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Any suggestions on good quality unit? Taking into consideration water usage, filter replacement costs, and ultimately ease-of-use and quality of water.

I'm just wondering if any of the members have ever built a battery back up system for their reefs in case of extended power outages. I'm only really concerned with my heaters and circulation pumps. I will be building one soon, just looking for input. Or does anyone know of a ready available...

I cannot get my ammonia to spike over .50 ppm. I did the raw shrimp thing, and it's been a little over two weeks now. The shrimp is disappearing but I've never seen a high spike of ammonia. I did all dry rock, and I did add some seed, it's a line of Sea Chem product that's supposed to help with...

hermit crabs being found Hermits being found outside of shell dead and Mabel missing some stuff? This is twice in 10 days. What could do this?

Any opinions or experiance with rimless tanks? Thinking of buying 80 gallon cube 24*24*30h or 70 gallon 30*30*17h.

I am curently running a 28 gallon nano cube hope to use it to seed a larger tank up to 125 gallon. I currently own all the normal testing materials and maintenace items as well as a magnum 350 canister filter. Is the a good size for a tank? Equpment needed? All I know is that I don't like the...

I have been fighting red cyano and brown?diatoms? On sand. Red is on rocks brown on sand. Tanks about 10 to twelve weeks old. For two weeks I did heavy water changes. No different. For last week and a half I have added algeacide. Do I stirr the sand? Or let it sit? I've been storing and moving...

I am battleing diotom algea cyano bloom, against better judgment using an algeacide Made by API. My question is how long do I have to leave lights on for my corals? Is six to eight hours enough? Mostly star polyups and xanthia? Did I spell that right? Anyway wondering about water changes and...

Is there a starfish that stays small and is reef safe? Like silver dollar size when full grown? Thanks in advance for any help.

The first piece of coral I put in my tank was a green star polup that had a yellow dot in the middle. Did well til one day I noticed not opening then discovered Bristol worm amongst it removed as well as trapped 8 more worms stopped finding in trapp but still not opening or like maybe 4 of like...

All of the sudden they're popping up everywhere. And they're bothering my corals. What do I do? I sucked two up with the baster but I don't think that will be a efective way of getting rid of them I know there are two more I have seen them they just got away...... Help!

I left my lfs today so mad, they've put like a 18 inch snowflake eel in with a poor starfish puffer fish and a lionfish. Needless to say the lionfish was the only one that had all his parts left. When I said somthing to the kid he says oh yeah I know I'm thinking about moving everything out of...

Ok my tank seems fairly stable my water tests look good. I've cut feeding to every other day basically hand feeding my clowns to prevent added nutrients. I've cut my lights to 8 hrs a day. What is the answer to the algea? Chemicals? I don't like that idea. Uv sterilizer? How do you get that...

I bought some live rock that had coralline on it . I have seen some tanks covered in it in places and thought it looked cool so I bought som purple up coralline enhancer. Now it's everywhere! Starting to grow on the glass and sand. Can this get out of hand?

At 5 weeks , two weeks with fish. Nitrites good 0. ph 8.2. Amonia 0 . Nitates 5 ppm. Did water change last night after testing, bought two corals today checked again and nitrates at 20 pm what happened and when to worry? Overnight?

Any ideas on back up power or should I just buy a generator? This last snow storm made me think as I have never had to worry about power outages I have back up heat source but not enough to keep tank warm enough......

How can I rid of this?????????

I have a nano 28g bio. It's been running about a month. Started with live sand and have 25 lbs live rock ( was cured rock). I added bacteria in the start and let go two weeks. Did a water change and waited one week. Water levels looked good and got two clowns, two hermits, four snails. a week...

Hello to all, I'm here to learn. I bought a 28g nano cf quad a week and a half ago. I mixed my r/o water and salt, added 40lbs live sand,15lbs live rock,and a bateria additive. Running on stealth heater (marine land). I got frustated with the filtration of the nano after the adding of the live...