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ofcourse I didnt pour salt into the tank. :o but I mixed it only a few hours before. I will now mix it the day before. thanks

its tank raised. still at the top. I dont want to sound like a bad fish owner but I did the first water change with the fish in the tank. I am still new at this so when trying to match the same salinity I still dont have a system of how much salt to use for water changes. the salinity I...

Ive had this little clown for about a week. its about 1.5" still a baby. its in a 10 gal nano with a few mushrooms, GSP, yellow polyps, and some buttons. ever since I got the fish it only stays at the top of the tank happily swimming. even at night its up by the PH waddling around. Ive never...

to not sound like a complete idiot.... Quote: "I am going to have to do some research on alkinity. I thought you were refering to PH. " I didnt mean Power Head. I meant pH. and I do test for pH but am still not sure what Alkilinity has to do with Alkinity. no need to reply. I will research...

right..the salt. I am going to have to do some research on alkinity. I thought you were refering to PH. I am not quite sure on how to test alk or calculate it. that might be on a different thread. I did a search for test kits and nothing came up. the blender mulch sounds tasty but seems...

really....! what a sucker. I had the LFS sell me all these things. so the RO water will contain bromide, molybdenum, iron, manganese, cobalt, potassium, inositol, choline, etc... and will be replenished by weekly water changes? If I could bother you again.. I do add calcium(seachem reef...

what would you recommend? the LFS told me to switch between three different products that add similar elements but I thought he might just want me to buy more stuff.

has anyone used this product? I purchased this a week ago, I used it that night, tightened the lid and left it setting out for a week before I read the fine print that said it needs to be refrigerated after use! it isnt sold refrigerated. this is expensive stuff....do you think it bad now...

so the additives such as calcium, iodine, magnesium, and stroneum will be depleted by the skimmer? I have a few soft corals that I have been adding these elements for but I leave the skimmer on 24/7. Is it wise to not even have a skimmer on a 10 gal /LR/LS reef tank? I thought a skimmer was...

my algae bloom has gone away for now. I had just started my first SW tank, a nano 10 gal reef. after I was sure the cycling was complete I added livestock like some blue leg hermits, nerite snails, emerald crab, green star polyp, yellow polyp, and a bulls eye shroom. I had a horrible algae...

only a one gallon water change before I added livestock. yeah its rust looking algea all over the place. whooey. I will continue with a another water change and switch to RO. whats the shelf life of RO water if a few gallons sat around for awhile awaiting the next water change? and I also...

I cycled my tank for two months with the hood light off. I just stocked the tank with some blue leg crabs, emerald crab, green star polyp, and yellow polyps. so the hood light has been on for 10 hour intervals for three days now. I have been changing 1 gal of distilled water a week for a 10...

thanks, but where do you buy extra shells? can you go to a crafts store and expect the crabs to move into any random shaped larger shell?

my 10 gal nano reef has been cycling for over two months now. In the excitment I went right out and purchased some livestock with only a small amount of research on these things. I purchased a emerald crab, 8 small blue leg hermit crabs, green star polyp, and yellow polyp. my question is will...

Hello, sorry to keep dragging this on but I got a couple more pics I took this morning in my gallery if you wouldnt mind taking a look at. this is a head on shot not showing the body which is about a 1/4 inch when extended and the diameter of a pencil. I dont think its a curlyque, the pics are...

I have read moving them to another tank with java moss and adding I believe 2 tsp per gallon of plain salt will make them hatch. check out http://www.efishtank.com/articles/Breeding_Amano_Shrimp.htm

I have followed the advice somewhat of what I had read on the krib about buying T8 flourescents from a hardware store rather than overpriced tubes at the LFS. I went to home depot and bought 3 tubes of Plant/aquarium 48" lights. they were actually T12 because the T8 didnt fit my hood. They...

Yes, sorry...I should have waited alittle longer before writing.

this is the best pic I could get. it only takes a few seconds before this thing is back in its hole after I turn the tank lights on. I dont have any webspace to link the photo so I have uploaded it to my gallery. let me know what you think, if you can see it. thanks

I wanted to get some advice on a good book to pick up that would designate a page per invertebrate and list a care fact for each. I would like to know what Im looking at in the LFS and if I have the proper lighting etc. to keep it.

more like the first one but I think less tentacles and the tentacles arent as long. light brown body, light brown tentacles with red sections on them. when it sucks itself back into its hole after turning the lights on its head might still be out alittle. it is very camouflaged to the figi...

the peice of florida rock In my tank came with three round balls attached. they range in color from orange to yellow, the largest is the size of a dime. the store owner told me they were sponges but not what kind and how to care for them. my tank is cycling and I am worried they will not...

this is my first SW tank and I have just purchased some fiji rock. when I came home after work and turned the tank lights I saw this thing sticking out of the fiji rock. it was out about a 1/4 inch and its body was about the diameter of a pencil. the head had about 10 or 12 short brown...

Hello, I have got my setup figured out for the most part. I am putting together my first SW, a micro reef in a 10 gal. tank. I still have many weeks ahead of cycling but I wanted to get some peoples advise who also had or have micro reefs, what kinds of things I should start out with. I...

hey thanks a bunch for the help, I fully understand the use and construction of a sump now and the nitrates produce when using bio balls and the like. I also found these links extremely useful if you would like to pass these along for the next sump illiterate...