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Hello, I've had my tank now for 18 months and things are going great. I am interested in adding to my reef I only have 80 watts of light though and would like to upgrade my lighting in order to add to my reef. My question is what go I keep with the following specs, 48" 4x65W Coralife LUNAR...

How would a small yellow tang and a small regal tang in a 48" long tank work together for a period of 6 months or so?

My tank is five months old and I am starting to develop some green hair algae type mounds on my LR. Also, I have some green algae spots on my back panel. Is this good? How do I remove it from my rock if this is not good? Thanks for your help.

I am about 4 weeks away from spending some money on lights ($300.00 - $500.00 limit) I have a 50 g tank which is 48" x 16", about 24" high. Basically the one thing I would love to be able to keep is a bubble tip anemone. I think I would like to have some type of hallide, vho combo unit...

hello everyone. my tank is 14 weeks old now and doing great. the test are where they should be and my livestock seems to be doing well. My questions is how do I know if I have a "mature" tank? I've been told that my 70 g's of water will take about 7-9 months to become totally mature. The...

my tank is four months old and I have a four inch sand bed. as time has passed my sand has shifted based on currents, my gobies etc. My 40pd reef has shifted a little and now a few points of the reef are touching and leaning against my glass back. what should I do to straighten out my reef...

on the back right hand side of my tank i have hard white specs or mounts forming on my glass. what could this be. with my fingernail i can scrape them off but i have no idea what they are. they are concentrated in a very specific area of my tank?

I am needing some guidence on lighting. Right now I have a tank ( 50g 42" long x 20" high x 15" wide) which has 80 watts of light. I would like to upgrade but do not know what to get. Yes, I have done much reading on the subject but still am having trouble getting a handle on this. I...

i have purchased a peice of rock with a really nice colony of green mushrooms. can they be fraged to spread the color around my tank? I was told that you can cut them into pie peices and tie them to live rock, and in time they will connect and grow. Is this true? any advice would be appreicated.

anybody know what type of goby this is?

how would a small yellow and a small pacific blue tang do together in my 50g tank which is 4' long? Would they get along? I realize my tank is on the small side for tangs but I have a freind who has a 120 g I can bring them to in a year or so once they outgrow mine.

i'm a three month old newbie which has a 50 g tank. i have a serpent star which has stayed in the same corner for 6 weeks and does nothing it seems other than adds decor to the tank......and i have a pink spotted goby which is a workhorse when it comes to eating food which drifts to the...

what are some general eating habits of gobies? during my feeding times mine never even moves. the odd time he'll go get a piece of something that comes close to him. do they eat at night?

what are the most effective ways of not having algae buildup on my sand bed? I'm guessing changing my water flow would be one thing I could try? How do I remove the buildup that is already there?

any suggestions on DIY moonlites? seems to me that this could be one area I could save a little cash. My LFS is charging 50 bucks per led 8O

i'm looking to purchase a tang in the next few weeks and would like your opinion on whether or not I should order online or not. The reason for ordering a tang online is because they are much cheaper than if I would go to my LFS (about a $45.00 difference). My major concern is how do these...

i'm a newbie looking to own a mandarin in the next 8 weeks or so. is this a difficult fish to take care of? is it reef and invert safe?

i have a tank that's two weeks cycled, no fish but has some crabs, snails and schrimp. is it to early to put a brittle star in? will it get along with the other inverts? i think i'm still going to wait another two weeks to put a few percs in.

i just bought my first cleaner schrimp and i thought everything was going well. the past 3-4 hours it's been on the sand substrate just kind of sitting there, not very active. is this what they call molting? TIA

i have a two week old tank with 0 amonia, o nitrites, and 8 on the nitrate scale. the temp in my tank fluctuates a degree or two with the avg being 77 degrees. my gravity is steady at .023, the problem is my salinity is at 31, and i was told it should be at 34 or 35. is that correct? what...

just curious as to the different effective methods people use to change their water. is it possible to due the water changes and keep a dry floor :) any advice for this newbie would be greatly appreciated. **I have a 50g upstairs and a 20 g sump downstairs in a spare room.

has anybody kept a blue star fish? how difficult are they to keep?

I have a new 50 g tank running right now but see the temp move a degree or two one way or the other through out the day, with all conditions remaining equal. Is this normal. What type of changes can the fish, inverts and coral take?

I started my 50g tank four days ago with with 40 pds of cured LR. The tank has a raw schrimp in it. I have sen no amonea spikes at all and was wondering if I even will considering all the LR and the sump I have running. The LFS said the cycling process will take 5-7 days with my system. I'm...

i just started my cyycling process and have my temp and salt levels all correct. i have put a raw schrimp in the tank today and will be putting lr in the tank in 3 days. should i be running my protein skimmer during this process? tia