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Ive had my Yellow Tang , Regal Tang, and Picasso together in the same tank (50g quarantine) and I have never had a problem at all. My Regal and Picasso swim together all the time. I would however in any case, take caution and keep an eye on your fish. First sign of abuse...remove the instigator or aggressive fish!

My Snowflake never did take to the pellets (NLS). My Piccasso Trigger wont eat them either. I had them both on Krill, and they absolutely LOVED the Silverside Minnows. (SanFransisco Brand I think) Aquarium Enthusiasts carry them.

Yey...sump day! :thumbs:

Regardless, the Eel HAS to eat the fresh stuff...he wont eat pellets. Once I stick anything in that tank, the Picasso and the Eel go phsyco. Its a no win. Amazing pics, lotta fish for a 100g!

Yeah, you got it! Major mess and pain in the but to feed these guys....The Picasso and the Eel anyways. They get overly agressive because they eat the same food. They get a mixture of Krill, Brine shrimp, and silversides. The nasty stuff is just like you thought...soft brown sludgie stuff. I talked to my Husband last night, and we decided we're not happy with the overall set up on this tank. We bought it used from a guy whobuilt it himself. We've had it for 2 years, first with our Cichlids, then sold them to Edmontonrx7 and went salt. Probably gonna sell it as well as our 65 and just get one 90 gal tank and set it up as a reef. Less hassle and nicer to look at. Kinda sux to sell the Picasso, cuz we just basically got him. We might keep the Eel though.

I agree, we have a Remora Pro on our 65 reef tank, and that baby is crystal clear. The coraline is amazing and the fish are really happy. We are running a XP2 filter on that one. Nitrates are a bit higher....we started cleaning out the sponges every week and using RO water, and seems to be helping. Cant afford to do that with the 130.

Yeah, as a matter of fact, the brown algae just started last week....I'll try the lights off for a bit. Another factor is that the tank is on the warm side. Its in our basement with no heater. Our basement sucks, as it is always warm believe it or not!

Running into a few problems.....well not problematic for the fish, but rather an eyesore and cause for possible future concern. Anyhoo, our 130 gal FOWLR tank has been running for about 1-2 months. Inhabitants are: Medium Picasso Trigger, 12-18" Snoflake Eel, Large Regal Tang and Rusty Angel. (not too many fish). Our tank has an overflow, and we are runnin a sump below as our filtration. All our chem tests are good. Seems there is a brownish colored..looks like sand sitting on the bottom of the sump and all over the media. Not sure if what we have is sufficiant. We have Bio balls in the overflow column and 4 sump compartments consisting of : 1-live rock frags, 2- Black Foam, 3 Nitrate absorbing substrate, 4 - more live rock frags. I'd really like this tank to be as clean as possible. Does anyone have any tips or does and donts for a better set up in the sump?? I think maybe a protein skimmer might be needed. I need all the help I can get......starting to get frustrated, the tank doesnt look very nice anymore!

So we have had our 130 gal cycling with our new live rock for almost a month, no die off on the rock but a bit of algae. I have been testing the water and today this is what the outcome was: nitrite - 3.0 ammonia - 0 pH -8.2 nitrate - 20 Salinity 1.026 How come levels of nitrite would be up if the nitrate is down...is this because there are no fish to help the nitrite/ammonia cycle along too establish good water. I dont remember this happening to our 65 gal. I would assume that just a simple water change would do the trick? Any info would help..thanx

Thanks for the info guys!! The Remora seems to be not as bad as it was when we started. They have both been running for at least a week, and both are collecting scum sooooo..........I guess we'll just ride it out! I'll be sure to check out that web page Marella. Thanks again!

The skimmer is not in the sump. The bubbles are entering the tank directly via the skimmer output. Maybe I just have crappy skimmers. We have 2 and we tried both....they do the same thing. One is the AquariumSystems Sea Clone 100 and the other is the AquaC Remora.

So our 130 gal is finally set up for SW, and all the live rock is in. Just waiting for it to completely cycle as there was some die-off. Anyhoo, we have a protein skimmer on the tank now and with all the bubbles it puts out, the tank appears to be cloudy. However, if we turn it down to produce less bubbles it seems to not do its job of bubbling up into the canister to get the gunk off the surface of water. First question: Should the water appear cloudy with bubbles? Second question: Is the skimmer still doing its job when turned down, or just pushing the nasty water back into the tank?? We dont need a skimmer on the 65 gal FOWLR, so this is all new to us. Help is greatly appreciated!

Thanks, I also have a chocolate chip. When I clean the glass I usually just knock him off and if he crawls back on, hes good to go! Thanks for the info.

Jusr out of curiosity, how would you know if a starfish was dead? I would imagine it would no longer move around with its little tenticles. Would it lose color or anything? I heard that they can live for years and years, and that it could actually live out of water for a few days?

Hello from Fort Sask! My name is Michelle and I'm 25, been doin the fish thing for 5 years now, and like everyone else, my husband and I started out small and now our hobbie has exploded. We are mainly into S.African Cichlids and Marine fish. Good friends with Edmontonrx7 on here, and on Nex as well. Really good site!! Thanks! :thumbs: