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Feed mine brine shrimp, plankton pallets. Eats anything.

Up to you really. I have sand in mine. Just so that it doesn't look bare. There are other practical considerations too. If you are using the quarantine tank as a hospital tank, there are other problems. Copper based medicine are toxic to fish and inverts. If you treat your fish in here, these medicine may linger in the sand. You will just have an additional item to wash up after treatment. Happy reefing.

I lost a damsel once, in a 1ft cube tank. Searched everywhere, including outside the tank. Totally no trace. Wierd huh! Understand your feeling. Sometimes, its like the twilight zone. Happy hunting.

There is always an element of luck involved in choosing livestock. Its a hit and miss thing. I have purchased fish from Reb*** before, some are gone, some are still around. Not that I'm trying to support the shop. I have setup a quarantine tank as an insurance. Works for me.

Sounds like a prison with a small exercise yard. I keep a 1 inch layer of sand in my quarantine tank. (Some fishes like wrasse likes to sleep in the sand). And a LR. Sometimes more if I am quarantining new LRs. Better cycle your quarantine tank as well. Might as well do it now, together with your main tank. Your LS may have to stay here for a while, don't want them to die here before reaching your show tank. A simple sponge filter will do, provided you don't keep many fishes here. The LR will provide some form of biological filtration. Happy reefing.

Do you have anyother marine feed? Try some other stuff. Mine take plankton tablets. I break the tabs into smaller pieces to "aid digestion".

Can't tell from your description. Do you have any water measurements, like NH3, NO2, NO3, pH, etc. We need these info to give you a better diagnosis. Can you identify where the oil comes from? Do you know that oil on the surface will block gaseous exchange between the water and the air? This may result in a low O2. If you have a PH, you can direct it to blow near the surface. The resulting current will send the film of oil to your overflow.

Well said. A lot of reading is required. Many of us started this way. THE WRONG WAY! Advice from here, from there, from almost anyone but the ones with the knowledge. Good thing is that you realise this early. Pack up your fish bro and send it back to the shop. And let the cycle begin!

It would be better to leave the water for a while. Some leave it overnight, (I do that). Some reefers prefer to leave it for a couple of days. If you do that, remember to aerate your water. Chorine will evaporate from the water if you give it time. Cheers.

Good point Admiral. No short cuts here.

Damn fierce. A waste if you are not in the military service. Hey, we may be jumping the gun here. Jas has his LS in the tank for about 2 weeks now. If his tank is not properly cycled, the bioload from all the LS should have started the cycle by now. The fact that NH3 and NO2 are still low shows that the bacteria in the tank are able to cope. Anyways, most of your current LS can take the low NH3 and NO2. Long term exposure will result in death of LS. Lets not be so hasty about fishing out all the LS. Check your parameters daily. If NH3 and NO2 goes up further, you'd better have a backup to place your LS. On another note, you might want to remove your LS if you are going to put in your LRs soon. By doing so, you can prevent accidentally crushing the life out of your LS and new LRs tend to kick off another mini cycle, that can kill your LS. One way to prevent the mini cycle is to quarantine any new LRs in another tank. I put my new LRs in a quarantine tank for up to 3 weeks. Hope that helps. Good luck.

Must be some error during the migration process. Here's the list again. Marine_v1_1__2__1_.1.doc

Leaf Fish? Any pics?

Don't have such a problem with my CS. Over enthusiastic perhaps.

Clams and a tank packed full of corals does not in any way suggest that you were on a budget. Anyway, nice tank.

By the way, where did you find this?

Relax. Its normal in the cycling process. If the smell is not that great, don't bother to do any water changes. Let the cycle resolve itself. Don't worry about the LRs. They will survive the process. Don't re-do. You will only start off another round of cycling again. Test your water every couple of days. Ammonia and Nitrite should go down to 0. Be patient.

Don't think that it is feasible. The overhead filter should be quite shallow. No space if you want algae for nutrient export.

Not the LFS. Its a natural process, when the anemone is not getting the right conditions for its growth. It will slowly lose colour and turn white. This process is called bleaching.

Like spidey said, it is ok to disturb the top layer of your sandbed. I vacuum my sandbed regularly to clean up all the dirt, algae and etc. Its good maintenance. However, don't try to vacuum all the way down to the lower regions of your sandbed. Hope that helps.

I quarantine new LRs in my quarantine tank. Not that it carries disease or something. This is so that any die offs on the LR will be confined to my quarantine tank. I definitely do not need another mini nitogen cycle in my main tank. I usually leave them there for 2 weeks. As for the corals, I don't have the practice of putting them in quarantine.

That's right. You do not need to worry about dKH and Calcium in a fish only system. If you keep inverts like shrimps and corals, you will need to consider elements like calcium and iodine. Keeping a fish only system in a mature tank is relatively work free, I could even get by without testing my water for weeks, (even for pH), just make sure to clean the filters often.

Wah. So serious. I have had nudibranch die in my tank before. Twice in fact, when I had a 1ft cube tank. No noticeable effect then. I guess it depends on what you keep. If you only keep hardy fishes, I think the effect of a nudibranch death is minimal. Anyway its quite rare to find long lived examples. Most die within the 1st 2 or 3 months.

Here's the list. Its in one of the old threads. Marine_v1_1__2__1_.1.doc

Wooden racks should be ok. Some of the LFS use wooden racks too. Like R*b**n. I would advise that you check the quality of the wood and do a bit of stress testing. (Try getting a couple of friends to stand on it). A marine tank with water and LRs and be very heavy.