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There is a book called The Marine Aquarium Handbook by Martin A Moe. It has a good section on breeding marine fish. To keep the clowns happy you need a sea anemone. Keeping this alive is harder than keeping the clowns alive. Researh the anemone before you buy it. Most like good water flow. Some like VERY strong water flow. I have a gigas anemone that sits under protein skimmer return pipes and also has a powerhead blowing on it. Depending on the type you will need moderate to very intense light. If you can find a copy of The Reef Aquarium vol.2 it has most anemone types and the conditions they require.

Red Sea do Marine Green for growing marine algae. A good calcium level would be important for some of the calcifying algaes.

Tell you what. Find me a wholesaler that will give me a 100% money back guarentee on every fish I buy, not dying on route, not dying on arrival, not causing a disease outbreak, not dying in my care, not dying for at least 1 year after I sell it and not costing me anything to keep then I will go that extra mile and sell it at wholesale +10%. You can't ask fairer than that. While you are at it, tell the land lord I ain't paying the rent, find me staff that work for free and take the food out of my kids mouths. It's the standard rule of retail. 80% of your income comes from 20% of your customers. It applies to fish as well. 80% of your fish sales come from 20% of your fish stock. But who would go to a fish shop that only stocked 20% of the varietys of fish available. Since some of you guys are so concern with price I will put some JBL marine supplements and test kits and Instant Ocean salt mix on trade me. W/S + 50% for me +12.5% for Aunty Helen and Co and only $5 freight to you. All things considered it should sell like wildfire (that will show me).

Stone and Water World is good. They have a wholesale division that stores buy off.

I think Masterpet will be the wholesaler responsible for that brand. Any pet store should be able to order it from them.

Only took me seven tries. Pity the Bay or Waikato couldn't manage that many....

A small wrasse would take care of them. A six line or something similiar. The shrimpy things will definately go into hidding while the lights are on. My tank is crawling with them as soon as the lights go out.

I use the JBL test kits. The phosphate seems petty good and the calcuim/magnesium.

Wiskers must die!!!! Just don't break it in half.....

SUCCESS!!!!!!!

How long has the tank been setup for and what type of phosphate remover are you using?

Fill it up!!!! Get that water level to the top. Always looks nicer if you can't see the water line. Your fish will look like they are floating.

I would probably say ammonia and nitrite posioning. You are making their tank way to clean. Only change about 25% of the water about once a week. Take some clean water out of the tank and wash the filter parts in it. Only feed twice a day. Take some water to your local pet store and see if they can test the Ph level and test or ammonia. Good luck!

Try some indian fern. Take it out of the pot and let it/them float on top of the water. They grow really big quickly, draw up tons of nutrients and cut down light entering the water. Reproduces easily. A leaf will start to disintergrate as it grows new mini plants on it. These will then seperate. You need to take the weights of. The vallisaneria reproduces by sending of runner shoots from the base. The weights stop them doing this most of the time. I would plant the ambulia as single stems. It will look more natural, cover a larger area and be easy for the fish to swim through. You may just need to bury the stems deeper. I would take the clay balls out if you can and give the tank some good water changes to get the nutrient levels under control. Get some algae eaters like bristlenoses or blackline flying foxes. They will help.

Relax, forget about them, become a buddist and be one with all animals. Buy a puffer, skunk loaches (both can be nippy), or just about any type of loach. Also depends on the type of snail. What do they look like? Also predators don't kill them all. They just make them hide.

They do black coloured (painted) gravel - not a cheap option. Grey would be much cheaper. Something like brightwater.

Carbon is great for getting your water extra clear. Especially any yellowing caused by wood or decaying matter. Well worth using. If left in long term it can leech things back into the water. It would probably never kill your fish. I would replace it one a month if you are going to use it.

Pacu fish are a real bad idea. They grow to a huge size and are a very nervous fish. I agree with the Silver Dollar option. The females grow larger than the males. Still a nervous fish but not massive. Forget about any types of plants unless they are for food. These guys even eat Java Fern and that stuff is pretty tuff. Cost about $14.00 each. Grow to about 20cm max. You could probably fit about 6 full grown ones in a 4 foot tank.

If the actual water is green then the best thing you can do is kill all light for three of four days to make the algae bloom crash. You could test for phosphate and nitrate but these could well be zero as the algae bloom has already consumed them. Have you taken the carbon (if any) out of your filtration system? If not this will be cancelling out the effect of any algae killers you are using. Check your water supply that is going into the tank.

Could be a silly question, but did you take the weights of the plants? When it comes time to trim the ambulia, trim it hard. A couple of leaf joins above the gravel. This will make it grow up nice and straight without branching. If you trim it high, the stems will branch and roots will grow down from the joins resulting in a tangle of roots. If you trim a couple of stems regularly you will always have some tall ones forming a screen. What type of lighting do you have?

Then what would the difference be?

You also need a licence to keep undersized snapper - minor legal detail. They grow real quick, greedy little pigs.

Spotted and Figure eights go well together (about $28 each). Will both survive in freshwater. Brackish generally runs at half the salinity of saltwater - about 1.010 is good. Individual puffer temprement can very greatly. We have a massive spotted puffer in our shop (not for sale). It has been in freshwater for at least five years. About 10cm long and VERY fat. Lives with heaps of guppies, bristlenose etc. Select fast or cheap tankmates. Check out www.wetwebmedia.com. They have heaps of info on plants for brackish systems.

I refused to stock them in my shop. Lets just say there are more than a few wholesalers in New Zealand who have life time supplies of those fine ornaments.