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I have a Hamilton halide hood ( 175w 10k 110 VHO) and I was told I could put a 250w HQI ballast and still use the single ended bulbs.. is this right? I am not sure and want to make sure before I buy a HQI balalst and put normal bulbs in it and have no change. I am upgrading to 250w but there...

ANyone ever have any of these? These have opened up during the day once or twice but I am trying to find out some more info on where to put them. They open up really nice at night but i am wondering what I need to do to keep them open during the day.

I woke up this AM before my lights kicked on and I was looking in my tank and I saw that my shrimp molted ( cleaner) so while looking the lights poped on and I noticed my other shimp did the same thing, I was like ok thats weird both on the same night.. then looking at the top of my tank (...

is this a good or bad thing? I will try to find him and geta pic but never seen one before. thanks, looks like a bristleworm but blue.. thanks~! GJ

Hey I have a bunch of small frags and pieces I wouldlike to frag, does anyone suggest a box or something to put in the tank? I have been all over target and walmart ect havent found anything real good, any ideas? I dont have tons of room for like containers I see at the LFS but wondering if...

I am not sure if this is posted or not but I have been trying to read through the whole forum to make sure all is well. What do you really want to test for in a reef + fish tank? What do you want to add? And last what do you like or feed your corals? TIA !

I have looked online and found one place to have a pic but thats it. I have a LFS that has a "circus goby" I am wondering what it is about? anything good , bad, what can and cant they go with?

I bought this at a LFS as it looked pretty cool( the polys werent as long when I bought it), Well my clowns LOVE it so i wanted to buy another, I was told it was a long poly toad.. so I bought another at another LFS and the polys are only about 1/4 an inch. So I ask the guy I bought it from and...

I have a rock that has about a trillion feather dusters on it, they are starting to move on and around my corals, star polyps, glass, zoos, how can I get rid of them? I dont care if I have some but this is way to many!! TIA for the help!

Ok I noticed some of my pompom xenia fingers were getting short, and I noticed some of them gone, well today when the ligths went out my GF noticed what she thought as a crab, so wondering what it was there was a clear crab in the xenia, after taking it out of the water he came out of the xenia...

Ok I have a few questions, I have 4 clowns, normal nemos. I also have an eibl, coral beauty , 3 purple firefish, 3 pearly(yellowhead) jawfish, and a blue tang. I was in my LFS the other day and I saw a maroon clown, or a little darker with a gole stripe, a gold stripe marron clown they called...

I just picked her up this weekend and started noticing this today ( sorry for the bad pics) I have tested everything below, I duno what to do. I currently do not have a QT. any help? I duno if I should be testing for something or doing something? I have a 110 reef tank with 4 clowns, 3...

I picked up the jawfish and found him in my overflow the other day, so I took him out and he kept jumping out of the tank and then back in the overflow, then when I took him out again he would swim up to the overflow and get stuck. I used a net and kept him in the net where he could get out...

I bought a few stalks of xenia and I noticed some yellow stuff growing on one, my LFS told me to try to cut or scrap it off, when I did it looked like it was cutting the coral in half. So i cut the whole stalk off and now it is on 2 of the others, and it grows sorta fast. When i was scraping the...

I am trying to put some drawings together for my new refugium and I am wondering if anyone has any ideas or suggestions? I have seen a few but I am trying to make it a little custom or something that I can have my sump/refugium all in one. I have a sump now but with talking to some people the...

Hey, newbie here to the site. I have a fast question and I am looking for some ideas. I currently have a 110 oceanic DRR tank set up running with a sump below, and in the sump there is some room where i could add my own refugium and build it inside the sump. I have been looking at glue or epoxy...