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since I am planning to get a bigger tank, I want to know if califonia stingray/Cortez Stingray r reef safe or not? or any rays is reef safe and can be house in a 120gal tank. Thanks

Long time no see my friends!! I am back and planning to upgrade from a 46bow front to a 106gal custom tank. the tank will be 48"x30"18" need some advice on glass or acrylic tank. and here is a list of equipment that I am planning to buy -CPR overflow (1200gph) need to buy -48" nova extreme pro...

my DT is so clean now,nitrate finally stay at 10ppm in the DT but my refugium started to have the diatom problem LOL. anyway I didn't feed in the refu, and wonder if I should, since there r some peppers, snails and crabs down there. I also have chaeto and pods. they seem doing ok, I always see...

Recently one of my bufddy in here showed me one RO and one RO/DI unit on ebay Clear Reef 6st 100GPD Reverse Osmosis RO Water Filters - eBay (item 110443010163 end time Oct-13-09 20:18:27 PDT) New 6st 100GPD Reverse Osmosis RO+DI+TANK Water Filters - eBay (item 380165734622 end time Oct-13-09...

ok, so I have been using this return pump for about 2months, everytime after I stop it and do a water change and turn it on again, it shot tons of white things out from the return line. they don't look like pods or live things, just like white feather kind of stuff. its really hard to get a...

hi everyone, I am using eshopps overflow and wonder how many of you who have one use it with the prefilter. also my return pump has a prefilter as well, and I think it trapped dirty stuff in them and cause my nitrate to stay at 20ppm. so r the prefilter bad?? I know I have to use it on my...

after light is out about an hour or two. I used my red light to check my tank, and couldn't find the firefish. I know they like to jump, but I have a cover and a heavy light on top of the tank, also incase it swim to my overflow and jumped out that way, I also cover my overflow. I checked...

so I remember seeing this DIY reef food video YouTube - DIY Reef Food showing people how to make their own reef food, but I wonder how long can I keep the food? anyone here made their own food can give me some advice?

I was doing a cover up for my DIY stand this morning and came out with a piece of card board that fit right on my aquarium background, so I went to get my art tools and decided to paint my own tank BG. what do you guys think? suggestions are welcome, cuz I can always do changes on my painting XD...

I recently got a tiny rock of xenia, and put it on one of my LR. but over couple night, there is something move/push my xenia down to the sand or move it a tiny bit. At first I thought it was the hermits, but till I notice something moving inside the rock, I knew there is a crab, and finally I...

I have been doing some research on wavemaker/wavebox, as everyone knows that they are $$$$, so I was looking around the DIY project. the diy wavebox looks good while I have some extra pump, but!! but... keep turning on and off the pump doesn't sound like a good way to treat it, is there anyway...

I bought some mangrove and chaeto to help control the nitrate. but the main tank nitrate seem to remain around 15~20ppm, while my sump stays around 5~10ppm. so I am wondering if its fine to put some chaeto in the main tank. will fishes/inverts eat the chaeto? planning to get firefish yellow...

After getting a lot of suggestions on what to get. I went to this web store and take a look of the livestock and come out with this list, and would like to ask you guys if they can be together. 46gal DT 20gal sump Please let me know if thats too much to put in a 46gal. fish: Green Mandarin...

I bought this 2 clowns 2days ago. the bigger one was checking the food out, but it won't eat it, it suck the food it and spit it out. and she also being so picky, only eat the bright color brine shrimps that I feed her. the smaller one I m more concern, he din't even check the food out, he just...

recently I saw some legs, not just a few, but like all the legs from one hermit. There is nothing in my tank will eat them now. I only have 3peppermint shrimps, 1 ema crab, and should have 7 hermits, and I have put a lot of extra shell for them to change with. my question is will hermit crab...

I was looking at blue-zoo, and decide to get some green star, yellow polyps, and some glove polyps green. the yellow polyps is semi-aggressive, and I wonder if thats ok to put with my green start and glove polyps. and r they aggressive on other corals or everything? OoO

Alrite, I bought my peppermint shrimps to kill aiptasia, but I m unlucky, almost 5days and they haven't kill one, but they do kill one of my bottom polyp, and 6 nass snails. the first 2, I would assume the snails were dead, but everyday they kept rolling my nass snails over and over again...

OoO my girl friend just feed my puffers some cucumber.... is that ok to the tank? to the puffers?? She said the puffers seem hungry and she was doing mask....so she gave them a piece.............. just want to know will the cucumber do anything bad to my tank.

I have a tennis ball size chaeto sitting in the corner of my refugium. it has been like a 6days, and the chaeto keep falling apart... like a little pieces flowing everywhere. its still a ball shape but a lot of them fall apart and flow to my return section or free flowing in the refugium. is...

46gal FOWLR tank gonna change it to reef tank. will add a little more sand for goby and pistol shrimp in the future. Puffers will transfer to other tank since they r not reef safe. sump will maintain the same with chaeto, mangroves, nassarius and nerite snails. probably gonna add 4 peppermint...

I am going to change my FOWLR tank to a reef tank, and would like to get some suggestion on what fishes is good to keep. I m thinking about clowns and one of the fish I saw in my LFS, which I forgot the name.it looks like this lol sry for the back drawing. would like to get some names from...

today just discover something weird, was looking on the sand bed and found some black worm, really thin and small one. After I found that one, I start discover a lot of them around my rocks and sand bed, some even r under the sand. I am thinking they should be fine in my tank, plus I have no...

I got this marco algae 2 days ago try to control my nitrate a little bit since chaeto doesn't like too much current/flow, so I put it in the corner of my refugium, but i don't know if its doing fine or not, some part of the chaeto seem to turn little gray/white; and a lot of free flower...

I used a regular desk light from home depot and one of the light that come with a 10gal kit. its a 20" floure 120volt 19watt for the aquarium light. the desk lighting doesn't said how many watt but its 120volt and 60 hz yellow light. should I run the light 24/7 or do a half/half everyday? and...

I put some Nassarius and Nerite Snails in to my sump yesterday and they start to explore around the sump. some went all over to my protain skimmer section, some are trying to go to my return section. Should I bring them back to the refugium section?? or they will go back once they done exploring?