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My false perc's are turning brown, and they have only been in the tank for a couple a weeks. All of the specs are perfect, ammo, trites, trates, pH. 0,0,0,8.2 respectively. The sg is 1.022, temp. sits between 79-80 F. The one thing is the lights arent powerful. Any ideas? Is it that I have...

Yay! I got my two clowns today at lunch. Two tankraised perc's and bou are they good looking. Here are the descriptions first and then I will have a few questions: Fish one: Oh it is a beauty. They are both moderately small, but i think this one maybe be a smidgen bigger. It has amazing...

Well after much pain and waiting and then more waiting the time has finally come. The tank is pretty much cycled (no ammo or 'trites and a low and dropping 'trates), the shrimp thing worked well and I dumped in some of that bacteria "snake oil" :lol: that seemed to make it go faster but maybe...

OK, I think that I am ready to start cycling the tank but am wondering if this will be enough filtration to start: Red Sea Prizm Skimmer Aquaclear 200 w/ sponge and carbon As well as a maxijet 900 for circulation (I know its not a filter lol) And I will hopefully be adding one of these...

I am frusterated finding live rock, and am getting down to a time that I need to get things going so I am thinking that I may just go ahead and buy a canister filter to go purely FO. Some of you will allready know my specifics, but I am running a 30 gallon, prizm skimmer, aquaclear 200 just for...

I am setting up a sw tank as a bio project, and am looking for some free live rock from someone who is tearing a tank down. I hate to ask for handouts but because of the public school budget we can't afford to pay the LFS prices. I'm worried about shipping costs so I would very much prefer...

Well I am getting tired of wating and looking for decent LR so I have decided that we will get the cycling process done and then in the next few weeks as the cycling finishes up we can add the LR or a couple of clowns, and just do mad water changes till we get some LR. Here are my questions on...

How much lighting are needed for most polyps? Do you need MH or will flourescents do?

I have a prizm skimmer and a an aquaclear 200. What I am wondering is, is this enough filtration to keep this tank healthy with a few fish under these two situations: Just cycle and then add fish. Add 10 lbs of live rock to cycle, then add fish. Add say a wet/dry (biowheel) filter and then...

Well I am a mechanics canible and diy'er, so I was wondering if this was possible. I was going to put this in the DIY category but I think this is better. This morning when I was doing some aquarium stuff at school I found three old aquaclear, or aquaclear style hand on the back filters. I was...

I have a 29 gal tank, and am planning on having a couple of clowns maybe a tang, and hopefully some LR, but we will see. My question is will a maxijet 900 be enough watercirculation to start when used with a protein skimmer, and an aquaclear 200 filter?

Before you laugh here me out, I have a 30 gallon tank, and it is being set up in my highschool (a project designated to be in my BioAP class) and we have a minimal budget. My question is, is it possible to just add say 10 - 15 lbs of liverock to act as a filter and to start the cycling. We...

Well let me first tell you about my tank. It is a 29 gallon glass tank with a crappy hood that will need to be replaced. I plan to build a top myself and just add in the light fixtures. We are planning on making it a fish only tank because money is limited as it is a high school tank. We want...