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I gotta vent a bit... I posted about my cracked tank. That is resolved, fish back in, ect. During all of this.. my LFS kept my fish for me for about a week to make sure everything transitioned smoothly. One of my diamond gobies jumped out and died at the LFS. The owner said that one was...

So my day started with a hot cup of coffee.... that I never got to finish. In fact, it is still sitting on my kitchen bar.... While waiting for the coffee to cool, I turn to admire the tank.... and notice WATER EVERYWHERE. I find this: So... I begin draining the tank... freaking out...

Has anyone done any research on DIY LED lighting? I have a few companies bookmarked, and the industry makes a UV LED.. would a spotlight type of light be beneficial to the tank at all? Or a small strip light to supplement PC/actinic lighting? I know very few people that can afford and...

My tank has been set up since mid November, my params are good, though my pH is a bit low at 7.9. Salinity is 1.024, ammo 0, nitrites 0 and nitrates 0 (I have NO idea how my trates are at 0, I suspected a bad test kit, and took it to LFS for confirmation... yep, 0) Only inhabitants are 5...

Hey all.. I have been messing around with Photoshop... and did a few fish.. what do you think?

I got a new 125g for Christmas! (yaaay!) and am undecided as to what to do with it. I have had a 90 FOWLR tank, and wasn't too successful. Not UNSUCESSFUL, nothing died due to husbandry, crystal clear water, no algae breakouts, but I couldn't even get mushrooms to flourish, no coraline ect...

Can I get a scientific name for this guy? ... and sorry about the water spots... /blush

FREE TO GOOD HOME(S)!!! I have a breeding pair of Metriaclima lombardoi (Kenyi) with 18 1 1/4 inch fry, 5 breeding Metriaclima estherae (male is yellow/peach, 2 females are orange, 2 females are OB) with a few small fry, and one lonely Nimbochromis venustus. I am moving my (fast growing)...

I have Texas Cichlid babies!! I have 20(and counting) Kenyi fry in the 125 down stairs... and when I went to lay the baby down for his nap... I found these! They spawned, and guarded the eggs for a few days.. and then they started disappearing... I figured they were eating them, this is what...

Sorry this pic is so big, I wanted to be able to show this guys scales. I had a female in QT, with the same problem, she recovered, and is eating well, fins growing back nicely. Today, this guy is swimming rather stiffly, and I took a close look at him, and it looks like his slime coat is...

I have a African Cichlid tank. 3 weeks ago I upgraded from 75g to 125g. I used all the old substrate, all the old water, and I alternate the cleaning of the 2 Fluval 404's to prevent killing all my bio bacteria. My water params have been perfect since it cycled, (18 months) I feed once a day...

Another topic was talking about clean up crews.... and it was mentioned that Urchins will eat coraline algea. I have one unidentified Urchin (almost 2 inches across, minus the spines), and about 160 lbs of LR in my 90g. I really don't want my rocks to be covered in coraline... I don't like...

I have a Keyhole in QT, hes new, not sick... and he got burned by the heater in there. I had to put a big heater in the QT, the small one fizzled out... Needless to say, he must have bumped it in the night, and got a 1" burn on him behind his pectoral fin. This happened 3 days ago.. it got...

I have a 50g mixing tank, well.. rubbermaid trashcan with a lid, and a powerhead to keep it moving. I did a pwc over the weekend, and the water tested perfect.... Today it has a musty odor. I noticed the smell after I put in a new ph, one that will pump the water to my tank (I had a smaller...

After doing the math, I know that the Clean up Crew packages online and in magazines are by far better for the money. However, do I REALLY need 100 Turbos, 100 Blueleg Hermits, 100 Nassarius, 12 Cerith, AND 2 emerald crabs? Geeze, that seems enough for BRENDEN's tank!! So whats too much...

Has anyone seen a magnetic magnifying glass for your tank? I saw one that had 2 pieces to it, one lens outside, and I THINK one lens inside the tank. I want to get a good look at all the little buggers in my tank.

I read several people's posts about getting their grunge, all the cool stuff they found, little bit of this, little bit of that... I was disapointed. My tank is muddy, no chunks of anything bigger than 1/2 inch, and the only thing that is reminiscent of anything living has been a few fragments...

Any Ideas on what kind? This guy is TINY... you can see how small he is by the sand. I'd like to know what kind he is, before he hides for a year in my rocks. TIA

A single Kenyi fry! My dominate female was holding, and stationed herself in the small (10") piece of driftwood I have in the tank. She was holding, and didnt seem to like any particular place in the tank, except by my two return pipes, behind the driftwood. I added a silk plant to cover the...

A coral of some type.... it had a pink/purple stoney base that was made up of about 15-20 tubes, kind of like a bunch of straws put together, cut at different lengths, about the same color as coraline, that was about 1.5x1x1 -ish. The polyps (?) were feather like, brown/purplish on the...

Does anyone know of a good recordkeeping software for tank parameters? Something that will show past parameter trends, calculate bio load, gph, ect, ect? I know I could track it on paper, make a spreadsheet or something like that... But I'd like to see the bells and whistles that could be out...

How fast should my calcium drop? End of my cycle after water change: 12/29/05 pH 8.0 Ammo 0 Nitrates 30-40 Phos .1 CA 450 Before tomorrow's water change 1/10/06 pH 7.8 Ammo 0 Nitrates 20 Phos .1 CA 250 90g 100lb LR 60lb BR 3-4" Seeded Aragonite sand bed 80lbs I had very little in the way...

...that it's not a good idea to mix anenomes and corals. Is this true? I am not sure where I read it, or even if I understood it correctly. I am such a noob at this, the more I read and learn, the more questions I seem to have. Any and all imput greatly appreciated. TIA

This guy is about 1 1/2 inch across. TIA

Does anyone have a photo of coraline CLOSE UP? I mean really close up. I'd like to see the texture of it. I have many, many pink and purple spots on my new ( 1 week) LR, and some are spreading and popping up in new places, but I dont think its all coraline. I am seeing some spots that are...