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below is a list what im sure im going to buy. i know i need more lighting for these frags but need some quick help about my Coralife PC 260w 2-10,000 and 2 Actnic lighting. im going to upgrade asap, but let me know if any of the following is in danger or inadequate with my lighting? zoa frags...

*** i edited my subject title from "cleaning live rock" to that above simply because i can keep up with the answers and question i have and stop from going back and forth to other posts i made.*** ever since i added my Live Sand to my tank and then the LR, my LR looks dirty and muddy. In areas...

yesterday, i added more water to my tank to fill'r up to the bream. i also added that small box with the teeth shape strainer where the overflow box, before this i had just the U tubes going straight to the tank. before and after, i have a lot of the splashy waterfall noise, mainly from the...

Hurrican Rita is approaching my coast! Windows are to be boarded. My house is in the Category 4 Evacuation Zone. Im leaving but sinceim a "essential employee" i have to man the fort at our Univision Radio station studios. Family is off to a big hotel up north. Kind of glad that i have no fish in...

i have about 90 lbs of live rock, maybe more. it fills up the 75 gal tank, maybe a little too much. im having issues on how and where to place the rock. some are about the size of a football, very large and very heavy. some are like a tree branching with the braches very close together. and one...

I have added my live sand and live rock to my 75 gal on Sunday. The sand or fine silt or “powder” makes the tank all cloudy when I adjust or move the live rocks around. After the tank clears up, the rock and sand has a thin film layer of “dust or powder” sand over everything. The deep sand bed...

i cant and dont how you prime or start the siphoning on my external overflow box! it has two U tubes. How do you do this? i been trying several methods. please i want to get this going. :?:

does anyone here use a chiller? i just bought on off ebay for $135. its a Via Aqua 1/4 hp chiller. its used but only for a year. even better for me, the seller is here in houston, only a few miles where i can pick this up. i think its a great deal since new its over $300 i bought the chiller...

found a classified for quote "approx. 90 pounds of live rock that has been living in a rubbermaid tub It's fully cured and covered with coralline algae, and there are lots of little critters (pods, worms, snails, crabs) in the mix as well - and about 2 quarts macro algae (wire) too. There is...

just started my Kent maximma RO/DI unit. i remove the 3rd canister ffilter per instructions for the first 10 gallons. i have clear water on the first and second canister No 3rd filter in yet until after the first 10 gallons. then i have Tea Color water on the third. Is that what the "product...

im starting the plumbing job on my sump and tank. let me say this, im am NOT A PLUMBER, just a audio/radio broadcast engineer. :x i have a couple of 3' - 1" vacuum hose from my overflow to my sump. i added some ball valves. i also added a T on one of them to feed water over to the other end...

i have a wet dry trickle filter for my 75 gal tank. its about 20 gallons. no water in yet, still planning and reading. i have decided to remove the bio balls. i also added a protein skimmer and also a ro/di water filter. i see that all the refugiums are section separate from the skimmer...

i have a 75g sw tank. i have a few weeks or long way to go to get the tank up and running. if i wish for a great looking aquarium with fish and live rock with coral and all the other neat things, what light or lights should i be looking for? what is the best value "economical" light and what...

i have my 120 gal tank and a Fluval 404 ready to go. i also have a wet/dry filter with the bio balls and a sponge filter, the return water pump is a quite one pentair 4000. do i keep the filtration separate on inline with each other? Is that possible to have the Fluval feed the wet/dry filter...

is sunlight bad for an SW tank? should no or some sunlight penetrate a SW tank? my tank will up against the corner of my room and its where 2 windows are at also. i can completely close the shade and have almost no light come in but sometimes i wish to have a outside view? the back of the tank...

i have a 75 gal tank with about 2 inched of white sand. bought the tank from a garage sale. the previous owner had just sold the LR that was in it. well i have had the tank for about 1 week sitting in the hot garage. i already have my stand ready to go in the lving room. but should i clean out...

75 gallon tank what should i look on where to place this tank? what are the cons and pros? living room: a bit full but it may be just enough space for the tank. my family always hanging around watching the big TV my 2 kids kids constantly running around and jumping on the sofas. i like to...

just bought me a used 75 gallon saltwater glass tank. i need to do a lot of reading first before i start working on my first saltwater tank. this is a great forum. no pump what do you recommend? i also need the rest of the stuff. the tank does come with a filter box. what do you call this. has...