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I'm setting up a 2600g cylindrical aquarium in a few months with a filtration room and I don't really want to have to feed a tremendous amount of fish every day. What options do I have to get around daily feedings? Dimensions are 6'w x 11'h. An auto fish feeder will not put out enough food...

I'm interested in what is in YOUR toolbox? Favorite tools? Favorite foods? What chems do you depend on? I would like to compare and contrast what I carry. Thanks!

So I run a maintenance company and have a client with the attached 164g freshwater tank and sump. Livestock is one adult massive pleco and three medium angelfish. No live plants. Only carbon for chem filtration. I have been working on her tank for two months and cannot get her nitrate levels...

I have a client with a 4'h tank that wants to replace her substrate. What kind of heavy duty tool can I use to scoop it out? I would use my typical net but it's small and plastic (bends). Ideas?

Hey, what is this growing out of my live rock? It doesn't move around so I don't think it's a worm and it never goes back into the rock. It's like tentacles. ....and it is literally growing from the solid surfaces of the rock.

So I have a client with a 164g tank, 20g sump and this, what I assume is a canister filter. Is this an old school eheim 2217? In one picture you can see the drain and also the intake with the shut off shut off valve. I added a close up of the info on the back of the pump to help ID. Thanks for...

These are freshwater fish in a clients tank. I don't know freshwater very well. Sorry for the low quality. Thanks. I do not have good photos of the second fish. It looks similar to a silver trout with a split caudal fin outlined in black. His dorsal fin is outlined in black also. The pleco...

Found this in a clients tank. Black algae? It hasn't killed anything but it also wasn't touching anything. There were two nice size pieces. Also, do you think that's aiptasia or a duster. She has a nice size aiptasia crew and established tangs. Thanks.

Okay, I cant put 2 + 2 together here. Please help figuring me with this logicm 200g w/ 65g sump against an outside wall with a closed blind windowright against it. 32g Biocube. Same room inside wall 30ft across the same room. Stock everything. Biocube temp = 80F DT = 70F I get the...

So I was talking to Coralife about their skimmer when I pulled it out of my Biocube 32 and saw these jelly like, weird bubbles on it. Is this algae? What's up? It looks like water droplets but they are think jelly-like things that do not move.

I'm aware that clowns will try to find a host of most anything but I'm more concerned with the star polyp (lower right corner), do you think they are damaging the polyp? Also, the candy apple zoa has spread to the coral up top on the left. First, what it the big soft coral? Do you think the zoa...

So I just picked up a 3" Maroon clown from someone with a very dirty tank. It was too aggressive for them. The tank has an aiptasia problem but no other diseases. I get him home in a qt with brand new everything and he is very sluggish, not his aggressive sepf and hanging out in a top, back...

I picked up two reactors not knowing how large they are and have no place to put them under my tank. The only two options is in my refugium, which, I guess is okay... or hanging them on the side of my tank. Mounting is not an option. Ideas for what I can use to turn them into HOB machines? They...

I picked up an older AL G12 and need some parts. AL is not sure if they have them anymore. I need 3 blue LEDs, one MH glass cover and metal ring it goes in. Ideas?

I need advice for a client with massive algae overgrowth. 70g, mixed reef, 4 medium size fish. She had not cleaned her tank for six months and my first consultation showed 90% of the substrate with red algae and everything was covered in green algae, like Amazon forest covered. I have gotten it...

So I'm struggling with what to do about this situation. What do you think? My 1" drains are on the medial side of the tank and the 3/4" returns are on the lateral side. This creates a problem when using return jets because they are facing the side of the tank causing, a dead spot in the middle...

What are your two cents on Jebao products? My LFS has it in their "good" category claiming they are Chinese knock off to higher quality products. Their recommendation is to use Jebao products with redundancy.

I recently bought a custom sump (19" tall) from someone that looks like the diagram. I also purchased the external Precision Marine Bullet XL1 (1st Gen) from him to go with it. The guy had the skimmer hooked up to the return section of the sump through the two bulkheads on the return side. I...

How are you guys measuring the salinity in your stations salt water? Hydrometer? Controller? Thanks.

So I'm thinking about when I move houses and transfer this 265g tank. How would you move all of the water?? 55g plastic drums? That kind of seems nuts. Advice? Thanks!

I'm about to pick up an Apex controller and it seems these are price locked components. Any good places to find discounted equipment?

Hey guys. I'm starting my mixing station project with 2 44g drums and about to buy an RODI unit. 50gpd? 150gpd? 4 stage? 6 stage? Thoughts?

What do you guys use to hold your testing solutions? I have to carry my API vials around a lot so I'm looking for something. What interesting things do you use to store your supplements?

I don't want to siphon my substrate anymore so I'm wondering what options I have. What are the best Inverts to add and how many? I have a mixed reef Biocube 32, 5 juvi fish, 1.5in Caribbean substrate, 2 cleaner shrimp that pick at the rock, and an anemone.

I'm building a snail tank and want to make a bed of algae in the substrate for them to eat. What is the best way to promote the development of algae in there? What kind would be suggested?