Recent content by Dirge337

Would a sand sifting starfish or Sand Sifting sea cucumber be good for cleaning the sand bed?

Awesome. Thank you so much for the info guys. Ill go get a couple pieces of live rock today and put it in evenly spaced so every other rock gets some love. I know one day i will have to give up my eel when he gets too big :( But an eel is the reason i started a saltwater tank. Any suggestions...

Wow that is a lot of info! Thank you! Ill get on all that stuff to save my fish! I have one more question: I have these little tiny white bugs that are jumping around the glass and on the rocks. The population was multiplying like crazy until i got my wrasse. Then they started to go way down...

I didnt add any kind of bacteria to the tank when i started it. The LFS that i used to go to didnt give me any to put in. The guy there (not the same one i go to now) just said i needed salt, sand, and a good filter. I didn't have all the rock in there that i do now. I never thought about the...

I used the live fish cycling. After about a week of the filter running on the water, i put 4 damsels in the tank and let it run for about 6 weeks after that.Then i tested the tank before getting anything. But, it was with the old test kit so it couldve been off. Exciting news! My wrasse was out...

I cant remember the sand i bought specifically but i think it was aragonite. It was Ocean Direct live sand if i remember right. I know it was live sand. About 80 pounds worth. My sand bed is about an inch and half deep. I know i dont have any dead fishies in there so i dont think that's what...

The guy who tested my water said my phosphates were high so he gave me something to switch out with the biomax in my filter to help get rid of the phosphates and nitrates. The guy i go to owns his own store and has been dealing with saltwater tanka for years. Also, he didnt sell it to me, he...

Well, i had my water tested again last night, and i guess my testing kit is off because the guy said my nitrates and alkalinity are still high. He gave me something new to put into my filter too. My testing kit reads: Nitrate: 0 Nitrite: 0 Salinity: 1.022 pH: 8.3 Ammonia: .25 ppm Temperature...

Thank you for the welcome! I had read somewhere that he might be being bullied. Along with the wrasse in the tank, i have a Snowflake Eel, a Valentini Puffer, a Clarkii Clown, and a Freckled Hawkfish. If anything, i think the hawkfish would be the one to bully him so he might be leaving the...

Hello, I recently purchased a Hoevens Wrasse (Melanurus Wrasse) from my LFS. After i bought him, i started to have some chemical problems with my tank. After a week or so, and fixing the problem (tank is back to normal), i still have not seen my wrasse unless I'm gravel vaccing when he shoots...