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hi, the closest fish store that sells ro water is a half hour away so it would be quite a hassle to drive out there weekly to get enough water to do the water changes on my 90 gal. is distilled water from the grocery store going to be as pure as ro water? that way i could save myself the...

anybody have a pair of maroon gold stripe clowns? i really want to get a pair soon but i talked to my lfs and they said that that is really hard to come by. is it more possible to get a pair if i order from someone online? thanks

whats the deal. i have just one yellow tail damsel in my 90 gallon and i put a royal gramma in the tank today. the damsel immediatly took a bite out of the grammas tail fin. what i dont get is why the gramma hangs around the damsel if he bites him. he could go clear across the tank and be...

whats the valve that i could put on my return line from my sump that would restrict waterflow back into the sump? i think its called a ball valve right? thanks

just a quick question here, how do you feed the water into ro systems? from what i have read it sounds like tapping into some plumbing lines but since i am a renter in house my landlord wouldn't be too happy if i tapped into the plumbing, he doesn't care about my fish. anyways, do they make...

the other day i saw this fish that looked like a blenny at the lfs and it was taking mouthfuls of sand in its mouth and passing it through its gills. any idea what it was? i forgot to ask the guy and now i'm curious. thanks

i have a 90 gallon fish only tank, no pods or anything in the sand. the guy at my lfs told me scooter blennies eat pods and if i dont have them then the blennies would die. other websites say that scooter blennies eat chopped meats and veggies. can i safely get a couple scooter blennies and...

i dont get it, how do you guys who have sumps prevent the micro bubbles? i have tried everything. i have all the baffles in the world. someone suggested something with tupperware which i tried and it didn't work. i put a pillowcase around the input to the sump which keeps all but the tiniest...

my chocolate chip star has been acting funny. he is currently on the glass but is all closed up, he only is open in on very small area enough to allow a few of his sucker things to attach to the glass. i have never seen him like this, he has always been completly open with all his little...

hey guys, justw ondering if anyone has any links to good sites with info on lighting systems. i'm just looking for explanations on what all the equipment is and does that i need and what you need for what and so on and so forth. just trying to get a grasp on hoods and ballasts and the...

what do you guys use to put GAC in for a sump? i have heard panty hose. does that work?

pet store or hardware store? i tried to put acrylic baffles in my glass sump and i used some generic silicon from home depot and in less than 24 hours of use the silicon already failed. i need the real stuff.

hi, i have a 20 gallon sump, a mag 18 on one end and the water line from the tank on the other. i have bubble baffles dividing the area where water enters and where the pump is. i thought the baffles would get rid of the microbubbles but there are still tons of them clouding up my tank. what...

i think my chocolate chip is dying. all day today he was on the glass with all five legs curled up off the glass. then i gave him a little tap to see if he was still kickin, and he moved to a different wall. now he is on the glass and he is just hanging by his little sucker things. it looks...

how would i go about doing that? i just set up my sump and my overlow box makes me nervous, probably for no reason, but anyhow i'd like to know how i got about setting up an automatic shutoff for my powerhead if the water level in the tank gets too high. any of you guys done this? thanks steve

i just put my mag 18 in my sump and the intake is about 3 inches under water. some how the intake creates a little vortex or something so small its about the size of a string, that sucks air from 3 inches under the water. i didn't even know this was possible, how do i fix it? puts tons of...

hey guys, my girlfriend wants to subscribe me to a fish magazine. she found a couple, one is Aquarium Fish Magazine and i forgot what the other is. anybody subscribe to a magazine like that and could recommend one? i have saltwater so preferably one that deals mostly with saltwater. thanks...

from marinedepot.com. since the bulkheads on the box going to the sump are threaded, it says in the instructions you can use an optional flexible hose adapter but it wasn't included with the box. is this something i can buy at home depot or something where they sell the clear flexible tubing...

a bit much? i have a 90 gallon tank and it seems to me that if i am having 900 gph of water flowing through my tank it is going to create a tsunami for my fishes. do you gys with tanks as big as 90 or more have a turnover rate of 10 per hour, and if so how does it not just blow your fish in...

any reason why? its a yellow tang, seems healthy, water is good. but every once and a while he will dig into the sand in this one spot, the hole is getting pretty big now. no where else. its right under a rock. any ideas as to why this is? thanks steve

i just fired mine up to see it in action for a couple minutes, wow very powerful. anyways it will be in my sump under my tank in a week or so, but my question is about the noise. it was kind of noisy. i held it in my hand so it wouldn't touch the bucket i was using either and it was still...

anybody ever see these bad boys fall off the side of the glass? mine has done it a few times that i have seen. i just saw it in the corner of my a second ago and he fell 2 feet to the bottom. is that normal? just want to make sure he wont hurt himself. seems odd that a fish with a thousand...

check this link out, the cost is $205. why so cheap? http://secure.microbyte.net/virtual/webaquatics/onlinestore/detail.cfm?ID=CL53106&storeid=1 steve

i have a 90 gallon tank. if i jsut start off with base rock for now, about 90 pounds of it, will it carry my bioload? i mean, will the bacteria be able to migrate to it or can the bacteria only migrate to something if it is physically touching what they are already on. the reason i ask is...

my tank is 90 gallons and i will be setting up a refugium in my sump of about 9 gallons(largest i can). my question is that if i put a dsb in it and some absorbing macroalgae, will it successfully eliminate my nitrates for the entire tank? or how large does the refugium have to be in relation...