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help! my tank has been decimated by hurricane frances! everything is dead. things i didn't know i had are dead. came back today to find the power still out and an awful smell. obviously i had no computer to ask you guys where to begin, so here's what i've done so far... drained water and removed...

could someone explain to me the correction that needs to be made for temp when using a probe for ph? my current reading on my brand new calibrated probe is 8.65 at 81f. what is my actual reading?

i just noticed 4 little white spots on my tang. they weren't there yesterday. can it be ich even though i haven't introduced anything new into my tank except saltwater from the lfs when i did a water change? this might sound crazy but is there any possibility it could be those little spiral...

what do you think?

o.k. i have to admit it.... i hate dosing the tank with ca/alk every day! i've been looking into automatic dosers and could use some advice. i currently use b-ionic and their doser runs about $150 but looks complicated to set up. it seems you have to buy additional parts and assemble them to it...

this started out really small and has taken off now. does anyone know what it is? macro algae of some sort?

do you have to remove it to frag it? if so, here's the problem... it's attatching to everything it comes in contact with including the glass. it's really starting to get out of hand. i moved it to the corner so i could see the rest of the tank but now it's stuck to the glass and 2 more rocks...

i'm sitting here watching my turbo snails let out this white smoke. i assume from all the baby snails i have that this is some kind of "sex thing". every night 3/4 of them go to the highest point in the tank and start smoking. the chromis feast on the caviar and the water gets so cloudy. it got...

i had a lettuce clip and a powerhead in a qt with copper, can i put them back into main tank if cleaned thoroughly?

when i do water changes i've been rinsing all the sponges with tap water and changing the filter pad in the wet/dry. should i not be doing all of them at once? and am i destroying the good bacteria with the tap water? if so, how do you do it? sorry for all the questions.

i've seen these in previous posts but since i didn't have them i didn't pay close attention. can you fill me in AGAIN? will they go away by themselves?

can't get a good pic, they move way too fast. i just noticed them in the overflow. most of them are smaller than the pods. from what i can tell they look more like shrimps. any ideas?

in another 6 months to a year i would really like to get a mandarin. i was asking my lfs about the ones there if they eat prepared foods or not. they said no but showed me a canister of pod eggs that they add to the water to hatch new ones. has anyone ever heard of this stuff? more importantly...

the last 2 days my ph has been a little on the low side not by much. anyway i just noticed that my return flow is a little low also, it's not really swirling the water like before. i think there might be a snail stuck in there. what do i do?

my colt coral is growing like a weed. how do i frag it when the time comes?

i just thought ya'll might want to know that gravel vacuums make excellent christmas tree waterers. my tree is extremely pokey this year and the vacuum works great so i don't have to crawl underneath. i know this isn't exactly the kind of post were used to but i wanted to share with my friends!

found this today, he crawled under the rock and disappeared. is it a bristle worm? if so, are they bad?

i've been toying with the idea of upgrading the mag 5 in my sump to a mag 9.5 then taking the mag 5 and hiding it in the tank and attaching a SCWD to it so i can remove the extra powerheads i have hanging on the sides. i hate looking at all the boxes and wires! my question is about the flow into...

what kind of heater would you recommend for a 72 gal reef tank?

my bubble recently took a tumble and ended up piercing the flesh on two of it's "ribs" they have since turned brown and black and appear dead. will the flesh grow back?

i just removed the last of my bio-balls but i'm really not sure why. i was told that they produce nitrates, but does that mean that the sponges and filter media do also? could someone explain it to me? btw i have a 72 gallon reef tank in case it matters.

i have these little white things stuck to the glass in the overflow. some of them are in a spider-web like substance. anyone know what they are? also i have some green algae growing on the glass, rocks, and snail's shells, is it nuisance algae or what?

when i bought my tank used it was a fowlr and now it is a reef tank. i was told that the bioballs should be removed gradually from the wet/dry filter. is this true? i took about 1/3rd of them out just now and then i thought i'd better check with you guys. what do i do with them once i remove...

do you recommend this product for cloudy eye?

i inherited a bubble-tip anenome and i can't get it to eat. everytime i try to feed it, it retracts itself as soon as it's touched. it did eat some blender mush once but it spit it out soon after. i read somewhere about them losing their ability to sting. could this be the problem? i have a...