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hey guys I was a feshwater guy who ooed and awwd over reefs, now i reef and I'm a reef guy and I love the way planted tanks look.... the grass is always greener So im going to get a 5 gallon ecoxotic ecopico aquarium and i have a few questions. tank Is the lighting sufficient for a...

sorry that was ignorant of me i over looked the articles i thought they were your sig thanks ! very helpful.

are there any negative effects of cheap carbon or just less performance. and what is the difference between pellet GFO and granular?

hey guys im looking at reactors and media. what is you guys expeirience with different price levels of carbon and GFO and is it worth the money for the expensive stuff?

So im thinking about using two of these (AVAST Marine Works - MR-16 Media Reactor - Product Details) one to for carbon and one for gfo and running it inline with a turbo twist 6x. what flow rate would you recommend. and the uv sterilizer is a secondary priority and may only end up running for a...

what size would you guys reccomend for carbon gfo and bio pellets i have a 50 a twenty and a 90 all tied in the same line. and i plan on having a moderate bio load

i would like to use it for phosphate reduction and i also want to run carbon is a media reactor the best way?

hey guys im going to be purchasing a media reactor in the future and im curious what people are using in them and how effective they are?

i would like to have at least two flasher wrasse's so they keep their colors and flash more frequently any other suggestions for small peacefull fish? and how many fish can i keep in my 90?

anyone?

cyano algae maybe?

hey guys Ive started stocking my 90 up for the long run do you guys see anything wrong with this list, too much maybe? I currently have: yellow tang yellow watchman goby scooter blenny (4) banggai cardinals I plan on getting mckoskers flasher wrasse yellowfin flasher wrasse clown fairy wrasse...

but will it go bad with out heat aerated and a pump ? as long as i heat it mix and re-aerate it before i use it?

thanks guys always a work in progress @ bige the current skimmer and uv setup is temporary, eventually i am slowingdown the flow and replacing the skimmer with a media reactor of some sort and buying a newer larger skimmer with its own pump. some thing like this ( AVAST Marine Works - CS1 Cone...

Hey guys what is the shelf life of mixed saltwater in a 40 gallon drum, and what are the best conditions to keep it at for a couple weeks.

hey guys for the past couple months Ive been upgrading my 90g reef into a basement sump while adding a 20g long and a 50g breeder. the pump (mag24) pumps the water into the return a about a quarter of its output is diverted through a uv sterilizer (turbotwist 6x) and into a protein skimmer...

well my father is an electrician so i would likely retrofit the ballast and socket to work with an applicable aquarium reflector. but save big money and get big watts

hey guys I was perusing Craigslist and found a large quantity of commercial metal halides. They are 400W hanging fixtures. Is there any difference between these and standard aquarium metal halides?. Obviously the reflectors are different but could these work?

IMO definitely not the anemone needs much more intense lighting and the xenia typically does too. the lfs shouldn't have let you take the anemone home with such low intensity lighting

So apparently silicone doesn't bond with plexiglass. it leaked pretty thoroughly and now I'm in the process of getting a pane of glass to replace it with. I just called a glass place and had them cut a piece to size for twenty bucks

Thats very generous of you I would appreciate it. I actually just siliconed in the plexiglass piece it only cost me the five bucks for the silicone and I figured it was worth a try, its curing now. If it doesn't work at least we know it doesn't work. If this doesn't work I would greatly...

Thanks very useful information. it is actually a 20 long it is plumbed in-line to my 30 gallon sump along with a 50 and a 90 gallon all in-line. the twenty is a dedicated refugium. If the cheato goes asexual will it turn my whole system milky white or just the refugium. I have read about...

Hey guys, I'm setting up my basement sump:D and plumbing a refugium in. Its gonna be fed directly by my protein skimmer . I've read about quite a few set ups but not sure which substrate i should use (DSB, cat litter, refugium mud) or how intense my lighting should be. which macro...

yeah Ill probably buy a new pane at home depot or if I can get twenty long from craigslist I will. I definitely wanna check that out Ive wanted to go to those big events but have never really looked into it.

Hey guys I was plumbing my in progress basement sump and got a little aggressive when I pressed the pipe into the bulkhead fitting and cracked the bottom pane. I plan on replacing it with a 3/8 piece of plexiglass that I had lying around. Its a 20 long the will be hopefully be my refugium. has...