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We have had our BioCube 8 for around a year. We have added a HydorFlo wave thingy and a better pump. We do weekly bottled water changes of about a gallon, add a little Prime and a little buffer, keep the day lights on for only a few hours a day, but it still looks like this. We are at a point...

Hi again. The cyano getting a lot better. We've had the lights down more for the past couple of weeks, upgraded to a MiniJet 606 (for better flow), and cut back on feedings. The clowns hate us now :) (boy are they ever pigs!) The goby is out most of the time, or at least just outside of his...

Not sure if the scrubbing thing is going to work, but we will keep trying to get rid of it naturally. CUC's: Globe Urchin, three medium-sized Mexican hermit crabs, four tiny red-leg hermit crabs, one medium nassarius snail, one smallish cerinth snail, one medium stomatella, one tiny snail of...

What about the dead coral Ok, by the looks of it, the sun coral is dead. Should I remove it?

Ditch the clowns! That's why we got the tank LOL When you say "scrub the rocks", you mean while they are inside the tank? What should I scrub with, an old toothbrush or something? I assume that I would scrub first, then siphon as much out as possible during a PCW, correct? Am I correct is saying...

Cyano Yes, soft corals are what we will stick with now Serves us right for thinking we can trust the advise of a LFS - [moderator edit] :D The first night it barely opened, but it was suggested to wait a couple of day for it to settle in before feeding it. I did not heed that advise...

A month ago we bought a used 8 gallon Biocube. It came with live sand, some rubble, a couple of frags, some hitchhikers, and about 5-6 gallons of water. It had been run as an established tank for a few months. We brought it home and got it going. The next day we went to the LFS and bought about...