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Same here. Right down to not being able to get the Ca/Alk salifert kits with my last order hehe.

Let's stay on topic. cmor has already mentioned their comment was tongue-in-cheek. There's no reason to derail the thread.

The article Innovator linked is one of the core articles I reference regularly for CA/Alk questions. Be sure you also look at another article in the set (it's linked in the intro of the article from Innovator) that addresses specifically adjusting those levels and their relation to pH...

Do you have a brand name and model of the UV unit? I don't use one so I don't have a recommendation from personal experience, but hopefully someone here will either have the same brand and size as you or at least one of similar size and wattage.

I'm picturing some poor, frustrated guy who has just unclogged his bathroom plumbing for the billionth time after his wife flushed said-product down the toilet. Grabbing one as a "test sample" and wandering around the store trying to find something it would go through without getting stuck...

took me a while to track down this old article with a photo comparison of the sand types: Reefs.org: Where Reefkeeping Begins on the Internet - Photomicrographs of Sands & other Substrates There are a lot of different play sands out there. Follow Lindsay's tips for getting the right stuff.

Another option, is if you are just replacing a small amount that you sucked up while syphoning, you could just find a LFS that sells live sand and just get a pound. You'll get your replacement sand with the added benefit of some new populations of sand critters. PS: silica based sand doesn't...

The thread has been moved into FW - Unhealthy Fish. In the future, feel free to use the report feature when a thread for help needs to be moved to a more appropriate place.

To be honest, it sounds to me like your heater is faulty. What could be happening, is the thermostat is stuck so it just turns on, but perhaps another fault or a safety feature designed to keep it from over heating could be turning it off. Then when it cools down it turns back on. What brand of...

If the tank is glass, a scraper blade will help with any thick coraline build up. If it is acrylic, you could use a credit card to help scrape. Other than that, ^^^ what they said. :)

They have a ton of personality, don't they? First quick note, the one clown that got bigger, most likely is also turning into a female. Clown fish are neat that way. Clowns are also very picky about their homes. There's no real way to convince them to move into an anemone. They either like it...

If you have the option of shutting of the water temporarily I would go with Ziggy's suggestion. turn it off and dry it as well as you can, and smear the whole joint with the pvc joint cement you would use when putting it together and it should crawl up into the crack. Then just give it an hour...

In regards to "why it went away": the highlighting was a custom addon that Fishfreak or Reefrunner (i forget which) added to the site. When the forums made their recent transition the new software that runs the forums didn't support that custom addon. As Scott mentioned, we are hoping to find a...

It's certainly the same body type, but I couldn't find any pics with even a similar coloration. I have seen as many as 4 at a time this morning and they all had the same blueish color (didn't really notice the green until I took a close-up photo). and the same Red dot in the middle.

I noticed a couple of these little critters crawling on a rock this morning. His actual size is apx 1/2 of an inch across. The colors on it are what have me completely confused. I have seen smaller, all white, starfish in my tank. I pretty sure those are just the astroidea. This little fella is...

From what I saw in that thread before I had to close it, it didn't seem like they were all that serious about either their tank or getting help. :)

The black and blue one was the color scheme I used as well. Much easier on the eyes.

Thank you all for the links. I did a bit more searching over the weekend and did find 1 ro 2 places that offer the sockets. I tried Home Depot and, at least the one i went to, only had the standard flourecent "tombstones". I found 1 other place that offered replacement fans for them, which i...

I have a set of Coralife dual-bulb compact flourencent light fixutres (like this) on my tank. Some salt creep got up into one of the units has has corroded one of the sockets and that bulb no longer works (pin fell right out from the corrosion). Does anyone know where i might be able to buy a...

hmmm, that would look pretty neat. And i think with some creative engineering it could certainly be done. The first challenge would be to find a plastic model of one of those pumps the right scale. Then run some airline into the frame to fill either the head of the pump or the rotating bits in...