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Ok, my uncle has a 150 gallon tank with a Sohal tang, an Orange-Shoulder Tang, a pair of Hippos, and an Emperor Angel. Well he's been looking to put new fish in for over 6 months now but the Sohal won't have any of it. As it is already, this fish is a bully to the fish already in the tank and...

A couple of weeks ago I noticed these white tubular "things" sitting on the inside corners of my tank. At first I thought that they were baby feather dusters. They're completely white and they like to hang on the silicone creases and up near the top of the tank. Well, I just took out one of my...

You all ready for this one?! Well, my uncle has been keeping SW fish for something like 15 years, but by no means is he any expert, really thick headed too. He doesn't keep up on tank maintenance and he tends to overstock quite a bit. Well, it all came back to bite him in the a--. He has a...

I just took my Powder Blue out of QT and when I put him in my show tank, my Clown Tang freaked out and wouldn't leave him alone. After two hours of watching the Clown Tang bash, bite, and slice up my PB, I had enough and netted the PB and put him back in QT overnight. The next day I divided up...

I have a new Flame Angel in QT with my new PB tang and I've dropped the salinity to 1.009 as a precaution for ick. Well, the PB is doing fine, but the flame is very sluggish, somewhat lethargic. Do these angels not tolerate low salitinities well? I lost one about a month ago due to hypo as...

I've read and read and read and read about Head and Lateral Line Disease as far as causes treatments etc. and I'm still fighting a losing battle in my 150 FOWLR. I have a Koran, Flame Angel, Foxface, Clown Tang, Niger Trigger, and a pair of Percs. The two angels are definitely showing signs of...

I have a Mac. Angel in a 150 f/o tank that has been battling these parasitic white things for some time now. They are much bigger than white spot and they change position from day to day. They don't stress the fish out: he eats fine, and doesn't scratch or breathe hard. I've done copper...

I have a Foxface in a 75 gallon f/o tank that I've had for a month and half now. He's been healthy since coming out of QT and he eats everything I feed him: nori, seaweed selects, formula I/II flakes soaked in zoe in the morning, and selcon at night. Additionally all day he grazes on the algae...

I've come to a crossroads in the routine of my tank maintenance and I was wondering what everyone's opinion was on the frecuency of water changes. High nitrates in my 75 gallon have been a consistent problem... The tank is filtered by a Fluval 303 Canister and two DIY wet dry's composed of...

I'm running hypo. in my 75 gallon f/o with specific gravity @1.009. It's been at that level for 3 days now and I've noticed that my niger which was severely infested looks as if the spots are now peeling off like a slimecoat. It almost looks like a peeling sunburn but I've never seen this type...

I was thinking of adding one of these to my 75 gallon FOWLR. I've had it with the Koran and it's now time to put him in a bigger home. I'm giving him to my uncle's 150 so hopefully he'll be fine in there. But as for my tank, which of these angels is a hardier specimen? I"ve heard mixed...

I swear that if I have one more bout with ick, I'm gonna quit the hobby all together. Since December I have battled with ick on 5 different occasions. After the second bout, I completely stripped down the tank and began from scratch again but that didn't help because a couple of months later...

I've been researching the different types of live rock online because I want to add more to my tank. I currently have 20 lbs. of Fiji LR in a 75 gallon tank. Is the density difference between the two types of rock really that significant? As far as life form, is one rock better than the...

I have an established 75 gal. FO tank w/ liverock and a Powder Brown Tang, and a Koran Angel. Tank parameters are good, Ammonia 0, Nitrite 0, and NItrate 0. It is clear that that the fish are infected with ick but I don't think it's a heavy infestation...yet. I've been feeding garlic-soaked...

I'm moving 4 fish from QT to the main tank this weekend. (Powder Brown Tang, Koran Angel, Niger Trigger, Hippo Tang) I had ick so I took the fish out and left the tank fallow for a little over a month and gave the fish a cupramine copper treatment in QT. When putting them back in the main...

I currently have 3 fish in QT right now and my show tank has been empty for a little over a month. I had a pretty bad case of ick so I took my Niger Trigger, Koran Angel, and Hippo Tang out and put them in a 20 gal. QT and ran a cupramine copper treatment. Just before I pulled them out of the...

My 4 inch Maculosus Angel, for a long time now, has developed numerous white cysts on its face and along its body (Especially around the mouth and gills). I am 100% positive that it is now ick because the spots are very defined, almost whiteheadish in appearance, as oppossed to the fine grain...

What is the lowest salinity that liverock can be kept at without harming the beneficial bacteria and organisms? I tend to keep all three of my tanks at the lower end of the salinity spectrum...1.018. But what's the minimum for live rock?

I've been curing liverock in a tupperware container for almost 3 weeks now and all chemical levels are normal (0). Now that the rock is cured can I put it all into the tank? There's 25 lbs. of rock and it will be going into a pretty well established 75 gallon tank. Current tank inhabitants are...

I just ordered the 25 lb. package of liverock from SWF.com but I have a few questions about it. Do I need to prepare the rock in anyway before I place it into my tank? I've heard of all this cured, precured, and uncured rock business but I still really don't know what it means. What category...