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I had the unpleasant surprise of noticing yesterday that one of the two center support braces on my 220g marineland tank had cracked. The tank is about 2 to 3 years old. I've temporarily placed a support brace on it from Home Depot. I've seen on the internet on smaller tanks where the whole top...

Hello all. I'm helping relocate my sons 72g tank from college and there are a few algae and other issues I'd like try and address when we set it back up. The tank currently has a pretty bad hair algae problem but there are also a couple of other items that I can't identify. There is a "fuzz"...

In the process of doing some rewiring I inadvertently tripped the timer on my calcium doser and didn't notice it until I had dosed about an entire weeks worth of calcium in less than a day. So far the only adverse reaction I'm seeing is that the skimmer doesn't skim. I'm intending to just keep...

I added one of these tangs to my 220 gallon tank about six months ago. It is a voracious eater and has grown from about 3.5 inches to about 5.5 inches in that short time. It's probably the most dominant fish in the tank. It wedges itself into a small cave every night and darts into the same cave...

So what is the final word on these unsightly worms? Bad? Indifferent? I don't see them in the main display case (I have three wrasses that probably would eat them) but they definitely have established a presence in my refugium. I see them when cleaning. The ones I see are about an inch or less...

Over the last year, the underside of most of the live rock in my tank has become encrusted with a soft orange sponge. I generally think it's harmless and helps to keep the live rock formations in place but wonder if I should be trying to prune it or if there are any downsides to having it. It...