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breaking down my 140 gallon tank. one of my bulkheads sprung a leak last and i was forced to take out all my livestock and rock to fix it. lost some fish and inverts in the process but when i had finished the repair my MH ballast decided to stop working. don't have the money or patience to deal...

I got a lot of little fan looking worms sprouting all over my tank in the colonies of some of my corals. should i be concerned and is there anything that eats these things?

i was looking into one of these units and they say it needs no co2 and keeps nitrates low. cause the effluent coming out of the sulfur chamber already has low ph it dissolves the calcium media. i am very interested in getting one of these units but i would first like to know if anyone here has...

i just got a blonde naso a few weeks ago so far he is loving life. i was wondering though what his diet should be consisting of? he has been eating a a lot of algae sheet. it usually takes him a few hours to kill a 3x3" sheet. and i usually give him that much a day but is there anything else i...

i plan on buying some rock sometime soon and i plan to keep it at my shop curing with no ac. would it be bad if temps got high?

I am considering getting a clam. my tank is is about 28 inches deep and i have two 175 watt mh's and two actinic 48" vho's and one super white 48" vho. the vho's are 110 watts each.

I got this maze brain and i was just wondering why does it excrete that mucus stuff. it does it every time i feed him. and sometimes through out the day.

i got this red slime algae growing pretty aggressively on my sand bed what causes this stuff to grow?

this is my first tank it's 140 gallons currently running 2 175 watt mh's and 3 t12 vho's, planning to upgrade to 2 250 mh's. with the higher temps on it's way i'm trying to find the most cost effective way of keeping temps down. so how many of you out there keep their tanks within tolerable...

My system is only about 2 months old and i was scoping out the tank when the lights were out last night and i noticed these very small white "stringy" looking worm type things. i have only seen two on one rock. should i be concerned?

i just got me a nextreef mr1 media reactor for my 140 gallon system and i was told that you shouldn't put the phosban in the same reactor with carbon cause the flow rate should be different between the two medias. my question is how many of you out there run the two in the same reactor and how...

Is anyone using a coralife calcium reactor, the smaller one?

i just set up my first reef tank about a month or so ago it's a 140 gallon system. So far so good although my ph is a bit low 8.14 and i think it is due to my calcium reactor i keep the effluent at 6.4 should i be using kalk to bring it back up. if so how due i go about using it?

just got my pass to roo this year anyone else going i'm putting a convoy together.

i just picked up a torch coral yesterday at petco thinking it was an anemone but when i got home i realized it was not. so now I'm just looking for some general guidelines on care. the specimen is in a 140 gallon tank under 2 175 watt metal halides and three 110 watt VHO's two of which are...

I'm pretty new to the hobby and just set up my first reef tank ever it is a 140 gallon. And i'm just wondering if there are any species of sharks i can keep that won't eat my inverts, coral and other fish?

i'm putting together a 140 gallon reef tank and planning to keep various species that burrow in the sand. i could use some input on type and size of substrate.

My feed pipe to my sump keeps "burping" i think air is getting caught up somewhere i have two 90 deg. fittings in the line and i think that is one of the causes. i am thinking of drilling a hole right before the elbows and sticking airline tubing in there to provide a place for the air to bleed...

Hello all i just purchased a neptune ac3 and my question is how do i configure it to run my return pump all the time.