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I have been designing this for about 1 week. I built is over the weekend and its working great. Below is the schematic. I don't have step-by-step pictures as I did things in a crazy order and that would be more confusing. Parts List ~ 3 Float Switches (Floatswitches.net $6.00 each) ~1...

I see these online, but can not figure out what is so special about them. I can see that they are smaller than using 2 Unions and a valve, but other than that, whats so special.

I make my water changes weekly on Sunday mornings. To start the process I take my stored RO/DI water and pump it into a storage container. I then add a pre-set heater, powerhead for circulation and an air stone attached to a small pump. Then I add the salt. Finally, I put a lid on the...

I have a 55 gal tank with 4 fish, 2 damsels and 2 green chromis. Other than the fish, I've added 1 turbo Snail (large), 1 Emerald Crab, 1 Blue knuckle hermit, 3 peppermint shrimp and 4 scarlet hermits. There are several hitchhikers, including several small "gorilla" crabs, 3 urchins, numerous...

I posted this in the Equipment forum but do not seem to be getting much traffic. Ph Monitors??

I took a look at my tank tonight and believe that one of my pepermint shrimp has eggs on its underside. What could I do to helpthe eggs survive and grow to big shrimp??

Who all uses a Ph Monitor to either spot check Ph or full time monitor? AND if you use one, which one? Would you recomend it? I'm just going over my project list and trying to decide if I want/need a Ph monitor. TIA

I have been reading as much as I can on this topic and still find myself confused. I have a 55 gal with a light bio-load. I have 100 lbs of live rock and cc bottom. There are three power heads in the tank for circulation. My question is, I also have a HOB Penguin 330 filter. Do I use the...

I received one of these used. I set the temp and put it in a bucket of water that was well below the temp setting. The light did not come on. Do these things need time to warm up? Thanks!

I live in the Western NY area and went on a hunt for Old Castle Sand today. I found that "White Sandcastle Sand" at KMart is packaged by none other than Old Castle!!! Selling for $2.99 per 50 lbs bag. (#1 in picture below) I also found that "Garden Basics" Play Sand is also packaged by Old...

Since adding live rock to my 55 gal a little over 2 weeks ago, I have had a clicking sound in my tank. It was just once and a while. I remembered seeing a small reddish brown shrimp and had been hoping it was a pistol shrimp. Today I saw the "shrimp in question" between a couple of rocks...

Is this some kind of muscle? It's open most of the time but closes when spooked or touched. The outside is hard. (sorry for the bad pic). Is this a sponge? (yellow thing in the middle)

I was checking the local classified ads in the paper and found 2 great deals. 1 is a 90 gal reef tank with stand and the other is a 135 tank with stand. The reef ready tank has the internal skimmer while the 135 does not. They are both the same price (asking $300). Seeing as I have a FOWLR...

I have a 55 gallon tank (48" wide with dual 24" hoods) that was previously used for freshwater fish. It's been up and running for a while with salt water fish and live rock (cycle's been done for a while). As I am considering upgrading lighting for future corals and I have been looking at some...

I got 80 lbs of live rock today from liverocks.com (40 gulf and 40 key). As I opened each carton all I kept saying was wow. What I was amazed to find was a small sea urchin. It's in bad shape, many of the spines were broken during transport. Anything I can do to help keep this little fellow...

What do you guys use and/or have experience with?? I am looking to replace my current (garbage) power heads. I am looking for something high quality, reasonable price ( I don't mind spending $$ for something that will last). My desire is to use this 55 for about 1 year and then upgrade to...

I plan on ordering from Liverocks.com next week. I am looking for an idea of about how much to order. I have a 55 gallon tank and it currenly has 55 pounds of crused coral and about 15 pounds of live (not so alive) rock from the local fish store. All thoughts and opinions are welcome. Thanks...

First, Thank you to all of you that post here. I have been reading (stalking) for several weeks after finding this site and just registered today. I have a 55 gallon sw tank (48" W 21" T 12" D) that has just finished cycling. Tank was formerly a fw tank with one giant red belly pacu (15"...