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I use the OOlite sand and I just stir the surface about once a month to keep it looking clean. You get a bit of algae on it otherwise. The thicker gravels are nitrate factories and never look clean because the whole piece of gravel gets covered with algae and crud. Definitely go with the fine...

No. But I did buy the HB water syster Ro/Di off the internet and the company has really stood by the filter for me and it does an excellent job for the price. I would recommend them. They have an ebay store and they also have their own website.

The protein skimmer shouldn't fill with water that quickly. Set it for more bubbles. It probably is okay that it is bubbling in the tank. I agree with the others that if you aren't using liverock to cycle, you shouldn't protein skim. Also no need for UV til you put the fish in.

I have been very consistent and have tried every method I have been told about and my volitan will starve himself to death. I let him go 10 days and tried different types of food, a feeding stick, using circulation, garlic, etc. etc. He just isn't interested. He looks a lot at the food but won't...

I keep 30 gallons of ro/di water at all times for my autotopoff. It is in a covered trash can. After a couple of months, it begins to smell moldy so I trade out the trash cans. I have two trash cans that I alternate. I also the 30 gallons lasts about 2 weeks and then I have to refill.

I run a 200 watt on my 150. Since we keep our house at 74 in the winter and the equipment heats the tank 4 degrees above room temp, I don't need much extra heat. The heater just stabilizes the tank it doesn't raise the temp. I suggest running the tank with no heater at first to see what your...

What kind of lionfish? I am wondering what kind of lionfish you have that will take frozen food.???I have a volitan that I have been trying for a month to convert off live food with no luck!

I've gotta big purple tang (about 4 inches) that rules my tank. He wacks everyone around including my 7 inch clown trigger. Yellow and purple tangs are just very aggressive fish and will fight with any other fish they see as competition. About the only thing she leaves alone is the lionfish...

I have a lionfish that will only take feeders. If you are going to feed feeders, it is best to stay away from goldfish because they are very high in fat and bad for the liver of the saltwater fish. Ghost shrimp that are gutpacked with a nutritious marine diet are best but they are too clear and...

HI, My fairly large yellowstripe maroon clown has gradually been loosing his appetite over the last week. He looks great and has no other symptoms. He eagerly anticipates feedings and then has just started reducing how much he eats and the variety of food. He is down to only taking a few mysis...

HI, My fairly large yellowstripe maroon clown has gradually been loosing his appetite over the last week. He looks great and has no other symptoms. He eagerly anticipates feedings and then has just started reducing how much he eats and the variety of food. He is down to only taking a few mysis...

I grow chaeto, grape caulerpa and red gracillarias (sp). The chaeto does the best for me. I dont' get good growth out of the other two, but I don't run much light.

Pods find there way through even protein skimmers and pumps from my experience. They are a good thing!

Yes! Chaetomorpha for sure is the best! It grows quickly and doesn't need as much light as other species and never goes sexual. It is also disease resistant. I keep mostly chaeto with some caulerpa and some red gracilias because my tang likes to eat these. She won't touch the chaeto. That is the...

I have the oceanic sump underneath and then I bought a 18 gallon cube shaped aquarium that I had a glass company drill for me for the return line. I set it next to the sump and up on concrete blocks so it is slightly higher then the sump. I pump water in over the top of the fuge and it flows...

If you want to buy. I use the osmolator by Tunze. I have a hole drilled through my wall behind the aqaurium to the laundry room on the other side where I keep a 35g trashcan filled with topoff water. The lines for the osmolator run through the wall between the tank and the trash can. It is a...

I am so, so sad for you. How devastating. I can only imagine you heartache. But..if you do go ahead with the predator tank, I can help. :-) Hope your day is better tomorrow.

Please be gentle folks....Saltwater teen is just a kid and it is wonderful that young people are taking an interest in the hobby. I have wonderful young son that is taking an active interest in this hobby too. There is so much to learn. Even after 12 years of saltwater and freshwater keeping, I...

So...3 large pieces of krill may have been too much? Would a few mysis shrimp work better? They are smaller. How much light does a condy need. I was told at lfs that they are non-photosynthetic. I am not running pcs. Just regular fullspectrum plus actinic. I have about 1`watt per gallon.

Hi, I got a beautiful pink condy with an orange base from my LFS last Friday. He keeps wanting to hide behind rocks making it difficult to feed him. Yesterday I moved the rock and he happily took 3 large size krill and enveloped them into his mouth. Today there was a pile of krill sitting next...

I did not connect my fuge to my maintank until it settled out. That cut down on the cloudiness in the main tank. It will settle out and shouldn't hurt anything. Also the plants can go in immediately. They will need to be swished off once everything is settled since they will get the mud and...

Oh yea! Meant to say it is a Tunze Turbelle Stream Kit 6000.

LFS talked me into spending the big bucks on a Tunze6000. It pumps several thousand gallons an hour and has a control panel that you can buy that generataes alternating current has a food timer that allows you to stop the current for 5 minutes by pushing a single button. So far so good...but I...

Does the target feeding of t he nori keep him off the liverock. Mine moves really fast. I can put him on the ground way away from the rock with shrimp or something, and he will bypass it to get back on the liverock. He stripped down a 22 pound rock to complete white in only a week. Multiply that...

Will he completely destroy my live rock? It looks like where he was sitting yesterday, the rock is stripped down to absolutely nothing. I don't want all my liverock eaten. This is starting to scare me. I think he might be hard to control.