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So I have a 6 gallon reef with shrimp, snails, serpent star, and a ruby dragon. There are pods in the tank and I feed him frozen which he also takes fine but today while feeding worms to my freshwater fish I went to the reef. I will occasionally give my shrimp and some coral live worms. Didn't...

My old 20 gallon setup was just getting wrecked. loaded with BB algae, wrong plants overtaking, right plants choking out, blah blah. Decided to pull it all out and redo the entire thing. Ditched the black diamond substrate for white pool sand. Hopefully it doesnt become a gross mess. Ditched...

Re scaping my 20 long soon. Im just sick of how it looks. It seems like the some pants just grew out of control and others are being choked out. I have a bit of a blackbeard algae growing on EVERYTHING Im looking to change my sag carpet to a hairgrass carpet and instead of free range plants Im...

Going to be rescaping my 20 long planted and looking for a LOT of hair grass. currently its carpeted with dwarf sag but I am looking to redo the entire thing soon. Id like enough to try and make it look full enough until it finishes up itself. Thanks

picked up a small lettuce nudi last week from an LFS as I wanted one for a while. I do have different algaes in my nano reef so I figure there is going to be something in there it will like, hair included but Ive noticed the last couple days its actually hanging out at the top of my tanks...

Just curious if anyone has DIY'd or 3d printed corner braces for modified rimless tanks? I'm looking to turn my 2 20 longs into rimless top only but would feel safer with some kind of corner support. I was looking at these Aquarium Lid Clips Universal Lid Clips for Rimless Aquariums Rimless...

Couple of easy basic corals, live rock, dwarf coral banded and baby emerald. One snail in there as well and just added the red algae. Looking for a baby serpent star. Loving it.

So dummy me threw a couple guppies into my 20 long thinking all the other fish would eat the fry, well not quite. I can probably fish them out and give them to the LFS but can SOMEONE recommend something that might go after the fry but not go after the shrimp? I have a guorami, blue ram ...

It's begins! Couple of jars from Ikea, drilled and inserted some barbed airline fittings in the back to hide everything as best as possible. Will update the thread as it goes. Hoping for the reef the most. Going to be some frags with maybe a shrimp and some snails. Would love a small lettuce...

This is my 20 long. It's fairly new but not brand new. Well established. Black diamond substrate 3 dragon stones for looks and bacteria load Wood Seachem tidal 35 hob with built in surface skimmer circulator Diy uv sterilizer, mechanical and chemical filter with purigen and chemipure (pic...

I have a 20 long planted pretty densely. It's got a few diff mini species in it. I always wanted a leapord fish and was at my lfs and saw a very small juvenile and grabbed it. I don't expect to keep it forever as most of my fish I eventually re-home due to growth but one fish we really wanted...

a long time ago I did a clip swap with someone here and they threw in a really cool 4 leaf clover looking plant. it wasnt a carpeting like monte carlo but more like a vine bush thing. 1) anyone have an idea what that was - marsealia might be it? 2) anyone have any they would be willing to...

Hey guys I'm looking to restart a small reef this spring. I wanted to reused my skimmers and equip from the last setup but it's been in a dry bucket out in my shed for the year (bad idea all around I know). I wanted to rinse and disinfect everything really good. Would it be a fine to soak the...

Look like slow dropsy or is he just fat? He doesn't swim much and sort of shark lunges to the surface when it's feeding time. I dont over feed unless he pigging out on critters in the tank also. Any thoughts?

Used this kit from HD. Mine is only a 20 long so the size of hole i needed for my bulkhead is much smaller than most large tanks. https://www.homedepot.com/p/QEP-1-3-8-in-Diamond-Hole-Saw-with-Water-Delivering-System-10569Q/202205611 Works well. The "water delivery system" is pretty nice and I...

Saw these at my LFS. Freshwater but did some research on my phone while there and eventually they will (recommended) need brackish. Such a neat thing, freshwater snowflake eel (no price), but I would need an entirely new tank setup and prob wouldnt be able to do plants since putting my hand in...

I plan on starting a small planted cherry shrimp bowl. Curious if I would actually need a filter/heater or if they make enough waste to even bother? thanks

So Im going to try my hand at a reef again but try things a bit different. I picked up a 20 long to attempt drilling again. Yes I cracked the first one. MY question is what size sump do you guys think Ill need? My stock will primarily be corals and inverts. Maybe a TINY fish or two, like...

Just really occurred to me. I know you can have a semi aggressive fish who will chase anything but why are there some they won't. In this instance I have a apistogamma cockatoide who seems to lately chase everything except of course the one larger fish but he will also NEVER chase away my puffer...

Want to setup a shrimp bowl in my just finished upstairs kitchen. Just the small cherry shrimp size. this way I can breed them and put them in my other tanks as well. Any tips? Do they need heated water? How many gallons? Filter? etc etc Im looking to put plants in it. Will they jump out if...

Do you guys run blue lights at night or pitch black it? I usually let it go black but last night I turned on the blue lights and it looked nice but also seemed to confuse the fish. What do you all feel is better?

Tore my 55 and dismantled my 29 reef. Im trying to find time to drill a 20 long to set up a new reef, just need to reduce everything. I decided a 29 planted was going back in its original place where the reef took from my original 29 planted. Here it is so far.

I have a flying fox that has been HARRASING my amazon puffer to no end. This started all of a sudden as well and usually only around feeding time. Outside that they can be right next to each other and usually act fine. Im waiting for my puffer to turn around and take a nip at it but he never...

We have a 5 gallon tank with a betta. Wed normally keep a couple dwarf frogs with him as the lady loves frogs. For some reason they never last very long and I keep my water VERY clean. Honestly I think its the supplier more than anything. I was wondering if there were any other neat critters...

is this to much light for a 29. Im running a finnex ray2 and fluval planted+. The fluval is my old light I was replacing and when I plugged in the ray 2 it didnt seem so bright. I had a ray2 on my 55 and it was great but the 30" seems lack luster. I decided to just try running both since...