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hi all. i am planning on buying my first actual skimmeer soon. im not counting the crappy one that came with my nanocube. it is going to be for my 55 which will eventually be a somewhat heavily stocked reef. ive been reading up on skimmers lately and it seems like the favorites are the octopus...

I am finally renovating my old fw tank that's been wasting away in the guest bedroom. Before the tank had a bunch of ugly fake plants and colorful gravel that was all nasty. it had an unknown pleco, and what i believe is a pictus catfish. Now i have removed everything, placed flourite...

alright, i finally got rid of my trutle so now i have an empty 20 (or at least i think thats what it is: 30x12x12) so i just took some tests and the results are... nitrite: 0 ammonia: 0 nitrate: 50ish ( just got rid of turtle yesterday so give me a break =p ) alk: 100ppm ph: 6.5 chlorine: 0...

Been a while since I've been on here but thats just because things have been going rather well! But, as the title says, something has been eating my frogspawn's skeleton. I picked it up today and whatever has been eating itis almost all the way through on one head. I saw a star on it but it...

Well ive lost my tomini tang and 2 clarkii clowns and my flame angel is acting like the tomini before he died. my params are all near perfect nitrates are less than 5, amm is 0, nitrite is 0, 7.9, alk is 250, no signs of ich. i think im dealng with some type of paracite. need help...

PEASE READ!!!! There is currently a bill thats going before our goverment HR669, aka the "NonNative Wildlife Invasion Prevention Act". In a nutshell this bill will effectively ban the sale, transport & breeding of pretty much ALL of the animals we keep in our homes and call pets. Some examples...

Well my tomini tang was just starting to get comfortable in the tank but now its hiding. wont come out for any mysis, seaweed, nothing! its been in there for about three weeks. params: trAtes less than 5 trItes0 amm 0 salin 1.027 ph 7.9 alk 280 tank is 55g. Thanks!

Is it any good? My dad wants me to look into it and see if its any good for reef tanks. Would it be ok for all corals? They seem expensive so is it worth it? Thanks!

Oh boy, another one... well to get to the point, im looking for a 48" light for a 55gal which would allow me to keep all soft corals and wont be too expensive. What I'm looking at: 1st: This was my original plan, 4x65w, PC fixture Aquarium Lighting: Coralife Lunar Aqualights Compact Fluorescent...

Well I tested the water again today and I have no ammonia left! Now I have very high nitrites and my nitrates are dropping. Strange? Anyyways, I'm thinking that my tank will be cycled sometime in the middle of next week maybe? So I'm starting to think about a clean up crew. The tank is 55...

I had this random idea for a filter today durring school(im not too productive at that place). well anyways the idea is, getting a phosban reactor, get extra sponge seporatar things and fill it with purigen, charcoal, and ceramic and you separate them layer by layer. (or any media that could...

Today when I got home from school, I saw my tank for the first time since Saturday and my tank looked like a wreck. Frogspawn fell but is fine. Ricordea on a tiny piece of rubbel was burried in the sand. Blasto drag fell. And there was dust algae everywhere. Now, all of those have happened...

hi all. i finally got a new wooden airstone for my skimmer, i was using one of those small blue cylinder ones. and now ive been lookin around online and thinking about how i could tune up my skimmer. ive also been wondering about trying to make a skimmer for my 55gallon. so here are a few...

Background: As many of you may know, i have recently picked up a free 55 gallon with stand hood and crappy light. my plans include a snowflake eel, fuzzy dwarf lion, a coral beauty, and 1or2 yellow stripe maroon clowns. as of rite now i just have the tank. i am planning on scrapping up some...

well i think im going to talk my parents into taking me to the lfs(been meaning to take my drivers training classes). well last time i was there they had the coolest little yellow striped maroon clown. awesome vibrant colors, unlike some others which are soooo dark. well what i want to know...

some of you may know that i am starting an aggressive 55g tank. and that i am using the "outdated" HANDY reef thing. its an updated version of this: The One, the Only, HANDY Coral Reef! now i wouldnt be asking this if i was just doin a normal fowlr, but im doing the aggressive style with a...

i went to my lfs and for the first time, i walked out with nothing! thats right, NOTHING! every time ive gone ive bought something, but not this time! and i dont even want to tell ya how close i was to buying this awesome little ysm clown. coolest one ive ever seen, i figure if hes still...

well for now i am postphoning the whole 30 fw lightly planted tank. i have now realized that i wont have the time to breed and i know i could just let the fry be food but i dont need another 30 gallons to take care of so that will just stay how it is for now. and i dont know if anyone read y...

Ok well it all startedyesterday when I went to the airport at 3... AM. We were flying out to Atlanta to then fly out to Aruba for a week. So we gotthere and everything went great all on time and such. Unitl we got on the plane. We ended up sitting there for two hours because apparently there...

didnt get my light like i was hopeing for to go reef so im just gunna stick with the crappy 36 watt and go fowlr(ish). im going to scrap up some money for a better filter just to let evry1 know. (sump is sadly out of the question so whats the next best thing?) for now im thinking: 1 fuzzy...

I took my parameters and everything is fine. It looks like the tissiue is flaking away. It is very deflated and it has white patches where the flaking away is taking place. I can't put up a pic from my iPhone (where this post is from) so I'll try to get one later. Thanks!

I got the new iPhone 3g. =] it's awesome. So much cool stuff you can do with this thing. I'm doin this whole post on it rite now. The only downside is that this was my main Xmas gift so I'm not gettin much more or anything else from my mom. At my dads tho I should still be getting a few things...

1. should i replace all of my filter media in the back of the nanocube with lr rubbel. if so, should it be fully cured before i add it. 2. should that be the only media in there(besides skimmer)? 3. would it be overkill with a good (expensive) hob skimmer to replace my not so amazing one? if...

I have had my little 3 gallon for over 6 months now and whenever i try to put a new coral frag in it immeadiatley closes completely. i just put a small xenia frag in a few days ago and it hasnt opened at all since. a zoo frag that i put in a while ago still has yet to fully open. im pretty...

picked up a nice favia brain coral today. no pics yet. its red with green accents. i also asked how much a tiny little red monti cap was and he said well ill give it to ya for free if u get something else. =]. picks in a few hours prbly. when they are open. Thanks4readin!