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I got this from a friend who took down his tank. Said it was a Goby. I'm talking about the snake like creature.

Skimming Lights 440 Watt Old School VHO setup Declorinated Tap water Not dosing anything Running Carbon Premium Charcoal 4 to 5 inch sand bed Haven't tested anything lately. I'm sure my levels are bad but there is no explanation for it.

My reef tank of 75 gallons has been set up and running for about 7 years. At one time it was in great shape and beautiful with about 13 different corals. It has been moved twice. As time went on, the condition of the tank started to fall as it became increasingly more difficult to take care...

May be interested. its a 120v isn't it?

I recently added a Yellow Fiji Leather Coral to my 75 gallon tank. Its my first coral and did alot of reading before I purchased it. In my readings, I learned that it requires iodine and strontium to remain healthy. I just want to do things right so it survives. It seems like it doing well...

I bought an iodine test kit yesterday and got confused once I read the directions. It talked about testing for Iodide and Iodate and said that most supplements have one or the other or both while others have a different form which cannot be tested with the kit I bought. I also bought Kent...

Last time I checked my nitrates were below 10 ppm and that was before a pwc. All of the causes of this problem are associated with elevated phosphate levels and the like. However my water parameters are nearly perfect and I cannot figure out what is feeding this algae bloom. The only pieces of...

The tank has only been running for a month or so and has just finished cycling. Phosphates, Amonia, Nitritites are at 0 ppm. The Nitrates are also low. The hair algae is only growing on pices of base rock which were purchased from an aquariest who took down his tank. There was no hair...

Question - What EATS Hair Algae??? Thank you.

My tank has been cycling for about a month now. I used the fishless method by using raw shrimp to start the cycle. The ammonia climbed and is now at zero. Nitrites are also at zero but the nitrate level is still at 20 ppm and has been for several days now. Why is it still so high? Keep...

Should I be cycling with the aquarium lights on or off?

I set up my 75 gal tank recently and decided to do the cycling the tank with out the use of fish method as described in the article on this site. I used two jumbo sized shrimp which have been in the tank for about a week. I have 120lbs of aragonite sand bed and about 40 lbs base/live rock and...

Well I have the opportunity to get nearly 60lbs of LR for $200. The guy has taken it out of his aquarium and has it in a Tupperware container with water. I'm assuming that it has a lot of die off. What do you guys think? I also have the opportunity to purchase some base rock as well.

Will using a type of filter pad serve the same purpose as the sponge?

Ok first, thanks to everyone who has posted! I greatly appreciate the share of your knowledge. I have located a tank. 75 gal Oceanic tank with Oceanic trickle filter model 75. I read the article about cycling the tank in the articles section. Should I be cycling the tank with LR of wait...