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Looking for a x-mas present for my brother. Currently he has a 60" hood w/ 2 175W 10K metal halide bulbs. He has a bad ballast, and me and my dad were thinking of just getting him a new good for x-mas w/ new ballasts and all. He has a taller tank, its 5 foot wide..id say maybe foot and a half...

What kind of precautions do I need to take if any while switching brands of salt. I was gonna go from Kent, to IO..anything i should be careful with or watchout for? TIA

I know a TDS meter wont work in a saltwater tank because it messes up the reading. If i stuck my TDS meter in my freshwater tank that would work right? I just did it to one of ours and it came out at 421...Is that an accurate reading if my RO it comming out at 0? Basically i want to know if a...

I just got a TDS meter because i have been having algea problems..and was just wondering what my TDS was at comming out of my RO/DI Unit, I checked today and it is 0ppm comming out of my RO unit and around 150ppm comming straight out of the faucet so it seems it is doing what it should. If im...

I just got a 110GPD RO+2DI REVERSE OSMOSIS water FILTER from filterdirect about a month or 2 ago. I got it because my last one was so old i decided just to get a new one. My problem is im getting a phosphate reading of like .2 out of it. It should be zero im assuming...any idea why its like this?

I just built a 12x15x16" refugium and now i need to find a light. Would a normal clip on lamp work that they sell at home depot and buy a floodlight for it? What would i need as far as lighting?

So im in the process of making a new sump, i have 3 baffels i need to install would 1" inbetween them be good or should i be something different. and should i go OVER::UNDER::OVER or UNDER::OVER::UNDER for the water through the baffels?

So today i was going to do my routine water change, unplugged the pump and went to turn my 2 ball valves, closed the first one everythings going good. turn the second one and "snap" it was hard to turn and i ended up snapping the return outlet of my main pump, but luckily i got both ball valves...

So im contemplating reworking my tank a little bit, right now i have a 125 gallon tank with dual overflows on it. I thought it would be kinda neat to start over with some things if its worth it. I got my tank on ebay about a year and a half ago and sorta just jumped into the hobby because it...

I just got 4 of these today, and am adding them to my 125 gallon tank. I hooked the up to my Wave Master Pro and every time they turn on you can hear a little grindy noise sorta for about a second. Being they are turning on and off so much i can see myself getting sick of it. I dont think its a...

Ok, I just got the Wave Master Pro for Christmas as a present...right now i got some cheap powerheads i dont remember who makes them off the top of my head. Im looking at the Seio M620's i was looking to get 4 of them. Now i read somewhere that the continous on and off is going to burn them out...

I have 3 175W MH bulbs, and they are about a year old right now, if I remember correctly your supposed to change them once a year or so. Just trying to see if I am thinking the right thing or not. TIA

I just got my brain coral from liveaquaria earlier this morning and i drip acclimated it...after having it in there for about 4 hours, i turned on the lights. The lights have been on for about an hour and now it appears the brain coral is letting some white substance out, when looking at it, it...

When picking out corals, should you keep one kind in your tank as in should i just have LPS corals, or can you mix them both. is there any advantage of one over the other. TIA

Just took some pictures of my tank, figured i should share them w/ you also. any feedback would be great.

I was just looking close to some of my rocks and i noticed on one of them it looks sort of like a little anenome. the are about half the size of a penny it looks pretty translucent as far as the body goes, but it has little antenna looking things comming off the body with brown cicles on top. i...

Im looking to get some more fish, right now i got a blue tang, yellow tang, clown fish, and 5 chromis. i was either thinking of getting a couple more chromis or getting some other kind of fish. its a reef tank so does anyone have any suggestions on what other type of fish would be good to add. TIA

I realize they arent out yet, i just ordered one and was wondering what people thought about the orignial terminator, or how they are expecting the new one to work?

the past month or so my corals have began to not open up, my starburst coral i would say only about half of it comes out..mushrooms dont get bigger at all like they used to, some of my pumping xenia is dying, its turning white and just dies and my polyps arent opening anymore. i tested...

Ive had this starburst coral for like a year or so and it probably covers about 1/8 of my tank, its climbing the overflow walls in the back and just rolling over everything, whats the best way to control it, cut some of it off or what?

Ive had this thing in my tank for a little while im assuming it came as a hitch hiker, and its been growing pretty fast, if i had to guess id say it isnt something i want just because it looks mean but anyone have an idea on what it is?

Just looking around the tank this morning and saw these 2 brown things, about the size of a dime id say just wondering what they are

Was looking at my fish tank tonight and noticed this weird thing eating, its like attached to the rock, and it has a head with little tentacle things comming off

I have a 125 Gallon tank, and have a blue tang, and 7 chromies in there right now, I was thinking about getting a yellow tang, and was wondering if it would be ok, or if it would be considered overstocked, and will a yellow tang be ok w/ a blue tang since tangs are territorial i believe

How do they mate, ive got a bunch of baby ones in my tank, they lay in the sand and you can see there arms when they reach onto the back of the tank real small but theres alot just wondering how i got baby ones