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I fed the new tank a little flakes, and it didn't even go to ammonia, I just got nitrates from it. I am working on getting the rubble out of the main tank and into the sump. I just got the sump running water through it. I also got my first 2 powerheads in it. They work pretty well. They are...

Well, I have had water and sand and live rock in it a week. I finally got enough water mixed to fill it up, and got my new powerheads in today (DFS shipping is sssssssllllllloooooooowwwwwwwwww unless you pay a fortune for it). I got 2x MJ1200's with the AlgaeFree Sure Flow 1600's and the...

My fish love my net... they come to it everytime I put it in. It probably has to do with that I feed them from it;)

Thanks Ziggy. Its in, and most of the way full of water now, just getting it cleared up... I still haven't done the plumbing yet! ;)

Awesome Beta. Now that you stole BSG names... I think I'll go with Babylon 5 names:)

Tank is in... it needs cleaned, but its in! This is the tank... with the moving crew;) Well, the moving crew minus my brother. He just decided to pout in the living room on an ipod. Cleanup is starting on the new tank now... Already scrubbed down the sump and its outside drying out. Now...

Well, today is the day... The grill is grilling, the pool table room is cleared out... and friends are due over in a few hours. I have 3x 36gallon Brute trash cans full of RO (I ran out of salt after mixing 1:( ) and power strips / portal GCFI plugs, etc ready for the new tank. It is a 150...

I am going to pick some up on Friday from a local store... Their prices arent that bad, and it comes out to be the same was F&S with shipping / taxes / etc taken into account. This weekend I got a couple new corals... One is a (5 headed) Duncan, the other is some Bright Orange Zoos. This...

Right now I am doing atleast 1 PWC per week. The nitrates are down to 1 - 5 (compared to 20+ before). Im actually going to run out of my first bucket of salt soon (probably only have enough for another 30 gallons or so).

I tried pulling some off, but I was unable to. I could try scraping it, but I decided not to try that right now. Click on the image to make it bigger. It doesn't seem to be getting longer than that, but it is spreading to where coraline algae isn't located (mainly my base rocks).

Ive got an algae growth that I dont know where it came from... Is this hair algae? Should I pull it off (if I can)? It might have popped up from the higher nitrates, but I believe I have that under control now. Should I just go lights off over the weekend to try to kill it off? It is the...

Oh, I have been. I'm having to do turn them on/off by hand, but that's okay for now. I did another 20 gallon change yesterday, and took my overflow boxes off to clean them too. The skimmer capture cup is turning nasty colors now, so at least I know it is working right! My Nitrates are down...

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Its a 55gallon. We had to cut our swords out because of a blackbeard algae problem. Its actually Bidgette's tank, but I haven't told her yet.

I'll take the Echinodorus berteroi.

Well, it has been a couple days since my last post... I was looking at the tank last night, and it appears I have some green... algae growing on the rocks and on the sand. Its hairy. Im guessing this is not the type I want in there, so.. I am going to cut back on the feedings and do a large...

From what I have seen, the True's would have thicker black lines between the orange and the white. I could be wrong though.

Just got home and got the new live rock curing in the tank. It was more rock than I expected. We re-wet it before I left the place I was getting it from, but by the time I got home from an hour drive, it wasn't really wet anymore. Still, I think it will be good once it cures.

I would find out what the LFS was feeding him and feed him that. I know mine like a frozen mix of stuff, and feed them that, with a variety every few days. I dont know about the freshwater flakes, but that doesn't sound like what they were eating...

I just got my 2x 175W MH's wired in and burning... They put out more heat than I thought they would. Right now I have a 10k and a 12k bulb to see which one I like better. So far, the 10k really makes the tank light up more "natural" to me than the purple I am getting from the 50/50 and...

I am not going to plumb them together. I am just going to have one tank + QT there. I just got a deal on some LR and LS from a tank that crashed during Hurricane Ike. 60# of LR and 60# of LS will be here on Monday (I pick it up). Going to start cycling the FOWLR tank with that.

When I got home, its little tentacles were out, so I left it alone until today. I ended up taking some photos, and I am surprised at the growth so far of everything. I am VERY happy that I have coraline algae growing out on all the rocks now. I have purple and lime green specks on all my...

When I was topping off the water this morning, I noticed that someone (Im guessing Turbo... my giant mexican turbo snail) knocked my candycane off its perch, to the substrate... Will it be okay down there until 1-3am tonight, when I get home, or should I run home at lunch and fix it?

Its not slime in the fuge, its just Coraline... Boy does stuff look different under different lighting (and when its 4 feet below you). When I ran my water test on the 8th, my nitrates were down to 2. The "brown stuff" as my father calls it, is going away. Probably because of the CuC that...

Isn't Marshall Islands really hard to get now? Tonga is hitting $10/lb at the LFS's that have it here (2 that I have seen in the last 45 days). Ive already cherry picked the tonga from them for my bigger tank. Maybe I should just go and get some cheapo live rock and smash it with a hammer...