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Hey guys! It's been a while since I've been in freshwater but I'm going back! I just don't have the time(or money :) to put into a reef tank anymore so I'm going back to fresh! I plan on a 40 breeder or maybe a 38 not sure yet. I'm tired of the smaller fish so I'm going to start with a small...

Im about to transfer all my livestock from my 29 gallon reef to a 30 gallon tank that my friend gave me. Im not going to do a sump right away but im planning on it later down the road. Is there a way i can drill it now and put an overflow box in but plug up the holes? Maybe put some pvc to...

Anybody use these to light their tanks? Im thinkin about using it for my 30 gallon. Just not sure if 1 would cover all 36 inches of the tank.

2 part was starting to get little expensive so i got a little tub of kalk. Im not exactly sure how to use it though since i dont have an ATO. I dont know what concentration to start off with. Any help?

Christmas is coming up and i really want to do something for my tank. I dont know what i want yet. Sump/fuge, reefkeeper? Any ideas? Its a 29 gallon reef with mostly lps and softies and 2 sps

Im feeding my new mandarin baby brine shrimp in attempt to get him on frozen. How long will baby brine stay alive in the fridge? I also put a little selcon in with them so they might eat it or soak a little up.

Just got my sun coral a couple days ago and it's doing great. Do they open every night or just when they are hungry? I tried to feed it but it wasn't open tonight. It's "body" was out of the skeleton but it's tentacles weren't out.

My heart mushroom coral

I started using selcon a week and a half ago and love it! I'm seeing brighter color in my zoas more polyp extension with them and my palys. Also the stripes on my clowns look a deeper black than they were before using. Not much but I live the polyp extension and color in the zoas. Hopefully I'll...

Ive had aquariums for years, fresh and salt. Right now, I have a 29 gallon saltwater reef setup. I haven't had a betta in a while so I got one today and he's in a half moon bowl. I want to go pretty serious with it. I don't want it to look like everybody else's first betta tank. I want it really...

I was at the pet store a week ago and they had some amazing looking condys for 10 bucks. I had trouble passing them up, but It was the day before I want outta town. If I get one will it sting my RBTA or vice versa?

I found a deal on Craigslist for one. Is it a good skimmer? Is it quiet?

Is evaporation a problem with wooden canopies? I'm thinkin about doing a DIY canopy. Whats the best wood to use?

Something's wrong with my RBTA. I did a water change a couple days ago and bumped a rock that the nem was partly attached to and he came off of it. I don't think I hurt his foot though because he moved halfway across the tank overnight. He's closed today and shriveled up. Hes not bleached. How...

I bumped my birdsnest while blasting my rock of detritus before a water change. Due to a cruddy dragging job, the coral came off the plug. Is instant krazy glue advanced no run gel formula reef safe? If not what is? The ingredients are cyanoacrylate glue and cyanoacetate. I've heard the first is...

Is there any reason that BTAs will bubble or not bubble? I've looked online for hours and seen that it's really just what the anemone feels like doing. What do you guys think?

I'm confused as to why I still have some algae. I started running a brs reactor with gfo and carbon a week ago. I left my lights off for 2 days which helped with the algae on the glass a little. I feed once a day with frozen brine or mysis or pellets. I'm careful that all the food gets eaten. My...

I'm going out of town for 2 days and I have a little hair algae problem as well as a little cyano. Would it be bad to leave my lights off for those 2 days? I have a mushrooms, zoas, palys, clove polyps, frogspawn and a birdsnest.

My lfs recommended dosing iodine once a week with E S V potassium iodide. My snowflake polyps havent been opening so they said this will probably help. They said its also good for LPS and soft corals. I bought some and thought I'd give it a try but after researching a little more, I'm a little...

while acclimating a new paly frag, i saw a little white bug looking thing scurrying around on him. the only iodine i have is ESV potassium iodide. can i dip it in that? how?

My snowflake polyps haven't been opening much at all the last few days. I have no idea why! They are in a medium/high flow area on the bottom 18 inches under 96 watts of t5. My zoos, mushrooms, and frogspawn are doing awesome though.

I really want one!! How hardy/hard to keep are they? What's the easiest species. Maxima is what I want because of the blue coloration. How big do they get? Is there a certain tank size they need? Are they completely photosynthetic?

Right now I'm running 2 sponges and Biomax in my aquaclear. Should I use some other media? Resin, floss, carbon?

I'm lookin in to getting an RO DI system to save money and trips to the lfs. I don't really know much about them. What's a pretty basic system that will get me 0 TDS water?

How do you determine the overflow box gph? How does it not overflow from power outage? How do you determine the return pump size? I'm thinking about a 15 gallon sump for my 29 gallon reef and have lots of questions.