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Hoping someone will chime in rather quickly.... Have been cycling my 75 gallon for several weeks now (fishless) and reached the finish line yesterday. Did a 90 or more % water change.... Before change: Ammonia: 0 Nitrite: 0 Nitrate: off the chart pH: 7.3-7.6 After change...

Started fishless cycle of 75 gallon tank last Wednesday...dosed it up to 4ppm strait ammonia. Have been testing all week (yes, I'm impatient) and nothing really seemed to be moving. Just tested a few minutes ago and the ammonia is down to 2ppm and nitrites have shot up to at least 5...that's...

Hey there everyone!! New to the freshwater board but wanted to share anyway... Took down my 75 gallon FOWLR and converting to freshwater. Scrubbed my tail feathers off on Monday, boyfriend and I spent 5 hours on Tuesday picking out the 1 lb of fluorescent stones out of 40 lbs of black gravel...

Good Morning! The only stupid questions are the ones not asked....well at least that's what my father used to say. That being said, I am downsizing to a 10 gallon and am looking for a little direction. Pulled the 10 out of storage, cleaned it really well, and painted the back black. Last...

I currently have a 75g with the following stock list: 1 bristletooth tang 2 cardinalfish 1 anthias 1 green chromis 2 blue sapphire damsels 1 flame angel 1 occelaris clown assorted crabs, shrimp, and snails Question: Love clownfish....want more... just one pair. Is this feasible? Or will...

I have a 75g tank and have been having nitrate problems so in order to get better flow over my live rock in hopes of helping to bring down my nitrates I ordered 2 more Koralia 1050's (already had 2). Now my tank is a sandstorm. I have been messing with it all day and am not getting anywhere...

Just wanted to share a pic of my tang eating from my hand....I'm sure it's not unheard of but I thought it was pretty cool....love him...he's my fav :smitten:

Was just wondering if it's true that if you don't have a sump, you can absolutely not keep any kind of corals. Was told this today by one of the guys at my lfs. I don't think he was the owner...just one of the guys working there and he tried to sell me a sump, a custom built case to hide it...

Hi folks! I am wondering if I can remove my emporer 400 HOB? I got a reef octopus bh2000 on Friday night and it's been doing well so far (pics below of what it's been pulling out) I think the hob has been causing my high nitrates...have been battling for a while now to get them down and I was...

I hope they appreciate them ;) It sounds silly but I'm really excited. I figure the RO/DI system will save me $100-125 a month in trips to buy water and the skimmer is a HUGE improvement over my current one which is a seaclone 100 and really doesn't do much. Now if I could just get one of you...

hey there...I think one of my damsels has pop eye so I am going to move him to my 10g QT but my filter isn't working....tried playing with it and nothing. Can I put him in there with just a powerhead until I can get to petco tomorrow after work? I have plenty of melafix to treat him, I am just...

:banghead: on this one folks....I have been trying to get my trates down for what seems like forever but has been about a month. I am doing 2 water changes a week..25-30%. Did my last 30% one on Saturday. They were as high as over 40 but now are down to like 20-25. All my fish are doing...

currently have a solarmax t5ho fixture with 1 10,000K daylight lamp and 1 actinic lamp, 8 blue moonlight LED's...108W total. am planning on getting another one after Christmas and am wondering what if any anemones I will be able to keep. owner of lfs said that I could keep only a few...

Can't for the life of me figure out what is going on here...will try to make it quick: have had my tank up for a few months now with no problems in my parameters until the past week or so. Have been doing 15 gallon water changes every week since the start. I top off with distilled water and...

OK, silly question but here goes.... I have 2 tanks...one is a 56 column FW tank which I have 3 fantail goldies that is CRYSTAL clear, sparkling actually. My 75g saltwater is a different story. I am currently running an Emporer 400, Seaclone 100 skimmer, & 2 1050 Koralia circulation pumps...

Really excited about this one....he's beautiful and the picture really doesn't do justice so I thought I would share. :)

Currently running a seaclone on my 75 and to me, based on posts I have read here relating to how often everyone seems to have to empty the cup on their skimmers, this thing is a piece of junk. I hardly ever have to empty mine. I am pretty sure I have the adjustments right after watching a few...

Just wanted to send out a big thank you to everyone on this forum who has been advising me the past few months. I was ready to quit a few times and had a couple set backs, but all the good advice really set me strait, so I thought it was appropriate to say thanks. You all are the best :thumb...

Purchased 2 new additions for my tank today. Copperband Butterfly and an Anthias (was supposed to be one of the peaceful variety....not so much), to go along with the Ocellaris Clown, 2 Bangii Cardinals and 2 Green Chromis (trading them in soon). He hid for an hour or so in the rocks and then...

anyone know what these things are? guy at lfs says the things that look like honeycomb are brain coral but I don't know what the other thing next to it is....any ideas? he also said I picked out 2 really nice pieces of rock....is he right about that too??

is it normal for the circulation pumps to make sand to move around a little? not a lot mind you, just like a tiny breeze went through, but enough to irritate me. I don't have the heads pointed down...one is up toward the top for agitation and the other is pointed at the front glass. the...

Just got 2 Koralia 1050's today...put one on right back wall pointing towards front glass and the other I put on left side wall toward the back kinda pointing up at the surface for agitation. Do I have the right idea here? Had red on rocks over the weekend and blew it off and sucked up with a...

Contemplating what I am going to be adding to my 75 over the next few months and I want to get everything in the right order.... Bangii Cardinalfish x3 Foxface Lo Kole Tang Ocellaris Clowns x2 Coral Beauty or Flame Angel Currently, there are 2 green chromis, 2 hermit crabs (not sure on the...

I currently have a Deep Blue Professional t5ho...2x54w on my 75g. Was wondering what this will support. I am thinking of getting an anem or 2 down the road and maybe some soft corals. It's an incredible fixture in my opinion...only been on tank a few days and my purple algae is growing like...

hate making mistakes but oh well, live and learn, right??? Was going to quit the other day after losing my bi color angel but gave it a day and I am no quitter. Starting 75g over after reading that crushed coral is junk and shouldn't be used....had to take whole tank apart today. :banghead...