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I have a 250g tank on the way and was thinking of using seawater from the beach for my water changes as well as the salt for that size water change would be a substantial chunk of my salery. the plan is to only have local inhabitants in my tank but ppl have cautioned me againsed it saying it...

I am thinking of doing the same thing as the price of live rock in my area is prohibitivly expencive and I have a 250g tank on the way which will need a lot of it maby we should cal this culturing liverock. any ideas on what conditions would be ideal for the spread of the benificial bacteria...

I have found a number of these in my local rock pools and was wondering what it is and how easy / dificult it would be to keep one in my tank?

nice! how about a pic with it in place on the tank.

what would the runing costs be of a tank like this im thinking fowlr it has a protine skimmer and mh lighting already I only stay like 1 mile from the beach so I plan on using real sea water for my water changes I plan to only stock it with criters I colect while diving (I already have a permit...

Hi all I have wanted a salt water tank for some time now and have got myb old 20g out of storage that used to be fw now looking at the verious forums I decided tat with the fish I wish to keep ill need somthing bigger was thinking around 55-75g and from what ive been reading the biger the tank...

sorry for my ignorance but what is this vodka dosing and what is it for

taging along

the reef was about 1 mile offshoar depth 28m water temp 23deg c havent braught any up from depth before but my friend said that that witch I braught up from the shourline made a huge diffrence to the tank havent actualy put any under a microscope or anything to check biodiversity

I think the deepest dive will be 28m I have been told that when bringing fish up they shouldent accend faster than 1m/min where as recomended accent rate for divers is 10m/min concidering they live down there and im only down for less than an hour

Hi I am planing on colecting some live sand to add to the biodiversity of my tank when I go diving some deep reefs this weekend. Does bringing live sand up fron depth require a slow acent like with bringing up fish or can I just swim it up at my normal acent rate I dont whant to end up killing...

looks like I have a 20g sump for my tank im yet to buy then

the one I primeraly see is I think the white spoted puffer

I was always under the impresion that they wernt verry active fish after observing them on the natural reef

thanks for the advice guys I didnt think disease would be a problem reintroducing them to the ocean as all of what im going to be puting in my tank is coming from the same ocean what size tank would be sutable all of what im reading says they need space but not how much