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Main tank: NH3: 0, NO2: 0, NO3: 0, pH: 8.0, temp: 81, salinity: 1.025 QT: NH3: 0, NO2: 0, NO3: ~10, pH: 8.0, temp: 80, salinity: 1.024 For Alk I have no idea what I am doing, and it always seems to be a "bluish-yellow", other than when it is saturated. However, assuming I did it correctly...

I want to free up some room in the living room, and nothing currently inhabits it, so I have a free tank and stand (no canopy) if someone wants it. You simply have to have a means to pick it up. Perhaps a trade for some frags would be cool, but if not, no problem, either way the tank and stand...

Thanks, I will up my QT time. The tank was fully cycled for a good three months with constant feeding, and the chromis are quite small, so I figured dumping 6 of them in there at the same time would be equivalent to putting a tang in there or similiar. I constantly check ammonia and nitrite...

I thought these fish were supposed to be hardy? Tank (75g) has been set up for over three months, with live rock, etc. All levels (ph, ammonia, nitrite, nitrate, salinity, etc) are fine. I QTed 6 chromis for two weeks, then put them in my newly setup main tank (fed by shrimp every other day)...

I'm not quite sure what will or won't work in your tank, but I would be more than happy to pitch in for what you can't use (I'm quite sure I have the lighing to handle anything). I just set up my tank, cycled it, and I'm looking to get some corals. Why do you think that those corals will not...

like others have suggested, stop dosing ammonia and do water changes until NO3 approaches 0. If that doesn't occur, you have a broken or expired testkit. When that occurs, I would stop dosing ammonia and instead put a frozen shrimp in there. This will allow for more consistant ammonia, and a...

Six Line Wrasse Royal Gramma Basslet These are great fish IMO. They're going into my new 75 I'm setting up.

Note that I'm not giving medical advice, just shouting out some options, Cytokines and leukotrienes (some of the inflammatory mediators of the body) are derived from arachadonic acid. Animals products (diary, meat) are promoters of arachadonic acid (a psuedo-essential fatty acid, but the body...

I have a 75g tank, 35 gallon sump, and a 300w Hagen heater in the sump. I currently don't have my lights set up yet, the room is quite cool, and the tank is currently cycling. My problem is that even though I have my heater set close to 90 (I want a constant 80 if possible), the temp of my new...

Tank is a 75g with 30g sump. I'm going to set up a reef tank, and so far here is my wishlist: Six Line Wrasse Royal Gramma Yellowstripe Maroon clownfish (6) Blue-green chromis I know this site has a calculator, but IMO it isn't too helpful, as the fish listed on the popular...

1. The return pump of my sump is a mag5 with vinyl tubing that eventually elbows into the tank. However, when the power of the pump is turned off, it starts to work as a reverse syphon, returning water to the sump. Is there a way to correct this? 2. The water going to my sump is via a HOB...

Thanks, I'll make sure that it is fully cured and I will run water through it.

I tried to run PVC pipe from my tank to the sump, and even though I wore a mask the fumes were making me ill, so I did a rushed job. Some of the PVC primer and cement ran down into the pipe, and it's pretty much impossible to get rid of (as it's inbetween a couple of sections). The primer and...

I have close to 100 lbs of live sand (a mix of reef caribsea aragonite and fine grain crushed coral) I would like to get rid of, as I'm setting up a smaller tank and only want a couple of inches in the new tank. The sand has been seeded in a reef tank for nearly a year. No copper or medications...