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I take it nobody has seen this but here is a follow-up: I emailed SeaChem and as it turns out this is a rare problem with their silicate test kits. Its from long-term exposure to high humidity during shipping. The company responded quickly to my emails and my new regents are being shipped...

Hey all, I just bought a new Seachem Multitest for Silicate and the results are not what the kit says they will be. The scale that comes with the kit says they should be nearly clear to a deep blue (deep blue being very high silicate) mine are a muddy brown color... and im absolutely sure ive...

my clean up crew consists of a couple scarlet hermts, 6 zebras, 2 cerith, and 2 nass snails. pherhaps i should look into getting a few more? Actually now that i see it out in writing that doesnt sound like very much at all for a 6mo old 55gal.

my substrate is about 5" of plain white sand (cant recall the brand) but its very small grain.. almost sugar sized. About .5" up to 2" into the sand I've noticed its turning dark gray in spots.. almost black. Is this normal? Ive also had a small Cayno breakout and it seems to be surfacing...

I was under the impression that ALL light had a certain level of loss depeding on water depth that was not in relation to the light source. I could be wrong though. I currently have 2 40w blues and 2 40w 10,000k NO's ;) I've been considering upgrading to the Orbit system (48" with 4 65w...

Hypothetically speaking... Lets say you have 4 40W NO fluorescent lights (160 watts all at 10,000K) If you compare this to a MH light at 150W (150 watts at 10,000k) what are the major differences in the two? Your obviously getting slightly more Wats-per-gallon with the NO fluorescents AND...

I bought a 5 pound piece of Fuji live rock about a month ago. After a bit of re-aquascaping, i have noticed 3 very... very ...tiny feather dusters on one side (side i could not see before.) after a few days of observation I’ve noticed that they rarely come out. In fact I’ve only seen them...

My tank is about 4 months old now and this brown fuzzy algae is covering my entire tank.....the glass, the rocks, the filters... everything except the fish. It tends to flurish in areas with low water flow and low light. especially under or around the base of rocks. any help would be...

The sand I am currently using is *extremely* small particle size. I’ve heard you need around .5 - 2mm with about 1.25 as a good average. The stuff I’m using now is about .1 - .5mm. Would I need to replace it or simply put a larger grain (or the same small stuff I’m using now) over it?

My yellow-tail tends to attack my hand anytime it is in the water. If I get too close to the outside of the glass he will face me and have a staring contest. I’m weary of what his reactions will be when new fish are introduced to my tank :(

I wonder, is it safe to convert from a SSB to a DSB in mid cycle? Ive heard that the bacteria that are responsible for the nitrogen cycle reside on the surfaces of your tank. If that is in fact true, would there be any repercussions to burying these creatures in about 2" of aragonite sand then...

I managed to borrow a camera! Here is the culprit

Honestly (I'm very new to this) I have no idea. :oops: Ive done google and yahoo searches (text and images) and am yet to find anything that looks like this. A search for "common algae" returned no matching results either. What separates this from other algae that I have seen is that this is...

Sadly, I do not yet have a digi camera. Hopefully with my fat tax return I will be able to afford one soon. In the mean time I have a substance growing on one of my rocks that needs identification so I will do my best to paint the picture for you. My apologies for no pic in advance :( First...

Hello, First time poster I have decided to make the jump into marine fish-only aquariums. After a lot of research (and I mean A LOT) I decided to buy my equipment and begin my new hobby. About a week ago I purchased a 55 gal tank, 2 power filters (300gph each), a heater, sand, a few tufa...