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My tank is now fully cycled, and the cleanup crew has been hard at work for three weeks. FINALLY, time to start thinking about some fish! I would like to end up with the following fish: Blue/Green Chromis x 3 True Percula Clowns x 2 Yellow Tang x 1 Yellowtail Damsel x 1 Dwarf Flame Angel x 1...

I am starting to set up my 75 gallon tank. I intend to use a 3" DSB with LR. I put a piece of egg crate in the bottom of the tank, and spread 50lbs of sand. I then put in 90 lbs of www.hirocks.com base rock on top of that, wiggling it to set it firmly on the eggcrate. I intend to put 40 lbs...

After I gave up trying to find tropical play sand in Connecticut in December, I decided to try this sand in starting my new tank. I found the company to be very helpful; it cost $28 per 50 pound bucket. Although they are in Brooklyn, so shipping was local, it only cost $40 to ship 200 lbs! I...

In my apparently fruitless quest to find tropical play sand in Connecticut in December, I telephoned Old Castle in Easton, PA to ask about local dealers. Although the woman was very helpful and gave me some good leads, she indicated that the island where they mine the sand is being converted...

I will be shortly starting a 75g FOWLR tank. I plan to cycle it with LR from liverocks.com. The question is, how much to start with? I think the overall target is for 120 lbs at the end. Can I start with 40 lbs of LR and 80 lbs of what they call live base rock or some other dry base rock and...

Does anybody know why the Yardright website (http://www.yardright.com/sand.htm) states that their tropical play sand is not suitable for aquariums? Thanks.[/url]