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hmmm i dunno if this will work but its worth a try lol! the tank is about 27 gallons. 3 1/2 feet long. there are so many of them. i just know i would miss some with the syringe (apart from the fact im scared of needles heehee)! Im thinking of tryin to get the biggest ones with the syringe...

Hi there, Ive been in Holland for 6 months and when I got home my tank was in a mess. Although my sister looked after the fish well enough aiptasia have just gone crazy. there is some on every single piece of live rock and i couldnt possible inject every one of them. should i just take out the...

im gonna try and attach a pic of the tank and the fish. I havent got the stats but ill test them and let u know what they are. The filter is just a standard internal one. I think the tank is big enough for the two fish, it has been up and running for about 2 years now, i just havent been on this...

Hi, I have had my goldfish for almost 4 years. Its stomach has swollen up so huge and it looks like its going to explode. Its having trouble swimming but apart from that seems quite healthy. It is still eating well but Im worried about its swollen belly. Can goldfish get tumours? Is there...

thanks 4 the info :thumbs:

I'll go back into the shop and ask the guy what is wrong with them. He will prob tell me that there is nothing wrong just to get a sale but I'll go and quiz him anyway. I'll let you all know.

I was at my LFS the other day and saw a clown with a disjointed middle stripe. (i think this is because of tank breeding) Anyway it was so cool and I wanted to get it but all the clowns in the tank had black spots on their bodies. I didn't want to risk getting the fish and having it kill all my...

Hi there, I read somewhere that you shouldn't mix different species of clownfish but I have just seen a picture of a pair of clowns, one percula and one black and white. I have a percula and was wondering if I could get a black and white one to go with it. Mine is only about an inch and a half...

Hey scottsbt1690, You aren't the only fish enthusiast in Scotland!! I just took a while to look at these posts. I think you've covered most of the shops except Marine World Bain Street at the Barras It's my favourite shop ever Variety - 7 (Mainly marines. not much in the actual shop but...

I am thinking about changing the lights on my tank to T5. I was just wondering whether anyone has done this before and if they have any tips. I want to keep my existing hood and lights if possible but don't think there is enough space to do this. :dunno:

Did you cycle the tank before adding the fish? If not this may be why they have all died. With regards to adding another clown, it depends if the one you have has already matured into a male or female. If your one is a female and you add another female you could have problems. Could you give us...

Just to say that the last post was by me under my boyfriend's log in.

The medicine said that I had to take out the carbon so I have taken it out but I'll put it back in and see if it helps. Thanks for your advice. Poor fishies :rip:

The two clowns and the boxfish died. Now one of my clowns has died too. It looks like it had fin rot and my other clown seems to have it as well. I have tried medicating them with some stuff that my LFS gave that was supposed to treat a variety of problems including fin rot and ich but it...

ok ill check the brine shrimp. Thanks 4 your help!!

ok thanks. I know the tank is really small for them but it is only a temporary measure. Unfortunately one of the clowns died but the boxfish looks fine apart from some white colouring on his fins which should be transparent. Is this ich?? Should I put anything in to treat it?

Got rid of the damsels yipee!! And some good news I got the mandarin feeding on frozen brine shrimp. I must have been lucky or something!!

I have recently noticed about 4 teeny weeny red things growing on my rock. They are sort of like tiny feather dusters because they can fan out and then retract into the rock. I tried to take a pic but it didn't work. What are these things and are they bad for the tank??

I have just taken a spiny boxfish and 2 clowns out of my boyfriends tank because we suspect that they have got ammonia poisoning. I have put them in my tank until we can fix his. Do they have any diseases that could infect my fish or should they be ok for a couple of weeks?? Please give me any...

I was wondering if anyone knows how to encourage the existence of copepods in my tank? My Mandarins are looking quite thin and i'm wondering what to feed them?

Hi there. (I still feel as though I know nothing about marine fish even though I have had my tank running successfully for a year!!) Question 1 - My boyfriend has recently started up a tank (approx 15 UK gal) and at the moment has cycled it with live sand and rock and has stocked it with 10...

Great news!! thanks guys :D

Hi there I have just noticed that I have a couple of caterpillar things and little tiny swimming shrimp things living under my anemone. I'm not sure what they are and whether they are bad for my tank. Any ideas? Thanks. :dunno:

I want to get rid of my dottyback because it is attacking everything else in my tank, but it is just so frustrating cause I cant catch it! It just hides behind the rock. Last weekend I had the majority of my rocks out of the tank and after an hour and a half still couldnt catch the darn thing so...

SInce last nite my boxfish has been acting strange. It is just lying on the bottom of the tank or resting on a mushroom and when it does move it just swims in circles and hits off the rock in the tank. It doesn't normally do this and I think it might be sick. What should I do?? :dunno:

Thanks very much. I got the Mag Float cleaners and it worked really well. It's a nice clear tank now. :D

The clowns are just over 1 1/2 inches long. They are tank bred false percula clowns. One of the chromis died so I'm gonna take the other back to the shop probably.

Hi there, I got 2 new fish today I think they are green chromis, that's what the guy in the shop said anyway. I just wondered if you could tell me anything about them. Thanks

Oh right. That's a relief. Thanks for the help! :)

Ok I know this will sound stupid but what is a magnetic cleaner?

Yes, you need good lighting for coral and anemones etc. At the moment IMO I think that T5 lighting is the best but can be more expensive than other types of light but if you have it then your choices are limitless.

My bigger clown fish keeps on biting and chasing my little clown fish. If I got a 3rd clown would this reduce the agression? :dunno: I just dunno what to do.

my tank has a kind of film on the glass i'm presuming its the early stages of algae it also has little hairy bits. How do I get rid of this. Please help!! Thanks :)

I have 3 baby feather dusters. I got them by accident lol :rofl: (c my other post if ur confused) I have a protein skimmer, u should have that for a marine tank anyway regardless of whether u get feather dusters and at the moment I have normal lights but I dunno if I'll need different lights...

LOL lionfish ur crazy !!!! :P I just didnt like the idea of a dead snail sitting in my tank. It didn't look very good :sick: I think I do have worms. Well I know I had one b ut it crawled out of the rock and died :huh: I don't have a very good record for keeping things alive do I lol...

I got my clown fish yipee!! they r doing well in the new tank. I'm going to wait a couple of months and get them a nice little anemone. I got a beautiful piece of rock the other day with these things growing on it. they r kinda like little stars with a white circle in the middle. :D

I think that it is a good deal. I paid £200 for a 30 gallon tank with built in filter and lights and a stand. You will need to replace your lights if you still want an anemone. I have 2 juvenile ocellaris clownfish and I haven't been able to get them an anemone yet as I need to upgrade my...

Hi there people! I've had a successful operation. :D I took the snail out (before i saw the message from you ostrow) and removed the dead slimy remains of the snail. Then I rinsed it in a bucket of salt water. I wasn't sure if the tiny feather duster had been washed away but I put the "empty"...