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I picked up a male Green Mandarin on Saturday, was supposed to be a pair, but they received 2 males so I'm waiting for my female. This past Feb I picked up a Green Mandarin & trained it within about 2 weeks onto prepared food. Unfortunately, I went away for a few days and a hardware issue led...

Thinking the mods should add a few stickies to cover repeating topics: Mandarin Care Kalk use Carbon dosing Etc Anyone?

Just got two 20 Gal tanks, both drilled in the upper left corner that I'm going to use as a sump. The left side tank will house a refugium with an overflow to the right side tank (in through the bulkhead) for return pump etc. My question is: how much drop do I need for water to flow from the...

My in stand sump is about 20 gallons right now with a partial refugium (DSB, chaeto & Mangroves) but I'd like to add extra rock & water volume. I don't have room for the rock in the sump so I'm thinking of doing a closed loop reservoir with a 36 gallon garbage can behind the wall. Space on the...

So, after my Mystery Wrasse left the tank, I decided to add a cover & a Green Mandarin. I have a healthy pop population already, and have upgraded my refugium in sump to include live sand and more macro algae. I'll be adding a bottle of Dons Tiger Pods to help further grow out the population...

As reef keepers, we have an intrinsic attachment to the oceans of the world. Unfortunately, one of the simplest practices (and others) - bagging fish & corals - is supporting a practice which is damaging the worlds oceans every day. Tons of single use plastics are introduced into the worlds...

My YWG has been around almost 6 months. Until the last week or do, he was always in/around his burrow with his pistol. Now, I've been catching him out for daily swims. He swims out to a corner, mid or high in the tank & sits there. He darts across the tank a few times then to the back. Then he...

I've been using some Zeovit products along with a pellet reactor with great success for some time now. With the biopellets & Zeobak, I'm keeping at or near ULNS readings despite copious feeding of SPS, LPS & fish. From the cleaner water, added feeding & Amino Concentrate, coral growth of all...

Well, I've been around the Forum for a few months now, sharing where I could & figured I would share stage 1 of my tank with you. It's a 30 Gal with 16 Gal sump; mixed reef. I plan to upgrade in a few months to a 90 Gal, then ultimately to a 180 once I can get a wall down and have the 180 as a...

I have a Finger Leather, which for the last 26 days (had it aprox 3 mos, great before) has been mostly closed up. There has been some minimal diurnal expansion & retraction, minimal polyp extension and many repetitive sheddings. Polyps don't fully come out & it never inflates to its original...

So, more of a general theoretic question I have: Why don't corals, especially those that require feeding, contribute to a tank's bioload (in terms of a max stocking quantity like fish do)? Are they more efficient at digesting food than fish, thus creating less waste? Or is it as simple as...

So, last week I moved my tank onto a new stand and added a 15 gal sump (30 gal tank). In order to move the tank, I drained about 1/2 the water & replaced with new, along with the 12 or so for the sump. My mistake was not calibrating my Refractometer. It was about .010 out leading to a rapid hypo...

Im considering a bulk Kalk mixer, in a 5 gal paint bucket. 5 gallons would be about 7 days worth of top off water, in which I would slow dose the kalk in a separate container. What I would like to do is run a small power head in the bucket to keep it stirred, then every 3 days transfer it to my...

Ok, I'm sure this will raise a lot of ancillary questions, but: Does an overflow introduce a lot of microbubbles into a sump? I'm building a quick/cheap sump & Fuge. I'm using a HOB skimmer that produces minimal bubbles as I already have it. I'm planning to place a single wall to seperate the...

I'm working on a stand, 48"x24"x46" made mostly out of 2x4 lumber. My plan was to hold a 55 gal upgrade, but that may become a 90. I'm wondering if it's going to support the 1000lbs + weight with Ecotech wave motion. Here are a few pics. Thanks

Anyone have any experience with these? I'm wondering how well they work alone and with the powerheads. I'm thinking of getting one with 2 MP10w ES for my 30 gal reef then upgrading to 3-4 when I do my 150-180gal built.

May be buying a 76 gal to build a predator tank. I am thinking of putting a Dogface Puffer in there. What else would be good to go along? Wondering about lions (dwarf or common), triggers or other cool ones I can't put in my reef. Thanks, Mike

Here's what might be a simple question. Is it necessary to target feed each individual mouth on an elegance, or can I just feed a larger portion to the central ones?

I know there's a lot of subjectivity, but am curious whether a sixline wrasse would work in my 30g with Ocellaris, Coral Beauty & Yellow Watchman? They bury in sand right? I have a 3" sand bed, but about 1/2 the beds covered with rock & corals. Thanks

Hey, I have a Super Reef Octopus XP1000 HOB skimmer and was wondering if I could put chaeto in the 2 return chambers & get rid of the sponge. It *should* get a fair amount of light from my T5 fixture as the lights overhang the chamber slightly and the HOB is clear acrylic. Any thoughts on this?

Hope everyone impacted by Irene is fairing well. In Atlantic Canada, we are expected to be hit tomorrow night by the post tropical remnants with winds over 100km/hr. Because we will be hit over night, in anticipation of power outages, would it help if I ran a battery air pump in the tank in...

Ive been running my HOB SRO XP1000S skimmer on my 30 Gallon for a few weeks now. While it works like a champ, it's pretty big. For that reason I want to add a sump to fit the HOB to, probably Tupperware in the 10-15 gal range. Would I be successful running the HOB off the sump if I used the...

It planning on using them if necessary, but I picked up some API General Cure (metronidazole & praziquantel) and Furan 2 (nitrofurazone & furazolidone). Reading the instructions, it says to add direct to the aquarium. Is this right or will it harm corals & inverts?

Ive had a clown for over a month now in a cycled 30gal tank. He seemed fine this am, swimming & ate. This afternoon, he has slowed down noticeably and appears to have rapid breathing. He has a bit of poop 1/4 in or a bit longer hanging out also. It's not white or stringy, but he hasn't, excuse...

Hey, I have a 30 gal with 31 lbs of rock in a center pile. On one end I have a Koralia 750 pointed up down the length of the tank, a Koralia 240 pointed down & bouncing off the front glass at 45 degrees. In the other end I have another 240 pointed at the rock pile and my 405 canister near the...