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I was looking online for a new protein skimmer for my sump and found reef octopus biopellet reactors and media reactors. What are these used for? What kind of media do you put in them? Do you use them in place of a skimmer or with the skimmer? Are they a good thing to have?

Should I be worried about aiptasia in my tank if I don't plan on having corals? I think my starfish is eating them and spreading them. Because I see him on a spot where one was and then he moves and it's gone and I don't know if he's getting it all or not and if he's not then he's spreading it...

Ok I think I've decided everything I want for my 150 that I just upgraded to. I want some ideas if it's too many if you think I could have a few more etc. Videos on YouTube tanks seemed to be filled with fish but I want some good advice. I dont want it looking over crowded nor do I want my fish...

I saw an orange shoulder tang in a lfs the other day. I was really thinking about getting it. It had been in the store since the beginning of January. But it's tiny. Maybe an inch long. I have 150 gallon tank. I already have a scopas tang sailfin tang and blue eye kole tang. They are way bigger...

I read somewhere before not to qt these fish wrasses abd gobys. That they don't do well with copper and no sand. I've read that mandarin gobys can't get ich. Is that true? Trying to figure out what to do when I get a wrasse or goby. Do you preventively treat for ich like any other fish? Do you...

I want to get a small school of anthias for my 120 gallon. I'm fixing to take my current fish out of quarantine and put them into my 120 and then I would like to get a few anthias. I have a scopas tang, sailfin tang, blue eye kole tang, and two occelaris clowns. How many anthias could I put in...

I've got a 55 gallon tank that I've had my fish out of for 4 weeks almost 5. Letting it go fallow for 10 weeks for ich to die off. And I was watching the copepods eat some flakes I threw in there when I saw a couple copepods fighting with one of these worms over a flake. Then I noticed there...

I've had my sailfin tang and kole tang in a 37 gallon quarantine tank and I've been treating them for ich with cupramine for 4 weeks. My sailfin tang still looks like he has ich on his tail. I've kept the level at .50 the whole time and even brought it up to .60 this last week. How is it...

So ive seen big feather dusters in stores but i was wondering if what i have are feather dusters. They look like tiny ones. Theres red ones, orange ones and white and black ones. Ive noticed some of the white and black ones in the sand and the red and orange ones are in little tube looking...

I'm cleaning out my tank and I pick up a rock and find this weird thing. Like the title says it looks like a slug with some kind of exo skeleton. For some reason I can never upload pictures to threads. It let's me upload pics to my profile but every time I upload a pic to a thread it never shows...

So I have a 75 gallon tank. Not planted just regular stuff.. I've got a canister filter rated for a 100 gallon tank and a uv sterilizer. As for fish I've got an angelfish, 3 dwarf gouramis, a blue gourami, 2 blue platys, 2 neon swordtails, 2 gold twinbar platys, 4 tiger barbs, 3 giant danios, 2...

Just got my copper level up to .50 today. I've been just doing half doses for the past few days to get it up. How long do you keep it at that level to get rid of ich? Bottle says 2 weeks but I've read many different amounts of time. Is 4 weeks enough?

I got my new sump and rodi machine set up this weekend. I want to order some of the macro algaes for the sump. I was wondering what are the best ones? Which are the easiest to care for? I would like some that i can feed to my tangs. I'm thinking about using Chaeto and red gracilaria. Read that...

I've had this hermit crab for a while.. he was in a piece of live rock I bought. He's getting a little bigger so I need to make sure he's not gona end up being a large hermit crab that will kill my starfish.

im fixing to treat my fish and leave my tank empty for 9 weeks to let ich die off. found out you can't use dechlorinator with cupramine and I've always just used conditioned tap water. so i ordered a max water 6 stage ro di unit. what i need to know is can i go ahead and start my prazi pro...

I've got a 55 gallon and a 120 gallon.. never had a quarantine before (I know stupid me).. but I had recently added an anthias to my 120 and he ended up with a cloudy eye and ich. He ended up dying and after he died my sailfin tang and rock beauty angel ended up covered in ich and my Koran angel...

Ok I've got a 120 gallon FOWLR and a 55 gallon seaclear I plan on making a reef tank. I've been using a fluval canister filter and protein skimmer on both tanks. Well I don't have a protein skimmer on the 55 yet. I've been just using tap water and water conditioner but I've been looking into...

I just recently acquired a free 55 gallon seaclear show tank. Im gona make this one a reef tank. The problem is it doesn't have lights, filter, etc. Does anyone know where i can get lights and everything that would go on it? It has this built in cover that you can't remove so don't know if just...

I never knew what aiptasia was but I always heard bad things about them. I noticed today that my rock that used to be full of zoas now only has 2 or 3 left. I noticed a while ago they were dying but I thought my choc chip starfish was eating them so I put him in another tank. Now I notice...

I need help with reef lighting! It's all so confusing. I've read your supposed to have between 4-8 watts of lighting per gallon. A lot of fixtures you find online that say reef fixtures don't even have that amount of wattage. I've searched and searched and searched. I just swiched to a 120...

I wasn't sure which section to put this in. I'm setting up a hospital tank for my SW fish. I wanted to know if a 20 gallon was big enough. Also wanted to know what all I need for it. If I need to put power heads in it. I'm leaving the bottom bare and putting dry rocks in the tank. Right now my...

I want to buy an anemone from petco but some of their tanks have ich. Can an anemone carry it?

My mandarin goby has this big white hole thing. I've been thinking I saw something on him for a few days but every time I walk to the aquarium he swims off behind the rocks so I haven't been able to take a good look at it. But for once I snuck up on him and managed to take a pic. What is this...

ok im fixing to get a 125 gallon aquarium. Right now i have a 75 gallon aquarium. I wanted to know if taking the water out of my 75 and putting it in to the new tank then filling the rest up with fresh water would be enough to be able to immediately put all of my fish and corals in the new...

hey everyone. I inherited a saltwater aquarium from my mom. She passed away a few months ago and I've been taking care of it. Its 75 gallons. I came to this forum so i can keep her aquarium running as well as possible. When she had it it was just a simple aquarium with live rock a couple...