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I have had my tank for some time now, but 2 months ago my 5 year old niece thought the fish were tired of drinking water and dumped a big thing of koolaid powder into the tank. While 40 gallons of strawberry kiwi sounds like fun to a 5 year old, the fish didnt like it too much, we were outside...

Hi, I have desided that I want a 100 gallon or so reef tank, and will be using MH lighting. I am just wondering how much this tank with MH lighting would raise the ambient temp in the room, The room is large, 20'x14'. In the summer its tough to keep the room at 22C. I have a window AC in the...

So I was thinking, why is a protien skimmer needed? and when is it not needed? ie can live rock in a refugium replace a protien skimmer? or something like that?

Ok I can do all that :) Thanks again for all the help. The reason for breaking the rock is to shape it, being I have limited space and have a specific tower type design in mind finding the right LR naturally might be very hard.

-The 18"x20"x26" tall 37g tank, fill with water, get salinity correct. -25-30 lbs live sand (crushed argonite I believe), should give me 2" depth for the tank. -Live rock, I have found places that will ship fuji or other for as low as 5.00 a lb, half what my lfs is. I figure about 45lbs is lots...

I am a Canadian resident actually :) but I do ship alot from the states. Metal Halide is no problem, I dont mind the expense for something that will work. My buddy is coming to get my fish this weekend, so I will clean it out really well (without soap) and then fill it with ro water. I'll...

Thanks for the great reply :) everyone here is so helpfull :) A little seaching seems to show that 2x 400 gph powerheads are pretty common and not all that big, although 3 250 gph ones are smaller yet, but need more glass space. Thanks for the tips on the coral and fish, I will plan the fish...

I thought only 10% water changes? meaning you should only need 7 gallons at a time, providing water level is kept up.

Thanks for the reply :) I think after reading everything the part that I didnt understand the most is this "Once you get over a pound per gallon of live rock, you can remove all filter media. The live rock will harbor all the beneficial bacteria you need, and the skimmer will remove the...

Hi, I want to start by saying I am just now looking into what it takes for a saltwater tank. I have a 37 US Gallon Tank, 18"x20"x26" tall. I find its awkward with freashwater. I know the smaller the tank the harder it is, but figure this might not be too bad. The current fish would go to a...

Sorry to hear about the fish :( I had a similar thing happen, but my fish didnt die, but they did look not good and a couple were on their side and stuff. Tested my tap water and got .8ppm amoinia. Went and bought water from the store and did a change and everything was good. Tested the next...

Ok perfect, so I will be safe then, Thanks :)

Thats the general rule right, 1 inch of fish per US gallon? I have whats in my sig, and wanted a 3 more guppies (2 female, 1 male), a 3 more Cardnals, 2 more serpea tetras, and then a male and female german ram. I will be over the general rule, but the fish are at different levels in the tank...

I always put the frozen cube in a ziplock bag with a bit of water in it and put it in the tank, closing the lid on the bag to keep the bag in one spot. Then when its all thawed I just pour it in slowly and toss the bag when I am done :)

I wish I could, but with it so deep I need alot of light, and with the smaller top I get LOTS of algea on the glass near the top, I am hoping the java fern grows well, but thats going to be a while. I wonder if there is a floating live plant that would do well and be a good hiding spot. I am...

I dont have another tank, and dont have the room for another. something floating at the top wont let a couple survive even? Every now and then I get one or two making it to be big enough that I can see them easy, but then become a snack or die or just dissapear.

I have an Ehiem canaster filter, I dont know the number for it but its a smaller one. The pick up tube isnt long enough to make it to the bottom, and the return is a spray bar. From the bubbles and stuff in the tank I can see that the water flow goes from the back to the front and then jsut...

Here is a pic of my tank I have the fish in my sig, and 2 of the guppies seem pretty fat and the black spot is very dark. So I figure it cant be more then a couple weeks. I want to try and see what the baby guppies look like, I have some very pretty males in the tank, but I know guppies can...

Thanks :) I really like it, hoping it takes to the logs and doesnt die on me, the tips are turning a bit brown, but I hope its just from the shock of the new tank and being broken up a bit. I have like 1.1 w/g and it gets reflected (not direct) sunlight for about an hour each day. I dont know...

in the bucket its a green brown. I dont have the background up, the wall is a baby blueish color (gf picked it not me). The wood has been in there for almost a year, I would say 11 months. I have dont the cover up with no light thing, and it didnt change anything. :( I will try some nutrafin...

Ok I have had this tank for almost a year now, and the fish are doing great as far as I can tell. But I have some problems, mainly, with how the water moves. I have a spray bar at the top of the back pointed forward, I have tried it up a bit down a bit, and several others, and the water still...

There is an image for you. best I could do really.

Am I the only one that doesnt try to raise guppy fry but end up with like 15 a month after each birth still? and when I try and raise them they all die or get eaten.

I was at my lfs last night and bought 3 small potted Java Ferns, but they are not normal ferns, the leaves are kinda uneven and not semetrical at all, its hard to describe. They didnt know why they were, only knew they were a Java Fern. I attached them to a couple peices of bog wood and it...

Thanks :) how long befor they go away or get eatin? It seems like they have been there a long time. If when I first notice them scrap them off and put them in brakish water would they hatch?

No cories. I have zebra snails. 2 of them. I asked my gf and she said they have been there at least 2 months now. Is there anything that takes that long to hatch? The water side (that you cant see) is almost like hte shape of a contact lens, and the same color. I have looked up what kind of...

I have had these white spots for like 6 weeks+ now. I dont know what they are, and I would swear they dont move, and that there are more every now and then. They are on everything, on the bog wood, and on the glass all around the gravel line, and some up the corners. They havent changed...

so after googling limpets and coming up with not much I would say the shape is similar to a limpet, but tiny, as i said like 1mm across. and there are like 200 of them or more. They have not moved (enough to notice) and I can not see any movement at all. Where would all these have come from...

I dont know what they are, they still haven moved changed color or became easier to get off. Any ideas?

They are still there, dont apear to have moved at all, and dont apear to have any brown to them, they are all white, but if I really look it does kinda look like there might be a "shell" on them. Looking at the underside and back of my bog wood there is probably 200 or so, and they all apear...

They are imposible to remove without a razor. They are on the bog wood mostly too. Nothing seems to be hanging around, and nothing seems to be trying to eat them.

Any Ideas? Anyone?

I woke up this morning to see little white specks on my bog wood, maybe 50-75 of them and about 3 per centimeter for about 30 cm of the rock line on the glass. They are white, and not easily scraped off, they are flat on the glass and slightly rounded on the other side, they are about 1mm...

My LFS got some of these in the other day and they just came off quarantine. I really like them, one of the prettiest cory's I have seen. But I am worried about how they will do in my tank. Fish listed in tank. I have a pretty planted tank, so there isnt huge open area's, but there is an open...

I have the fish in my sig. I notice they always seem to swim together and interact like swimming with each other. I thought they would kinda group with there own kind rather then mix all up. And when I feed it seems like the rams are too shy to come to the top and everything else eats befor...

take it back for a new one?

I like my ehiem (I think thats how its spelled?) nice and quiet.

While I like those photos I was never a fan of underwater pictures, its almost too easy to get a neat shot, more luck in seeing the stuff then anything else. The eye behind the camera is all that matters. I have several grand in camera and lens and flashes and lights, yet when I was in vegas...

turn off the light and leave him be?

lol, I was thinking more a money pit. Seems it will cost a good amount to keep 1000 + watts of heaters going, plus the cost of "show fish" and upkeep. Why not save your pennies to move out and then do things properly.