Search results

I want to set up a mantis tank and cannot find where to buy them. Anyone know of a place that has some kind of mantis let alone a varity?

My question is two fold. Is aerating the water for your changes necessary if you let the water mix for 48 hours with good surface currents and would using something like a needle wheel skimmer pump cause a problem by putting to much air in the water and thus changing the chemistry? Any help...

I use the frozen food in cubes and want to know how many cubes do others use per feeding. Let me know what you have that eats them, how often you feed and how many cubes you use. TIA

I go this off of a website about Diatom filters and thought it was intersting to say the least. "The main reason we don't recommend it is because most fish will not be able to stand the strain of constantly having to swim against the strong current generated by the Diatom Filter or any other...

If you had to use a UV Sterilizer, which one would you use? (Please do not say Jebo!)

OK, I hope you can guess I am not worried about my cleaner shrimp's breathe, but rather my other shrimp. I have three skunk cleaner shrimp in a 175 and have rarely seen any of my peps since I added them. There is one tiny pep that pops out, but all the rest are MIA. why can't shrimp just get along?

I need some help "ReActivating" my sand. I have a 175 with about 300 LBS of rock and 250 LBS of sand. It has been up for two years and the little critters have all but disappeared! I used to see tons of little shirmp and worms all over the place and now, NOTHING! I do not want to pay a million...

Even I have chimed in on this one before, but I want to get the real smarties out there to tell me why I should go with one over the other. I am looking to put 3x250 over a 175 bowfront. Right now I am leaning towards HQI becasue of the length of the bulb and need to know if that is a stupid...

I have looked for a comparison and cannot find really what I need to know. I am trying to upgrade my lighting, and need to know which type of actinic supplement is the best. This will be to go along with 3x250 hqi MH 20K bulbs. I know you are going to say I do not need the actinic with 20K, but...

I have a 175 Bowfront with corner overflows. I currently have about 2 foot tall standpipes in the overflow so the water is quite high up and could cover several pounds of rubble of GARF Grunge on the bottom. My thought was, "What if I filled the overflows with small rubble, would that act as a...

I am moving my reef from a 60 gallon to a 175 bowfront. Will it have to recycle if I just move everything over? There is going to be about 250 to 300 of fully cured (2 years) live rock. I am going to change nearly all of the water out of the 175 but use as much of the water form my 60. AAny...

I bought a rock with about 20 blue mushrooms on it a few months ago and everything looks great. They are growing and getting bigger. However, I am finding blue mushrooms that are fairly large on the other side ot the tank. Do mushrooms ever "let go" and float away to spread the colony? I am...

I am setting up a QT tank for some new fish, and want to know if I should use the 10 gallons of fresh salt water, or use 10 gallons from my main tank and use the fresh salt water for a change? Any ideas are very much appreciated.

How do I get the coraline to not grow on my Chili Coral? I have had the chili for about a month and he is getting covered with coraline. What can I do to save him and get the coraline off of him? Thanks

First of all, I will get a pic as soon as my wife brings my camera home. Now the proble-I have these little brownish polyps that are taking over some of my rocks. I hate them and want them to die! How do I go about removing them? They are not easy to pull off, and I am afraid if I scrub them...

I am looking at getting a new tank and I am interest to find out if people think it is better to have the bottom of the tank drilled and internal overflow boxes installed, or simply drill holes throught the back near the top for outflow and return. Any advice or ideas are very welcome. Just to...

I think an air bubble got caught under the crown of my new Yellow toadstool and when blowing a little water on it a big hole appeared. I noticed a slight foul smell in the fuge tonight and I gues it was the decaying coral. I took the leather out and tried ot clean all the decaying tissue with a...

I just got a nice Rose BTA and of course my clowns want nothing to do with it because he wants to be high up at the top and they like to be down low on the bottom. However, my hermit crab, zebra reef harmit I think, is constantly sitting in or near the anemone! I have seen him put his shell into...

I got on tonight to tell my story and give praise, kudos and anything else I can to Scuba_Steve, and then I read that he was offering someone 35 gallons of water that he had mixed to help them out of a jam. That made my little sand story seem like nothing, but I will tell it anyway. I just got...

I just picked up a consulting gig in Chicago and since Dallas has no Yard right or southdown or new castle I want to pick some up in Chicago and bring it back. The airlines will love checking a 50 pound bag of sand don't you think? Any help on where in Chicago would be great, unfortunately I am...

I have a hard green algae growing around the bottom of the glass just above the water line. I am trying to a)Find out why it is growing and b) What can I do to get rid of it without scraping. I know I can scrape the glass, but want to try and find another path if possible. The second problem I...

I just took the plunge and order the GARF softie special. It is a total of 14 soft corals including 2 shrooms, 2 ricordea, sarcophony, capnellia, antheila and more. Also included was a tube of frag glue and some coral food. Thought I would share and see what everyone thought. It gets here...

I do not have room on the back of my tank for the remora, so I wanted to know if the Urchin skimmer was the same except for in sump placement. My current skimmer really bites and I am always adjusting it, so I thought this might be a good time to look into a new one. TIA

I read about using a fluidized sand bed filter, minus the sand, for charcoal and ROWaPhos. What does anyone think about this? At first I thought it would guarantee more flow directly over the media, but I am not sure.

I know that brine shrimp are not good food for fish to eat all the time, so I usually feed frozen mysid shrimp, FormulaOne Marine pellet and Carnivore Blend frozen cubes all soaked in Zoe. I was thinking about putting a live brine shrimp breeding set into my tank to offer fresh hatched brine to...