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Hey, i am running a 4ft marine setup and my sister added 4 freshies to her tank today and one kept fighting, she was took it out and put it in a small jar to let it die!!!!!!!! 8O I couldn't let that happen so right now i've got him in my 20L acclimitation tank, if i keep this tank i figure i...

Is there any reason why i can't have like a reef with areas covered in plants and such?

Hey, so i want to get an RO/DI unit but how do they connect to a water supply? Can i just like hook a hose running from a tap to it :D or does it have to be actually like plumbed into the plumbing, if so is there any sort of unit that i can just tip like 20L into it and it will work through it...

Well, i think it is a cannister filter but anway it is fairly noisy. I was thinking this may be because it is either pumping in to fast and not pumping out fast enough or the other way around, anyone have any idea's on making the thing shut up. Also, for airation i now have the return on that...

Hey, i like my purple/red pieces of live rock and for some reason they are turning friggin green, how can i stop that? There are also parts turning whitish. There is also a funny green thing about the size of a 10c coing and it has tiny tiny tiny tenticle thingys coming off it, it isn't...

I keep hearing a popping noise from my tank. I added live rock the other week but i have not seen one hitch hiker since (more than half was already cured) but i have been hearing a pop at random times. is this a matis shrimp or something?

Hey, i am going to be attempting my first DIY shortly and i need some advice. I want to use a wood that is around 1-2cm thick that i can get in large sheets, well, at least 4ft long. Also, would you suggest i do joints (I remember doing dovetails and stuff in shop A though i sucked at them) or...

Is it worth getting brine shrimp eggs and growing them into little shrimps to feed to my fish when i get them? Are they very nutritious(SP) to the fish? Once they grow up how long will the shrimp stay alive? Do they create a large bio-load? (Or in other words in a say 2ft tank how many shrimp...

Hey, so this fish i have had in my tank for ages has always been able to go clearish and blackish when he wants but today he was yellow, so i got him into my QT and he went back to black. I am not sure of the fish but the only additions is live rock which cause no ammonia spike and my lighting...

Ok, so i want to get an Eel soon... Advice on these types, which would you choose and exactly how big is 'Large'. Eels Snowflake Echidna Nebulosa Small $35.00 Bali Zebra Gymnomuraena Zebra Sm - Med $100.00 Bali Black Ribbon Rhinomuraena Quaesita Sm - Med...

Is there a downside over getting cured liverock? If it is cured that means it won't trigger a cycle will it? I am getting ready to put liverock in and since my tank has been up for agggggeeeeesss i dont want to put it in a cycle causing me to wait ages.

Hey, i am looking at saving for around an 8ft tank, probably 8x4x4 or 8x4x3 or something like that, i'll probably use my current 75gal for a sump (Is that big enough) But as a rough estimation how much would it be to get the tank made, a stand and just headers, pumps and such. I am guessing...

Hey, how often should i clean my big filter? When i did my 100% water change it had a load of carbon (I think it was carbon) and other gunky junk crap at the bottom, should i empty that crap out or leave it there? Caus' my water is starting to turn a faint yellowish, or does the colour change...

I got sick of waiting after 4 weeks from the ocean for my water to change color and today on the incoming i saw the water was super clear so i quickly drained my entire tank and i am refilling it now... But, when i do refills i plan on doing say 20% each week and that is 16 gal, is it fine...

For more than 10minutes or so? I want to get some but i dont want to carry a big bucket of water in the cars so if i just had it out of water for 10 minutes or so would it die? How about if i used a spray bottle and kept spraying it?

Hey, i have had my tank since the 23rd of april and it has been running non stop since then with my Pro Aqua CFD-1200 external filter and my lifetech AP1500F powerhead, it is a 280L tank and well, the water looks like someone took a piss in it, a big piss. Will this color settle down? Also...

Ok, i got a tank for my birthday and i just lugged 260L of water (Like 70-80galleons or something) into it and along with the sand and such it is very murky. I got this big external filter which costed an arm and a leg which is all good but it runs the pipe up where it puts the water back in and...