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What is the best thing to put in the canister?? like bio balls or i dont even know what else.. Thanks in advance for any input you may have

:bowdown:I currently have a snowflake morray eel that is app. 2 ft in lenght.. The other day i ran across another type of eel (not sure what it is called but has red stripes) that i really liked.. My only concern is that the new one is rather small and im not sure how well the large one will...

I finally bought a better skimmer but still am not sure if im using it right.. Is the collection cup on the top suppossed to fill completly up with water?? I adjusted the bubbles to as low as i could get them and it still filled up within 15 min or so and then overflowes back into the tank...

Something to ponder...about 2 days after we got her she laid eggs, now she is "mothering" the feeder fish. When she sees them, she goes after them, and scoots them underneath her with her fin, like she is protecting them from our eel. Ordinarily the eel will swim up, underneath her, but when...

Its been 5 days for her i think and she is huge!! Do you mean like goldfish flakes or something different?

I bought a lion fish on Tuesday and have had several dwarf lion fish. It won't eat feeder fish or shrimp. I don't know if I should try something else, or what to do because it hasn't eaten since we brought it home. Any ideas or suggestions? We realize it sometimes takes some time for them to get...

OK, last question.. Reading some other forums it sounds like i need sand and live rock in one ofe the chambers, is that correct and which chamber?

cool, sounds like the best way to go? so if i bought one of these setups i would need to add a pump to return the water to the tank and gravity does the rest? also my tank does not have inlets or outlets so is there some device for going over the edge of the tank?

how complicated are sumps to hook up? I dont really understand how they work, looking at a few on ebay and they say wet/dry sump.. They look to be a three stage glass box, is this the same as a sump?

Finally got my trates down below 20 after changing 20 gal of water a week for the past six weeks, started feeding less and changing water more.. Will be laid off here in a few weeks for about a month and a half (good thing) and figured it would be a good time to learn a bit and upgrade my...

Well now i just feel like an idiot, read some more and the three stage filter thing was a canister filter....

I am looking to upgrade my filters and skimmer, still new at this so was looking at a canister filter and a threestage external filter? I dont really know what either are or if i need both?, if they are the same thing?, if one cancels out the other?, if one or the other works as a skimmer as...

Copy that, thanks for all the info i most definatly appreciate it.. more water changes and i should be OK.. Better skimmer and eventually a better filter.. Thanks again for your help.. :bowdown:

they werent all in there at the same time, had two lions some damsels for awhile, then the one of the lions died so i tried a flame angel with the remaining lion, after he died i started with the eel.. other combos to but never more than 5 fish at a time i think.. when i started i had like 8...

So what should i be shooting for? once there more live rock will help to keep the nitrates in check?

Ya im pretty sure the eel was one of the last fish i put in, lost three lion fish, flame angel, and others.. the lion fish ate the other damsels but for some odd reason neither the eel or lions would eat the last remaining two damsels.. one of the lions used to actually touch them and the eel...

they were in the hundreds, did a 60% water change fri. and got them to around 40 or 50.. hadent been doing regular water changes like i needed to..

its a small in tank skimmer, though i dont understand what it does and hope i have it set up right..

hello, I am newer to salt water.. recently have lost alot of fish to nitrates being WAY to high.. Finally (from this site) relized that constant water changes are the answer to that problem.. I always seem to get different answers from everyone about what i need to do to keep my fish...

I have a protein skimmer. The remaining starfish keep falling off of the sides of the tank, from the top, haven't seen THIS before, so frequently. I think it may be a featherduster worm, it came out of a really small tube originally, and is HUGE now.