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My next tank will be an acrylic 125 gallon or higher. I plan on buying the acrylic and building it myself. I am also framing my basement so this will be an wall build. It will be a saltwater aquarium. I made the switch about a year ago and will never go back to freshwater.

Louisville here!!! Hows everybody doing? I would like to reach out in this regional area, does anybody know anyone selling a 125 gallon? I am finishing my basement starting in February and would like to have a 125 gallon in one of my walls. I figured if i start looking now I could hopefully...

So I woke up this morning and both anemones appear dead. No movement over night and still shriveled up. This has prompted me to do major "spring Cleaning" on my tank. I have always felt that I had too much sand in my tank. I have about 100lbs in a 55 gallon tank. So today I am scooping...

tao tronic LED's Model TT-AL01 Nitrate 0 Phosphate 0 Calcium 180mg/L (ppm) Carbonate Hardness 53.7 ppm KH They were placed near the bottom of the tank on live rock. Tank is about 14 months old

I just received an online order of 2 Conde Anemones among other things. The anemones were less than stellar but my questions is how long does is take them to get comfortable? My water parameters are all at 0. My water temp is 78 and I have LED lighting that is sufficient. My salinity is...

I plan on using my gopro to get some cool underwater shots after my order comes in from reefs2go!

Those are good lights. I just got 2 in for my 55 gallon. They come from china, and take about a week regardless of what the sipping estimation says. But anemones love the new lighting! Plus they are easy to install, took me about 15 minutes.

LED's finally came in!!!! I am going to try to mount them this evening. The ones I bought are not a dimmable version, they are either on or off. Plan on hanging them from the ceiling with the mounting kit as well as a chain and "S" hook. My question is this... Should i hang them higher from...

I have been reading constantly about this because I hate to give up. I noticed the "bad nem" looked torn around the base, in my reading I found that maybe the substrate could be causing that with also being stressed. I believe the "bad nem" was having trouble locating the live rock in my tank...

The pictures are taken at the same time. 2 different anemones at opposite ends of the tank. One looks great one looks not so good. I bought 2 sets of taotronics LEDs, should have them Monday or Tuesday. I'm confused why does one look so worse than the other? It's been like that all day...

Maybe it's me being paranoid, but I think I need to upgrade my lights. I would like to start researching prices and saving up. Do you guys have any recommendations? It's a 55 gallon, 48"L x 18"T x 12"W.

I top off with distilled water. I'll try all 4 lights and see how that goes. Thanks for everyone's help!

Mr. X my tanks is a 55 gallon. I haven't invested in RO DI unit, i buy all my water from LFS since its about 2 miles from work. I do 10 gallon water changes weekly.

Great! Appreciate the help. I use the actinic lights as kind of dusk lighting but I will change that and run them with daylight lights.. I do go dark for about 9-10 hours. What's best idea for lowering my phosphates? I bought 2 anemones one has planted it's foot and seems to being doing...

During the day i have 2 65 watt 10kk lights by coral light. and at night i run the actinic lights (2 65 watt). The picture was taken with the actinic lights. Water parameters are: 0ppm nitrates .25ppm phosphates Calcium is at 400 Carbonate is at 196.9ppm KH Salinity is 1.026 Tanks has been...