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Hi guys, Its been a long time since i have been on here, I found some good forums at home in the UK which i have been using. But i started with this forums so i thought i would show you where iam at now. Just like to say a thanks to all the help i had at the start.:D This was my first...

Hello all, Its a long time since i have been on here, I have changed a few things on and my tank, upgraded lights and skimmer swapped my power heads for a vortech mp40. (loving it), and added a calcium reactor. And swapped all my softies and bought lots of sps, some frags and some big ones...

Evening all, I have a nice Lobe with 8 heads the trouble is when i try to target feed it with mussell the fish and shrimps nick all the food, would stress the coral if i take it out of the tank in a container and feed it once a week. so it gets all the mussell. Cheers

Not sure about this and i really hope i am wrong. The left side of my torch (2 heads) has looked like this since yesterday morning, Is it dying? I really hope not. Reduced: 62% of original size [ 1024 x 768 ] - Click to view full image This is the right side which is good Reduced: 62% of...

thought i would share with you since i have not been on here for a while. i did pick up a Orange torch frag, but the lights have gone off.

evening all, this might be a really stupid question, but i will ask anyway. iam adding a sump to my tank soon, the tank will be drilled at the top, just below water level. i have a eheim compact 5000 return pump. here is the dumb part. how do you make sure that the flow from the tank though...

hello gang, firstly i know lot of people say tangs should only be in a 6ft tank, but i have seen alot in 4ft tanks. i would like one of the above tangs to control the little bit of purple marco growing in part of the tank. thats is not the only reason, they are amazing fish, i like the way they...

abit of a longer one this time!!! while the wife is watching the dancing on ice i thought i would ask this now. please bear with me. sometime in march i changing my cabinet so i can add i sump, i have to take eveything out of the tank to do this, and i am going to get the tank drilled by the...

hiya all, i have been having a on going problem keeping ALK above 7dkh, i do a 10%pwc every week with D+D H2Ocean pro+. its rises to 9dkh when though out the week it drops down to 7. i top up with RO/DI about 2/3 litres every other day and someone said adding aragamight to the top up water. but...

some pic of my new LPS and a tank shot

evening all from the uk. will i be able to keep LPS and BTA in my tank (48x24x20)(lxhxw)with 236watts of HOt5s lights, the lights i have are 6x39w D+D razor lights. was going to upgrade to mh but i cant. hope i can cheers will8.

evening all, i added a trumpet which 12 heads to my tank 2 months ago, all is good. some of the heads was white but now they are all a nice brown. i was just wondering how long does it take for new heads to start to grow and how it happens? is it a slow growing coral? thanks will8

hi all iam upgrading to metal halides next month, not sure which one to get either 2x150 plus actincs or 2x250 plus actincs, i have a 48x19x22 tank. i have softies and 3x lps in under t5s at the moment. only adding lps and i will be added a bta sometime next year, dont think i will adding sps...

hiya all, iam thinking of taking my tank to the other level and adding a sump, a few reasons why ,1, adding more water to my system 2, hide the equipment what is in the tank (which i hate) 3, and so i can...

hi ya guys, with all the help i have had off you lot over the past 5 months i thought its about time i add i picture of my tank. it is 5 months old, mosty i have softies in there but there is 3 lps, favia, candy cane and my fav the torch coral at the back. when i upgrade the lights i will be add...

morning to you all, i have had my favia for 3 weeks and i have notice its starting to go brown on the bottom. why is this? its dying? its is about 10" under t5 lights all the parameters are good S.G 1.025, Nitrate 5ppm, nitrite 0ppm, pho4 0ppm, calcium 480ppm, mag 1480ppm, alk 9dkh, temp 25c...

hi all, i went on holiday for 2weeks got back last week and my colt was like this. well a week later and its still the same. is it a goner? should i take it out of the tank?

hello guys this is probably a thick question to you lot, but i will ask anyway. i have been reading to get a nem you should wait a year or so until the chemistry of the tank has found its own balance, now the thick bit. what does this actual mean.

hi guys and girls. just done my weekly tests here are the results. kh/alk--7.7dkh calcium--390ppm mag--1170ppm ph,pho4,rates and rites are all good. not sure about the ones listed. i use red sea coral pro salt and the results of freshly mixed salt are as follows. kh/alk--9.3dkh calcuim--440ppm...

hi all, due to some advice of lance about beating cyano, he said i need more water movement, so i went out and got myself 2 more koralias. one more number 3 and a number 2. positions them as follows, number3 top right back of tank pointing down on the lr, number 3 top middle back of tank...

hi guys again, as i said in a thread the other day i had a diotom problem, well i think its more of a cyrano problem but its brown not red. my levels are phos 0.1ppm so is the RO/DI water so there is something wrong with my ROunit, its only 2 months old. Nitrates are 10ppm. just reading meluso58...

question on my instant ocean skimm 800, it releases lots of tiny bubbles from the bubble catcher, when i turn it on, i normally turn it off in the day, and keep it running though the night. in the morning the bubbles have stopped. is it best to keep it on all the time?

hi all, need a bit of help, i have lots of tiny air bubbles all over my tank, on the live rock, my sand,power heads everywhere. they keep rising up to the surface and floating on the surface. its looks horrible.they come from my skimmer and the filter when i turn it back on. my question is will...

need some help in choosing a fish to hang out in the sand and help turn it over and keeping it clean. tank is 100g, with 2 common clowns, flame angel, coral beauty,humbug damsel,PBT and a royal gramma. this would be my last fish. put a tiger watchman goby in about 4 weeks ago. never seen it...

after upgrading to a bigger tank 2 months ago i am still getting diotoms on my glass and sand. to cycle the new tank i added some sand from the old one which was 4months old. and added 90lbs of live rock and some of the media out of the old filter. i also added one damsel which i had in the old...