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My lfs finally got a flame hawkfish in for me. She held him for me and I went ahead and bought him. I was afraid he might be too big for my other fish though. All my fish are small and he is medium to large in size. The other day I woke to find my new clownfish dead. <img...

I just recently found 2 new 'things' in my tank. They are very similar, but on 2 completely different live rocks. One looks like a small white tube with cotton lightly swished around it. The other looks like a small white ball with pink tipped cotton swished around it. I figure they are...

Well all seemed alright last night and this morning. I don't know what happened the night before, but I guess everyone got over it. The damsel turned back to his normal blue and stopped hitting the walls. The Black cap is slowly coming back out again and he looks just fine. The mushrooms...

I noticed a few unusual things this morning. I bought a peice of live rock with mushrooms growing on. I kept finding my crab on the rock (I think he was eating the mushrooms.) and kept taking him off. This morning I noticed some of the mushrooms were either gone or closed up? My blue damsel...

I figure that I will have to get some more rock to hide in, and some mysid shrimp. I have a 30 gallon tank, so that should be big enough. I just want to make sure he work with my current inhabitants and he'll be happy. I read that lemonpeels are hard to keep, so I don't think I'm ready for...

I am thinking about adding a dwarf angel. I'm not sure what type though. Maybe a Half-Black (Pearl-Scaled), Multicolor or LemonPeel. I will probably get the Pearl-Scaled because my lfs has one. Can anyone tell more about these fish? :cool:

I currently have a small blue damsel and small black cap in a 30 gallon tank. I'd like to also get a small Flame Hawkfish and 1 other fish. I know I will probably have to get a larger tank or something as everything gets larger, but for now, can I put a 4th fish in this size tank? Also what...

My black cap has finally started to come out of hiding. Mostly when I feed the blue damsel. I always see my damsel darting around the black cap's rock, so I think he trying to comfort him. :p That sounds silly, but I swear the black cap seems to like his company. He comes out more often...

Oops, he's actually called a 'Dwarf Red Tip Hermit Crab'.

My dwarf red legged hermit crab molted last night! I looked in the tank just before turning the lights off to go to bed when I noticed. It looked like my crab had crawled out of his shell and just died. <img src="graemlins//eek.gif" border="0" alt="[eek]" /> But when I tried to scoop him...

Well I was gettting really worried so I searched the tank again. Still no sign of the black cap, but I did see air bubbles coming from the lr I think he's in. So I will leave it alone. I don't smell anything yet, so I guess he's alright. I didn't know he would hide when I got him. This is...

Thanks everyone. I hope he is alright. I'm pretty sure he is in the rock, I just hope he's not stuck. I will keep waiting, and hopefully he will show up at feeding soon. My stats were all 0 with a good PH level. All I have are a Blue Damsel, 2 crabs, and some snails. I think I might have...

Ouch, I hope it hasn't died yet! That fish cost 48 dollars!! At least my crabs and damsel are still okay. It's only been a day or two, so . . .

I just bought a black cap basslet and added him to my tank. He seemed fine, but he kept hiding in my live rock. I tried uncovering him the other day to make sure he got fed, but when I moved around the tank to see him he had dissapeared! I've looked through all my rock, the sand, the filter...

Just for info: I use well water, I know it has some kind of filter on it,but I'm not sure what kind. (I just moved here.) It has low PH, but that's all I was able to get tested. I filled my tank with it, added some pro tech coat. After letting it run with live sand and live rock, I added a...

I saw a Mandarin at the store the other day. I asked if they were hard to take care of (I read they are for experts only). The guy actually told me 'Oh, no. They're easy to take care of, they just sit there and look pretty.' I will make sure I stay clear of him from now on!

Thanks guys! I've now got a 2.5 in sand bed with live sand on top, and a few peices of live rock. I plan on adding more during this cycling process. I think for now though I will keep my wet/dry system.

Okay, I've read lots of arguing over aragonite sand vs play sand, southdown vs silicate brands. So I called around, Lowe's said they had southdown, so I ran down there, grabbed a few bags and went home. Well it turned out that it wasn't southdown it was silicate. But it was all they had...

I read on a site "Another popular myth from fish stores and unexperienced reefers is that a wet/dry or trickle filter is needed. This is untrue and will actually become a nitrate factory, trapping debris and slowly having it decay fouling your water. The only man made filter you need is a...

I just want to thank everyone for their help. I've done more research and read more posts. I am going to buy some Southdown Play Sand tonight at Lowe's (50 lbs for $2.50!) and replace my cc with the sand. I'm going to seed it with live sand and then wait a week before getting a damselfish to...