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Hi welcome you are experiencing alge blooms how long do you leave your light on? you may try shortning the light cycle. other than that the only thing you can do is to get a rock with lots of coraline alge on it but time is what will help

Hi Scott welcome 1st please take the damsel back and dont cycle the tank with a fish . 2nd coral should be added after the tank has been established for 3 months or longer ,(others may disagree here on when to add coral) what kind of lighting do you have what kind of filter do you have...

he seems fine to the clown fish but I think he ate my peppermint shrimp are there any shrip that I can have ?? pistol or the coral banded shrimp I read some where that they may cohabitate with a shrip if the shrimp was in the tank first my problem is that the tank is a 7 gallon not many...

any one here have a magenta pseudochromis housed with a shrimp and how did you do it I think ours ate peppy shrimp

Hi , I am not a pro at this but what you may want to do is to pull up some tap h20 and leave it sit over nite treat it with what you us to treat the h20 with and get a new filter pad ( you could go to walmart in the pet department and get a hang on back filter for around 20 dollars for...

thank you thank you thank you this site is invaluable so much to learn so little time :D but now I can reply again :D thank you :!:

is it fixed Squeezing eyes tightly closed and crossing all extremities (jumps up and down blows dj big kiss) :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: it worked it worked it worked thank you thank you thank you !!!!

incysor- djconn :lol: yadzooks I just got done reading on the web and realized that when my tank crashed that I did not airate the h2o because I didnt have any made up (I fell behind schedule and did not get it mixed ) live and learn I guess right now I have a pump in the tank to airate it it...

thanks for the input guys I will try the comercial stuff first with some h20 changes I found that it did go up a little will test again tomorrow 2 x before I add or do anything else

what brand do you suggest?

have tested in am right befor lights on and after lights out about an hour it stays the same at both tests the pet store tested it and got the same as us ps thanks for answering so quickly

well every thing is back on track with the tank since the crash but I was wondering how to recover my P.H. back to 8.4 right now it is at aprox 7.8 ( dont have the test laying right here) after the crash we used apox 5 gallons of ro water and one to two gallon of origional water we...

yea damn damsels pretty but a pita I tested last nite and ammonia was .25 all others negative ah incysor that is a huge relief that there wont be a huge cycle this sucks haveing only one tank and having to put the others in to so they have to endure a cycle but we will watch and do h20...

trouble maker is gone fresh water in what should I expect for a cycle

ok sorry that it was so choppy I was not feeling well last nite and this morning I also am not the mose eligent typer here is what happened we had a damsel that was picking on another fish really bad he shredded the fins of 2 others so we felt that he needed to come out and go to a qt...

what kind of salt do you use for your tank

we changed out the sand to a live ag sand ( packed in h20) did a 95% or so h20 change rinsed the live rock in old water reset up yes it did stir up alot but it did not even start to settle I am glad to know that it probably would not have hurt it is up and running now all residents seem...

we let it settle for around 3 hours but it didnt clear even with 2 filters usually it clears with the 2 filters with in 3 -5 hours with noticible diffrence as the hours pass live rock was out for 1/2 hour at atime our lfs guy said the smell was normal ( I have a very sensitive nose that...

the tank had been up for aprox 4 months nothing new added we had to take a fish out that was getting very very very very agressive and when we got him out the tank was dismanteled the rock had a very pungent smell to to it all perameters were good we got a lot of cloudiness that...