So guys as I go along the journey I was starting to some thought to what I might want in the tank (signature has the specs) here are my thoughts thus far- Note- By default I will have some corals (mushrooms, maybe Zoyas etc) Option 1 2 Clowns 1 Blood Shrimp 2 Turbo snails 1 Wrasse (maybe 6...

Im setting up a 58 gallon mixed reef, im considering getting a few sexy shrimp, id also like to keep a blood shrimp or a skunk cleaner. will they bother the sexy shrimp? also planning on a couple fire fish, maybe a royal gramma, a clown, jawfish, shrimp goby/pistol shrimp, maybe some...

Hey i have a red stripped Halloween hermit. I know they are not 100% reef safe but what are they a threat to? Will it try to eat my Blood Shrimp? Or start munching on Xenia or attach its self to a fish exchanging DNA and a alien fish/hermit (fermit?) will burst out the fishes chest or what...

i got a new royal gramma today and i did not realize till checkin afterwards that they prefer subdued lighting.. i have 3 24 wat pc lights on my 14 gal biocube which is a hair over 5 watts per gallon. is this far too much for this guy? will he be ok?

I recently moved our Kole Tang from QT into the Display Tank. He was in QT for 4 weeks and doing great. Tonight I noticed his mouth looked very swollen. He appeared to be acclimating beautifully in the tank and eating, but for the past two days has seemed melancholy. He was introduced about...

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Okay, now i know this from freshwater fish, DONT EVER GO WITH A SMALL TANK.. well we did a starter 30 gallon salt and now have made our way to making our 55 ex-fresh into a salt. ANYWHOOO.. what is the best way about going about transferring a couple things (ricordea for sure, maybe xenia) to...

Im new to this. I previously had a 20 gallon freshwater, and i was looking on craigslist and I found a used 10 gallon nano reef tank. I did some research on it for a few hours, and im considering creating one. I'm only 13, so i probably wont get any of the stuff you're saying. So please try to...

I want to put 2 reef safe shrimp that are peaceful and will take care of the algae and my fish in a 10 gal with zoanthids and mushroom corals. I need your opinion on which kind i should get i also would like to pair them,If possible.

Hi Everyone!!! Next week my friends are coming from Albany to go fish shopping. I'm very excited about adding something new to the tank but have no idea what to add. I'll have roughly 100 bucks to spend. Ive decided not to add any more fish to the tank so I'm hoping you can give me a few...

Since no one posts on my build thread anymore I thought I would start a new thread for my question. My tank currently looks like this.... My question is, At what point should I add a small clean up crew? I have diatoms everwhere. Can I add a small clean up crew? Will it be safe to add a...

We just bought a harlequin tuskfish and a squirrelfish. They are currently in QT, however as I am reading more and more I'm starting to think that these fish were not a good choice. The tank is a 90 gallon FOWLR housing 1 Hippo Tang, 1 Maroon Clown, 2 Banggaii cardinal, 1 blood shrimp, 1...

my cleaner shrimp has a cyst or somethign on his side. it came from the lfs like this. he seems to be healthy and is roaming around and cleaning. and anyoing my blood shrimp. any ideas on what it is? its only on this side, the other side seems fine.

i posted this in my nano build, but figured it would get more views here, as i am really curious, what is this coral? its hard with a slick upper surface. was brown at the lfs, but in my tanks its a bluegreepink

So about two months ago, I had noticed my tigertail cucumber acting oddly (previous thread: http://www.thereeftank.com/forums/showthread.php?t=111936) Basically, he started out being very reclusive, only coming out at night and sifting the sand only in a radius close enough to the rocks for...

I've been a fresh water tank operator for a number of years but i'm finaly taking the jump to saltwater. I've got a 14 gallon biocube, its set up now stock, with live sand and live rock. its cycling. i'll probably be stocking it in a week or so. so is it best to put in soft corals first...

I got this lil guy last week. He devloped a bit of ick since introduction. It comes and goes but eating great and ver active. Every one I have ever had has got ick for the first week or to since introduction.

My brain has looked fine since I got it a couple of months ago. My blood shrimp was on it last night and I assumed he was cleaning it. Now, today it has some damage. Any ideas or suggestions?

Check out the first picture from yesterday. I was thinking, "How cute, the blood shrimp is cleaning the Brain...:D" Now look at the next picture taken today. What do you suppose is going on here? :doh: