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    New Quarantine tank advice wanted

    After losing my 2 fish to ich in my main tank i have been out and brought a small quarantine tank. i have added salt water and added 1 piece of live rock, it has a niagra filter and light - i'm not adding live sand. How long would you recommend running it for before adding 2 gobie fish...
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    pyjama wrasse problem

    Like a previous topic below I too have a problem pyjama wrasse, i have had him 2 1/2 years in a 24 gal nano tank - he has been fine living with a midas blennie (had 3 years) and scarlet hawkfish (1 year) all got on fine until a few weeks ago when i added an algae blennie to help eat the algae...
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    What's my Coral Polyps doing?

    I have some brown Zoanthid which are all attached to each other in abig clump, and they have a small brown disc centre which turns green and glows in the dark when the lights go out. Two nights ago, after feeding the fish I noticed out of the centre of one of the polyps a small brown thing came...
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    Buying ready mixed water

    I buy ready mixed salt water from my shop. I do my water change straight away, but always have some left, does the water i have left have a shelf life - can I use whats left to do the next water change in 2 weeks? It's kept in a plastic water holder.
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    Water adjustments affecting Shrimp? & fan worm query.

    Hi, my 24g nano has been running for 44 days all ok, was going well till last week as the KH started to drop gradually and when the KH had dropped to 7, calcium was 400, I was advised at the shop to add buffer to raise the KH and balance with a calcium additive and i followed their guidance. The...
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    Unknown crab hitch hiker - scary!

    Another question - I have a 2 month old 24g nanocube with 1 shrimp/7 hermits and mushrooms and polyp's. Who knows about crabs? Last night in one of the caves in the live rock we saw a crab, this wasnt as tiny as the others ive seen, probably 1/2 inch across, quite chunky, with stripy blue and...
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    Which fish first?

    I have a 24g/90L nanocube with Live rock and sand, all going well for 2 months now. Only have 7 hermits & 1 peppermint shrimp-which is meant to be eating my 2 anenome's - not! - and mushroom coral and polyps. + few tiny hitch hiking crabs. The fish i would like to have, introduced over a...
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