rock, then doing a 25% WC, and then when the water clears I'll link to pics of my tank. this is a real relief because although i bonded the ammonia, seeing...

Thanks very much for the welcome and for your advice. I think I'm learning how patient I have to be with my tank. What an amazingly knowledgable group of people here and a ton of information...I'm happy to have found you!

For 8 months, I had an LTA in a 55 with my 2 maroon clowns. Recently i upgraded to a 170 gallon tank that I inherited. I removed some deteriorating hard corals and decided to go with a purely FOWLR until the livestock is completely acclimated and then add some soft corals. Meanwhile... My...

this link should get you some so-so pics...tomorrow when i turn on the lights i'll upload more. http://s1177.photobucket.com/albums/x352/adaminelpaso1/ (pics are updated...please feel free to leave criticism, comments, advice...remember I'm a newb. thanks)

Hi...ok here's what I have in terms of fish and my lights are 3 metal halides with 2 flourescents. When I can afford it I'll definitely be looking to go LED's. Fish: Foxface Blue Hippo 2 Maroon Clowns 2 Silver Damsels 3 Half Blue Damsels 2 Copper Bands 1 Black Beta (that's super cool but...

Hi.. I'm Adam...new to the hobby (about 9 months) but have developed a passion for my tank. I started with a 55 and now I have a 160. I've got a sump, great big skimmer, live rock down there, and a fuge. I inherited some neglected hard corals and are trying to see if they'll regenerate, and a...