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Anyone know how to tell the difference between male and female. Besides the fish. lol

Hey all. after my 70 broke, I wanted to take a break. but I was given a 125, so I'm back. nothing much to see yet. this is the 70 so you can see I am a little set back. I am using a DIY LED system of 88 X 3watt White and 24 X 3 watt royal blue. I need a hood to raise the fixture. that...

Hey everyone, sorry I haven't been around in a while. I took a little hiatus. But I have been given a 125 with dual overfows. I belong to a very nice reef club. Problem is the overflows had the front pieces removed, that I would assume control flow from the bottom. Anyone know the manufacturer...

I used an old marineland 48" T5 fixture to make an actinic fixture for my 75 gallon. I got a supply of LED and a power supply from afriend that orders from china. I gota great price and the total was $80 for the PS and 20 royal blue LEDs. he gave me 4 whites to bring the total to 4 rows of 6...

this has been a bad week. The wife asked for a divorce :agrue:Thursday. We moved out of the apartment all weekend. I moved the tank last, but the tub that I moved the coral in cracked and all the water drained out. Most of the corals melted away to nothing. 4 out of 5 fish died, leaving only one...

:painting: Hey. Does anyone have any suggestions for keeping my plants in the substrate until they get a good hold? pretty much every plant except for some large swords has been up rooted by the inhabitants. I tried the lead strips. Also I have a pretty large grain aragonite? larger than...

The large chain that I never know if it is a mart for pets or smart for one pet is having a 50% off sale on some of the bigger fish. so if you were looking for a clown loach, khuli, yellow eel, black knife, etc. I left with 5 fish for $20 yeasterday. :infinity:

So I have a new CO2 system, but nothing with which to measure the levels. So I was watching the fish and turning down the CO2 when they were at the surface. Well, not a good idea. I don't know what was up, but by the end of it, the co2 was closed. lol I don't know what was causing the fish...

I have heard the plusses and minuses on the UV sterilizer, but the one main question I have is can it be harmful to a reef? I don't want to lose beneficial life. I am having a red algae problem. I have used Phosban, GFO, changed the lights. Now I am wondering if I should try UV.

I have kept plants in tanks before, but nothing that Iwould consider a planted tank. Now, I have a 90 gal community tank. I have some swords and some other plants from Severum Mama. What few that made it from the pleco rooting around. grr. Now I have scored a CO2 system and today I ordered a...

Someone mentioned pulling out all their Hornwart because it was making a mess. Guess what mine did yesterday. It was like someone shook a month old christmas tree. Both filter intakes had a giant green ball around them.

I got the 90 up and running, and now it looks empty. current inhabitants: 2 green severums 2 angels 1 yoyo loach 1 footlong pleco 1 bala shark 5 danios 5 green barbs 2 rainbows of some sort 1 black skirt tetra 3 red tetras I think i have it all. But now I need a fish worthy of a 90. possibly...

I was cleaning my Fluval 205 and I dumped the water out of the main canister. I saw something flopping and it was a tiny green barb. Poor little guy got sucked in. Who knows how long he had been in there, at most two weeks. He was pretty stressed. I got him back to the tank, and he sat at the...

Just to let you know thateven though I have salt in my blood, the new tank will be fresh. I have a 75 salt and a 55 planted. the new 90 will replace the 55, and the stand will go under the 75. this was a good craigslist deal. the 90 will give me 6-8" more front to back and make it easier...

I have a skimmer that I have been using for about 6 months. Sorry I dont have the name, but it is your normal type with a pump and air tube, and a cylinder that has a collection cup on top. my cup has a hole drilled and a tube coming out for collection into another vessal. yesterday, I noticed...

I just bought a 2 bulb 48" t5 fixture. the bulbs that came with are 28watts vs the 54 watts I am used to on a 4' bulb. I looked on Drs. Foster and smith, and they do not even have a 28 watt bulb. Will this fixture fire a HO bulb? I never knew that t5 came in a lo-watt version

I wish I had taken closer pictures, I will have to check at home to see if I have one I can crop. My xenia is on a coral skeleton, and it attached soon after I got it. then the side touched a part a little higher up and attached there. then little by litle it detached from the original position...

I know the Monos are listed as brackish and that they can go to salt as they get older. I was wondering if one could be acclimated to go directly into salt. I love the look of them, and want one for my SW tank, but the store has them in FW. Should I hold him in a 10 gal and slowly increase...

I have a bubble coral that looks bad. It is not extending at all. I took it off the sand bottom and blew it with a power head, there was a lot of sand that came off. I wonder if two little fishies revive, or iodine would be good? Should I quarantine it in a little tub until it heals, if it...

I have a red mushroom that was not attaching well, so I used some super glue gel to attach it to a frag plug. well, it decided to rip off. I attached it again. weeks later, I just noticed, a tiny little mushroom where the first gluing came off. lol. accidental frag :multi:

Unfortunately my camera will not let me get a shot of these bugs. they act like little cockroaches and are walking all over the bottom and back of my tank. I see them at night when I shine a flashlight. they are about 2mm and look like shrimp or some sort of pod, but they are walking; I do not...

I ran some filter floss in the intake of the sump to help clear the original cloudyness. Now I wonder if It would be best to remove it for pod growth. will the pods grow in the main tank, or the chaeto section of the sump without filtering out too many. I like the floss as it seems to take...

I had a bit of oily looking stuff on the surface of my FW tank and wanted a skimmer. I saw the skimmer for the fluval online for $20 with shipping. I went to Home Depot and made one in 5 minutes and $3. The PVC is 1". there is a cap on the bottom, a T and a 1 3/4 to 1" reducer at the top. I...

**Not my tank** I got this off a craigs list http://claspics.com/938/232836/1259369971-974.JPG.php?p=*full-image cliffs: Look at my awesome vegatation [sic] for the fish. In case any of the newbs didnt know what an Apista infestation looked like, that's it.

I have a new tank that is just about done with the cycle, and I bought some live rock from an established tank. it's a nice purple color. I pointed the power head at it to spread it. Behind the powerhead the tops of the old rock are getting green? and tonight when I looked at there were bubbles...