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This is on my office desk. It’s simple with just live plants, guppies and shrimp. I enjoy looking at them throughout the work day. I’ve been keeping fish since I was 12. I’m now 49 and it seems I’ve come almost full circle in that I’m enjoying the “basic” community fish more and more as I get...

This has been set up for a couple months now. The tank started its life with me as a reef that I couldn’t ever seem to keep stocked.

I have a 60 gallon "reef-ready" tank I recently set up as a planted tank and added several corys and kuhli loaches to this past weekend. The problem I'm having is that they apparently LOVE to get into the overflow for some reason.:facepalm: The overflow compartment is too tall and skinny to...

I often see posts on this board an others where aquarists are confused by what a sump is all about. I made a video of mine and tried to explain the components hoping to help anyone out who might be considering using one, but might be intimidated. I consider mine to be a mid-level complexity...

I hadn't updated my original build thread in quite a while, and the forum won't let me add to it becasue it's so old. You can find the beginnings here if you care to read it: http://www.aquariumadvice.com/forums/f11/75-gallon-build-174883.html Lots of bad news between my last post and now...

Can anyone ID this coral? It's greenish brown with purple tips on the branches.

I've had this deresa clam a little over a year now. (I received it from saltwaterfish.com on 9/9/11.) He had been in my 37 under a 150W 14K metal halide supplemented with a single T5HO blue until 9/30/12 when I relocated him to my 75 which is under a 6 bulb T5HO (2 whites, 3 blues, one purple)...

I have a 75 gallon reef tank and my heater (a Deep Blue 300W submersible) somehow got water on the inside and is obviously no longer safe to use. As the weather is cooling off, I'm going to need to replace it. I want to get something that is NOT glass but of course submersible. I've been...

I think this little yellow guy is a nudibranch. When he's stretched out, he's maybe 3/4" in long, has two antennae like apendages on the ehad end, and two parallel rows of ruffles down his back close to either edge. I found him on some live rock in the tank about a week ago and have had him in...

I took off work today for a family issue. I left home to go have lunch with my daughter, and came home to fing my long tentacle anemone had aparently gone swimming and ended up sucked onto the intake pump for my HOB skimmer. After my "what the heck" moment:facepalm:, I unplugged the skimmer...

I picked this guy up last week. Sorry for the fuzzy pics, but he never stops moving and is pretty fast. The pics also don't do him justice as he actually has a little purple on his tail that doesn't show in the pictures. They had him labelled as a Hawaiian sixline wrasse, but googling for...

Do you think they'll get along?

I guess I've been paying too much attention to the new shiny 75 gallon reef and I'm having some issues in my 37 gallon. Lighting is from a 150W metal halide and a 24" T5HO blue. Regimen as far as maintenance is a five gallon water change every other week. (I can't seem to be home long enough to...

I uploaded some pictures to one of my albums and then tried to post some pics in a thread here http://www.aquariumadvice.com/forums/f11/75-gallon-build-174883-3.html but all I am seeing is the little red "x." Any ideas? Older pictures are still showing up. . .

WARNING: This might be long and you might be challenged! :) Rather than hijack another thread that seems to be going off course located here: http://www.aquariumadvice.com/forums/f11/royal-gramma-diet-194515.html I figured I should start a new one. The topic revolves around the belief...

The first time I ever saw them, they were in a display tank and not for sale. I asked what they were and the guy at the LFS told me, but then said they didn't sell them anymore. PetSmart had some and I picked up 5. The males in particualr are beautiful fish IMO. You can see 4 of my 5 in this...

Does anyone know if two different species of cardinalsfish will get along? Specifically, an ochre-striped and a Bangai. My Bangai was in my 37 with a fire clown who just decided after 6 months to not like the cardinal and won't let him come out to eat as of his morning. I am planning on...

Let's face it. :ermm: All those test kits take up so much space in my stand and they're so hard to read. Who can remember what each parameter is supposed to be anyway? I just want to have an aquarium with lots and lots of beautiful fish and not have to worry about all that stuff. There's got be...

Tanga has these for $14 if you need one for your RO/DI unit. http://tanga.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=59aafc6d9861ad792de1d32fb&id=a358870c74&e=bed98198b4

Thought I had an aquarium leak earlier tonight, but I'm pretty sure it was a damaged overflow. In a panic, I broke an acrylic part for my sump that is pretty much just an acrylic hanger with a bulkhead in it to receive the water from the overflow. I have both pieces and would like to glue it...

My very lovely wife agreed to let me buy a 75 gallon tank. I found a new one on Craigslist that I hope to pick up Saturday. I'm traveling on business the rest of the week in Baltimore and I decided to go up to That Fish Place in Lancaster, PA after work to check it out. If I had a bigger vehicle...

I'm kind of in a hurry to get out the door, so I'll have to fill in some details later. I've had this bubble coral about 3 months. Here's what he looked like about a week after I got him: Here is is tonight: Lights are 150W metal halide (unsure of color temperature) + 28W Actinic VHO...

Funny story. . . This past Thursday, I bought a flasher wrasse. It was one of those "assorted" kind, but I think it was a Carpenter's. I acclimated it and released it into the aquarium. It displayed to my fire clown for a second, and then darted right under my long tentacled anemone. I was...

I just got hope from a business trip and my stuff from the BRS group buy came in while I was gone. I was readin gthe instructions for the new refractometer I bought when my wife came by and asked what I was doing. I replied, "I'm calibrating my refractometer." Yep, I'm a nerd. I guess I'll...

I got these about a week ago from Atlantic Sea Farms in Virginia Beach. I moved the mushrooms last night as they weren't happy where they were and hadn't really opened up. They look much happier this morning. I'm still not sure about where i have the Xenia though.