Recent content by Splat

OK now I just read another forum and I'm concerned. Exactly how many fish would cause an overload in a 55-gallon tank. I've been told I could keep 2-3 medium fish (tang size) and 3-5 small fish. Is that too many? I won't put them all in at once of course, maybe over 2-3 months at best.

Well I never had more than 6 fish in the tank at once, I just think the couple that kept living were the ones carrying ick. I will take your advice though and wait. Question, when I do a water change (and I have LIVING FISH in the tank), how much should I change out? And well...Splat is...

Well, a couple things in our tank apparently were not working...and I also heard that damsels can carry the ick without being sick themselves, so maybe the 2 that always lived were getting all the rest sick. Anyways, long story short, we spent quite a few bucks fixing everything, we're...

I bought a new UV for my 55 gallon tank. The light is a Coral LIfe 9 watt turbo twist 3x....what size powerhead should accommodate that light. It says I need a power-rate of 100-200 gallons per hour. I wasn't aware of such things, so I need to know what ELSE I might need. Right now I have...

Plz nothing technical...I'm fish chemistry stooopid. Here's the deal. I have a 55-gallon tank. The first 2 yrs were great. All my fish lived. A couple different tangs, wrasse, trigger, clown and damsel. I moved to another city, which maybe our water or our fish store are the source of the...