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Little background Tank: Fluval EVO XII Decorations: 2 fake plants Fish: 5 Glo Tetras Substrate: Black/Neon Rocks Filter Media: 50 micron Filter Pad, Filter Floss, Stock Foam, Bio Balls, Carbon (In that order). I have been battling this stuff for like a year and a half. The tank is established...

Hello All, We are carpeting the area where our fishtank sits now and have a few questions. (Its a 55 Gallon Salty) The current tank is getting scratched up pretty bad from sand getting into the little magnetic scrubber so we are wanting to replace the glass. A.) Should I move to a...

Just snapped a few pictures. Looking for advice on this bad boy. Need to make it "look good". I love this tank but at the same time I look at other tanks and they just look soo much better. I cant put my finger on it but for some reason this one just looks dull at times..

Do corals effect the bio load on a tank? I am asking because I just recently braved into the "Coral" side of this. I bought 2 10 dollar frags from the Reef Chief! They are doing awesome! I want more! Should I wait to add more? I did just add a a fish recently. I should let him relax a...

Hey guys, Im getting kind of bored with my tank. (KINDA) not really. Guess I am looking for inspiration. So far I have.. 55gal tank 110lbs live rock roughly. 2 PH's 1 Phosban Reactor 1 BakPak skimmer 1 Rio HOB skimmer (Not in use at teh moment) Coralife PC 2 actinic 2 regular Live 20...

Hey guys - I was hoping you could help me id some various things in my tank. 1st off is what I think might be a feather duster? 2nd are these red bubble looking things. It started off as a group of 3 or 4 bubbles together and now they are spreading.. 3rd is what I think is slime algea

Hey guys - I am just curious what methods are recomended for doing the above mentioned tasks. I will tell you what I am doing right now and you guys tell me how to make my life easier. I have a 55 gallon tank with 90lbs LR and a 20 gallon tank with 20lbs of LR. I have a Aqualife PC setup on...

Well, The wife found an add for a complete 55 gallon setup for sale for like 300 bucks so we jumped on it. It has about 80lbs of live rock and a couple HUGE PH's. Also has a backpack skimmer and a nice wooden stand. We went over to the guys house and put everything in buckets. Now he said...

OK - These things are ALL over my tank. I mean ALL over it. They started off on this ONE rock and now there are TONS of small ones attatched to the glass on the back of the tank and all over my powerhead..

OK there are actually a couple of things I am curious about. My tank just all of a suddon burst into visable life. So now I have a few things I need ID'd :) The 1st thing I found was a little star fish. (There is a thread for that guy already) The ones I still need ID's are... 1.) A tiny...

So I set up my 20g a couple months ago and about a week ago I had this abundance of diatoms. Well, just like you guys said they took care of themselves and have since disapeared mostly. I went away on a trip this weekend and when I got home last night OMG the tank has changed.. The colours of...

OK - I have been reading up a bit and I am planning a 55gallon in the next few months. Something I dont understand is this. If you have your tank draining into a sump and then have a pump pushing the water back up to the tank what happens when the pump turns off. What makes the tank STOP...

I came home this evening and there is this brown algea all over the place. I think this is what people are refering to as "Diatoms"? If so does this mean my tank is healthy? Does it mean my cleanup crew is too small? Just curious if I should be conserned or not. TIA

How would one seek out any hidden predetors that might be in his tank? I recently started a 20g and have lost 2 fish. The 1st disapeared all together and the 2nd just showed up dead with a chunk missing out of the back of his head. I 1st thought it might be my emerald crab so I took him out...

Something I noticed that really just boggles me is that if you stick your hand in the tank for a minute the skimmer will stop skimming. Then it takes it a great deal of time to get started again. Why does this happen?

I just want to make sure. I have an Aquaclear50 HOB Filter on one side of my tank and an AquaClear20 PH on the other side of the tank. Is this enough circulation for the whole thing? According to specs it says. ... Aquaclear50 FILTER = 200 GPH AquaClear20 PH = 127 GPH

Hello All, I have a 20gallon tank I am slowly setting up. Right now I have just a standard hood/florecent light. I really want that "Lunar" night light on my tank. I saw a setup at the lfs that had 2 small florecent lights in and and towards the back had 2 blue LED's and they said thats for...

I just set up my tank about a week ago and im still in my cycle. I am curious what kind of fish and other things should I add once the cycle is complete? I hear people talk about inverts and shrimp and all kinds of things. I have no idea what makes a sw tank complete. In my fw tank I always...

Well, you guys have helped me TONS with my fw tank so here goes with the new sw tank. I have just a 20gal tank that I started up last night. I bought this live sand stuff for my substraight and then filled the tank with sw. Once I added the water it stured up the sand and made a nice muddy...

I have a brown algea that I cant clean off of my rocks. Its a 20gal tank with about 8 fish in it and 3 ghost shrimp. How do I clean the rocks because scrubbing them with a toothbrush doesnt get them clean..

What is a good cleanup crew for a 20gal freshwater setup? Currently I have 1 small pleco but I want some other cool stuff! lol - anything out of the norm I could add? Like saltwater tanks have all kinds of cool stuff you can have for cleanup crews but I dont know to much about fw.. TIA Jerry

Hi all, Decided to join this forum to learn learn learn... I love aquraiums and I have had them all my life but the truth is (I know nothing about them apperently). I started seaking the internet to find help for a new tank setup problem that I am having and I think i know why I had the...