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I guess I've gotten pretty lucky so far...my copper banded goes nuts when I reach for the food bowl(I scoop some water and then let the frozen mysid/brine thaw then serve) And as soon as it hits the water he's all over it...I think I over feed him...he looks nice and fat. It's true about the...

I cured my LR in the garage in a trash can for the first two weeks and then just added it to the tank about the third week...Lighting isn't the biggest issue...just time and patience

I have a pretty bad break out of green algae from PO4 which I can't track at all...I added a huge clean up crew and they're not the answer, I still have to clean my glass every two or three days from the algae, and in some areas that my glass cleaner doesn't reach it looks like crap...I'd find...

I forgot to mention that I also plan on having some coral/anemone and a few flame scallops

I have a 90 gal with a refugium with three macro algaes in it, and in my main tank i Have: 100lbs Live Rock 100lbs Live Sand 1 Copper Banded Butterfly 1 Peppermint Shrimp 2 Emerald Crabs 2 Sea Cucumbers 1 Nudibranch About 50 Blue Leg Hermit Crabs About 75 Turbo Snails I know it's a lot of...

I have this weird lookin stuff inside my macro algae and I'm not sure if it should stay or go. I have a little cyano on my macro, and also these white clumps of very thin spaghetti looking strings... the clump is about the size of a sea cucumber. The little...vines or whatever grow around the...

Alright I'm thinkin about getting a feather duster, but I'm noticing about them, that they eat Plankton...what's that. Is it alive or dead? I saw somewhere that you can bread it in your tank? So if I get a bottle of plankton and put some in my tank it'll breed until I get a filter feeder of...

I'm about to move my 90 gal in a few weeks, but luckily I'm only moving about 5 hours away, and as soon as I get there I'll be setting up my tank at my brothers house, for a few weeks til I get a place, and then moving it again. I'm just gonna get two 50gal rubbermaids, one with lr and water...

I have a 90 gal drilled tank, and I'm wondering, is there a good way to get the cat hair, and other things floating on the top off the water out of there? I dont think it's causing much of a problem with the tank or anything, but I just see it from time to time

Great, thanks for the good info, I just saved about $100. I have 100 snail 75 blue leg hermit crabs 2 emerald crabs, 2 sea cucumbers, a lettuce nudibranch, a copper banded butterfly fish and a skunk cleaner shrimp acclimating right now. I know I need some sand sifters in there, but I'm not...

I have a 90 gal with 100lbs lr and 100lbs sand, and a refugium with 3 different types of macro algae. And of course a protien skimmer. Does a bio wheel filter just do what a refugium does or are there more benefits from having both? What's a good bio wheel filter to use on a setup like mine?

Yea I'm not too sure if the guy that I rent from would like it too much if I put four holes in the ceiling, lol. I'm not even sure what he'll say if he comes over one day and notices two(if I can get away with that...i dunno know though) And hopefully he never finds out about the three...

So do you think that could cause the ugly algae outbreak in my refugium?

well I dont have any corals as of yet, just 3 damsels...so I dont think the lights will hurt too much...I got the lights so that I could get anemones and corals, but I dont have any yet... I just added my damsels yesterday...Now I'm on the look out for fish #2

Thanks, I found it....now if I could only find out how long to set my lights up...

Ok so here's my delima. I just got a USA Outer Orbit MH & VHO for my 90 gal SW tank...it's pretty sweet. But the little feet on it, only raise it above the water about 4 inches, and I'm getting salt all over the canopy. It also came with a hang from the ceiling setup, but there's no stud...

I got my lights in the other day, and I have timers for the MH and the VHO...pretty sweet setup. Anyway, my question is how long should I have the the lights on for, I've heard that you should start the VHO and let them run throughout the day, and then have the MH kick on for a few hours in the...

Its more plant like...there's a vine type system running up, and then the little seed lookin deels on it...I had another one on the other side of my tank, but when I tried to turkey baster it out....I failed miserably, and it seems to have moved to another location on my return...any idea what...

Well it wasn't the alchohol, it was the aftermath of too many. I was gonna puke in the sink but a little splashed into the RO bucket...I scooped it out, and when I was hung over in the morning, my wife added some to the tank to top it off. I should have dumped that water...but I definitely...

Yea my refugium broke out like a teenagers face...It's pretty nasty looking...I added some POLY OX from Kent to oxidize the algaes...its what the guy at the LFS recommended. The algae in my refugium is strange too, cause it's in some really high flow places, and people say it's diatom, but I'm...