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After a couple years with my 38 gallon reef tank, the time has come to upgrade. We just moved to a new house and I figured it would be a little easier, and very convenient, to upgrade to a larger tank as long as I was going to have to move everything anyway. Things haven’t gone as smoothly...

Has anyone ever tried to use Purigen in a media reactor? I have been running NPX Bioplastics in my reactor for about a year, but I decided it was time to change the media, and thought I might try using the Purigen I had sitting around. It takes almost no flow to fluidize the Purigen, and I...

I have a 38 gallon tank that has been up and running as an LPS reef for about 16 months since I upgraded from the 16 gallon nano reef I had previously. I am currently running two Hydor Koralia 425's, one on each side of the tank pointed upward toward the middle of the tank, and a mini-jet 606 in...

I know this is some type of favia or favites brain coral, but I'm not exactly sure which. Anyone more knowledgable than I have any insight? Do these just vary from one to the next, making it hard to know exactly which type you have?

I have been running NPX Bioplastics in my Phosban Reactor 150 for about 2 months now. Today I added some Chemi-Pure Elite as a 2nd stage in the reactor. It worked out really well (aside from leaving the pressure up to high for the GFO and blasting some of it into the tank), and I was wondering...

Anyone know what this coral is called?

Ok, my 38 gal reef tank has been up and running for a couple months, and before that all the same sand, rock and everything was in a 16 gallon tank that was running for about 8 months. A couple days ago I added a Phosban Reactor 150 with 200ml of NPX Bioplastics. Now I have a major cloudy water...

I have an established tank, but I want to increase the amount of live rock in the tank. I’m wondering about adding some dry rock. Will I need to cure dry rock first, or can I just add it to my tank after rinsing it thoroughly to get rid of any residue it may have on it? I’ve found both...

Clowns seem to enjoy their temporary home. The old tank and the new tank prior to starting the big move. The good ol 16 gallon bow front. The sand clouded up the tank for a few hours. 10 gallon temporary home for the fish and live rock while the new tank gets set up. Milky water...

Has anyone ever had/seen anyone set up more than one aquarium sharing a single sump/refugium? I have a 16g bowfront nano reef and I'm looking into adding another aquarium soon. I'm leaning towards either another bowfront (26 or 36 gal) or Marineland makes a 27 gallon cube tank that is 20" x 18"...

My pH has been hovering between 7.8 and 8.0. What is the best way to increase the pH a little bit? I've read that some people have used baking soda. Would that have negative effects?

I happened to be watching the other night when one of my hermits started acting funny. It kept coming halfway out of its shell and then going back in really fast. Then suddenly, when it went in one time, a whole bunch of little things came out of it. They looked kind of like little copepods...

I was told that an ocellaris clown will host a frogspawn or hammer coral, and not just anemones. I am starting to convert my fish only tank into a nano reef, and I would like to avoid the difficulties that come with an anemone if I can. Would love more opinions. -16 gallon bow front -Emperor...

Can anyone tell me what these things on my electric blue hermit's shell are? I can't seem to get a pic to load properly on here, so here is a link to some pics on my Flickr page: Electric Blue Hermit Crab | Flickr - Photo Sharing!

I noticed something growing on the back of my hermit crab last night. Can anyone tell me what it is? I am hoping it's just a harmless polyp and not aiptasia.

I have a 16g FO tank and I bought a Penguin 150B a couple weeks ago and already sand getting into the impeller unit has caused it to get a lot noisier. Looking at some reviews online I have seen that this isn't an uncommon problem, and others have had to replace the impeller units in their...

I have 2 Green Spotted Puffers I am willing to let go for free to a good home. They have been acclimated to full marine sw, and are not freshwater (or brackish any more) fish. I don't know if anyone on here is even in the Salt Lake City area, so I'm only going to leave this thread up a few days...

Hi all, I am looking to add more live sand to an existing tank to get more of the benefits that a good healthy live sand bed offers (pH buffeting, nitrate filtration, pod growth, etc.). I am just about settled on Nature's Ocean Bio-Activ live sand after reviews I have read. I would love any...

Hi all, I have a 16g nano that I will be converting from FOWLS to a reef tank this summer, and I'm thinking of using an extra 10 gallon tank I have and turning it into a refugium. Has anyone had any experience with this? And is there any reason it would not be good to have a refugium this size...

I recently got into sw aquariums after wanting to do it for a long time. I started a 16 gallon bow front FO tank with a mix of regular white sand and live sand. I would love to eventually make it into a small reef aquarium or upgrade to a bigger setup (my wife would kill me if I went as big as...