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thanks for the advice i will start the swing this weekend and see what happens

yes i have a 75 gal reef, just thought it might save a little on the electric bill with the heater(mostly runs at night) and ac with less heat in the room. how would i go from one lighting schedual to the other. a little at a time or just lights off one day to lights on that night.

is it ok to switch lighting time from day to night my current lighting schedual is noon- 10 pm and was thinking that it might help to switch my timing out of the heat of the day to help keep the heat out of the living room during the hotest part of the day.i know i wont have the veiwing time i...

i do not have a ground probe i was told to use a titanium probe if i was going to use one. whether or not this is true i dont know if it is true where can i get one. yes i have taken my ro and my tank water to two different lfs and all say my test kit is accurate. i am confused why is it just tangs?

drip acclimate for 2rs., have bought them from different stores with same result around the two mth. mark they all do the same thing fine one day then just hover in one spot for day or two and die. i have tried everything i can think of bought all new food checked for voltage with my fluke cant...

i feed alternate green and purple seaweed, frozen formula 1 amd mises shrimp every other day on the seaweed small piece, formula 1 and shrimp on sundays for everyone. eats fine at all feedings. then just stops eating all together and just sits in one spot for a day or two and dies. he just died...

first things first my system has been up more than two years now and everything is fine ammonia, nitrates, nitrites,phos. all 0. ph 8.3, water temp. 79.1, and salinity 1.025. water changes done at 15 gal bi weekly. RO water checks out all at 0 also. I have been through 2 yellow, 1 kole, and now...

just a update he is all better now it seems that he must have backed into a rock and got one of his barbs stuck out he is doing fine now thank you alot for all the input

thank you for all your help

ok got new test kit kis side looks a little better today less bulky i quess you would say and he is still eating like a pig. Ammonia - 0 Ph - 8.4 Nitrate - 0 Nitrite - 0 Alkalinity - 3.5 Calcium - 420 Salinity - 1.025 Phos-low >0.2

Temp-77.6 Nitrate->5 Nitrites->5 Phos-less than 0.2 Ph 8.2 my alk and cal must not be working showing almost 0 on alk and off the charts on cal its been time for a new test kit ill get one today

thats what i thought is there anything i can do to help prevent infection some (neosporin mabee) haha i realy like him and dont wont to lose him

i bought a kole tang about 2 weeks ago and about three days ago i noticed that i looks like the little diamond shaped thing that all tangs have on there sides one side back by the tail looks like it is coming of or bubbling up and bruised he is eating fine and is out and swimming fine i got him...

she already has a anemone she has been with for over a year. she would follow the tang around before it died and now she spends most of her time in the anemone and i miss seeing out swimming its like she is lonely and she shut her self in the house. she does come out and eat out of my hand though.

i was thinking of getting another clown but wasnt sure if they are aggressive towards each other currently i have a maroon and (he or she) dont know how to tell the difference has been in the tank now over a year and his buddy the tang died a few months ago and he doesnt seem to like the new...

watch your calcium levels close with the purple up mine got real high realy fast

peppermint shrimp worked for me gone in a few days

ok so if they cant be used over open tank is there a way to protect them from the salt and i live in florida where it is 100% humidity most of the time if not cant you suggest a alternative

was hoping someone had bought them you just saved me alot of money and i think i am going to go with the dr. fosters T5's it seems it would be sufficient for what i want

i found these lights on ebay and wonted some advice on them have not found any thing bad about them just looking for a second opinion sorry dont know how to put up a link...

thats what what i am looking for i want to get the most out of what i have and hopefully get rid of the diatom bloom in my tank cant seem to get rid of it

stoped by the LFS today and got myself a 18w pc light and a and a filter like the ones that go over the intake of a power head but with a plug in the end going to see how that works think i am going to put about 15 lbs of live rock and the Chaetomorpha with a couple sand sifting snails thanks...

yeah i have had it since set up of tank and never used it properly. was wanting tips on maximizing effectiveness and something that wont effect the skimmer(get sucked in)i am planing on putting about 10 lbs of live rock and doing away with bio balls but was wanting some plants that wont get...

the sump has two inlet drains from the tank into filter bags then goes through two baffles into the large roughly 20 gal center section then through about a filter pad sitting on top about 30 bio balls then through two more baffles and then gets pumped back to tank. hard to picture it i know...

I have a very large berline style sump really a refugium the center chamber is about 20 gal i have sand(20 lbs) in it now with no lighting on it(my skimmer sits here) and was wanting some opinion an what to do with it