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My regular Btas have that. Looks kinda like teeth

My yellow tang has something wrong with its eye. It is cloudy and it almost looks like its dislocated or something. It can move it around but It looks weird. If anyone here keeps snakes its similar to when a eye scale is stuck after a shed. The tang does have a trace of ick on its fins but I...

so i built my own skimmer a few weeks ago and ive been battling with it to get it set up. i have it set up in a bucket now to test it. i usually set it up so that the foam bubbles into the cup every once in a while. i get a thick sludge around the cup and a slightly lighter liquid in the cup...

IMO micro bubbles make the tank look cloudy or dirty. like theres stuff floating around in your water. my bubbles annoy me and i cant figure out where they are from

plants??? im talking bout a reef tank. :D

checked the local hardware stores here and i cant seem to find t5 fixtures anywhere.

its actually a sw reef tank. my corals are doing great and staying healthy with good color but ive never witnessed any reproduction of any of them in the year and a half. not even the mushrooms or polyps

havent looked into numbers or wattages or anything. just had a random idea to make another t5 fixture. i currently have a 2 bulb 48" t5 strip over my 55 and was wondering if i could hack up a 24 inch strip and extend it for 48 inch bulbs???? that way i would have 2 fixtures with 4 bulbs total...

do you have feather dusters? i know feather dusters often spit out stringy stuff like that

i completely agree with removing the emerald even though i loved him. he really wasnt as hidden as emeralds usually are. and by the way the beuaty is still alive. i really dont think he was weak, just caught off guard. i almost got the crab a few mins ago as he was sittin on a ledge but he...

The beauty was ambushed. i saw it all go down lol. its eating well and even with one pectoral fin left he seems to be doing good. swimming strong. its been like that for a few days now since the first incident. the crab was chillin in a popular hole about 2 inches in diameter that my fish like...

i used to have nothing but good things to say about emerald crabs. i have 1 in my 55g with tons of live rock and he was a model citizen. the other day i nothed my coral beauty was missing a fin and i had no idea why. i thought maybe my aggressive damsel was picking at him. today im on the phone...

i was thinking about making a DIY skimmer untill i have the money for a real one. i was wondering if it were possile to have the intake into the skimmer piped into the end of my overflow instead of using a pump or powerhead???? ive read that skimmers only need the flow of 2x your gallons ever...

3/4inch. i just built mine a few months ago. a tip from someone who learned the hard way... use cutoff ball valves to adjust the flow down the siphon with the pump output. i had to pipe a relief line back into my sump from the pump return to cut back the flow a bit because the 600 gph was...

i would suggest a bulb that has its own reflector built in to it. kinda like those floodlights that are outside your house on motion sensors. they are thicker glass and are easier to wipe off than a curly bulb. just get the right wattage and k. ive read that around 4000k ws the best (someone did...

my post was a bit misleading. the lights are still t5 but i put a proper sized 48 inch fixture instead of the 2 24 inch fixtures. i would say the wattage is about the same if you would add the 2 small fixtures together.

idk wha that is. its a coral beaty. and it has been like that before i added the fish. thats one of my new guys

+1 wish i had pods. they are difficult to get thriving in the tank but once there they provide tasty little treats for fish

saltwater or FW? saltwater i would suggest a sump. if done properly there are built i safety features to prevent water from the sump overflowing the tank and vice versa.

ive heard of frag swap meets, im sure they exist. try craigsist in the events section

one block is probably too much anyway depending on ur tank. i have 7 hungry fish and a quarter block is almost too much. they break up and you would be surprised how many shrimp are packd into such a small cube. i feed a rotation on frozen mysis, homemade (i work in a seafood department and get...

ive had this frogspawn for alomst a year now. within the last 2 weeks ive made 2 purchases of rock. the first was 20 lbs of base and the second was 20 of live from a friend. since the rearrangement of the rock the frogspawn hasnt opened as much as it usually does. ive also bought a different...

thanks:) by the way its a 55g with a 20 long sump stocklist: fish 1 yellow tang 1 coral beauty 1 scooter blenny (just added today) 4 damsels (yellow,4 stripe, blue, yellowtail?) inverts 1 red brittle star 1 halloween hermit 3 large turbos 2 feather dusters (red, brown) 1 emerald crab (love it...

Hey guys. I've been around for a short while but didnt really post too much. Finally got my tank looking like something I can be proud of. But like always there's a long way to go. Ill update later with a livestock list. I have to go to class now. Happy reefing

hey i have a couple unrelated questions. just a few minor things i figured were small enough that they could go in the same post. 1. i tried having a coral banded shrimp once and he lasted about 4 days. the minute he molted my yellow damsel ripped all his arms and legs off :|. ever since ive...