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Just picked up a tank in Corpus Christi, TX, and getting ready to add the proper equipment (it's a bare tank with sump and open cabinet) It's 300 gallons; 96W x 30T x 24D; overall height is 5' 11" – what's in the picture was only $1200 (plus two days' use of a U-Haul van) • feels like a steal...

I posted this on my $200 Score thread, but cross posting here for feedback. Scored a 30g for $30 a few days ago to use as sump & refugium for the 110g. Found a really cool CAD app for iOS so, naturally, I had to play with it. And what better way to play? Draw up plans for the sump, of course...

A couple of weeks ago I added a small cleaner shrimp to my 75g tank; he didn’t last two days. I presumed that my hawkfish was the culprit because of his general attitude, but I had no proof. Today, I introduced a large cleaner shrimp; within about an hour, I found the hawkfish with a pair of...

Those who’ve been following my recent threads know what my setups are, so I won’t repeat the basics… When I get my new (used) 110g cleaned up and re-plumbed, I’ll be moving my 75g water, substrate, LR & livestock into the new tank; I’ll clean it up, double-check the fittings and such… •••...

Not much to say, really… 110g with stand Has: • Base rock: coral, barnacles, conch shells • Non-submersible pump: Iwaki Walchem WMD-20RLT • Pro-Twin Dual-Venturi HOB protein skimmer • Various test kits (old, maybe useless…) NO2, NO3, pH, Ammonia • Second Nature Whisper 1000 air pump • 2 -...

My current setups are: 1) 29g Nano Cube populated with: • 2 clowns • 1 yellow tang • 1 Molly Miller Blennie • 1 purple fire fish • 1 green chromis • 1 blue tuxedo urchin • 1 cleaner shrimp 2) 75g with 20 long sump with 10g water populated with: • 2...

So, the tux in our Nano has been carrying around what we’ve been calling his xmas tree since late November or so. I’m beginning to wonder if they will ever part ways… Is our tux safe?

I’ve got a NanoCube 29g that’s just under three years old and a 75g that’s about 2½ years old. Both tanks are clear, clean, and healthy. In my 29g I have a large piece of LR with a nice montipora and a very large, expanding colony of zoas. I want to move this rock into the 75g and exchange a...

Just noticed this a few minutes ago. Looks like a barnacle but I’m still learning the ropes (even though I’ve had a tank for nearly three years) What do y’all think?

What was I watching? I noticed this cluster of purple spheres being extruded from the mouth of one of my 'shrooms last week; it eventually detached and floated away...

...but that's all I know:

Anyone got any ideas for how to lure a large (very large!) brittle star out of hiding, without moving the rocks out of the tank? It's a 29g NanoCube. Fortunately, if I have to move the rocks, it's a stack of only two; and the smaller one can remain in place. It's not like I don't have the...

...not sure which sub-species. I've had it about four days; it finally opened up completely today:

I'm having great success with this Zoa migrating from the frag base onto my LR; now that I have a small colony on the rock, I want to cut it free from the original colony. How should I handle the operation? Original frag colony is on the right side of the pic...

Until about a week ago, I had two Trochus Snails living peaceably in my Nano 29g - also in the tank are a handful of hermit crabs, two black footed trochus two Emerald crabs, three coris, two clownfish, a yellow wrasse, a flasher wrasse, one watchman goby, one fire goby, and assorted corals...

My first potential plumbing setup is ready for the glue. I understand 90° bends in the return line are bad but I don't think I can entirely avoid them; hence vinyl tubing. I have enough leftover ¾" & elbows to create a three-bend, all-PVC (except a short length of tubing going straight up from...

I've noticed, over the past week or so, a strange root-like growth coming out of my zoa colony; here's a picture... I know corals don't have roots, so this is a bit befuddling... It also has a number of small, terrestrial mushroom-like growths on it, some have appeared within the colony as...

Title says it all; how should I proceed,with lots of time to make decisions while I get the cycle started...six months or so... Sent from my iPhone using Aquarium Advice

We got a NanoCube 29g on Feb 1 and so excited to see how easy it is, we decided to dedicate that tank to be a GBR biotope. I've been looking for a 55-90g tank, with no real intent to buy until after June - hoping to get one up & cycling around Independence Day. Then this happened: Found a...

:n00b: :confused: I'm hoping to be able to replicate a south Texas/northern Mexico reef of some sort. Working on a deal for a 55g tank...and considering the region in/around South Padre Island (my favorite deep-sea fishing spot) Noobish questions: 1) Is it reasonable, if an aquarist is just...

Hey y'all! My name's Michael; my wife, Erin, and I are marine aquarium noobs. (Sounds like a 12-step program intro, eh?) :ermm: I've maintained tropical aquariums on and off over the past four decades or so, and we decided to take the plunge in December. We had contacted an aquarium...