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Okay so test results are in salinity 1.027, alkalinity 9.8, calcium 460, magnesium 1500, phosphate .2, nitrate 1, nitrate 0, ammonia .25. I know my salinity and phosphates are high, I added regular water to it to lower salinity. I bought a false clown the next day I left that post and it is...

I will do a water test when I get home and post levels and point one of the pumps upward, there are all angled downward. I was thinking a clown or chromis... I hear chromis also can change color when levels are bad? Thanks for all the help everyone!

Okay I will move the pumps up a bit higher. Got a chiller cause my room hits 105 while I am out an water temps would hit 82-87. Ima try 1 cheap fish to see if that would survive after the chiller... Any suggestions on a small hardy fish I can keep? Thanks for the help

Water levels are fine... I've tested every 3 or 4 days. Been testing for the norms ph, n02, n03, alkalinity. I have 2 pumps going at the top for water flow. So I have no idea. I tried to keep a firefish and a royal gramma so far an they have died. My shrimps are finally staying alive however and...

Updated pics of the tank everything seems very stable however I have not been able to keep fish... They die after 2-3 days... Is it because I'm not running air or oxygen into the tank like a normal fresh water tank?

Closer pic of the damaged head

Just added this hammer head on Friday. Attached it to the rock on Saturday and yesterday the coral started dying. One head bottom left looks like this now as it spread. Any suggestions, the lfs told me to cut that whole head off... Is this advisable? They also give me ReVive coral cleaner to dip...

Thanks for the heads up, my room is a converted garage so it's hard to keep temps down in my room during summer it hits 108 and my water levels hit 86 degrees in my 20 gal

I met this guy selling a used Artica mini chiller 1/15 hp and it is in working condition for 150 bucks. I have a 20 gal nano running and it's been getting warm. I have no ideas about chillers so any advice would be great. Would this be a good deal?

Now children that iron is very hot, don't touch it... Mommy I burned my hand by touching the iron... Comes to mind and plays in my head when I think about this lol

It does ball up on its own. Thanks for the help and comments. Really appreciate it.

This is starting to grow in my tank and sprouting more. Can someone plz id this and if it's safe? Thanks

So I found a piece of dendrophilia that had 3 heads on it for a decent price and picked it up as my center piece. I read a lot about how to take care of them. I tried to read up on how to attach them but want to make sure. You would first break the dendrophilia off the round cork it comes on...

Hmm well that sucks... Well I wasn't planning on adding corals for another 3 months or so... Gives me plenty of time to think it over

Added some livestock a cleaner shrimp, sand sifting star fish, and couldn't help myself saw a electric flame scallop and had to have it :)

Painted the back, new pic of the tank Side view ]

Got it thanks for the advice.

Thanks for the help, I added a lot of new water from my lfs 2 weeks ago when it was really high. I plan to only add small fish. Was thinking of a mandarin way down the line and a pair of gobys. Is it okay to start looking into soft corals?

So my second level check after the tank has been cycling for 5-6 weeks now ph 8.0 ammonia 0ppm No2 0ppm No3 10ppm. Somewhat new to levels but I should be good right? My first test yielded No2 5.0ppm and No3 160 ppm about 2 weeks ago nitrate levels through the roof. Am I safe to start adding...

Can someone id these stowaway? It's a worm like creature, is it safe in my reef tank?

Thanks for the heads up about the crabs I figure with all the rock it was okay to go heavy on a clean up crew

No idea they are trying to charge 50 bucks a head cause of the color, thanks for all the help that piece looks awesome by the way

Thanks for all the welcomes! I saw this at my lfs and yet said these orange ones are super rare. Would they be correct or are they pulling my chain? I've never really seen these bright orange ones before at a lfs.

Great idea painting the background I will do that soon. Right now I am just cycling the tank, I added livestock a week ago and it crashed... I didn't know better... I plan to have maybe 3-4 fish going with dwarfs or gobies not sure yet. I want to go with lots of soft corals maybe a little hard...