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This will be the 4th acan that I have tried and lost over the past 5ish years and 3 tanks (2 different 20g and a 55g).. I just dont seem to have good luck with them and I dont know why... Please help! Current tank is a 20g mixed reef as follows: (1) Small true perc clown (1) small royal gramma...

Hello, I have a 20g tank that is a year old and I just finally added corals to it today. Inhabitants are: (2) True Percula Clown Fish (1) Bi-color Dotty back (1) sea serpent starfish and then assorted CUC. I am thinking that we are close to maxed out if not already, but I would really...

Hello, I have a 20g long FOWLER currently with no lights over it.. I am looking for a cheap way to light this and have some softies.. zoas, leathers, mushrooms.. I do have LEDs just no way to hang them, so I was thinking about the zoomed or aqueon CFL bulbs.. Has anyone had any experience...

So I just got a 1 gallon betta tank. I have only done saltwater and know next to nothing about freshwater. Is there any cool 'unusual' fish that I could keep in a 1g aquarium or will I be limited to a beta? Sent from my iPhone using Aquarium Advice

A lfs near me has a ton of $10 frags, some are very nice.. Unfortunately, the guy that runs it is an absolute moron and doesn't have a clue as to what half of the frags are. I saw these and was thinking they were some sweet Leptoseris frags but then started second guessing it today when I...

Hello, I work at a lfs and noticed a frag today that looks like it's covered in a think spiderweb or mold casing.. I did a quick google search and couldn't find anything like I was seeing.. I think the frag is some type of favia. I dipped the coral in coral rx and after a few hours held it...

My LFS has one and like them a lot, just can't find a lot of information on keeping them.. does anyone have experience with them? looks identical to this one Drs. Foster and Smith Diver's Den® - Cerianthus membranaceus

Can I use this to mount frags? I realize its not gel so won't be as easy to work with, I just don't want to poison my tank It does contain the cyanoacrylate

So I stopped by the grocery store to pick up some distilled water for top of, and while looking for the cheapest distilled water, I looked at the purified water which said on the bottle 'purified by reverse osmosis'. When I looked at the distilled water, it said, 'purified by steam distillation...

So I picked up a birdsnest frag today, acclimated, dropped it in my DT (I have to start QTing my new purchases.. :facepalm: ) and now I notice an extremely small baby aiptasia right at the base of the frag. What can I do to remove it without damaging the frag? Or should I just pop the coral off...

I have some kind of algae growing on my duncan coral and was wondering what dip I could use to get rid of it? I tried pulling it off but it came back within a couple of days.. The second picture is the same type of algae except its growing on a rock, any help identifying what type it is would be...

Does anyone have any experience with any of these types of anemones? Obviously I am not referring to aiptasia but ones like the purple tube anemones and such.. All I ever see people talking about is bubble tips and carpets.. is there a reason they aren't popular?

Hello, So it seems that every time I test my nitrates with the Red Sea Pro kit, I get a reading of >10 on the low range, but <4 when I test the high range.. 4ppm and 10mm are pretty close colors on the chart, but seems closer to 10 than 4.. Has anyone had experiences like this?

Just wondering if anyone on here in the central Florida area is going next weekend? http://www.coralcon.org/ I for one am stoked!

Hello, I was wondering what you guys use to check phosphates. I seem to find negative reviews on every test kit on the market. The hanna checker may be what I go with in the near future, however, I was also wondering if testing for phos is a necessity. I have read different things regarding...

Candy cane coral started looking bad yesterday afternoon, started mixing some saltwater for a change but it was looking better when the lights when out last night. I wake up this morning and its looking awful. I checked the ph and it was 7.4 obviously way to low.. The ph was the same in the...

I have a candy cane coral that is not looking to good the last couple of hours, and am planning on doing a water change ASAP... I just started mixing the salt at 5:40pm.. What is the soonest I could do the change? Tonight or should I wait till the morning? Kind of worried.. It just started to...

Due to a (vary) likely change of living arrangements, I will most likely have to rearrange my tanks.. My question is, could I keep a dwarf lion fish and a snowflake eel with a sleeper goby and a red lined wrasse? To me, it seems like I could but any advice is much welcome

Hello! I have been meaning to start a thread for the last couple of months on my new set up.. I never did a thread for my 55 which has been up for almost a year now and has changed very much from when I first began.. So here I am starting this so I can track my own progress, and also pick...

Hello, I have a eheim canister filter rated for 60g on a 55. I have about 65lbs of live rock and a sump which is mainly for water volume, a ball of chaeto, and a filter pad. I was wanting to take off the canister.. Can I do that with my current set up?

I am wanting to upgrade my lighting, but do not want metal halides due to the electric bill and bulb replacements. My main concern for lighting needs is clams.. I am DYING to have one! I was wondering if I got a 6 bulb T5 fixture if that would be enough.. If it isnt, I will just wait until I can...

Changed my rock work today for obvious reasons.. A lot more area on the sanded and just better looking overall. Comments and/or smart remarks welcome :) *EDIT* top is before bottom is after

I added some chaeto to my Refugium a couple of weeks ago and have been waiting to see pods swimming around in my tank.. Well I was just searching around in my Refugium and saw a bunch of little... Things... Crawling around my return pump.. There is a bunch of them, but only crawling.. Haven't...

I just bought a ball of chaeto and tossed it in my sump, started reading online about lighting cycles (which from what I gather, it's good to run the sump lights opposite the DT lights..?) and came across it messing with ph.. Has anyone had experience with ph swings from adding chaeto? I saw one...

Bought 6 green chromis a few days ago, and now there are 5.. I assumed this would happen, my problem now though is I can't find it and ammonia is rising in my tank.. I moved a couple of rocks but still no luck.. I don't want to move to much stuff around cause its just kicking up stuff that will...