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I'm having problems with several colonies of zoanthids that I cannot figure out. First off, my water parameters are all normal except nitrates might be a tad high at 40ppm. Lighting is 260w PC on about 8 hours, and 250 watt MH on about 2 hours a day on my 55 gal. Fish, inverts and other...

thanks for the info, grr.. I guess I got to find some way to bump up the hood

I have a hood over my 55g aquarium. Would I be able to add a 250w metal halide setup inside the hood but the bulb will only be about 2-3" max away from the top of the aquarium. I'll have 4 fans inside the hood to cool it off, but I don't want it heavily affecting the temp. Anyone have...

I'm about 40 mins away from the LAX. I'm looking at that site to and its interesting! So many to choose from now!

yea, I'm a bit reluctant to order from ebay.. especially with no guarantees. Seacrop.com seemed ok. However its kind of hard to see how big the pieces are or how mnay polyps are on each piece. I will try however to message some members here to see if they are selling any frags! Anyone...

Has anyone purchased the Nano Polyp Pack from liveaquaria? I was thinking about it but I emailed them asking how many polyps are on each rock and all they said is "more than one." The pack is 49.99$ and comes with 5 rocks with different polyps. However, its kind of not worth it if its like 2...

I have 2 tangs in there that are only about 2 inches, 1 Blue tang and one sailfin, + 3 little damsels about an inch big. And couple hermit crabs and turbo snails too(dont know if this increases nitrate). The tank has been staying at 10ppm for several weeks now and I just cant get it to 0...

I finally finished cycling my tank and have couple tangs and damsels in my 55gal tank. However I test the water using the AP master test kit and the readings are: 10ppm nitrate 0 nitrite 0 ammonia 8.2 ph I do pwc's once a week but the nitrates stay at 10ppm. I just found out my RO water that...

Ok, I'll take everyones advice on getting one!! Now any suggestions which one? The seaclone 100 from that site is 75$ is that decent? Or should I invest in something better? phew, I thought protein skimmers were in the range of $200+

Awesome!! What happens if you don't have a protein skimmer? Cause those things are pricey!! I heard its only used to reduce nitrates. Wouldn't water changes be enough to reduce the nitrates? Thanks again!

First off, this forum is Awesome!! I learned more from here than in any other book or site! Well, since I have the same tank size and just started off in SW too, I'd figure I'd ask here. I have a 55 Gal tank too, with LR and couple yellowtail damsels, I plan to have easy to care for coral...