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Please reconsider if you have an Odyssea 500w heater for your tank. My tempature control connecter started a fire under my 175g Oceanic tank that I got up and running about 6 weeks ago. The tank was doing great and happy fishes & corals. The fire burned the supporting cabinet and flames...

Evansville Indiana--for sell or trade. 75g tank (non-overflow) w/ black stand. Custom Sealife 4x65w PC (needs 1 $30 ballast & 2 bulbs), red sea prism hob skimmer, 2 heaters. Tank & stand good condition but showing some age (being picky). Heaters skimmer good condition, light in very good...

Just transferred my 75g to my 175g Oceanic Bow. Lots of work but no mishaps. 275# LR, 300# PS. Very happy campers! Including ME :D :D :D

Just got my super-duper dyno-whoppin' aquarium magnet today. "Maganavore" somthing??? Anyway--after carefully reading the warning label I was monkeying with it in my lap. There is something to be said for the warning labels. As it clapped together today it decided to snatch onto my sweather...

6/26 175g tank filled w/tap water, 48 hrs ran with phosguard, activated carbon 6/28 Salt added-- 6/29 SG 1.021 Temp 79 120# LR added (foul smelling--had dieoff due to delay in moving to circulating heated tank) 6/30 SG 1.022 Temp 79 Ammonia 0.4 Nitrite .5 Nitrate 20 Alk 300 PH...

Well guys and gals--as I get ready to transfer my 75g over to my new 175g bow. My 75g has got a couple new visitors I believe. Sounds like a glass thermometer or hydrometer hitting the side of the tank. Sometimes one, two or three consecutive snaps. Problem is I have no glass in the tank. I...

Just got my new somewhat smelly live rock loaded into my new 175g bow. New sandbed (Playsand), new water, new skimmer, activated carbon, & phosphate remover all running. About 120# of LR in the tank. Now I need to keep an eye on the curing and cycling. I have a basic hydrometer already...

Here is the situation: I currently have a 75g pristine reef tank with fish corals and plenty of rock that I am transferring to my brand new 175 bow tank. The 175g will be ready to accept the transfer Monday night. 24 hours from now. However: In the mean time I had 120# of keys rock...

Should I lose the crabs or not? Saw at least 3 different kinds today as I unpacked my order. Little (brown & white) ones, 1.5" wide very dark brown ones, and some really furry dark ones, The largest couldn't have been 1.75" wide. I,ve read on the mantis shrimp thing but need to check on...

My LFS so kindly introduced about 20 Purple mushrooms to my tank about 6 months ago. The 20 have become 200 and still increasing. They are covering all my rock and as I get ready to transfer to my new 175 bow I wish to contain these to just a couple rocks as I will be introducing more corals...

4 days until I load my new Oceanic 175G Reading thru the forum here and now wondering if I should use sand only for my substrate. If I do I will certainly mix live and playsand. How do gobies like the sand? How deep should I make it and should I rinse the playsand first? I would much prefer...

Tranferring my established 75g reef tank to a 175G Bow Oceanic. Never used a sump system before and plans are to load the chamber with bio-balls--New @ used, Set an asm 450g rated euro-skimmer (model g4) in the sump and run activated carbon in the filter slot. The tank itself will contain over...