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honestly I hadn't even touched the display tank (a 75 gallon) since about three days before when I did a small water change. I just hung the overflow box and return nozzle over the back edge of the tank and that was it. My guess is still that it was the pvc solvent and cement. I have to...

So I had the weekend off so I figured it would get my sump hooked up. The sump worked beautifully and before I went to bed the new skimmer was pulling skimmate. I woke up this morning and my yellow tang and purple firefish were dead. My other fish all looked ill as well. My clownfish was on...

So I ended up buying an SWC Xtreme 160 skimmer for my sump and I am having a hard time getting it working. It came with no instructions, just a picture of what it should look like once set up. I put it in a tub with about 9 inches of water to test it out. It turns on and fills with water but...

Thank you, that is extremely helpful, especially since i'm more of a visual person. What diameter PVC pipe did you use for the intake and return? Some people have advised using different sizes and others have suggested using the same size. I was thinking of just using 1" piping from the...

I have a 75 gallon reef tank and I am considering building a basic sump/refugium for the tank. I am completely new to this concept so I was hoping if I posted what my basic plan is those of you with more experience could let me know what I'm missing or what I have completely wrong. I'm going...

I would guess probably around 65 pounds of live rock. I bought a lot of it from a friend who was selling their tank so I don't know the exact amount. I plan on adding more to the tank though. I figure if I set up a sump I won't have all of that stuff from my current filters hanging in the...

I have a 75 gallon reef tank that has been up and running for about two years that I'm feeling is in need of a overhaul. Overall the tank has been doing well so far with very little in the way of losses of livestock. I have however been battling nitrates recently. I've cut feedings to every...

hmm, it actually may be a limpet. I couldn't get my camera to focus on it from outside of the glass but if you look closely it has the central part that is stuck to the glass and a small mouth like on a turbo snail with little antennae. The entire soft portion including the head is surrounded...

They both have fairly long stalks so thus far the substrate hasn't touched the fleshy part but I'll move them for sure now that I've heard that. Can mushrooms harm either of those or will they just get rid of any mushrooms they can reach?

So I recently got my hands on a bunch of live rock from a friend who was selling her tank. It's pretty much all covered in mushrooms and I'm wanting to move my torch coral and frogspawn out of the substrate and up on the rocks since almost all of my corals are in the substrate and the rocks are...

So I just got a bunch of live rock from a friend that was selling her tank. She seemed to be obsessed with mushrooms and nearly every rock I got from her is covered in them. I've had trouble finding a place on the internet that I can use to identify different mushroom types so I'm going to...

So I noticed a small creature on the glass of my aquarium about a week ago that keeps crawling around. I check on it every day and it never moves more than three or four inches from day to day. I do have three astrea snails in the tank and it does look like it could possibly be some sort of...

I tried to put two links to pictures in my original post up top, did they not work? I'm still trying to get used to posting pics

hmm, he was shedding in December when I bought him so about two and a half months ago, do you know how often they shed?

Well I decided to take a chance and gave it a try since I have a smaller tank I could put the dusky jawfish in if things got hairy. It's been about two weeks now and so far they haven't as much as opened their jaws at each other. The dusky jawfish decided to make his burrow on the next rock...

So I have a finger leather that has been in my aquarium since late December. I'm somewhat new to corals and it was one of the first corals I added. Every day when the lights come on it grows to a huge size about ten inches wide and eight tall and looks quite happy. Recently I have noticed a...

So I've had a Blue spotted Jawfish in my tank for nearly a year now and he is by far my favorite fish, Jawfish just seem to have so much personality. He's finally gotten to the point that he'll leave his burrow for hours on end and explore the whole tank, probably because he's collected all of...

Thanks for the article, from the looks of things I should be good in the short term using tap but i'll look into getting some type of purification unit soon. I went ahead and purchased the brain coral yesterday. It's already looking better than it did in the store, the colors are great and it...

I used to keep mine at about 1.023 but I slowly adjusted it up to 1.025 so I should be good there. Thanks for the info!

Ok, so I have done a couple of water changes since the last time I posted and Nitrates look to be about zero (API test kit isn't the easiest to read) I went to my LFS and checked out what they had and did some talking and they owner said in his opinion of what he had there the green open...

Nitrates are a little high at the moment, 20 PPM. I was out of town for three weeks at a military training school so I'm a week off on my PWC (figured with fish only I wouldn't hassle my roommate with it.) I have enough water mixed to do a 75% water change but I'm gonna space it out over the...

So I have a 75 gallon FOWLR tank that has been set up since last spring. I'm currently wanting to get it set up so it can handle some corals. It is fairly heavily stocked and I don't want to turn it into a full blown reef tank, pretty much just enough to make it a little more colorful...

Awesome, thanks guys. I just did some quick reading on the little guy and I'm excited. Right now I have him in my 12g with a piece of live rock to hide in. I'm skeptical about putting him into my 75g. My fish all ignore my inverts but I also have three emerald crabs, some hermits, peppermint...

So I bought some new live rock today and had a crab sneak home that I can't identify. I managed to catch him and put him in my quarantine tank to keep him away from everything else until I can figure out what he is. This is my first attempt to put a picture in a post, but can anyone tell me...

So I have a handful of scarlet hermit crabs in my 75g along with some other types of hermits. A few days ago I spotted one and noticed that his legs had faded to almost orange. I was just looking around in my tank and tracked down the other scarlet hermits and noticed that all of them had...