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My boyfriend and his parents spent all summer turning their backyard into a beautful garden with a pond. At first they got an estimate of the amount of dollars it would take to do their backyard and the estimate was $36,000 CND Dollars. So they decided to do all the work themselves and I think...

Here is a few pictures of mine and my boyfriends 90 gallon "wave" tank. The tank has been a SW Reef Tank for just about a year now. Specs on the tank: Mushrooms Pulsing xenia (has since died) 75lbs of live rock 2 clowns Yellow Tang Royal Gramma 2 Hum Bugs Blue Devil and a Domino 2 powerheads...

my pulsin xenia is shriveling up. its not half the size it used to be and never pulses anymore. tested my water everything is fine but i'm scared the calium or alk isnt right cause I dont have testers for that and cant afford one right now. what do i do? i dont want it to die.

oh crap. what on earth do i do?!??! will it spread to my other fish and my corals?!?!!?!?

i have a problem, the guy who i get my fish from, sells me a lot of aggresive fish! he sold me a trigger and said he was a tad bit territorial, he ended up killing 2 of my fish. then he sold me 3 damsels, the damsels were fine at first and dont pick on my tang or my clowns but they beat up my...

Just wondering how do i get my pulsing xenia to attatch to another rock and start growing on it? does it do it on its own? or do i have to cut a peice off?

hi i bought a Royal Gramma the other day, and i accumalted him proporly but i havent seen him in 2 days. i know he's in there cause when i put him in the damsels chased after him. but i havent seen him since. how do i know if he's still alive? does he bury in the sand? cause i dont see nothing...

My fluval 404 broke tonight, how long will my fish be able to go with out it? i have 70 pounds of live rock, skimmer, 2 power heads, 3" sand bed. with 2 clown fish, 1 yellow tang, 1 blue damsel, 2 hum bugs, a mushroom and a pulsing zenia.

hi I woke up this morning to find my new colt all shriveled and shrunken. i did a water change 3 days ago and got the colt 2 days ago. after the water change all the perimeters were great! now i just checked and my nitrate has majorly spiked. how could that be?? is that why my colt has...

just bought a new fish today and he's dieing on me. i cant remember the name of the fish, he's pink with a purple square in the middle. i heard he doesnt take shock well, but does it kill them? i did eveything rite, water is fine cept i cant test the nitrate i'm outta stuff for it. what do...

I'm haveing problems with my red sea skimmer. First i cant get the flow right, theres always to much water pouring into the cup. i've been tweaking it for about 3 weeks now. alos i cant get the skimmer to run for longer then 5 hours. after 5 hours it stops the intake of water and runs dry...

Hi i've been noticeing once awhile my out spout shoots out dirty water. after cleaning the filter and its started back up, it shoots out LOTS of crap. could this all be stuck in the hoses? is there a way to clean them? or do you buy new hoses every so often. thanks!

The light in our aquarium is on for about 6 hours a day... we get about an inch of water evaporation a day. i'm constantly topping the aquarium up. what would be causing this is the lights barely on. also, is there any way to keep your aquarium looking clean on the outside.... i have about an...

My clown is becoming a bully. he's always fighting with the other clown and taking bites outta him... same with the yellow tang. what can i do to make him stop picking on everyone.... and does this mean something? is he unhappy in the tank?

help me identify this.... inside my live rock in the holes i've counted about 8 stringy "arms" about less than 1 millitmeter thick and can strech up to 2 inches long "arms" are brown and white stripped dig through the sand and pull up peices of substrate ( the actually crushed coral, not...

now that our levels in the tank are all balanced, and we have 3 fish. how big of weekly water changes should I do? 10% 15% 20% or more? thanks!!!!!!

Here are the first edition of fish to our aquarium!!!

hi the ammonia is our tank is not going down we had our spike and nitrites and nitrates are 0. but ammonia is still high. theres only Live Rock in the tank plus 4 hermit crabs and 3 turbo snails.(had 4 but one died.?) we have the skimmer goin plus 2 powerheads plus our fluval 404. and doing...

Over the last 2 days my 90 gallon salt water tank has had a brown algea sprout. The brown algea is all over the live rock, glass and sand. I am using a Marine Glo and Florescent bulb. I have no fish in the tank yet as it has been cycling for a month. Whats causing this algea growth? It...

just starting up our marine tank. no fish yet just live rock. and i'm noticing in spots on the live rock its turning white. am i doing sumthin wrong or am i missing sumthing. we got out water tested this weekend and we're going thru the nitrate or nitrite spike right now. one peice of live...

Hey guys , i'm new to the forum and just starting up my saltwater tank. heres my specs so far 90 gallon Wave tank (the front of the glass has a big wave in it ) fluval 404 red sea prism deluxe skimmer crushed color substrate 25lbs of live rock. so far so good, i'm finding the hardest part is...

hey just a question, i hear everyone on here praising the rock from liverocks.com and just wonering if i order from them do i have to cure the rock myself? or does it already come cured? thanks.

well i came home from work today to find that it looks like the "good" parts on our live rock have turned into mold. its turned like fuzzy light purple... Should i be worried?

Hi there, any one know where to get cheap Test Kits online? preferably one with PH Nitrate amonia things like that :D :D

Hello everyone! My boyfriend and I are new into the SaltWater aquarium scene. We just bought a Red Sea skimmer and nothing seems to be gathering. Is there suppose to be foam collecting? The only way foam is present is if the airline is open. When I block the airline, water just flows through...