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I recently got a Koran Angelfish added to my tank about almost a month ago. I also have a pinktail trigger, fox face, Toby puffer, sailfin tang. I have noticed it is pretty shy and when I feed frozen with tongs it doesn't come out at all to eat but if I put pellets it would maybe scrounge one...

I got this yellow clown goby a little over a month ago and he was really skinny at the time. I've been feeding him only frozen mysis and recently frozen copepods, he's showed interest in pellets but is too small to eat them. I've been getting concerned about how skinny he is and I put him in an...

Bought a WC ocellaris last week. Its 3 inches long pretty big already but it wont swallow any pelleted food. It will eat the pellets then spit it right out. I had smaller WC clowns do this previously but would eat my pellets on the 2nd-3rd day. This one won’t budge. Its not thin so im not...

Just got a new snowflake eel 2 days ago and tried feeding it cut up fresh grouper fillet but it isn’t interested at all. Its a decent sized one over a foot long and thick as a thumb. I read they wont eat when new to a tank but the other 2 snowflakes i had before ate the same day i got them. Any...

I’ve had this blue hippo for about 6 days now. He rarely eats and sometimes swims around. Now all of a sudden he is sitting by this heater at the top of the tank the whole time or sometimes he sits in the same corner and just sits there. What should I do please help lol?!

I have a bi colored angelfish and it’s been nipping my Kenya tree is there anything I can do?

Hello, i am once again attempting to keep moorish idols and regal angels after ive lost my previous ones to my velvet outbreak almost 2 years ago, from lack of observation in qt of an orangeshoulder tang. I broke down the tank and restarted with new rock. i have finished quarantining my regal...

In all seriousness, is is it safe to harvest and eat macroalgae from my own aquarium, specifically members of the Ulva genus (and possibly Caulerpa lentillifera in the future)? Is there something they would contain after having grown in my aquarium that would make them inedible or would a...

Hi all, I’ve noticed from time to time my tube worm/feather duster (calcareous variety, white/red fan) seems to get a “haircut.” It’s happened several times, and the worm seems to grow them back quite quickly. I assume something is doing this; there is a peppermint shrimp that hangs out...

So I've just gotten 4 fish, 2 clownfish, a hippo tang, and a flasher wrasse. The hippo and flasher are in the same tank. The flasher helps the hippo feel more comfortable to feed and when its out the hippo is out. They are in a quarantine tank. They have been eating really well (day 3 now) and...

This is an old photo of one of my Acanthophyllia while eating, taken seconds after it accepted the food.

A few weeks ago I decided to try my first saltwater tank. After getting everything set up and letting the tank cycle for a couple of weeks I decided to add a small clownfish with some turbo start. The next morning I noticed some white dots on its fins but they seemed to go away and his diet was...

I've had a 4-5 inch Powder Brown Tang in my 125 for almost a week now, it's the only tang, and largest fish in the tank. It appears happy and healthy, but it literally will not eat. I've tried frozen LRS Fish Frenzy, three different freeze dried foods, two different pellet foods, and nori...

Hello! I got 2 gorgeous Mocha Storm clowns 4 days ago. I have tried pellets... then mysis shrimp... then mysis shrimp soaked in garlic. And nothing is working (see attached video) They are eating tigger pods aggressively hunting them. I’ve been adding some directly in to tank so they at least go...

Woke up this morning to see my firefish with a red rash. Before this morning he already had some fin damage from a bully clownfish, which I have rehomed a week or so ago. However, this morning was particularly odd because not only was there a red flesh wound? that appeared, the fins seemed to...

My fiancé and I just received our first mantis shrimp and she arrived pregnant. We have had her for about a week and she doesn’t seem to want to eat anything (emerald crabs, hermit crabs and some small fish are in her tank). The eggs are still with her at all times in her burrow. My question is...

Hi Reef2Reef, I got a scopas tang from Reef-A-Palooza and I am wondering how you guys get tangs to start eating nori. I’m worried that he won’t last long if he doesn’t start eating so any advice is welcome.

so yesterday I got a mandarin fish about 1.5 inches and chubby My question is how do I tell if he is eating and if he isn’t how can I encourage him to When I put him in yesterday he swam and sat on my clam then perched on a rock, moved into a cave and has barely come out since, he is breathing...

Hey guys, in need of a bit of advice. I'm based from Sydney Australia, which should give an indication of where I get most of my fish from (LFS collects from Great Barrier Reef). This week during my local shop at the lfs, I saw a small (4-5cm) Goby which I really liked the look of. The lfs...

I have a 90 gallon tank with a mature tank full of live rock packed with corraline algae. Very healthy parameters and has been going great. My tank has the following inhabitants which have all been in the tank 9-12 months and have been very very healthy. Two frostbite clownfish Hawaiian...

Hey everyone, Today while I was admiring my tank and checking over my fish, I noticed something on my 1 zoa colony. It looked clear and I believe 8 legged and from what I've been reading and watching it sounds like I have a zoa eating spider. I do have another zoa colony in the tank and it's a...

I have had him for about 5 months, but in the last few weeks it seems to have very little appetite, generally it eats one piece of mysis and then looks like he is choking or gaging and then shows little interest in food floating right past him. Other then being skinny, there are no other outside...