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Just got two Orphek DIF-30 30 Watt 120 Degree LED Pendants 1 white the other royal blue. I'm about to get out of the marines and go back home. I got these lights because they where only $300 for both. Getting supplies still for a frag tank build. If I put these side by side in a shallow tank...

hello everyone, i have not yet left for boot camp, ( there has been delay because of a past injury ) but i have been monitoring my tank and near my polyps which are still multiplying very well, i have noticed a small skinny red tube sticking out of the rock, its about a quarter inch high, and in...

Hello everyone, i have had a reef tank and a couple of fish for a very long time now, but im planning on joining the US Marines, and however much i wish i could take the fish with me, i cannot, however, i do not want the fish to prevent me from joining the service, my g/f whom i have dated for...

i was wanting to put some veggies in my salt water tank to see what my emerald crabs might like, i was thinking of cucumber, broccoli, and spinach. does anyone know of these veggies having any chemicals that the veggies produce/contain that i want to keep out of the water? it may be an odd...

alright, here's the situation, ive been searching the net trying to get the correct lighting for my 20 gallon tall for sps coral. all i have come accross is wattage per gallon which does not mean squat, it think its a very stupid way of measuring light. the appropriate amount of light, i can...

i was wondering what would be a decent feeding schedule for marine fish. i have a 20 gallon tank w/ a few corals that iv had running for 7 or 8 months now, i have only lost a few guys, a starfish that was wounded, healed then got wounded again, a clown that didnt last a week and my shrimp i had...

Hello everyone, i just got my internet back since hurrican Ike hit, i was out of power a couple of days but everything in my tank made it just fine. my xenia coral ive had for a while now had been doing great but just a couple of days ago after a water change, it now looks dehydrated. the only...

Everyone, please, has anyone had a fire shrimp attack a starfish or any other tank mates. my starfish just finished healing a hole in its disk and was placed back into the main tank and just today ( a few days later after addition ) it is now missing an arm w/ damage to its disk. ive placed...

i had just finished splitting some starburst polyps and i moved a piece of rock work in my tank when this worm flew out between my fingers and hid near another rock. its almost 1 1/2 inches long, about 2-3/8ths of an inch wide. orange and grey w/ silky shiny fuzz all over it. what is it, is it...

I got a sterpant starfish the other day, it has been hanging out in the cave w/ my fire shrimp for the past few days and exploring at night. today i was told that my fire shrimp was picking at it, i thought nothing of it as the fire shrimp picks at my fish and crabs, i guess looking for food...

i was at the store the other day when i came across a machine which i have seen around my area, its a Glacier brand water machine, its carbon filtered, UV, then its put through an RO filter. has anyone used this water before for reef tanks? im interested as its only 29 cents a gallon and i can...

i got a surpant star today, i have it in my tank right now getting it adjusted and everything. i decided to test the salinity in the bag water the starfish is in right now, and the LFS has a salinity of 1.019 and my tank water is 1.024 from what i have read, inverts are not suppose to be...

Has anyone made a de filter w/out spending over a hundred bucks? i have an 800 gph pump and wanted to use it for a filter. anyone find a way to do this? ive used alot of DE when cleaning pool filters, they work great at making a pool look literally polished crystal clear. i was thinking of...

when i first got my leather coral it looked somewhat flat around the rock in peices, now its looking scrunched up like it was shoved in a small space, its a cabbage leather and the " leaf " looking parts are looking more cramped together like it doesnt have space to go outward, is it growing...

Im really interested in adding this purple sea fan ( Purple Brush Gorgonian ) to my tank, i only have 3 corals in my tank, and ill have some great room, id like to add this beautiful colored coral and because i dont have intense lighting, iv been reading that these things are found...

i had some pulsing xenia, they where doing great, for a while, i took off a piece from one of the main stalks to propagate it, afterwards the entire colony was doing great for about 3 hours but now they have all shrunken up and now it looks like two fat stumps w/ black pots on top. is this...

when i first got my fuge i was confused as to how to get the thing started, i tried putting water in the u-tube, keeping my fingers over it, and a few other things, nothing worked just right, but i did find a way that works 100% perfict everytime. my sump/fuge came with some pumps a 600gal and...

I got a leather coral today, nice purple color but at its base there is some type of bright orange stuff growing all over it, also a portion of this stuff has some orange spike looking things coming out of it almost like horns. what is this, could it be a sponge because its soft and today this...

i recently got a new light for my tank so that i can grow some polyps which i also feed. it seems after i added this new light, 65 watt pc onto my 20 gallon tank, my diatom problem is coming back from dead. i would like to know the name of a product that someone has had success using to remove...

i know of a store in my area where i can buy macro, its a bag of mess, mainly grape calpurn, if i get this throw it in my sump and forget about it, whats the worse that could happen, is it going sexual on me that much of a bad thing? i plan to go in and cut it down some, its a tangled ball, and...

i got my CSS in the mail the other day i had it set up in my main tank ( 20g ) but the micro bubbles where horrible and seemed to bother my fish, he looked like he was having seizures so i took it out, my fish is doing great now so i took out some tank water put it in a bucket, replaced my...

i saw a what looks like a yellow sea cucumber at the fish store, its hot pink with some rows of blue spots on its sides and a giant yellow tree looking thing sticking out of its front. i looked online and it looks just like a yellow cucumber but ive read they only grow to 2", the one i saw at...

i have a FOWLR tank but today noticed some algae growing in my tank next to some of my coraline, so i bought some grape Caulerpa it came in a bag that was floating at the store, after i placed the bag in my take i noticed it was just a big ball of long strands of this stuff, not one peice, so i...

I recently started a saltwater tank just about 2 months ago, i have a 20 gallon saltwater tank and a 5 gallon freshwater tank along with a 1 gallon tank i use to grow biologics chemically for when i add new critters to the tank. When i first started the tank i did alot of researching and found...