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brand new bulbs actually, i would lower the light time but i was considering beginning to add some shrimp so it wont be only LR, then what?

hey all, im starting to notice some green and brown algae developing in my 10g. I can't figure out where it is coming from because i have zero phosphates and nitrates and all i have in the tank is a few pieces of LR. My lights are simple: coarllife 50/50 for 12 hours a day, and sometimes i black...

anybody have one or any info on them? I was told i can have one in my 10g as the only fish, w/ LR, and im just lookin for a confirmation or comments about them. TIA

I had a banded possum wrasse a few years ago and i loved him, but unfortunatly my dogface puffer must have got hungry and he ate him not long after. Im thinking of getting another one and i was wondering if anybody had some info on them, and maybe some pictures if im lucky! theres not much...

hey i just used a seatest calcium test to find that my calcium is at 330 milligrams per liter. so where should it be for good coralline growth? am i safe to use purpleup at this level? also one more question, i just took a live rock that had green hair algae on it and scrubed it with a...

yea i have gotten help with it but i still have to pull all the algae off of everything and its just completely ridiculous, very irresponsible of me to let that happen over last summer and the tank really has nothing going for it. So i figured i would buy everything i need ahead of time and move...

o no i didnt do it yet im just tryin to plan it out for when i do do it

I'm giving up on my 55g with its green hair algae disaster (and you can't imagine how serious I am by 'disaster'), and i decided to empty all my water into buckets and take everything out and start all over with new everything but pne problem: I still have my little lunare wrasse and my seargant...

ok so ill deffinetly get a 1/2'' bulkhead and take it to my local glass shop or hardware store. One more question: single or double bulkhead threading?

Hey i was just reading how to make a refugium on your own and i just happened to have most of what i need to make a simple one lying around. I'm gonna use a 5 g tank as the refugium, and i think it's made of plexi-glass or heavy plastic, I can't tell but it has all rounded corners and its like...

actually i do my water changes with gallons of distilled water to avoid phosphates. is this a problem?

yea its a 10 g

ok, so basically just check my alk and calcium levels. And what are the best supplements to use to get my levels where they should be? i heard about purpleup a few times?

ok so it is an algae, yea i already have phosphate controls working and pretty good water flow. I've got corallife 50/50's on it now and i don't want any corals, just live rock, so is that the right light to get the coralline growing? and your saying i should test my alkalinity and calcium...

hey, i've heard people call coralline an algae before but i thought it was a bacteria. which is it? Does phosphates in the tank influence its growth? and what are the best corallife light bulbs for it to grow under?

My lunare wrasse will jump out of the water to get something in my hand. When feeding, i have to be careful of him because he is so reckless abandon that he'll launch out of the water when he grabs food on the surface. But he's just so fearless he'll take anything from my hand.

thanks for the confirmation, thats what I had going on my tanks as well. One more question, how many hours of light should i use while battling the worst hair algae ive ever seen in my 55g? Im talkin about hair algae growing almost 6in long in the worst spots. what about a blackout? (im...

I was just wondering what a healthy daily light cycle would be for a fish only tank with a little bit of LR?what time of day should the lights be turned on and off and how many hours of light a day should be provided?

My 55 tank is undergoing some maintnence lately so it only has 3 fish: a small lunare wrasse, a seargant major, and a small percula clown(about an inch long). I've had him for a while now and nobody bothers him but lately he seems to be losing energy. He swims much slower, has to fight the...

hes just twitching on the bottom its been like 10 minutes since it happened and all my other fish are fine. its did look like something hit him like a jolt of electricity i dont kno what to do for him

i was just sitting in front of my tank watching my kole tang graze on algae and all of a sudden he went crazy and then just stopped moving and fell upside down to the bottom!! i dunno what happened, he was just fine. is he playing dead because he was startled? help please!

i have a ridiculous amount of green hair algae due to some neglect on my part and im ready to do something about it. i asked for advise at my numerous LFS's and i got many different opinions ranging from using phosphate controls, gradually switching to distilled water, and even the use of some...

hey my names mike, my fish are pretty picky with what they eat and all they'll touch mostly is live brine shrimp (no frozen brine, and they hardly even look at flakes). So i was wondering how i could consistently produce my own brine or at least how to keep the ones i buy in stores alive for a...