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I had put up a post before about my naso tang and his possible parasites. He eat's really well but is still very skinny. i'm more worried about him now because his swimming has become less active. Instead of swimming around actively he sort of sits there and floats around. Occasionaly he will...

as of now i have the stand that came with my tank. I absolutely hate it so i'm planning on building my own. How can i switch the stands without having to completely take the tank apart? I want to avoid having to drain the tank and putting all the fish into buckets, etc. Any ideas?

I think my two tangs may have some sort of parasites. the fish eat very well a diet of nori soaked in nutrients and frozen foods (also graze on the algae all day) but for some reason both my tangs are becoming very skinny. I'm more worried about the naso more than the yellow tang. What should i...

Well if anyone else read my other thread i told you that i purchased a moorish idol (doing great by the way. still eating like a pig.) So i'm still keeping my fingers crossed. but then today i did another bad thing, this time not knowing what i was getting myself into unlike the idol who i knew...

THe venturi is on and air is definitely going through it but for some reason nothing is being collected in chamber up top. it normally does its thing where it bubbles and turns it to the gross looking greenish water but isn't doing anything right now. any ideas?

so i've made the transition from FO to FOWLR (getting closer to my future reef!) i have about 75 pounds of live rock (thanks to rafal07013 for the great rock) They're mostly some pretty large pieces and i have to experiment with them to see what i can do with it but was wondering if anyone had...

Recently both my tangs seem to have lost some weight. i feed them 1/3 a sheet of nori every day and they also eat the flakes i feed the clowns and they pick at the algae all day. But recently they're skeletal structure is visible when the light hits them at the right angle. definitely no where...

Well potentially bad. I was in the lfs today and was on the way over to the tank to pick up a flame angel. i noticed they had a moorish idol in one of their tanks and have always wanted one but stayed away for the same reason as everyone else. I asked the guy how long they had it for and he said...

The diameter of the tube (which i'm pretty sure is my standpipe) in that picture is 1 1/4 inches. i don't know what type of durso standpipe i need for that. plus i'm not sure if it's a slip or threaded? can anyone help me out?

So i'm going to a small part in florida for 10 days called boca grande. it's a great place, very small, so small that people use golf carts to get around. I started thinking of the possibilities. The beaches are huge and always empty since there aren't very many people there and i'm positive...

Any ideas where i can get some fully cured live rock? i don't have the time or money to go through the curing process. any lfs sell fully cured live rock for a good price? i know absolutely fish (the lfs i go to) sells their live rock for 9 dollars per lb which is a bit pricey for me. i don't...

So my algae is normally a bit excessive. i get a lot of green algae so before i go to bed i turn over the sand and scrub the tank. by the same time the next night, it's back so i do it again. I went away for a week and my dad took care of the tank. he called me telling me how bad my algae was...

In my tank now i have a wet/dry overflow with the sump. I hate dealing with it and want to get rid of it. My dad is in the pool industry and can get me a canister filter no problem. I just want to know if that would be an appropriate replacement for the wet/dry. I know by getting rid of the...

For a while i've had a wet/dry overflow since i started my tank. I've gotten pretty tired of it and was wondering what i could put in place of it. Any ideas?

So i've been thinking about adding a ghost eel to my tank. As of now i have 1 yellow tang, 1 naso tang (they get along fine) and 2 ocellaris clowns in my 75. The ghost eel looked like a good choice to me since they don't need a huge tank and they stay relatively small. The only thing i'm...

How much should i feed him per day? he absoloutely loves the stuff and i'm sure he would eat as much as i put in. What a good amount per day? He does really eat flakes or pellets. he'll take a few but he normally won't eat them so the nori is his his main meal.

So below are the pictures of my tank now. I absolutely HATE it (the stand and the aquascaping. but this is about the stand. i'm completely reaquascaping later and there will be another thread on that.) I find the stand so hideous that it takes away so much from the tank. the only reason i bought...

so when i first got my clowns they picked this one rock in the tank to be theirs. they're always cleaning it and if my hand would go anywhere near it they would sort of swim around me. Recently they've become much more aggressive. I can't stick my hand anywhere in the tank without them INSTANTLY...

For about 6-7 months now my tank has been running and has always been very noisy but for some reason i recently snapped. I can't bare the noise another minute! it drives me crazy. Between the gurgling of the overflow, the buzzing of the protein skimmer, the trickeling of the water from the...