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Having a overflow box that is rated for 1400GPH can I use a Pump rated for 800GPH? Or do you need a pump and Overflow box rated the same? Thanks for you help as always.

Any additives you can put in the tank to help coralline algae grow. I've read in "the conscientious marine aquarist" about adding Calcium and keeping Alkalinity or Carbonate hardness should be high about 8dkh. Any thought or ideas about what type of additives I can add to the tank? Let me know...

I have a 55 gal tank. In the tank I have 1 clown and 1 yellow eye tang, 1 cleaner shrimp, crabs and snails. Here is a list of some fish I'm looking at. I will only be getting one of these for now, just trying to figure out which one would be safe to go with. My BIO has all my tank info. FYI: I...

Is this enough lighting for a reef tank? 55gal Aqualight retrofit 2-96 watt true actinic 03 blue CPF 2-96 watt 10,000k daylight CPF How long should a tank be setup before adding Coral to it? Thanks.

What dose everyone think about buying fish online? If anyone has done this before, what websites do you recommend? Anything specail that you need or need todo. Any input would be great. The reason I'm wanting to know, I'm looking for certain types of fish, I have not been able to find. Thanks again.

I just wanted to thank everyone for all the great advice. I've learned a lot from you guys since I've been on this site. My tank has been up for 3 months and everything is going great. In about another month I will be adding some more LR and a fish "one"... So far, the only mistake I've...

Needing to buy a new testing kit, just wanting to get some recommendations? As always thanks for the great advice.

What do you feed Anemone's?

I have a Seabea Anemone, I have had him for about 2 weeks now. I'm just wandering if this is normal. Look at the pictures below. He has gone back and forth about 3 times so far. His month seems to have a bubble form and then it deflates. The picture shows it deflated. Here is what I have for...

This is what I have in by 55gal tank: Maroon clown Percula Clown Coral Beauty Angelfish Peach Sebae Anemone 20 blue hermit crabs 2 turbo snails 3 Nassarius snails 1 cleaner shrimp What other type of fish can I add, and how many more fish would be ok to add? I also would like to add a Star...

I got a Heniochus Butterfly 2 days ago. I noticed my ammonia rose just a little bit, from 0 to 0.25 so I added Nitromax Marine. The fish was breathing heavily and swimming in circles about 3 hours after I added Nitromax, then 4 hours later he was dead. Before I added Nitromax that fish was...

My tank has been setup for about 6 weeks and the cycling process hasn't even started. Nitrite, Ammonia, and Nitrate are all at 0 and have been. I've had the Fish and Crabs in there for about 5 weeks. Every thing I've read says it should be done cycling at about 6 weeks. Is this correct or is...