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there is a company out of fort loderdale florida that i cant remember there name my buddy got live rock from them and what they do is take tons and tons of rock and put int in the gulf of mexico and check it every year they harvest like every 8 years and sell the they ship it in water so the...

ok tired of doseing kalk and have been saving money and doing some reading and i think i am going to get the knop reactor with the american marine pinpoint controller azoo co2 regullator with selanoid ok my question is that the co2 set at were i need it i think it will be 65 bubbles a min turns...

like danl said fonts are laid back but in my 75 gal. i have a font ( that is about ready to go in the 300 gal. his about a foot long) and in with him is 2 red zebras 3 yellow lab (that have spawned and now thereis about 10 in the tank now) 2 hap. insignis 1 acei and others and they get along...

well all i can tell you is what i have done in the past years to clean up the bottom is clown loches sinadonis cats and pleco'si have all these is my 300 gal. and my 75 gal. and they are great

in my opinon hap. insignis is one of the most beautiful cichlids i have ever seen its all blue with a gold belly and fins (dorsal fin is blue) you have to have luck on your side when buying the hapalocromis insignis becouse only the males have color and they dont color up until they are about 4...

most cichlids will dig in sand and make nest for breeding and just home for them they will take mouth fulls of sand and spit it out and make what looks like holes under rocks and stuff like that there is a sand sustrate just for cichlids no riseing needed becouse the water it is packed in is...

thats right they will do fine but if you are going to keep fish keep them the way they should be kept in a imviroment the mimic there natural settings and as far as a lfs keeping there cichlids at 7.3 that is not the case were i am from (columbus ohio) all the fish stores around here that i go...

i have barbs and angels together and they are fine. how some people mess up with this combo is lack of info. i have tiger barbs and veil angels and you just have to follow some rules that apply to alot of the meaner fish lol. barbs (exspeacily tiger barbs) are fin nipers the bigger the fin the...

i have had my labs and my hap. insignis spawn off a couple of times and i never even knew it the fry with the labs are mouth brood for a while and then sent on there own to hide where the big guys can get them (if you have good rocky places for them to hide) and you will see them bolt out every...

from time to time my labs show stress bars i have had them for close to 2 years and they are fine i would get that ph up a little more though i keep mine in the 8.0 to 8.3 eventhey are a very hard water fish that love the higher alikalintys

i have been looking through the web for days now and i cant find anything on how to sex humu's or the sex habits of the trigger. this is realy all i have been able to find The Humu Picasso Triggerfish, also known as the Humuhumu Triggerfish or Picasso Triggerfish, has a wacky, painted...

[B][I][FONT=Arial][SIZE=1][COLOR=purple]ok i have been having some problems with alge and i think that ajusting my light will help i think i have been given to much light any way here is the new schedule moon set l.e.d.s=7:00 a.m. dark=7:01 a.m. to 9:59 a.m. dawn 50/50 actintic=10:00 a.m...

just one power head but it get a good curent going it is like 90 gph i think it is out of my 75 gal tank i did not have it on for a while though i just turned my proten skimmer on yesterday and my power head was turned on two or three days ago i was waiting for the tank to cycle some one told me...

i set up a 20 gal. nano its cycleing with live rock and a few inverts (4 blue hermits 6 nassarius snails 2 turbo snails 1 green crab) bigger clean up crew on the way when tank cycles but anyway i seen some red slime on some of the rocks and i was wanting to get rid of it went to l.f.s. man told...

Bacteria are present everywhere on both land and in the water and are normally classified as either 'good' bacteria or 'bad' bacteria. The good bacteria in the aquarium consist of the ones that make up the biological filter. These bacteria break down ammonia and nitrate so that it can be removed...

Well sorry i wont be much help other to say that i own 2 frontosa's and they have never displayed any thing like that ever. (nor any other fish i have ever owned). Is the fish looking fat or bloated like a blow fish or scales protrueding from his side.

what no fontosa they are the coolest from that lake in my opinon. if you havent seen them look on (dr. foster and smith) www.liveaquaria.com

i have some plants like some red ludwiga a huge amazon sword money worts and stuff like that for the past week or two i have seen black hairy fuzz on all the plants you cant rubb it off its like part of the plant hope someone can help :dunno:

hey looks like a acei cichlid to me live aquaria has them for $7.99 how much were they there

i am setting up my first cichld tank i have my substrate and big rock and slate and these are the tank mates i am going to put in Malawian Cichlids Electric Yellow Cichlid , Red Zebra Cichlid ,Electric Blue Cichlid, Yellow Peacock Cichlid , Blue Peacock Cichlid, Albino Peacock Cichlid...

i have a wet dry fillter sump type and am going to put it on a cichlid tank (75 gal.) is there any reason that would not work.

i have a question for you though how do you post pics in this thread

if you are worried about ich it looks like salt sprinkeled on the fish all fish carry ich if the fish is stressed its natural defence to it is broke down meds and cleaner shrimp help

i have 3 colored sea squirts on the way and was just wondering if any one had them and if they did where are they in your tank on the bottom or in the rock work can they be expoesed to air at all during alclamatingi know they need indine and trace and they are filter feeders if any one has them...

dr. foster smith is one of the best places around in my opinon i have learned alot from just shoping around there every fish invert and even rock has a lot of side notes to them and they have articles about every thing vist them and shop around but make sure you read all the info if you do you...

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yeah i know what you mean ramjet if it is quiet in my house there is something wrong with one or all of the tanks

hahaha yeah someone must of realy made you mad.........any way barracudas get big 6 to 7 feet cat sharks are cool and they get big too pilotfish or (gnathanodon speciosus)hope i spelled that right get to be a good 3 feet if you have a huge tank you can get a port jackton shark and then i would...

i cycle with all kinds of fish hardy ones like tiger barbs daneos platys like mickey mouse moons and other hardy speceis

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a week ago i bought a sea apple and to day i got up and all my fish in my 260 gal were dead i knew the risk and its my fault but damn i have had my clown trigger for years aaaaaawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww man this sucks like $500.00 in fish plus the pain of loseing them my fish are my freinds man they...

thanks for all the suggestions not going to put in crushed coral thanks to landlock that makes a lot of since it wold be easyer to clean going with fake coral nige what is an internal power fillter i only know like sumps canisters and hang ons

that sucks sorry for your loss man atlest he died of old age and had a good life in a good tank imvierment

thats just crazy man one i dont like bio wheels on salt water in time they just reproduce nitrates they are nitrate factorys little tanks are for more experinced aquartist it is easyer to spend the money on a bigger tank and if the person does not want to make a big investment salt water is not...

woooooooooooooooowwwwwwwwwwww it looks like a million dollar tank though lol :hyper: :hyper:

yeah i use zoe and garlic extreme(both from kent)all the time to keep the fishes immunne system up had a little prob with fin rot a while back but the vitamins got rid of it no meds just uv and vitamins.....as the uv with meds i have a hospital tank that i med inthat does not have a uv on it and...

starting a hospital tank 20 or 30 gal. want your opinon on what kind of fillter would you put on so it does not mess with the meds. ....and also would you put a skimmer on the med tank??????i am going to put crush coral in the tank and that is all nothing else no live rock but have not decided...

over time i have cured over 600 lb. of live rock and it is realy easy i use a 55 gal trash can (new of course) and put a heater and a power head in for water move ment the water in the can is going to get a ammonia spike of the chart poportions lol i do 100% water changes every weekvia drain...