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i have a harleguin serpent star and a red serpenet star now i got thousand of these lil stars in my sand rock and glass some the size of a nickel and some no bigger then a pencil earser can these 2 stars mate and if not whats in my tank? but these lil sars are everywhere.. plus i got these lil...

just bought a high fin the other day and he's getting battered pretty bad not sure who's doing it but it seems to happen at night cuz threw the day he is left alone but this morning i woke up to see him worse i dont know what to do but i afraid of losing him need help possible fish hurting him...

i own a sealife nv-250 with a rio 2500 pump on it now i pump more water back into my tank then my skimmers moves my return pump is a mag 1200 and the rio moves 700 now if i up my skimmers pump o say a 3100 rio which pumps 900 will i produce better results with my skimmer i'm turning over alot of...

woke up this morning to see my glass covered in little white dots upon looking at them they were nassirus snail eggs woohooo my snails are happy and breeding then to my demis my reef butterfly noticed me looking at them and started to have lunch :cry: and cleaned everyone off the glass well im...

my reef butterfly has seem to got a taste for my anomaes is this a trait for this fish or did he go crazy? anyone have a reef butterfly and any info on this will help?

my ? is do i need to clean my skimmer if i'm using the over flow valve in the collection cup tp drain into a jug or should the cup get cleaned so often and or the whole skimmer of what i red skimmers work best when dirty the break in period is for it to dirty up right..

was thinking of going down to the chinese market and picking up some nori for sushi rolls today out of seaweed and nori there is half the price and you get alot more i figure i could freeze it in portions instead of buying j. sprungs seawed and save money.. is freezeing it going to hurt it or is...

set my 90g sw up been a year now it was level when set up but about a yr later it has settled into the carpet causeing it to lean back now i can't get it straight have no idea how to lift this monster :lol: all ideas would be greaat i dont like looking at my tank on a slant i have to put my...

My dad just lost over half his fish in a 55g sw tank so what i would like to know does anyone have any ideas to help in this problem if it does occour or to you hope and pray like my dad did till the power company got the power back on... which in that case he lots alot... so all ideas and...

on this skimmer there is a water line of where the water should be but my question is do oyu set the water to that line when there is no bubble in the water meaning plug the venturi line till all bubbles are gone or do you guess where solid water is when the bubbles are in there?..... reason i...

i tell you i might be new to this forum but it is not right that people will not help the person that needs help unless they have one good rateing what does that mean you are cool cuz you have some advisor rating or that you donated to the forum so that makes people better then others i have...

just bought a skimmer have nothing to know about the setup and running of a skimmer would be nice to get some help on how to know and what to look for on my skimmer and what i should look for to se if it is working right..... does a skimmer need a couple of days to set up like anything else or...

i just bought a used protein skimmer and was wondering if it is good or bad of what i know it is a aquatic ecosystems inc brand it is 23in tall with a rio2500hp pump vernturi driven person said it was rated up to a 300g tank he had it on a 250g so if anyone knows anything about this skimmer...

looking at getting a insump protein skimmer to will this help in keeping nitrates under control and what other benefits will i get from this and what will i lose or have to do to keep my tank heathly ex. will i need to dose my tank with products to keep in oreder since skimming takes out...

my tank is a little high on the nitrate side i have been reading about denitraters and really don't want to pay $200 for one so i looked up diy denitraters and they are really easy to make for about $20 big difference now i want to know if anyone has used them and if the claims really are true...

i have read in these forums that a fan blowing on your sump will help is this true or not my tank get to about 84 no higher with lights on just need to drop a couple o degrees to stay at the right temp of 78 all low cost suggestions greatly wanted i really dont want to spend the money for a...

wondering about protein skimmers in a fish only tank helpful or not? all opoions welcome

dont know if or if it isn't a sponge please help pics attached its yellow kinda looks like puke on a rock but fuzzy...lol :lol: any ideas if good or bad please tell.....it has engulfed the whole peice of rock now which is about a 5lbs peice of rock and growing bigger and starting to get thicker...

name this crab please been wondering what this hitchhiker crab has been for sometime now. here are pics it came with some live rock and has grown to this and now lives in my sump..... please give me some idea of what it is.....

90g 440w vho 180lbs LR 40lbs agronite 1200 mag drive in sump 250 mag drive in tank culerpa growing in sump fish: 1 snowflake eel, 1 enginer goby, 2 pajama cardinals, 1 yellow tang, 1 blue hippo tang, 1 star & stripes puffer, 1 purple firefish, 1 black percula clown, 1 true percula clown, 1...