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Myrtle, a percula clown, must have ingested something and it seems as though it got stuck in his gill, unfortunately he didn't make it. Living on the East coast, I thought after Sandy that I was probably really close to losing the other inhabitants in my tank as we were without electric for...

He died last night, nothing noticeable as far as being discoloured or anything till the very end. He was perfectly normal before yesterday.

Tank FOWLR parameters are Nitrate, Nitrite, Phosphate and Ammonia all at 0 ppm, Temp is showing 80 and salinity is at 1.0245. I change the water weekly and use RO-DI water. Today my wife found my percula clown, that I had purchased as one of a pair in mid May, laying on the bottom nearly...

I agree with the skimmer in sump, and will do that eventually with a better skimmer, the Coralife is what they sell. Honestly, this is the first hobby that I have had that has so many different facets and schools of thought.

Yote, I hear what you are saying, I know that no one is perfect. However, the guy just gave me a list of tangs that he would recommend for my 55 gallon tank and told me that serpent stars were bad if I wanted to keep my fish, did I mention that he tried to upsell me to an eheim canister verses...

I thought I read that before on here, I guess the LFS guy either doesn't get real serpents, didn't want to sell me one or boy I'm stumped on why he would tell me that. The first time I met the guy, probably my inexperience skewed my views, he seemed really knowledgeable and seemed to care...

Thanks to both of you. I read the posts on this site a lot and the views expressed here heavily influence my decisions. As such, I find it ironic when one salesperson, at the LFS I go to, suggested I join a salt water tank forum, but when I return to the store to ask questions, I find myself...

But all your equipment needs to have the capacity to process volume of both tanks combined, right? My thought was that with the extra lr and larger skimmer, it could handle a larger bioload, but I understand that fish simply need their space. Thanks.

Thanks to both of you. The LFS keeps them with the brittle stars and the look almost identical. I don't have any reef yet, but is there a good starfish to have in a 55 gallon tank?

I asked about a serpent starfish at the LFS and was quickly told that they will consume my fish. Reading about them on here and liveaquaria, I thought l one might be a good additional to my cuc. I was surprised when he told me that as I assumed starfish aren't like a Venus flytrap that would...

I have been thinking more about the addition of a sump to my system and had a question I couldn't find the answer to searching past threads. Does the additional water volume add to dt volume to figure maximum number of fish allowed in dt, or is only the volume of the dt itself come into play...

I bought ro/di water from LFS for $.50 per gallon and later purchased a ro/di unit as it was very cost effective to make my water at home. I told my wife that it was worth spending the $130 on the unit because then I would reduce the need to visit the LFS and bring home all the extra stuff I...

Yeah, I read that they should be added last in a couple of older threads. I can add only one or two fish to keep with the one fish per ten gallon rule. Guess I'll need to think about if I want 5 or 6.

I'm guessing the treasure chest as well for nesting. But harassing the crab was something I hadn't noticed before yesterday and she was persistently pushing him along. Also, the one time I noticed her doing her nesting thing, moving the substrate around the proceeding to lay in that spot, it...