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yesterday my lta home to my clown was moving around a bit from his spot . today hes upside down with his insides all over the place. my no3 been at 20 ppm for a while maybe from that ? sad days . sad days indeed. seting up my fuge with DSB with chaeto this weekend.

hey guys starting up my 10g sump fuge again to store my skimmer uv and a fuge with chaeto but what light should i use for the chaeto ? i have a stadard aquarium light canopy for it. and do you recommend 24/h lighting? i am also using a DSb maybe 6 inches of it . currently i have the...

ok guys i have a sorta high NO3 problem dont knwo if since i put my chaetomorpha in my penguin HOB filter where its dark and crowded is it holding nitrates ? and not consuming them ? i plan on hooking back my 10 gallon sump and making a real fuge for it any ideas?

hey guys i am starting my 10 gallon sump for my 55g reef. i had a syphon comming into the sump and a magna pump pushing it back the flow was so powerful that it couldnt balance so i gave up.. i have an overflow box but its too big for my tank so i was wondering sould i just use 2...

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finaly together after so long he never leaves his house and the anemone loves him back. what a team !

ok i have a 55g reef with 4 inch dsb. 80 lbs lr established for 4 years. i just did a water change maybe 10 gallons of ro/di water about 5 hours ago. i have a tomato clown hosted to a lta and a mandarin. i have shrooms and polyps. 2 power heads and a cpr bakpak2 skimmer. i just tested my...

ok kiddies. i need some identification i have several little white spots on my glass and floating in the water. they look like little specs but when i look close they are animals. wondering if they are copopods ? i had a manderin for the longest time untill a ich infiltration took his life...

hey guys ! i just purchased my LTA its doing great ! in my previous attempts i had one for 6 months then it died due to the inexperience, and only 6 months i actually had my tank up and running, with CC substrate now my tank is up and running for 4 years witha dsb and 80 lbs lr using...

hey guys just wondering ive been using mark Weisse combo vital for a while about a year is there any benefit ? 55g tank 75lbs Lr Dbs mushrooms polyps. misc snails and craps about 25 each. tank is on 3rd week of no fish due to an ICH outbreak one survivor my tomato clown in QT tank...

hey guys i am noticing that there is a growth of a light greenish algea is growing on my LR and the dead coral i have what is this ? beneficial? its almost taking place of the purple algea on my LR

hey everyone i have a 55 establ;ished reef with 80 lbs LR with 2 fish my tomato clown and my coral beauty both with ich. my tomato clown spread to my coral beauty. now i dont have a QT tank and will this parasite die on its own will ? or is there any effect with the fish such as sickness and...

hey guys i have a coral beauty and just wanted to know what exactly should i feed it ? and how many times per day week ? due to the 55g tank i have with 70 lbs LR and sand i feed it maybe once a week with brine shrimp and it nips at the hair algea on the rear glass of my tank seems thats...

hey uys my new protein skimmer from cpr bakpak2 caqme intoday i got the reefready with no biomaterial. but my question is this. if anyone has one? also should i have the air tube wide open or closed for more bubbles ect whats best TIA

so i look into my tank and see what i thought was my coral naded shrimp dead and hollow. with color and everything. so i removed the carcass to see the real coral banded shrimp where he usualy is ? do they normaly shed thier exoskeleton ?

so yesterday i was sealing the inner tube to my turbo twist uv sterilizer with aquarium sealer .. i wear contact lenses and when i let the cap off the sealer there was a massive vapor i cam einto air contact with it while sealing the tube that seals the bulb from the water but i also had the...

ok so my nitrate are at 20 my trities are at .25 and my ammonia is at .50 i was wondering because i had no water changes in teh past 5 months and no protein skimmer and i had a glass top covering the tank wondeirng if that prevented the nitrites gas exchange? 55g 3inch sandbed 70lbs LR...

ok i have had my 55g reef tank for about 4 years and it has a 4 section glass hood . i have my 265watt jbj pc about 4 inches over it on legs. is it better to have the glass top on or off?

Ok i have been back and forth with the decision of using distilled water for top offs and water changes. the cost doesnt affect me. but what i am reading from other sites ect does. they say since " Absolutely use filtered water: either R/O or de-ionized, (but NOT distilled) water for your...

so i look into my tank tonight and see my marine cat in the clucthes of my coral banded shrimp. is the shrimp carnivourous ? need answers ! want to save the little guy ! one went missing the other day 2 !

hey everyone i have a 55g reef with 70lbs lr dsb mushrooms, carpet anemones some invertebres, manderine coral beauty , and marine cat . i am currently running 2 65w 10k pc and 2 actinic 65w pc over my 48" tank my tank has been successful to a point but i wish for thingsto thrive and may...

hey everyone so i am in the massachusetts area and have been topping off my tank with regular tap water,. now usualy i let it sit for a day but sometimes there is no time. but anywho i want my reef to strive so i think its time for a ro/di system i was thinking since i dont have a cold...

hey guys ive had my reef tank for about 3 or 4 years now have a good population of mushrooms but latley i have been getting a little lazy with te tank and checked my salinity after doing a water change and it was at 1.018 now over the course of 8 hours i went up to 1.022 but what is a good...

hello all i was wondering on how to accumulate pink coraline growth no i heard low phosphates help but how do i lower or control them? thank you