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How to feed saltwater fish while on vacation?? help?

Posted on February 20, 2011 by admin| 11 Comments

I have a 20 gallon saltwater tank with a clown fish and 2 damsels. I live in a dorm and they are kicking us out from Friday the 21st until Sunday the 30th for Thanksgiving break. I went to the fish store where I bought my fish and i thought you could put like a 10 day or 7 day dissolving tablet so they can eat, but the guy said they wont work in saltwater. So thats my first problem. My other problem is that he has me feeding them Brine Shrimp so they arent “used” to flake food. My mother seems to think there is something you can put in the water. Shes calling it a “pill” but i told her there isnt anything. And if there is, its not for sale around where I live. What do you guys suggest I do? is there actually a pill or something thatll dissolve that i can put in there? Thanks
What does doing the water change before/after i leave and come back do for the fish?

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Can I own a male and female red claw crab in the same tank?

Posted on January 9, 2011 by admin| 1 Comment

Okay so i have a 2.5 gallon tank. I know male red claw crabs are very territorial, but will a male and female get along? Also, the fish store said that the reason the crabs don’t fight in the tanks that are in the store is because there is soooo many that it actually offsets them being territorial. So can I get like 4 or 5 in the 2.5 gallon tank or will it be a blood bath? I want more than one, so hopefully i can get a male and female, but if a male is too territorial, can i get more to offset it?

Also, if i can squeeze another question in- am i able to raise brine shrimp in the tank so that they have a constant supply of food or will that not work out? Thanks.

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cycling question….or-uncycling….?

Posted on November 11, 2010 by admin| 6 Comments

alo everyone. yesterday i went to petsmart to get an aquaclear filter and i also bought bloodworms (frozen) since the dwarf puffers werent eating their brine shrimp. now i got home and they LOVED the worms. but the problem is, today, the power went out. so the filter didnt work, obviously, and the fish were swimming near the top of the sides. now, i hear that means they are bored, but they never did that until today; it think they were looking for oxygen. so i bouught a battery opperated air pump: good. so i went to feed them their worms, and i dropped like a hundred in there! =/ i got as most as i could out, but an hour later, they were still munching on them. ughh, so yeah, i’m figuring theyll die. but my question is, the guy at the fish store said to do a water change. if i do this, will that uncycle the tank? because onnce im done doing that, and the water is good again (not dirty with shrimp and worm remains) i want to get more dwarfs, but will i have to recycle it again or not???

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I need to get live brine shrimp for my Betta fish but don’t know where to get it What store can I get it from?

Posted on October 31, 2010 by admin| 3 Comments

What NAMES of stores can I get it from, don’t say the local fish store say the names of the stores. And I do not want to grow them myself, I just want to get some shrimp to feed my betta Jordan.I searched up betta information and it said I need Brine Shrimp as often as I can. Can someone help!?

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i went to the fish store yesterday and saw that they had the puffer i wanted?

Posted on October 5, 2010 by admin| 4 Comments

ok i went to my fish store to buy a blennie and noticed there was the puffer i wanted it looked ALMOST exactly alike the one i wanted and bought it and my blennie and a small gobie (darnit haha should had bought that 1:00 bag of live brine shrimp) anyway and i went home got online and looked to make sure it was the right puffer but it wasnt but i already had bonded with it anyway and i was wondering the original puffer i wanted was a honeycomb puffer and i wanted to kno can i get that without them fighting… i mean a territoreal chase every now and again is fine i mean no killing anyway can i here are the fish i haveits a 55 gallon tank

1 yellow watchman gobie
1 snowflake eel
3 damsel fish
1 maroon goldstripe clown
that puffer i mentioned the 1 blue dot puffer and
1 lawnmower blennie so can i get the honeycomb puffer?? cause i really want it and grab
oh yea this puffers doing fine eating pecking at the rocks and hes a blue dot puffer

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