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I have a 16" to 18" Lanceolatus grouper for sale. It is in full salt water, I have had it for about 1.5 years. I am wanting to down size and would like to find it a new home. Absolutely nothing wrong with this fish, very healthy and disease/parasite free. No body or fin damage. It has always...

Admittedly my tank is overstocked, it is a display tank in an aquarium shop. However, the maintenance being performed on this aquarium is maintaining proper water quality and I am in a position to move the smooth hound to a much larger aquarium when that time arrives. I don't at all agree that...

Will your travels take you near or thru LA?

I have kept California Rays, Yellow rays and cortez ray together, the only "gray zone" was that the California and Cortez may have preferred the water temperature a little cooler, They all mixed well together. I currently have an 8 x 3 x 2 with a horn shark, two baneded bamboo (punctatum), a...

Very gently pinch or squeeze the tube between your fingers, if the worm is still alive inside the tube you will feel it "jerk" inside reacting to you touching it. If all it did was loose the "feathers" it probably is still alive. Feather dusters often loose their head when something stressful...

I think it is going to be tough to offer a good answer to this question with as little information as given about this aquarium. How is it being filtered? How long has it been up and running? Has anything been done to biologically establish it? Have you tested the waters parameters and if so...

I have turtle grass living in a few of my sumps. I have found it to be fairly easy but it does need some pretty intence light. I am using two hamilton 175 watt 55K metal halides for light. Turtle grass typically occours in relitivly shallow clear water so light penitration and proper kelvin...

I would assume you want 1.5" fittings for the Durso type stand pipe. It has been my experiance that the wall thickness of the fittings does not make a noticable difference. I am using regular old sch 40 on my tanks that have the durso type stand pipes and they work just as well as the one with...

Blue line triggers (P. fuscus) Queen Triggers, virridescens triggers & undulate triggers are about as mean as it gets. I agree that many of the other fish listed here have some serious attitude but if all fish were the same size and were paired against each other, any of the above fish would...

U.V sterilizers flow your aquarium water thru a tube exposing the aquarium water to ultra violet light with the theory that anything floating in the water (I.E. parasites etc..) will be killed. They are very usefull if sized and set up correctly. Many are under sized with to high a water flow...

Hey, Sorry for the slow response, been very busy. I looked at the picture, that appears to be pitting in the face and head. What people generically refer to as hole in the head disease. It isn't a disease but a condition that occours for one (or more) of several reasons. Water quality...

I have them on several tanks with them. Pretty neat looking and can be benificial, espcially on reef type set ups. If you wanting to add these to an existing set up, may I suggest the ones made by Current. Nice, reasonable prices model that's easy to install. Joel

THis is a pretty tough question to answer with out more information. I'll take a stab at it but I think we'll need some more info from you to get a better answer. What size aquarium is it in? Tangs often do poorly in smaller aquariums, (55 and under) What is your water quality? Must be pH...

Using a sponge to lower nitrates is kind-of an old school method that can work. THis method does not use the traditional sponge filter many people use today hooked up to a powerhead or air pump. This method would have a thick (several inches thick) foam pad laying in the sump of a filtration...

I think the practice of grounding the aquarium water is more often done in saltwater due to its greater conductivity. I personally groung my freshwater aquariums as well. Get a multi meter and test your water with and without the probe. It's amazing how much electricity can be in the water. Joel

An ozone generator is what produces the ozone gas. It can either be pumped or drawn into what ever type filter is being used. Ozone is O3 with 3 atoms of oxygen. This is a unstable arrangment and quickly wants to loose the 3rd atom of oxygen and become O2 (oxygen). THe extra oxygen atom has...

THat's some good information Mr. Oddball. I'm building a fairly large, out door holding system for pond fish and plants and was planning on including a very large protien skimmer I have. Mabye I can use it with out a ozone generator and controller. I'll give it a try and see what happens......

Let me throw some conflict into this thread...... Protien skimmers will work on freshwater systems if either built specifically for freshwater or if modified. I agree that the "off the shelf" models made for marine tanks won't produce foam typically. I have made skimmers that will produce...