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The live rock was bought from a guy I met a while ago, 100% cured and COVERED in coraline algae. His tank was completely cycled and extremely healthy. I currently have 60 pounds in a 55 gallon tank. It was out of water for maybe five seconds before going into my tank, as I transported it in...

I have a ton of tiny bubbles in there, no skimate yet though. I've got the sump at an acceptable level now, and yes I have measured it, and have had no overflow if that is what were are going for?

Thanks for the replies guys, this tank has only been set up for 2 days now. It is a 55 gallon. I will look for you when I get home for the test kit names, but I found the hardness test at my LFS, and I am sure it is not the BEST test kit ever. It is from a German company, I do remember...

Hi everyone! I just got my aquarium up and running with live rock and have been doing some tests and I would like just a little bit of advice :-) Parameters: PH: 8.2 dKH: 7.5 Sal : 1.023 Calcium: 400 Now, I think my dKH is a little bit on the low side... What do you guys think? I am...

I am using an Odyessa, and right now the sump has about 6 inches of water in it, Im going to add some more water here soon. I believe it is working, I have the water level about one inch below the cone/collection club, and I've got quite a few bubbles in the water. It wont produce foam until...

How high does the water level need to be in my sump for my protein skimmer? Im pretty sure I need to raise it, but Im not sure how to raise the water level in the sump. Lower the overflow box, raises the sump level, BUT drops the tank water level.

Thank you guys for all the help! If I turn the power off, everything stays constant. I left the pump off all night, nothing over flowed at all. Also, I did raise the over flow box a little bit, and did get the sump level to drop, however I still don't know if it is going to be extremely...

So I have a few questions! I bought an overflow box that is rated at 600GPH. I bought a pump that is rated at 540GPH. Now, my sump does not overflow, but it is half full of water, and I feel like it is a little too full. It is above the MARKED water level on the sump itself. It is...

So, I've been buying all sorts of items to prepare switching my 55 gal over to a saltwater tank and I was grazing around Craigslist and found someone local that has some very healthy looking live rock that they bought from a friend. Now, I do not have my tank up and running yet, and some of...

Ive never kept GBRs before, I had planned to increase my guppy population, and flow over into my 10 and 12 gallon aquariums that I plan to set back up here soon. Fancy Guppys have always been by far one of my favorite fish. As far as Angels, that was my original intent with this aquarium...

So, I've been on quite the break from my aquariums, I'm a double major in college, and just pretty much let my aquarium dwindle down to nothing, everyone slowly died off after about 3 or so years, and I wasn't even fully stocked in the first place! So, I decided that I would clean it up and...

Ugh...the stuff spread a little more today...even with the anti-botics...AND GUESS WHAT I SAW TODAY! ICH!! The one fish, who is not doing the best, is the one with ICH... Im going to do a combination treatment...of Salt, which is already in the tank, heat, and maracide...THe maracide will...

Thanks again An, I added them both tonight...I really hope this works...I read in the directions that mardel claims you can use these 2 antibotics with maracide...and maracide is mainly for parasites, so if worse comes to worse, I can attempt to dose with that also, but i don't like it, as it is...

Thanks again An, I bought both Maracyn 1 and 2, but I was wondering should I do a water change to remove some of the pimaflex and melaflex? I was considering doing a water change anyhow...to make sure that the water will stay good for the next 5 days of dosing here. Since im going to do a...