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I always try to recomend 100 gallon tanks with loads of liverock for mandarins. Not because they need the swimming room but because they need this amount of liverock to sustain them in Pods. Mandarins eat pods on liverock, if you do get it to feed onanything else then you are very lucky and...

Follow the design above. if you dont want mud for filtrtion then simply remove the trenches. Its a simple design and a small tank wil suffice,

Yep, Lionfish, MOrays, Triggers.. they all tend to be huge on the bioloads. this means a tank of this size would not hold much more.. anything that you could add in all reality would be considered Fuzzy food.

Yeah taht is a pretty aggressive tank. The puffer will make short work of any shrimp it finds. Your fish willlikely be ok but the rest will suffer. Of course you could be lucky... Its a risk though and not one i would be willing ot take.

Agreed withthe post above. The horseshoe really needs to go as they are clumsy and grow huge! It seems to me like the fish have been atacked during the night. Chromis will usually find a hidey hole after dark so you might find there is a stray hitchhiker in the rock... Best thing to do is...

How long have you had it? What size tank do you have? What other types of fish are in with it and is it getting bullied? Water perameters would be a good idea to post also. We need as much information as possible to help diagnose what might be the trouble.

I might be wrong here but i think you will find the Moon wrasse will grow far too large for a 26 gallon tank.

I have yet to see a UV wipe out a population of pods. "IF" a UV is ran at the correct flow as recomended by the manufacturers then it will help. I have a friend who owns a shop and time after time, people come in asking for ICh cures.. they try all the usual methods, garlic, Ocotzin, Oodinex...

Fish First is right. No offense but surviving anf thriving are totally different things. just because you have great skimmers and equipment like that doesnt grant the tang extra swimming room. the only way to give the tang extra swimming room is to give it a bigger tank. If the fish gets...

Do you have any livstock in the tank at the moment?

Well done! your obviously an experienced reefkeeper and keeping these anemones for this amount of time is a credit to you. I still stand by my views that anemones should not be kept unless the person is extremly experienced with them.. Whilst you are right that these creatures can be kept under...

Yeah bi colours tend to sit in a hole and watch the world go by. they then dart out and grab a mouthful of food only to dart back inagain. this is pretty quick so you need to be alert or you will miss it

well for a start it give you more water volume so it adds to the water stability. You can also put the heater and skimmer (if you use one) down here so its hidden from view in the main tank and thus giving more room for your fish and rocks etc. The main reason for a sump though is to give...

Nope it doesnt attack other fish. I kept bicolour blennies, Hectors gobies, firrefish, clown anthias with it.. all these are relatively small and could easily be picked on by a fish of this type. It ignored them totally. Its a very greedy fish and at feeding time it would use its muscle to...

I made my own. I just got a 3ft tank and modified it. Here is a design for the Miracle mud type system. And here is my setup with my current tank (although the return pump is now inside the sump rather than outside).

As near perfect as possible. Anemones are basicaly large bags of water so its very important that the water is very high quality. An anemone needs 2 things i n its life. Excellant water and excellant light. if it has not got these then it will simply wander off to find the right...

No not at all. They are mainly planktonic feeders and rather shy to be honest. When they are settled they are very active and great fun to watch with lots of character. They are prone to jumping as they are easily startled though. My old bluethroat shared a cave with 3 bloodshrimps and never...

Anthias are a nice colourful fish if you can address their feeding habits. Royalgrammas are nice fish though if you keep dottybacks it might be an issue. And for the more unusual of reef inhabitantsm how about a Bluethroat Trigger. The males are more colourful than the female but they are...

It would ertainly lower his resistance and immune system whilst it recovers.

The 2 centre pieces of rock were securely stacked together. this created a great cave for my Marine beta. But when irebuilt it, i simply could not get them to go back the same way again. at least not safely so i was forced to re-arrange the tank. :mad: For now i am not overly bothered what...