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Hi all My Regal Tang has the following symptoms which I first noticed after a water change in the tank 2 days ago - No other fish are affected; -White spot areas (not lots of small ones but a few white patches) -Fins are rotting and loosing colour -Pertruded eyes -Rapid gill movements...

We had a new addition to the tank at the weekend ... a Royal Gramma, below is a snap a took of it earlier. He was a bit shy to begin with but has become alot more active and starting to stray away from his 'caves' more.

Well I've hammered the credit card again and bought some new lights for the tank, below are a couple of pictures and a question! Setting it up was a bit tricky as my tank rim was too thick for the standard frame adapter so I had to by the large frame adapter from arcadia, even after...

Hi all, Below I have attached a picture of what I can only describe as a green balloon thing which has been growing on my live rock for the past couple of months and recently got a lot bigger. I've checked a few books but cannot seem to work out what it is ... could any ID this for me and let...

I wonder if anyone could help - I need a UK supplier of flexible tubing used for plumbing external filters such as hydor and eheim as I need to install a UV Steriliser and need more tubing to be able to do this. I have only found one outlet in the UK which is the Online shop...

Hi all, I know I have been promising some pics for a while, but better late than never ... here they are;

Just some advice and opinions on how to raise pH mine seems to be stuck at 7.9 - 8.0 which seems a bit on the low side, I am making regular water changes (40 litres every 2 weeks) however this does not appear to be helping the situation, can anyone recommend any products which would safely...

Hi all, I have just got my second fish which is a regal tang, the LFS instructed me to do the usual place bag in water and slowly add tank water into the bag for around 2 1/2 hours. However the Regal appears to be laying on its side and then jumping up when 'Jenny' the clown comes to...

Got home from work to only see one of the clowns up to its usual tricks after a quick inspection behind rocks I unfortunately found one clownfish dead, after kicking the hermits off it (who were eating it eww!) I took a couple of photos to see if you guys can see anything visual it may have died...

We are having a heatwave in the UK at present and the temperatures in Scotland (usually cold & wet) have soared. I am finding it very difficult to keep my tank at 25c and most days when I come home from work it can range anything from 28c - 30c there are only hermit crabs in the tank at present...

Well I've been very busy with work the last month but finally heres some pics of the tank and how its progressed. Since I last posted pictures I have added 22Kgs of Live Rock and 10 mixed hermits.

As you may have seen from my other post I have setup my protein skimmer, however I am a bit worried that it is producing alot of wet foam in the collection cup, and alot of micro bubbles in the outlet - I have tried to reduce and increase the flow but it seems to make no different. I have...

Just been browsing eBay and stumbled across the auction below; http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=4386015436 What are people's opinions on this, can I put any wattage T5 lights in. It looks pretty good because it can independantly controll the blue and white lights. Also...

In the next week or so I am going to start shopping around for live rock prices, although I've had alot of peope give me conflicting information on how much rock I should order. I've been told 10Kg, 15Kg, and 20Kg - Your thoughts on this would be appreciated. I have a 220 litre tank (56 US...

Hi all, I have managed to get round to taking my first test results of my tank water, I know there isn't really much point to them until I start putting living rock/sand in. But it gives me an idea of what my water quality is currently like; pH 8.2 Ca 440 mg/l NO2 0.1 mg/l NO3 < 5 mg/l...

Similar to my previous post, as soon as I mentioned the brand name the 2 guys were saying how **** they were (these guys swore alot!) He was trying to perseude me to go for DD branded skimmer (?) These are like £250 (Over $400) again I'm confused ... but I trust the advice I get on these forums...

I'm a bit confused I visit a LFS in the centre of Glasgow yesterday and managed to have quite a long chat with them. They basically informed me that buying an external filter is a waste of money as if you have live rock it will do the biological filtering for you and the clean up crew will do...

It arrived today - Here are a few photos which I have attached showing what I have done so far. You may notice the tank is slightly unlevel I have checked this and will correctly this asap.

It's question/opinion time again. Ok ok ... I've been reading my books and they say you can use the following as substrate; Crushed Coral Sand Crushed Coral Gravel Aragnite (sp?!) They also recommend a depth of 2 to 3 inches - What do you guys have in your tanks, and what would...

After all the shopping around I've gone ahead and ordered the following tank; http://www.theaquariumshop.co.uk/ishop/1029/shopscr373.html It will be coming on 16th May, getting pretty excited about it all!