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Hey I want to get some new saltwater fish.?

Posted on February 23, 2011 by admin| 1 Comment

I have a 40 gallon reef tank and I already have two small colonies of polyps and 2 small mushrooms on a rock and i will eventually get more corals, as you know corals are no fun without fish. I know some fish have to be put in before or after others or they will fight, I need to know the order I should put the fish from this list in. Blue Hamlet, Bi color Anthias (3 female, 1 male), Sunrise Dottyback, Copper banded butterfly fish, Fishers Angel fish, Potter’s Angel fish Multi barred Angel fish (couldn’t make up my mind so feel free to chose for me), mating pair Maroon clowns (preferably gold striped maroons), a mating pair of Scott’s Fairy Wrasse(female first then buy the mail), Midas Blenny and Radall”s shrimp Goby, maybe some cleaner shrimp and hermit crabs. If your wondering im going to put them in at least a week apart, and if you are wondering where im getting my money from, I work at the saltwater fish and garden store so i get good discounts. Help me if you can by giving me the order of which I should put them in. Thanks!

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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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do brine shrimp need saltwater if i am going to feed them to saltwater fish?

Posted on February 17, 2011 by admin| 2 Comments

also, do they need lighting?

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Can I have a full ecosystem in my saltwater aquarium like this?

Posted on February 13, 2011 by admin| 8 Comments

I am planning on building a very large saltwater aquarium, and I was wondering if this was a good idea for it…..

I want to have an almost fully independent ecosystem functioning in my tank. My first step is that I’m going to add a lot of saltwater plants, such as maiden’s hair plant, shaving brush plant, Halimeda plant, lettuce algae, chaetomorpha algae, and mermaid’s fan plant. I know most, if not all of these, are made primarily of algae, and some require lots of calcium to grow (will extra calcium harm fish?)

I then want to add copepods, brine shrimp, saltwater platies, shrimp, plankton, and tons of other live foods to the tank. The plan is to have the tank somewhat separated into several parts, with holes in the walls (made of live rock) that are only big enough for the feeder fish and shrimp etc. to swim through, but not large enough for the predator fish to swim through them. I am hoping that the live food will breed on the one side of the tank, then either swim to or be placed into the other side where the larger fish can eat them.

I know this probably wouldn’t sustain many fish with just the live foods, I do also plan on feeding all the fish I have occasionally…but I was just wondering if this is a good or even feasible idea for a saltwater aquarium.

This was also my idea for housing several different species of fish that aren’t compatible with each-other. I was going to divide the tank into several sections using live-rock, and maintain the larger carnivorous fish on one side, with holes in the live rock they can’t swim through to get to my smaller fish.

can this work?
I’m looking for like 1000 gallons at least. And I did mention that I was also planning on feeding the fish (with supplemented food or manual movement of the live food), on top of the natural live food in the tank.
I’m looking for like 1000 gallons at least. And I did mention that I was also planning on feeding the fish (with supplemented food or manual movement of the live food), on top of the natural live food in the tank.

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Cleaning saltwater tank with a mandarin goby (dragonet)?

Posted on January 27, 2011 by admin| 5 Comments

I am starting up a reef tank and would eventually like to get a mandarin (in 6 plus months after much research). I am putting in crushed coral substrate and adding live rock.
I know these fish feed off of copepods (sometimes brine shrimp). I am wondering how you clean the substrate. If you vacuum the substrate, aren’t you vacuuming up the copepods – thus the mandarins food source? How does that work?
I am curious and cant figure it out.
Thank you.

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