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well I finally got the RBTA. it looks really good so far and is eating and comfy in its spot. my female clown is curious and playing with it a little bit only 1 day after acclimation. good sign i think considering tank bred

I bought 3 chromis last week. everything was great and they got along famously... for a week. the other night one of them was separated from the school hanging out by a rock on the bottom. he looked just freaked out a lil so i said okay no biggie. next day hes still doing that and then i...

I have a local guy offering a small RBTA. I love the idea of it, but I am wondering if I am ready for this. What are some valid concerns i should have. I think I am overestimating the danger. I feel like Im gonna wake up and all my stuff is going to be RBTA food. Is this paranoia? I have...

i dont know how hard it is to implement.. but it would be cool if there was a search box on the site... lets say you need help with a wrasse just search wrasse. just for example

Got some frags at a dudes house I met on Craig's List. 2 Kenya Trees 3 heads of Candy Cane, looking pretty healthy 2 little stalks of Yellow Digi Small Yellow Polyps rock also I got some nice zoos at the LFS. I'll post pics later

just got back from a gig and noticed the one head of the 4 headed frogspawn i got that was retracted has i believe brown jelly disease advancing on it (i researched and realized this). the head was retraqcted i believe as of yesterday and i thought no big deal at first, now i got home and...

do you think if i put a 175 MH bulb with my 4 39w t5s it would be like major overkill or not? i want to have some dead serious lighting in this 30 gallon and make it a true beast eventually.. i am guessing if i did the MH bulb, i would build a DIY enclosure and take apart the T5 fixture and...

I've been thinking about this issue for a while. Ziggy told me, and i've heard elsewhere, bioballs arent really that great and are pretty much outdated technology. heres the idea. in the bioball chamber, which sits under a drip plate, I want to just swap out the bio balls for some cured LR...

Hi guys. I just got my skimmer in the mail today (octopus NW-100) and I am trying to set it up. I am having a rough go, as the ENGRISH directions they sent are basically just scratchy drawings on a page with no words. CLUELESS!!!!! Anyone have this skimmer or a similar one or know their way...

How does a RO/DI unit work. I'm not really asking about how it filters through the seperate chambers, but actually how it hooks up and operates. I was looking into buying the absolute best quality/cheap cost balance of a RO/DI system I could, but i have no idea how they work or if it's feasable.

The LFS got in a great fish - a blue gudgeon. They look realllllly cool and vibrant. I was wondering if anyone had any experience with these fish and their behaviors? If he is a hider i don't think i would want to grab him up.

hey - tank shots, like 3-4 months set up; 30 g

Hey guys. I did a 25 % water change and checked my calcium and everything after. Phosphate was good, Alk was good - like 3.75-4.0 Calcium was around 300 only though. I bought A B 2 part calcium thing but it says it will raise alk as well as calcium. I didn't think I wanted to raise...

looking for hydor koralia 2. i have a 3. will trade straight up

Hi guys I have a few for you as I'm finally getting decent pics (halfway decent lol) First is a mushroom I thought it was ricordea florida but now i'm not so sure. second is a werid pink thing. it looks hard and it has small branches. it came in on the rock and it doesnt grow a whole lot but...

I was at work today and I was looking at corals and I said gee I want a frogspawn. My buddy picked me up he needed something from the pet store and lo and behold they had a frogspawn in.

I was caring for a friends rock that has green zoos and big brown pallys on it. He had bought an angel fish that was eating it to death, so he gave it to me to watch over. It grew like wildfire in my tank, but then his angel died so he is taking it back - so i needed to take me a piece of the...

i feed my fish mysis shrimp every other day. i was wondering if there are any good flake foods to supplement their diets. I have 2 oc clowns and canary wrasse.

need a skimmer. 30 gallon reef with 10 g sump. looking for in sump model. plenty of live rock is in the mix. keeping small fish and corals. what do you guys have experience with? looking for somehting that could handle like 55, 75 gallons load, but preferebaly quiet.

Hi guys. I have a mushroom, i think its an orange ricordea, but not 100% sure. it got HUGE from when I bought it, and now it looks like in the front it actually like ripped a little, and my first reaction is that wow it must be splitting. It hasn't really developed much since then though as...

Hey guys. I know someone on here has done probably this exact mod before. Either way, you guys (and gals) are pretty smart. Heres the deal I am making my sump into a fuge I am going to take the bio balls chamber and make that the fuge part. I am going to block the chamber off with 2 acrylic...

I have a 30 gallon with sump (10-15 gallon?). I need to increase the flow in my tank because the return pump is very weak - the one that came with the filter. I was wondering what i could get away with because the tank will have to have a balance between overflow and return, correct? I am...

i was thinking of getting an emerald crab to help control hair algae and cause hes cool looking. Will he bother/ kill my fish though? I was worried because my canary wrasse sleeps in the sand at night. is this dangerous? does anyone have any good/bad stories about emerald crabs. Id love to...

Hi guys. Got one for the gurus. Tank is going good, so I bought a rock with some neat ricordea and other mushrooms i cant ID (can't find the exact ones). Well, the ricordea is doing awesome, but these green neonish mushrooms are melting away and their flesh is just dying! SUCKS! I just...

Hi people! I'm going to do my first water change on the tank when I get home. I am doing a 20% and I was wondering - My salinity is now at like between 1.022 and 1.023 Can I mix the new water to be 1.025 and add it directly in or will it shock the fish/hermits/snails and musroom colony in...