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Clown, Wrasse and Xenias are still available The live rock is gone but I have a few large empty conchs in there you can take, I can also give my extra fish food and a few extra things like buffer and a little bit of salt I have laying around all for free. Once livestock is gone also selling some equipment.. (Or if you are the one there to take the last critter) Giving away my sand for free (covers about an inch or two off the bottom on a 55 gal) Hydor Koralias Evos 750 - work fine but in need of a vinegar cleaning. I have two, $10 each I also have two older Koralia Evo 750s that either stopped working or started rattling that you can take for free and maybe try to fix. Large heater - I'm not sure what it's rated but it kept the 55 gallon tank at 82 degrees consistently. $5 Aqueon versa-top hinged glass cover- (24 model) I have two, I cut into the glass on one of them and it has a crack. The other one is intact but about half the vinyl strip is cut into. You can take both for $5. Lights- Older model of the marineland reef capable led lights 48". Compact and good for softies or as a supplemental light. Manual switch to actinics. $75 I do OBO

I have had this tank for about 8 years but sadly it is time to do the right thing and let my fish and stuff go to better homes as I don't have the time to maintain it anymore and am looking to move soon. I will part out the other stuff once the rock and livestock is gone. I live in Vancouver WA, close to the mall. Pick ups only Live rock: $1/lb. Having some algae issues since I never got around to replacing the clean up crew recently, but has been in an established tank for years and has some sponges and feather dusters under it, and small starfish, few copepods that the wrasse hasn't already gotten to, etc. If you flip them or leave them in your refuge lights off for a while you shouldn't have issues. I don't know how much I have but I have plenty, probably around 75 lbs. Size varies from fist-sized to football sized. SOLD \ Blue Snowflake Anthelia Xenia colony: about fist-sized on its own rock $20 Fish I have a lot of rock in my tank so you will probably have to wait for me to sell some rocks to get the fish, unless you want to stand around for a long time for me to catch a stressed out fish. I can put you on a waiting list for them. Rock is gone so not a problem anymore. Never had ich or any other diseases as far as I know. I have not introduced anything into my tank in a long while. Clownfish: eats everything, have had for 6+ years. Very friendly and goofy fish. 2.5-3 inches $5 SOLD Yellowtail damsel: have had since I started the tank. (8 yrs) Inquisitive lil guy, eats everything. 2 inches or so. Free to a good home with another purchase. SOLD Lemonpeel Angel: love this guy! Definitely my favorite fish. He is sassy and makes funny little grunting noises when another fish swims into his home behind the rocks. Have never seen him pick at the soft corals I've had. Very picky with dry food, but he eats nori and frozen foods without issues. About 4 inches. Have had for 5+ years. $25 SOLD Christmas Wrasse (indo pacific): Pretty much your typical wrasse, voracious eater that eats everything especially meaty stuff. He sleeps in the sand so you will need some. About 4 inches or so. Have had for 5+ years. $20 SOLD Check follow up post below for more stuff.

Instead of spending money to regulate the industry, they should spend that on scientific research for fish breeding programs and restoring the reefs.

My eel likes to spend some time struggling to stay facing one of my powerheads. He usually does this at night only but today I managed to catch him doing it when the lights were on! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtpQS8JxXXU I think he likes it because he doesn't have to manually push water through his mouth as much. Sometimes he will sit there with his mouth open. (scratch) Anyone else have an eel that does this?

How much was it?

Thanks for the advice everyone. Unfortunately I don't like any of the other types of dwarf angels so I think I am done with them. (I like the big angelfish but they are too big for my tank) I should probably try a hardier fish next time, like a Marine Betta. I really like them and I hear they are extremely hardy? Either way I'm not going to add anything for a few months. About the pH swings, yeah it could have been due to low oxygen levels. My skimmer stopped working two months ago and I have a better one on the way. (Should be here by tomorrow/day after) Hopefully that will help fix that problem and make my water cleaner. I have been observing my other fish everyday since the 2nd angel passed and they have shown no symptoms of... well, anything. They are acting exactly the same as always (eating a LOT) and look the same. I really doubt it was a disease, or at least my other fish were hardy enough to resist it.

He didn't make it.. but I guess it was obvious he wouldn't. :( No more angelfishes for me ever. jgf86123, I'm pretty sure they didn't get Velvet or Brookynella. The cloudy film only affected their pectoral and tail fins, not their body, and caused them to disintegrate. So I'm thinking it was something bacteria-related, but then again it's strange that both of them got the same symptoms.

A bit less than a month ago I got a Flame Angelfish for my tank- it was beautiful, and it was in perfect condition. Transparent full fins, shiny clear eyes and was eating food and pecking the rocks. I took it home, drip acclimated, and my Tomato clownfish attacked him violently so I traded the Tomato in for an ocellaris 2 days later since he wouldn't stop. In the course of that fight, the Tomato shredded his fins and attacked his eye. His fins grew back soon but over the course of a week he developed pop-eye on the one eye. I looked this up and apparently was just a sort of bruise if on one eye only, and the fish would recover on it's own. I started adding garlic to his food to try to boost his immune system, and added Epsom salt (per WWM's instruction) to reduce inflation. Was changing 10 gallons of water out each week. He was eating normally. Finally after two weeks the inflation on the one eye started to go down and went to normal, except for a bit of cloudiness. I noticed that he had this weird white film (Not dots like ich, just a film) that started to grow on his pectoral fins and tail fin. I was told that this was a bacterial infection and as long as he was eating, this would go away on it's own. I continued using the garlic and changing 10 gallons a week. Params were consistent: pH: 8.1 Am: 0 Nitrite: 0 Nitrates: 10 But then it went downhill.. On the 3rd week he would just hide.. He would come out and swim very little and he would go back and hide for most of the day, but he would come and eat during feedings. The parts of his fins that were covered in the film were now all shredded. He was a bit discolored. The one eye was still cloudy.. I continued the water changes and the parameters were still the same, and my other fish were exactly as they've always been. On December 15th he started to swim near the top of the water erratically and started to gasp at the surface! I checked the ammonia quickly, but it was 0, and all other params were the same. Unfortunately he died an hour later at the bottom of the tank.. it was terrible. :( I blamed his death on the fact that he was probably really stressed out from the evil tomato clownfish and acclimation. The next day I went to the LFS with my sister for water to do another water change with, and I decided to try another flame angelfish, though it was an inch smaller. Was also in very good condition, shiny clear eyes and clear fins, eating. Drip acclimated, and he was fine for the first 3 days, exploring the whole tank and was alert. Though he didn't eat much, but did show a clear interest in the food. On the 4th day he started to get cloudy eyes and same white film that the last angelfish got! Params were the same, though nitrates had gone up to 20. Instead of swimming through the rocks, he kind of just stayed mid-column and would swim in these little slow circles and ignored food. 3 days later, he hasn't eaten a thing. He looked deathly skinny, pale, and the fins were starting to look shredded as well. 2 hours ago I decided I would try to force feed him. I grinded up raw squid and added a few drops of garlic. I gently scooped him up with my hand to the top of the tank (he didnt try to swim away), only let his mouth out of the water, and with a clean eyedropper I put several drops of the squid into his mouth. I saw him do that "kissy" motion angelfish do when they eat something, so I guess it may have worked. He was breathing pretty quickly after 3 rounds of this, so I turned off the lights. He stopped doing the little circles and dropped near the bottom of the tank and laid on the sand, breathing fast. I checked parameters, everything was fine except the pH was a bit low (7.8), which is weird because I thought it goes up near the end of the light cycle? Anyway since it could have been due to low oxygen I connected an air pump to a powerhead. For about 10 minutes he did this weird slow falling motion where his head was facing upright, for 20 minutes he sat on the sand with his head leaning on the glass, 20 minutes he was swimming around slowly and got stuck to the powerhead intake twice.. then he hid behind the rocks for about 40 minutes, he came out and swam around the tank mid-column slowly for 20 minutes, and now he's laying sideways on the sand in the front corner.. probably will die any minute now. (sad) Sorry for the huge wall of text, but I'm really confused. I thought Flame Angels were moderately hardy? Or do they just really hate me? This is the second Flame angel that was perfectly fine when I got it and deteriorated in my tank when my Params were fine and all my other fish were normal.. None of my other fish got the cloudy fins. Nobody was bothering him. Everyone was fine. Is this some rare Angelfish-only fungus going on in my tank? Or just bad luck? I would like to know what I am doing wrong. My sister got me the second Angel for Christmas and now I feel like the biggest a*****e in the world for killing two of them in less than a month.. :( Tank specs: 55 Gallon FOWLR tiny Snowflake eel Melanurus Wrasse Sixline wrasse Ocellaris Clownfish (Soon to be dead..) Flame angel Couple of hermits, turbos 70 lbs LR Any help or advice would be really appreciated.

Hmm, after a bit of research I found out that apparently the female form is just the "juvenile" form and they all eventually turn into males.

Mine has the dot, so it's female. Cool, thanks!

What is the difference between the males and females? Pics? And I guess mine is a male?

Reef crystals.

He is a pig, he will eat everything. Even my Angelfish's nori. (scratch) But he loves raw squid and shrimp soaked in garlic. He will eat it to the point where my little cousins ask me if he's "pregnant" (laugh)

Killer of copepods!! Got him off SWF around a year ago.