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My hubby set up an automatic drip for his 300+ gal tank in the basement & forgot about it while we left the house for several hours. We came home to be greeted by the smell. We are guessing that there are over 300 gal of saltwater on the carpet- thankfully dh was able to resalinize the tank &...

Normally my husband posts here these days under my name. He is the owner of all the s/w tanks. He is out of the country right now & I am in charge of the tanks. I cannot contact him even though I have tried. His tank is fullof bubbles. They are everywhere. I am sure it is a simple fix, but...

After much fear and intrepidation, I too have embarked on the aquatic challenge of caring for seahorses. I have been in the market for a while and I have been prepping my 90g corner (30" vertical height) for them by slowly removing the livestock currently in it and adding pod covered macro...

Please be advised. The following contains graphic materials. That's right starfish in love. I was taking pictures of the tank tonight and came across my two harlequin stars doing the 5 tentacled lambada. They have done this before in the past and I actually have some offspring in the sump...

I have been looking for a good natural sand cleaner. I believe one of the moderators swears by bullet gobies (I hope I got that right). Anyway, I have not been able to find them. Do they go by a different name?

I took the family to see the Mouse in Orlando and decided to drive up to Atlanta to visit the Georgia Aquarium. My little 3 yr old girl loves sharks of any sort and of course the Georgia Aquarium now had 3 whale sharks (1 recently died). Needless to say, Saturday was a bad day of the week to...

I would like to implement a water top off solution for my tanks. I am fortunate enough to have a great water source from our city, no RO/DI needed, so I would like to plumb directly to my tank (I have got that part covered) and I need some ideas for a good float / ballast system. Of course, I...

Picked up approximately 20 lbs of live rock and placed in newly set up 24 gallon nano cube. Once the sand cleared, noticed this creature. He has since moved several times up closer to the light. I thought this might be a rock anemone (which I know absolutely nothing about), and wanted input...

I have had a store bought container of brine eggs for some time. I was thinking about releasing the eggs into my 120 g refugium which will hopefully one day be seahorse tank (almost wall to wall macro algae in there now). My main thought was to start a culture of feeder creatures (lots of...

I just picked up a leather coral frag (toadstool) ~ 3 inches across the head (looks like frag of a crown) and ~ 1.5 inches tall. I have heard that they are quick growers which suits me fine as I have a very understocked dual tank system (190g on top 120g on bottom). Any idea as to expected...

Thanks to everyone for no lectures & for the suggestions. I did three days of 10% water changes, plus gravel vac about 1/3 of the tank, then two days of 20% water changes with a little all over gravel vac. I have pruned all the plants to the best live parts & cleaned the glass thouroghly. I...

I am going to request no lectures on the fact that I have let my tank go for so long. The last time I did a water change was late November, we were traveling most of December & I knew that the tank would be okay when I resumed my weekly water changes in January. In January I found out that the...

I just noticed the other day that a piece of rubble has started sprouting heads (I can count 4 of them) of what looks like frogspawn coral. This piece of rubble had been in my small tank (90g) for awhile (I had bought it with a bunch of other rubble almost a year ago) and I recently arranged it...

Here is a new one. I purchased 2 crocea clams about 2 weeks ago. I acclimated them slowly and introduced them to my tank so that they enjoyed as close to the same light level as from the place I purchased them. They both had small rocks attached to their feet so I proceeded to place them on...

Purchased a Salifert Ca test kit. Just wanted to confirm that I am doing this correctly. In aspirating the Ca-3 reagent, there was a huge air bubble under the pistons plunger (the liquid level was ~0.7 when the piston plunger was @ 1.0). I know that this could possibly be the air in the...

We have a coral that has been doing great until recently. It was purchased April/May 2005 and put in our 92 gal. We purchased a dual aquarium system in October and this coral was put in that aquarium in November and continued to do really well. I am attaching pictures of its current condition...

Would like to know what test kit for Calcium is worthwhile and how much $$ will it set me back? Also, candy cane coral seems to shrivel up when MH go off (actinics still on) at night. In the past they would put out tentacles to feed when the lights went out. Now they shrivel up at night as if...

Looking for some advice on adding clams. Planning on adding them to lower tank system (see below for details). System has been in operation since October. Lower tank has a few suncorals and a young pair of black clowns. Would like to add seahorses eventually. I have a top/bottom reef tanks...

With liverocks.com temporarily out of commission, where is the best (inexpensive) place to get high quality live rock?

I was at Petsmart today getting crickets for my firebelly toads. As I wait for the person to count out my crickets I look at the nearby fish and I see that they have albino channel cats and that they are listed to get to 27" long. I ask "Out of curiousity, how big of a tank do you need for a...

My husband built the stand. He has since started painting it black. The idea is that the sump will all be visible (no cabinet doors). Also you can see the pvc structure he built to put the live rock around and the beginning of the DSB. It is still a work in progress. I have no clue when we...

We found this in our new tank....Should we keep it? I hate my software b/c it makes the pictures so blurry when I try to resize them for this forum.

We have some white holey rock that was originally used (recommended by the lfs) for African cichlids. It is just sitting in the garage taking up space. Can we use it as base rock for our reef tank? We will be adding live rock soon.

My husband is setting up a new SW, 190 gal with a 120 gal refugium (which will also be visible). There is a lot of DIY, so thankfully it is taking a while. Right now it has sand and water and salt. But we don't have a heater to get the water warm enough right now. We do have the lights...

We are setting up a new 190 sw reef with 120 sump/refugium. Husband is working on the plumbing/set up as we speak. We found Old Castle white playsand at Home Depot. It says "warning, may have small amounts of silica". Is this the right sand? I know that there is a test with vinegar that we...