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I was visiting an LFS and saw the Fluval Spec. Does anyone have any experience with running a SW nano with one of these? I'm running LEDs on my 90G at home and am growing SPS without issue. I am not thinking that the LEDs on this one will grow SPS but it should be more than enough for small...

I finally got this guy. He has sharp, pointed claws with black ends. He's been in the tank for a long time now and I finally got him out. I'm pretty sure that he's responsible for some fish and coral losses. Sadly, he lost a claw when I took him out of the tank but he seems to be doing...

Just starting a topic here to keep a journal of my reef with the new lighting. I've given us a gift of four 48" Reefbrite LED lights for our 90G reef. The tank was previously lit with HO T5 (6-bulb fixture from Tek). I will be watching the tank and reporting on progress with coral growth...

OK, I was looking for a blue hairy mushroom that one of my urchins must have gone walk-about with and what did I find while moving pieces of live rock? A metallic orange ricordia that I thought had disappeared about two months ago. It's almost completely white and you can barely see any orange...

I've been having major issues with my Tek T5 fixture since August. The ballest died and I have been fighting with the supplier to replace/repair the fixture since then. I'm wondering if anyone has any real-world experience running with LED lights. In particular, there is a local shop that...

OK, so I've been away for a bit and I come back to find that my tank is having a serious problem with dictyota macro algae. The stuff is encrusting all three powerheads, the glass near one power head, and there are parts starting to encrust some of the rocks. Anyone know of something that...

Some of my lower bits of live rock have coraline on them but nothing on the majority of my rocks. I've noticed that there is a spongy white covering on my rocks. I can brush most of it away but it tends to cloud the water column. I usually try to do this when I do a water change. Nothing...

OK, so I came home today to find the house smelling of acrid smoke and one of my T5 bulbs hanging from the fixture and in the tank. I had a previous problem with the Tek light fixture where the ballast failed and two of the inner four bulbs would not fire. The ballast was replaced with a...

I've got some monitpora cap that's grown quite large and some candy cane coral that has grown so much that it's crowded itself out. What do you guys use to trade frags? I'd rather trade than sell.

I've had my tank running for nearly a year and I just found a new hitchhiker. It looks like a chiton but I can't find anything that looks related. I'm hoping that someone can give some better information on what type of chiton is it. I tried googling "fuzzy chiton" but nothing seems to match

I was checking out the tank at 3am....up due to a low battery in a smoke alarm.....and I saw a snail gliding down the glass. Pretty normal thing, but I noticed that the foot was very slim and red. When it hit the sand I noticed the shape and thought that it was a cone snail due to the shape...

Guess one of the snails pushed him over a bit last night and I noticed these guys on the base of the acro. They are very small, as you can see by the lobes of the acro in the picture. At first I thought they were aiptasia, but that is the only place in the tank where these things exist, and...

Anyone have any experience using their LED tank hoods? They claim that is is more powerful than a dual 250W MH hood. How are they for spectrum? Is their claim a bunch of "hooey"? I've never seen, or heard of, anyone using a fully LED tank hood except for maybe some nano tanks.

I bought a bottle of Marine Snow for my acro and monit corals, more to just help them grow a bit faster. I haven't noticed it helping either corals much. Would I get a better result from Reef Roids? All this stuff seems to do is help feed hair algae and tube worms. I have a massive amount...

I've been Googling and can't seem to find any answer to this: Does the intensity of light affect the size of the disk on mushroom corals? Since they are mainly photosynthetic, if they were receiving sufficient light they would not need to expand too much, or is this wrong? I'm wondering...

anyone else have to do this? I'm hoping that it will be an effective "time out" for it. There are two very small sexy shrimp in the tank (each about 1cm long) and one is no bother to anyone but this one is constantly hanging out on my leather coral. This pisses my leather coral off to no...

So, I was staring into my tank....again :) and I noticed a small crab in one corner. I have some emerald crabs in there but I didn't remember having one that small. Then I noticed the red eyes. Seems that I have red-eye reef crab that I didn't know that I had. It would explain the two...

Here's a little experience I had yesterday that may give some people who are on the fence about RO/DI units a little bit of a push. I bought a 50 gallon-per-day unit and have had it attached to the sink in the back hall for about two months. Needless to say, my wife wasn't too happy about...

I'm kind of bothered by this. This was a very expensive mushroom. The guy sells them by the polyp. When I came home one of the two is missing. Not a sign of where it was is left. You guys heard of mushrooms just disappearing like that? It's been in there for a while, so I'm pretty sure...

This one will be a good question for those with a lot of experience with reef tanks. I started my 90G with three Maxijet 1200s on a wavemaker power bar. The powerbar has three "wave" outlets. It's a Naturalwave. I found that the powerhead setup I have is great for the 90G as it helps keep...

My open brain is huge. When the lights are on he expands to about the size of a dessert plate. He had three mouths on him when we got him, and when I looked up care requirements for lighting and flow I saw that they seem to have a maximum of three mouths. Now I know that isn't true. It now...

Just looking for opinions on mixing clowns in a 90G reef tank. I've got two percs and would love to get two black-and-white false percs as well. Not too sure about conspecific aggression between the species. As for other tank inhabitants: small hippo tank, yellow tank, watchman goby...

I feel horrible, but this isn't my picture, but it is exactly what I have in the tank. Not sure how many there are in there, but at least two. Are these guys reef-safe? I haven't seen them cruising any corals, but then they are small and it's a big tank.

The first is a hard coral on the side of some LR that I got that has yellow polyps on it. The lower colony seems dead but the one in the circle has small polyps on it. Wondering if anyone can ID it. It seems to be some kind of SPS, but I have no idea what. The second seems like it is a type...

I got an open brain from a fellow reefer and it was about 1/3 of the size in his tank. I've moved it into an area that's more open but it just keeps on expanding. The thing is probably 6 to 7 inches across when lights are on. It's got three mouths, but if it keeps expanding I won't have...