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They can start eating immediately. Just crush up flake food into TINY granules and they should eat away and grow fast. Congrats!

Good luck! I managed to keep running my 9 tanks while in high school (tanks ranging from 29g- 209g) and part time job plus caring for my horses ;). It is all about balance and dedication! Then in college, I would drive 45 mins to my parents house weekly to do the water changes on the tanks at...

Try using live/frozen foods along with increasing the temp to around 81, that usually triggers a reproduction response which will encourage the bubbleness building. Hope this helps.

The Bumble Bee Grouper reaches somewhere between 6 feet and 9 feet in the wild, so IMHO, it is best left in the Ocean. They lose their beautiful color as a baby and turn mostly brown with greenish spots. Again, best left in the ocean imo!

My Mollies will eat their young ;). I have 3 Dalmation Mollies, the 2 females I had in freshwater, then they had babies and both of them got really thin and lethargic. I have a 40g Brackish tank also so switched them over to the brackish tank and both completely rebounded and both have had...

How long has the Danio been in the tank? I have 6 Zebra's in my tank and I can tell you they NEVER sit still, not even for a second ;). How many others do you have, they definitely feel safer in numbers of their own kind. I would just keep an eye on it and hopefully it will come around and...

My guess would be White Clouds too. I had some a few years ago that bred in 76-78 degree water, so they will breed in warmer temps. Good luck if you were able to catch any survivors and I'm sure there will be a next time if not! Congrats!

I have a Crowntail Male Betta in a 20g with a Penguin 330 (which provides a lot of current) and he does just fine in it! It really depends on the individual betta and how much flow they can tolerate. You can find media bags at pretty much an fish store including Petco and Petsmart. Petco has...

I have the same black gravel and had no problem after washing it before putting it in the tank. The tank is completely clear. Not sure why yours turned the water. I washed mine in just normal tap water with a pasta strainer and then put into the tank. Maybe try draining some of the water and...

Few things stick out: 1) in another thread you said it is a turtle tank, what size? As a 40gBreeder which is the largest turtle tank that I know of only provides 20g of water. That alone is FAR too small of a water volume for a Scat, let alone a scat and land area for a Skippy. 2) Scats are...

Also do a search in the brackish forums, mudskippers have been brought up a lot in this forum and there is tons of info already here on them :)! The Turtle Tank on one of the short sides of the tank, the glass is cut 1/2 way down the wall, there is a gap for a filter then there is a plastic...

Unfortunately this is why Cleaner Wrasses are best left in the Ocean. In the Ocean they cover 1/4 of a square mile per fish and work on the fish within that area, clearly a tank has no where near that capacity and 90 percent of cleaner wrasses won't eat in captivity. Even the ones that do, 99...

Yes, long term you will need at LEAST a 200 gallon tank for all them! Make sure the Niger isn't harrassing the puffer causing him not to eat. I would try at all costs NOT to feed fw fish to sw. It is the equivalent to eating at McDonalds every day, they can and do get fatty liver disease because...

The Seahorses will be a no go, they need their own species tank and don't do well in the currents that Corals and normal saltwater fish like. So I would nix them from the list. You could do the Clowns, some type of Goby or Blenny then the Stars and CBS. The tank will be a little small even...

Did you just get the Magnum with Bio-Wheel? If so that will cause a cycle too. I would look into adding some Powerheads to increase water flow. I had a 209g saltwater tank that I acclimated 4 Silver Scats to and they were ALWAYS playing in the strong current of the return water along with the...

Also do a search in this forum as this topic has been brought up a few times. Most of the backish fish that go to salt such as the Monos and Scats will get FAR too large for a 55g in no time. They are active schooling fish that do best in groups of at least 6 and need a 180g. Mollies and...

Snails they most likely won't touch unless really really hungry. But Crabs and Shrimps etc are fair game and a natural food source for them! What kind of Lionfish do you have? Watch the water quality as they produce a lg bioload and they don't do well with bad water quality. Hope this helps...

I would DEFINITELY not hand feed an Eel, it may be cute now but Eels have HORRIBLE vision and your fingers are not far off from the food. Totally agree on the not feeding feeder fish, it is not good for them, plus they are crustacean eaters, not fish. When I kept Morays, I would go to the...

I wouldn't put a Dogface in that small of a tank, even as a baby. I would say bare minimum of a 55g for the small dogfaces you see in the pet stores, they are a HUGE bioload for any filter to handle. In a 37g I would look more at the Sharpnose Puffers (Canthigaster sp.). There are some really...

Some other Brackish water fish that do migrate to saltwater as adults are Monos and Scats but both will get far too large for the 75 as they are a schooling fish. So I would just stick with Mollies, Guppies and Puffers.