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alright, so I'm wanting to upgrade the filtration on my tank with a canister filter and a protein skimmer and i want some opinions... i know that you can't get a good protein skimmer for cheap so ive made room in my budget for one that is AT MOST $150. i also don't have a sump, so id like one...

so a lot of the fish stores in my area have these crabs all of the time. they just call them red crabs, but i've never found anything about them online or heard of anyone else having them when ive tried looking for information. ive had mine for about a month so far and all i know is that it's...

the past 2 days my lawn mower blenny has not been acting normal. his color is extremely pale and he's sitting on one rock with out moving at all. he only responds to anything when i hand feed him some frozen shrimp while he normally flees from my hand. ive already done 2 water changes and it...

i know most people say to stray away from mandarin's because they're hard to keep alive due to them not eating, but im proud to say that mine has done well for the past month :) i've been told that they need 70-75 gallon tanks so that they'll have enough copepods around the tank to feed on...

Right now, I have the Eclipse 3 system (3 gallons) that is freshwater, but i am considering turning it into a micro reef next summer. I know most people say that keeping a micro reef is a lot harder than having a larger reef tank, but I don't want to spend a lot of money on turning my 40 gallon...

so i know this is a newbie question, ive just never asked when ive always wanted too. when it comes to acclimating fish, inverts and everything, some people say to float the bag in the tank for a while to adjust the temperature before releasing them. others tell me to pour water into the bag to...

so it was labor day weekend, so of course i went out of town, and i had the usual done: turning off the light and covering the tank with towels. after unveiling the tank, found that everything was still alive and happy :) and the anemone finally came out of the rocks! but he is usually a shade...

so yesterday i got a maroon clownfish and a bubble tip anemone (they're already getting along!) i put the anemone on top of the rocks closer to the light but from some reason my he keeps going below all of them away from the light. i know they need the light and i was wondering if that would be...

so my brother brought 2 hermits back from the beach yesterday. both are alive, but one has left his shell and on his fuzzy part he has a bunch of little red circles that are about the size of this period -> . do hermits leave their shells when they're about to lay eggs?

im trying to find some inverts to add to my tank but id like to know what would be ok to have with a feather duster (i have noticed my hermit picking on it at times but for the most part he leaves it alone) so far emerald crabs and cleaner shrimp have been my favorite but im not completely...

im in the process of switching my lion from eating live FW feeders to eating raw shrimp. he's used to me putting the feeders in by the net that he will swim INSIDE of it to get his food. yesterday i used that to my advantage to and tricked him into eating the tail end of a piece of shrimp. today...

i have a 10 gallon tank set up for my little brother so he can learn how to take care of fish. right now he has 3 decent sized pieces of live rock, 3 yellow tail damsels and a blue leg hermit crab in it. what would be a good inverts for his tank?

i have a 10 gallon tank set up for my little brother so he can learn how to take care of fish. right now he has 3 decent sized pieces of live rock, 3 yellow tail damsels and a blue leg hermit crab in it. we're willing to move the damsels elsewhere to make the tank more interesting but most fish...

normally i feed my lionfish rosy red feeder fish, but i recently found out that FW feeders aren't good for SW fish in the long run because of a lack of nutrients. what would be good feeders for him? he just started eating flakes :D but i think it would be better to keep him on live/meaty foods...

my fuzzy dwarf lionfish stung my porcupine puffer sometime last week, after the sting the puffer has been laying the rocks not eating or anything, but today he started acting differently and it's really worrying me: his face got really pale and he kept spitting up what looked like brine shrimp...

hey everyone, im just another new guy to this site. :D ive had my saltwater tank since Jan. of this year but still not as knowledgeable as id like to be about owning an aquarium. i usually google questions i have and these sites are the first to come up... so i thought id finally make an...