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hi all, after 15 years, i retired my 90 gallon tank and old black pine stand, and purchased a brand new 90 gallon with a custom white flush cabinet stand. i recently moved into a new home and pretty much starting all over again. this setup will be a reef tank with a few small fish. i built a...

i just splurged and bought a pair of hydra LEDs with a director. best aquarium investment i ever made. for a 55l tank and depending on the dimensions, i think one of the smaller hydra units would work for you. Hydra » AquaIllumination®

hi all, i recently started my first reef set up, i have two sets of button polyps, some mushrooms and a nice little patch of starbursts. they have been doing great since i got them a month ago, but i noticed that for the past day and a half, one of my button polyp "patches" hasnt been opening up...

sounds good, thanks everyone for all the help. im still trying to get my sea legs back in the aquarium hobby (no pun intended).

ok, thanks for all the help everyone, I've kept marine fish only tanks for a long time, but I've been just getting back into it after many years away from it so I'm pretty rusty when it comes to all this. It was in fact instant ocean that I bought. I got it from a petsclub. I would normally have...

I've kept saltwater fish only tanks in the past but this is my first attempt at a reef setup. I have an R/O and did my own mix. The guy at the store where I bought the salt mix said if I planned to do a reef system I should use kalkwasser. I was not aware that the salt mixes had all of the...

thanks for the advice, my tank is just establishing itself at this point, but i do have plans to put a few more specimens in at a bi-weekly rate. so dripping now wont serve any benefits until my tank has a higher bio-load? i should not drip until more specimens have been added? thanks again.

hi all, i am a first time reef keeper and i recently set up a kalkwasser drip that drops into my sump. i adjusted the check valve so that it would drip at a rate of one drop per second like i have read in many kalkwasser drip posts and articles. i made my drip out of a one gallon plastic...

thanks for all the info, it is a T5-HO, i believe it has 2 lamps and each once is enclosed in its own reflectors. so soft corals are the way to go? i am a reef newbie, but not a marine newbie, ive kept FOWLR tanks for more than ten years, so i have a general idea of what im doing, but what are...

hi all, i am diving into my first reef setup and i was wondering what was everyone's opinions on the best coral for the reef newbie. i am also wondering what would be the best way to promote the growth of coraline within my tank. a little info on my setup, it is basically my FOWLR tank with a...

hi all, i just got back into the hobby after a 4 year layoff or so. i was wondering if there have been any new technologies in the last 4 years that i should look into. also, any new techniques in terms of things like nitrate or phosphate control that are proven to be better? i used to perform...

hi all, ive kept aquariums for about 18 years since about the age of ten. i had a little 20 gallon freshwater setup with gouramis and angel fish until i turned about 19 and made the move to salt water. ive had a 100 and 40 gallon saltwater setups and have kept FOWLR but have been out of the...