Search results

I bought a hagen all in one 10 gallon aquarium kit a while back, and the light is only 15 watts, eventually when I want to start adding corals and a possible anemone, this obviously will not be enough, but I am a bit confused about how to upgrade. It does not appear that the light fixture will...

I have a penguin 150 filter modified to fit my 10 gallon tank, the intake is about 3" above the sandbed, but my fish keeps making new homes under the rock and kicks sand out like crazy and creates a bit of a sandstorm in the tank, this fine sand then gets sucked into my filter and it jams it and...

Do you need an air pump to hook up to a powerhead for it to work? I am gonna buy a powerhead online for a salt mixing tank and was wondering, stupid question I know heh :oops: oh also what type of dried seaweed would you suggest as a food suppliment for some various snails and hermits if they...

I am happy to announce that my tank is up and running. I rinsed my sand, put it in the bottom, mixed my saltwater in buckets, added it, let it cylce for a week while I waited for my live rock. I added my live rock December 4th, and it has been cycling ever since. The rock was very very cured...

From the research I have done it says they are compatible, but they both are pretty aggressive fish, so I am wondering if someone else has some first hand experience, would it be better with a Royal Gamma Basslet instead of the dottyback? This is for a future 55 gallon and I am just trying to...

I have a 10 gallon, with 10 lbs of live rock I just added yesterday (the tank was cycling for 1 week previously to adding live rock), it was already cured, and only had it out of the water for about an hour wrapped in wet newspaper so there shouldnt be much die off. Should I still add the raw...

I don't want to put it in my pool room for obvioius reasons, so I am only left with my home theatre room really for a convenient place to put it, am I looking for trouble for stressed fish having my tank about 4 feet away from the rear speakers of my home theatre?

Well it should have been done long ago, but im still in the midst of getting my tank set up, its all ready to go but I was just wondering before starting it how bad does the tank smell when doing a fishless cycle? The problem is I am getting married on Sat in our house, so obviously I don't want...

I bought some sand 3 weeks ago and the package has been opened, can it get contaminated sitting out? once it was open I put it in a bucket with plastic wrap over it. Probly a stupid question, but I figure its better to find out than to use it, and get off to the wrong start because the sand got...

I know its really small to start, but its already cycling so I am wondering, when it is done, does anybody have any stocking suggestions? It is a 10 gallon with 10 lbs of live rock, penguin 150 filter, carib-sea white sand. I was thinking at first a clown and a damsel, but have heard damsels are...

The more reading I do, the more I find out about the suprising defensive mechanisms some of these saltwater aquarium creatures have, such as the thumb splitting mantis shrimp, stinging lion fish, spearing mantis shrimp, and most suprisingly stinging bristle worms? I wonder what other sw critters...

I know alot of these questions will be simple to answer, and make myself look quite dumb, but bear with me, I have done alot of reading and there is alot of opinons out there that differ alot. Anyways I have everything ready to go except my live rock, so my first question is when rinsing the...

Hi there, I have done alot of reading from this website, as well as alot of others and have gotten myself confused on the initial startup of the tank. I have read that the best way is to add your salt water to your tank first, then add your live rock and cycle for a month, then add your sand...

Hi there, I bought a 20 gallon tank a couple week ago with a penguin 150 filter and ordered in some live rock as well and hoping to get the tank cycling in a couple weeks. Basically I am wanting to set up a fish only tank to start off to see how I enjoy it with a couple damsels and a percular...