Recent content by Dustyrose

I had a couple of clown fish, one male one female. The male died after a couple of days, no idea why. The water is fine. I had it tested when I bought the fish. When I first got these two, I noticed the female had a little whiteness on the bottom of her mouth, almost looked like a white gotee...

I have a question about cleaning out the canister filter. Its a Eheim Classic, it has a couple layers of stone like thing, a white filter, the additional filter I put in for the algae and a chemi-pure bag. My question is about the layers of stone.. do I take those out also and clean those? Or do...

I got a WON Clean up protein skimmer, have no clue if its a good one or not. It seems to be working alright so far. Have some yellowish water in the top of it. Even after cleaning the tank again last night before I put it in, the algae is coming back, although doesn't seem to be as bad.. yet...

Thank you! I just wanted to thank you all for your help. I'm so glad I found this site. I got the protein filter and a pump and just finished putting them in. I'm a little confused about the protein filter and how it exactly works, the directions in the box were a bit vague to say the least...

I don't have any pumps in the tank except from the canister filter that flows back into the tank. Obviously it sounds like a pump and that skimmer is what I need. I wasn't told that I needed those two things by the fish store. Its amazing how many different ideas you get and how many different...

Thank you for your help last night. I'll get to reading the articles tonight. Not to sound stupid but when you say test your water parameters, you mean the tank water correct? Not the tap water I use to fill the tank? I'll see if I can pick up a skimmer and something to work with more water...

I need some serious help. I'm really new to this salt water tank stuff. And I'm begining to feel like this :frustrat: Its a 55 gallon tank and its been set up for just over 2 months now. According to the local fish store, the water is perfect, the salinity(however that is spelt) is perfect, yet...