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Hello I am a new member and new to the salt water world. I have a 55 gallon for 2 months and currently have live sand 1 damsel and 1 snail. I had a clowfish but it just died this morning, i noticed it had been swimming at the top for the past 2 days. I checked my water last night and everything...

So I have a 29g tank in which I have been doing about 5g (17%) water changes about once every 2-3 weeks. If you read my previous post I had a problem with invertebrates dying and my solution was to upgrade from Petco brand salt to Instant Ocean reef crystals and to increase water changes to...

I have a 14 Gal BioCube that's about a month old now and everything is doing great. Happy fish and inverts. The only thing is that I can't seem to get the nitrates down below 20 ppm. I have 16 lbs of live rock and three fish, a couple of hermits, three snails and a half dozen ghost shrimp. I'm...

My 252 litre tank has been maturing nearly 2 weeks with 2 pieces (approx 5kg) of live rock. I have no ammonia, nitrites are registering 0.25ppm and nitrates are registering 20ppm, should I do a water change or leave the cycle to carry on??

Hi I hope someone can give me some advice I am very new to this, I have a 28 gallon nano cube I am currently running my first water cycle it has been running now for almost 3 weeks I have added live sand and about 20kgs of live rock after about 4 days, the guy in the pet store told me to check...

So here is my problem, i accidently put non saltwater sand in my saltwater aquarium. i spoke to the man at the pet store and he told me it doesnt make a difference the only thing is that there isnt an aragonite so i will have to watch the ph level. now here is my question.. 1. im going to add...