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Thanks for the tips, everyone. Gonna try reducing feedings and cutting back on water changes. Tank's a 5-gallon with gravel substrate, lights on for 8 hours a day.

My betta's tank water keeps getting cloudy after a few days, even with regular water changes. I'm using a sponge filter, and params are 0 ammonia, 0 nitrite, 5 nitrate. What's the deal?

a tank that massive will need an incredibly sturdy floor to support it, or it'll be a recipe for disaster

Sketchy situation, man. I'd hit it with Revive after the peroxide, just to be safe. Also, check your magnesium levels, low Mg can stress them out. What salt mix you using?

I'm just gonna leave this to go. It looks like a good debate on how hard cleaner wrasse are to keep. I've never kept tropical saltwater fish in my life, but I have kept estuarine species.

I'm mainly catching Austflakekento4 fish where I live. You can catch morays, wrasses, and some surgeon fishes that you find in pet stores too. I've kept boarfish, small sea mullet, and a couple of snails I found on the shore. Sorry about my punctuation, I'm not the best typist.

I found it's a lot ...

If you're looking at this, you're probably considering keeping your local saltwater fish, but before you start, there are a few things you should think about.

First off, what to feed them: take a look at the types of fish and what bait they usually go for - I've found that wild fish often take ...

Thanks felinxo, I appreciate the advice. Turns out I found the real culprit - one of my camel shrimp decided to start munching on the Favia. I caught it red-handed, or should I say, red-clawed.

Spent about 8 hours and built six different traps before finally catching both of them and removing them ...

Still having issues with posting the picture, so here's a working link instead: https://www.dropbox.com/s/jmpifm5egupshgb/coral.jpg

Let's try again with the image, hopefully it shows up this time.