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I had 4 fish deaths recently all Blue-Green Chromis. I have only one left. I suspected a water change gone wrong, fluctuating water temps, water quality maybe. my chalk white goby's a murderer?. etc... anything could have happened, Then i look inside the large hole in a rock the Chromis use to...

My Royal grammar and chalk white goby had torn and ragged fins the other week, In a couple of days both were fully healed and they continue to eat well, even the chalk white goby has actually learnt to eat the dried granule fish food. Was it fin rot? Will it happen again? My Royal Grammar...

So far I have found that when I walk past the tank even 10ft away, All the fish retreat into the rock, especially when I go to feed them. I don't want to keep stressing them out I'm even creeping past the tank now(doesn't work). How do I tame fish?

I managed to replace my sand shifting star with a cleaner shrimp. My Cleaner Shrimp was preggars. What do I do? Theres hundreds of em. I switched off the pump to stop em swirling around. what do baby cleaners eat? Any special arrangements I should make? No fish in the tank yet only a...

Hi guys, Every now and then my sand shifting star is regularly climbing my tank glass, then when it reaches the top, it falls down flat on its back. Then it self rights itself somehow, then repeats the process. anyone know why a sand dwelling starfish does this? Many thanks AyeAye

Hi guys, I had a lot of ticking sounds from my tank in the last couple of weeks since adding the live rock, some here said it could be a mantis shrimp. Couldn't sight it. I can't find any of the hitch hiker snails that the rocks came with and now very few amphipods left, is it a result of...

They are so small a camera can't see them well. first there are these small 3-6mm tall cylindrical creatures/plant things that eventually pop out satellite dishes towards the light. They close up when I open the top. then there are these strange feathery looking plants that disappear at...

Ok, so I got this reef tank last week, gone through setting it up and currently doing a lot of reading on water care. the dimensions are approximately 18" high 20" wide and 13" in depth. It's got fan cooled florescent lighting, white and blue led strips, a wave thing, nano-skimmer. I took out...

I just bought a reef tank and after set up I would like to get some crabs, shrimp snails in the appropriate future. However I recently bought a fine sand substrate for the tank but it appears to have metallic (flat) grains some of which look copper in colour. It might be something else entirely...