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I run my 12g lights for about 10-12 hours, about a normal daylight cycle.

We have a 250 double ended MH pendant and are trying to take out the bulbs. We cannot figure out how to do this. Is there a trick or are we just that mechanically disinclined? Can someone out of the kindness of their hearts please help us out with this.

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From what I have read monthly seem to be the overall concensus under normal circumstances. I change it out monthly as well. I am sure others have differenet schedules, but whatever works best for you is the answer.

We also love the mandarin. Here is a good link to check out discussing how to try and ween them onto frozen food. http://microcosmaqx.typepad.com/matt_wittenrich/

How big is your tank? I have seen and heard of tanks where a coral banded was an upstanding citizen. In our 20g he molted and ate every shrimp smaller than him. We also watched him catch and kill a neon cleaner goby that landed in front of him. We also spot fed him daily to make sure he was...

Some updates on the 20g. We have not caught the mantis even though we pulled everything out. We have not seen him either so who knows. We added a small CPR fuge on the back as well as an AquaC Remora skimmer. We also added our first piece of SPS so we will see how that goes under the T5s. We...

So we went ahead and got the tank covered so we could add a new friend, a blue spotted jawfish. We introduced him today and he spent the day digging out a ton of sand behind the piece of live rock in the middle of the tank. He has about 3 spots he pops up in when he wants to. The coral beauty is...

You probably want to wait 2 more weeks, but it all depends on the types of corals you want to add. Mushrooms, zoas, and leathers are much more tolerant of lower water conditions and can actually thrive in them. If you step up to LPS and SPS they are much less tolerant of low water conditions so...

Here is there website http://www.tropiquarium.com/ very bare bones. They have beautiful display tanks, if you are close check it out.

In our 30g we try and top off every other day about a gallon. It has an open top and a MH pendant so we need to keep up on it.

I have a convertible they are more fun that way. I have never had a top blow off but I have had plenty of things fly out of my convertible. Good luck with the new look.

Not sure where you live, but tropiquarium sells 5 gallon jugs. They have a screw off top and that is what I am going to use when I setup my ATO eventually. I was going to put the pump on the stand and have the jug on the ground. Was also looking at the exact same setup that you want to buy.

Having a sinlge specimen will not incite them to fight. The shrimp tend to be more active and visible when you have them in pairs. They are hermaphoditic so you don't need to worry about sexing the shrimp. Mine are constantly pregnant which is nice and adds a different source of food for...

Re: Here's my now 375 (was 120) by Bax We just introduced a flamback angel to our 20g and we did not quarentine like we should have. We have been spoiled as our LFS allows us to pay for the fish and keep them there for a week or so to make sure there is no outbreak. We just started feeding more...

You can keep those two different species together. We had a 20g with a pair of cleaner, pair of fire, and a pair of peppermints. Fires and cleaners will be more active and outgoing when kept in pairs so if you can get two it is nice. The only ornamental shrimp that has ever attacked our other...

Sometimes our picassos are so buried in the GBTA you can barely see them. Somtimes it is head first sometimes butt first, so nothing to worry about.

I have a pair of a. percula picasso clownfish that hosted my GBTA within a week of putting it in the tank. They were hosting the frogspawn that was in there already so we took out the frogspawn and they went right to the GBTA.

The only problem I have had with blackworms so far is swatting away my cleaner shrimp and hermits from stealing them from my corals. My LPS and dendro love the black worms and look great. My fish took a second to figure it out and then started pulling them out of the baster. Even my cleaner goby...

1st retest the water, make sure the reading was accurate. If I am reading that right, you are using tap water for water changes? You might want to also test the tap water to see if that is the source of the phosphates. You can try things like phosban or chemipure but that really is only going to...