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Hey guys, It's been a while since I've posted. I ended up taking my tank down (new baby on the way and my "storage" room is being converted into a nursery:nono:) My cousin has recently decided to start a reef tank though and has been coming to me for advice. I advised him to get some Ace...

First, the vitals: 75 gallon tank, drilled with a 20 gallon sump (had cheato in the sump) Approx. 80-90 lbs live rock and about a 3 inch sandbed. RO/DI water currently reading 1 TDS Ammonia, Nitrite, and Nitrate all read at zero. All other parameters meet the specs for natural seawater (dkh, pH...

When I say mean, I don't mean to other fish. My LB is an excellent citizen.. until I do a water change and have my hand/arm in the tank vacuuming out hair algae off rocks. He goes nuts and all out attacked my arm last week. Just spooked me a bit, and I just did my water change for the week...

My inability to have thriving zoas is driving me insane! I have yet to lose a colony, but the ones I do have will not fully open. 90% of the time they are fully closed and occasionally they'll barely open. They aren't dying, they aren't receding, and I've inspected at night with a flashlight...

I have a 75 gallon reef tank with about 75-80 lbs live rock, 3-4 inch sandbed, 20 gallon long sump (reverse lighting schedule for cheato). I can't seem to get my pH above 8.0 (tested at the end of the day). My dKH is around the 8/9 range and calcium is around 420-440. All test kits are API...

My RO/DI system is reading 3 tds and I was reading about how to know which filters need replaced, and read somewhere to test the water after the RO membrane, but before the DI resin. I'm showing 7 TDS after the RO, and 3 after RO/DI. Should I replace all filters, or any one(s) in particular...

I just got home from work to find most of my corals looking deflated and sickly. All zoas are closed up (I've never had any zoa's that will stay open more than partially), my frogspawn is more closed than normal - no brown jelly. Bubble corals not looking as vibrant as normal. I've got a 75...

Found a youtube video today that was posted in March 2011 with 2 clowns, a yellow tang, and a blue hippo. In a 29 gallon bio cube... I mentioned that I'm curious to know if they are alive 9 months later, which prompted him to upload a new video. Both fish "look" fine. I know he will...

Hey guys, its been a while since I've posted, but I got a GBTA about a month ago and some of its behavior is a bit puzzling and google reveals no answers, and I can't find anything on here or wetwebmedia about it. I have a 4 bulb T5HO fixture with ATI bulbs (2 true blue, one purple, and one...

I have a 4 bulb T5HO fixture, currently with 2 actinics and 2 10000k bulbs. One of my actinics just went out and they are all original with the fixture and I've been meaning to get replacement bulbs anyway. What are some suggestions for mixing up the bulbs? Should I stick with the same...

I've cut my feedings back to once every 2 or 3 days, and not feeding as much when I do feed. I have noticed the red algae has cut back a lot but I still have the "blue green" algae on the sand bed, and a few dark strings coming off the rocks. And the stuff is all over the sand bed, and any...

Hi all, it's been a few weeks, but I have been battling what I believe to be cyano. I siphon it out with water changes and suck it up with a turkey baster and it's back within 24 hours. I switched the lights off yesterday so they wouldn't go on when the timer said "go" and came home for lunch...

Ceiling House Fish | Petophobia What do you guys think?

I'm curious to see what other pets the AA members have. Post pictures of your non-aquarium pets!!! I'll start! Here is my bulldog, Jack.

I have 2 small clowns, a yellow watchman goby, a very small yellow tang, and a kole tang in a 20L hospital tank due to ich. I only saw spots on the yellow once, but saw him flashing several times without spots. I never saw spots on either clown, but one of them was flashing as well. The only...

Are the two compatable? I'm on day 2 of treating my fish for ich in my hospital tank and just did a 25% water change because I was getting a .5 ppm ammonia reading. Thinking about running to the store and picking up some ammo-loc or some other type of ammonia neutralizer, but don't want to if...

Hey guys, just wanted to get your opinion on the Ritteri. Everything I've read leads me to believe there will be world peace before the Ritteri can be kept in a home aquarium. But I know this simply cannot be the case. My best LFS has one for sale for $55, but I haven't gone by to look at it...

My LFS just got one of these beauties in, and I put a deposit down! He JUST got him in, so I want to watch him for a week or so before I bring him home. What do you think??? [url=http://www.flickr.com/photos/57895967@N02/5579662478/]

Does anyone have any ideas what this is? I know I have diatoms, but I'm talking about the darker spots, if you look in the bottom right hand part of the pic, you can see two "strings" but I took the pictures of the other 3 spots because they're bigger - but they have the same strings. It looks...

Does anyone have a clue what this is and should I remove it? Its about an inch long, and looks to be tiny bubbles that are bunched together in a string. The part up top that's kind of knotted up is attached to the glass, and the "tail" kind of flows with the current.

I decided to go out today and buy some easy beginner coral, and went with a small bunch of zoanthids. I brought them home, drip acclimated them for 2 hours, and then set them on a LR in my tank for now. They opened up within an hour, so that's good! My question is what do I do with them now...

I was wondering if anyone knows if the YWG will pair up with the red banded pistol. I think they look better than the tiger pistols, but want them to pair up.

Could a moderator delete this? I don't know how it got double posted.

I was looking at some plywood aquariums online yesterday, mainly out of curiosity. (A wooden aquarium?) lol I'm sure someone's either already tried this or figured out why it wouldn't work, but I figured I'd throw the idea out there anyway. Apparently the plywood aquariums, if built right...

I got a dusky jawfish last Thursday, and my tank has been a raging sand storm ever since he was put in. He has dug 2 burrows and used one the first day, and has been in the second all weekend. However the past 2 nights he's excavated the two corners of the tank his burrow is in, and also dug...