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Thanks. We have already decided to wait to get the new fish. We were hoping for sometime around the end of April. But since it's Italy and there aren't alot of choices on where to get the fish from,...

Thankyou, I just looked at the sunset butterfly. They are beautiful. I will ask him if he can get me one. He says the eel is at full size. Do you think that's not the case?

Just an update. We've been keeping up with the water changes (did 2 20 liter changes during the week) and just finished full cleaning today - kids even helped with the cleaning which was great. Also...

I don't think my test shows the salinity of the water. The water we bought was premixed at the fish store - it's the same kind that the fish man uses when he normally changes the tank. When I go in...

Hi Cliff and Glarior,

We did a full cleaning last night ( the first one we've done on our own. Yeah!!!!). Scrubbed everything, cleanned the skimmer, changed 3 pad in the filter (white, black and...

Perfect we cleaned the tank tonight and will submit the results in the morning,

Cliff,

Do you have any idea why the nitrate level would be so high on such a new tank? The boys got it for their birthdays in July. It was cycled for 5 weeks. Then had the fox face rabbit fish...

Will do. My husband got some water so we're going to try cleaning it ourselves tonight.

Thankyou

glarior our nh3 is a 40 - which is what the fish man marked as being ideal on the box - tonight is the first time I've used a stick test because usually he does it in a test tube. The package says 0...

Thankyou,

We will start by changing the water first thing tommorrow.

Hi Cliff,

Thankyou for chiming in. I would like to say I know all the answers to your questions, but I think part of the problem is I've relied too heavily on the fish man (who is good and...

The boss of the tank is definitely the clownfish. When we feed the eel, the clownfish goes first and the eel waits for her to get out of the way. The damsel will get in wherever she can, and then...

KevinVa, do you think the Anemones will grow? I just looked up that they can be hard to grow in a small tank. I love the idea of them.

Hi talldutchie,

I'm in Italy. Yes hindsight is better, but the fish man said that it was all really simple and he would set it up. So we didn't know.

KevinVa - won't the Anemonies be a problem...

Maybe, but we didn't know? Now that we have the tank we need to work with what we have.

Double checked it's a 47 -50 gallon (Rio 180)

Hi, I'm new to keeping an aquarium. We bought the aquarium in July ( I think it's a 55 or 60 gallon) as a birthday present for our 3 boys (they each saved all of their birthday money and pitched in...