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I am looking for some advice on how to go about moving a 55 gallon saltwater aquarium. I have about 75lbs of live rock, a few corals, and 5 fish. I will be moving in next winter, and want to start planning how to go about this, so any advice would be appreciated.

My LFS said that neon Blue Gobies will school together, but i can't seem to find any info either way about it. So is this true? I was going to get 1, now i am thinking of getting 3.

I have had my tank setup for about 7 months now. 55 gallon with about 60 lbs of live rock. I have not added anything new to the tanke for 2 months now. After the lights went out on the aquarium last night for a little while, i decided to take a look at the aquarium night life. I see this...

What is the correct way to do a water change, in respect to vacumming the substarte? (not sure if vacumming in this right term, but i hope you know what i mean) The guy at the local LFS told me I should be "vacumming" the entire substrate as I siphon water out. I have not being doing this...

I planning to setup a refugium. My main goal is to grow macro algae to help eliminate/reduce nitrates. What type of substrate should I be using? I have seen something about miracle mud (I am not sure if macro algae can grow with this miracle mud), and also heard just use some substrate from...

Do refugiums eliminate the need for protein skimmers?

Yesterday I noticed a 2 or 3 small white spots on the fins of each of my 3 fish. I did not see any of the fish scratching themselves at all, or behaving differently in any way, but it sure looked like ich to me based on pictures I have seen of it. I have 2 false percula clowns and a yellow...

I am thinking of purchasing a tank cleaner package sometime in the near future, similar to the one's that liveaquaria.com and marinedepotlive.com offer. (http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/scateg.cfm?siteid=25&pCatId=420). My question is, is it ok to so many crabs and snails at one time? Looks...

This is probably a dumb question. But those of you that have a remora, or remora pro, how do you go about cleaning the collection cup? What I mean is do you unplug the skimmer before you remove the cup, or just leave it running. I have been turning it off and restarting it, but it seems like...