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We recently (yesterday) added a few things to our tank. We added some snails of various sorts, hermit crabs, emerald crabs, three sand-sifting cucumbers, and a peppermint shrimp. It was just your every-day cleanup crew. Tonight, I looked at the tank and saw a fish that was approximately...

Hi, guys... it's been a while. :) I have an AquaC EV180 with a Mag 5 on my tank. It seems to be working, except it doesn't burp anything out. At first I was noticing a serious lack of the rushing air sound I'm used to. It turned out that the air intake valve was gummed up. I've resolved...

I'm definitely buying a chiller in the next few days. I know that a lot of you think that swamp boxes, fans, etc. are the way to go. I, on the other hand, prefer peace of mind and not having to worry about these things. I live in an apartment and have no easy way to mount a fan on the tank...

For those of you who might remember me, it's been a while. I've upgraded from the old 42 hex to a new 92 bow-front. I've got 110 watts of PC actinics, 250 watts of 10,000K MH, 170 lbs of LS, 100 lbs of LR, just a few small fish, and some inverts. It's running on a refugium of my own design...

I have been considering building my own chiller, but as it doesn't seem feasible, I guess I'm going to buy one. My tank is simply too warm. However, I can't seem to find any good information on which chillers are superior to others. I have looked for reviews and such, but have found none...

I saw a purple nudibranch in the store the other day, and I remember reading online that they are difficult to care for. I asked the guy at the LFS, and he said that the reason they are hard to care for is because we don't know what they eat. He said that they usually last a few months in an...

I just bought a Yellow Clown Goby a few days ago, and he doesn't want to eat for some reason. I first fed flakes and he didn't pay much attention. If they floated directly in front of him, he would grab them and then spit them back out. Today I fed frozen food with garlic in it, and I got the...

I just set up a 92-gallon corner tank, and I moved my 42-gallon hex tank's stock over to it and after about a week the water is testing out perfectly. I'm now considering my options on live stock and I figure I should put them all in one thread. For now, I only have one, though. I'm wondering...

I am considering getting a couple of tangs for my tank. I really like the regal blue tangs (even though everyone and their mother has one) and scopas tangs. Would these get along? I hear that tangs don't get along well, yet I always see them together a the LFS. Also, I usually hear that they...

I have a bloom of some sort in my tank. There is some cyanobacteria, but there's some other junk on my rocks, too, that's less stringy and film-like. It's a greenish-brown and it's really annoying my button polyps and my mushrooms. I don't have a phosphate test, but I do use RO water, so I...

I am setting up a new tank when I move at the end of the month. Currently it's sitting in my garage with some live rock in it cycling. I bought the live rock online, and put it in a few days ago. As soon as it hit my water, the whole tank turned yellow. It looks like someone pee'd in the...

I plan on building a sump for my new tank out of acrylic. Here are some of the questions I have: 1. What's the best way to cut it? I've read several places that you should score it by using a razor blade and then snap it off afterward. Does anyone agree or disagree with this? 2. What...

My parents have bought for me a new fish tank as a graduation present. They're offering to pay for all the stuff I need to set it up, and I'm now trying to figure out exactly what all I want to put on the tank and how I want to do it. To complicate matters, I'm moving into a new apartment...

I'm thinking about getting a Gonipora (or "flowerpot coral" as it's labeled at the store) for my tank. Can anyone give me some information about how hard they are to keep? (Links are good, but I've done some searches. I value experience over documentation.)

I just bought a bubble-tip anemone yesterday, and I seem to be having a problem. I put him in the tank and started rearranging the rock where I wanted him to go. Within the 30 seconds that took, he attached to another rock he landed on! So, I figured I'd just leave him there. Well, since...

I have had a longhorn cowfish for about 6 months now in my tank. Off and on he would have a couple spots on his fins (not sure what they were, but they definitely weren't ich). They never seemed to affect him, and he always recovered fully. He hasn't had any lately. Everything in my tank has...

Here are my fish's names... Longhorn Cowfish = Tug Saddleback Clown = Bo Bi-Color Blenny = Tom (cuz he peeps) Honey Chromis = Nut (honey nut... get it?) :P Purple Firefish Goby = Flick We also have a strange naming scheme for our arrow crabs. We've had four now and the first one was named...

I have had a longhorn cowfish for about 5 months in my tank, and he occassionally gets these really bright white spots on his fins. They're way too bright to be ich, and a guy at the LFS says they're abbrassions on his fins and the white spots are the fish equivalent of a scab. I was able to...

I just bought a very small branching hammer coral for $15 to see if my tank is capable of sustaining one. I have a couple questions about them. 1) Can a dead branch ever come back to life? Can you break dead ones off without hurting the others? 2) How fast do hammers grow? 3) At what point...

I search around and find info here and there on MH lights, but I still leave with questions. I see that a lot of people ask these things repeatedly, so perhaps we can make this thread the beginning of an article on MH's. That way when we hear these questions we can give them complete answers...

I have a Brand-X 350-watt glass heater in my tank. The thing is nearly a foot long, and I'm sick of having it hanging in my tank. I'm not sure I want my snails crawling on something that gets that hot, and I don't want to look at it anymore. However, I have a sump and the water level in it is...

I have a 200-micron filter bag that was referred to as an "Aquasock" when I bought it, and it is now in need of cleaning. It is about a foot tall and it sits in about 4 inches of water. It's now so clogged that the output of the protein skimmer overflows the bag. I've been told that these...

I'm looking at getting a new protein skimmer for my tank. I want it to be an in-sump skimmer, and I'm trying to weigh all my options. I'm seeing that the Seaclone 100 and Seaclone 150 are pretty inexpensive venturi systems, and they're supposed to be good for HOB or in-sump. However, every...

I'm going to be building a new canopy for my tank and I want to put some moon lights on it. I've looked and the prices for buying them commercially seem really ridiculous considering that I can buy a "super bright" LED for like a dollar at a store nearby. I know that the LEDs I would use are 5...

I just got a new Mag Drive Model 7 due to what happened this morning. I think that the flow might be a bit too fast for my longhorn cowfish because the circulates around the top of the tank where he spends most of his time. Is there some way that I can break up the flow a bit? Perhaps a...