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So, I picked up a bunch of zoas from Pieces of Ocean that were delivered on 02/23. They were dipped in H2O2 (15%) and then Seachem Reef (1x a day for 3 days) and Rally Pro dosed those same three days. For the first 3 days and then every 3 days after I have dosed live Phyto (6ml to the 3.2G...

Hi everyone, I did some research, but I am not seeing this on any websites and/or I am doing really bad google searches. Anyway, one of my BTA's got stucked into my power head :(( and I had to clean-up my ref bottom really well and I noticed this guy after. At first, I thought I was going...

So, as I ramp up on the move to the 15g tank I noticed, yesterday, that one of the hairy mushrooms appears to be emitting some type of chemical(?) into the water column. Is that what I am seeing? I'm guessing that it is trying to take out my frogspawn and BTA? I tried taking a movie yesterday...

Hi guys, I just put together my first reactor, the BRS Dual Reactor, and I placed ECOBAK in the first chamber and GFO in the 2nd. Eventually, carbon will go in the first and the ECOBAK in the 2nd. Anyway, the input and output lines are really short and I needed to put the MJ-1200 at full blast...

So, after about 2-3 years of struggling with my 46G DT I am breaking it down. I'm not able to keep the algae at bay and now it's completely overrun by dinoflagonates (spelling?) or something like it. Anyway, it's primary on the glass and some rocks, but even the nuisance macro is out of...

Merry Christmas everyone and sorry for posting in the emergency forum! So, this morning the room smelled really fowl of burning electronics and at first I thought it was the new hard drive I left on burning in over the night. After a little bit of investigation I found out that the koralia...

Hi guys, I decided to redesign my wet/dry sump retrofit to reflect more of a real sump and I had some questions on flow and orientation of the pumps output on my 47G high tank. The original sump was a amiracle 2 section sump that was probably about the size of a 10gal tank and acrylic. Rough...

So, I am still pretty new at this hobby - about 14 months on my DT and 9 months on my 15g. However, I am really beginning to wonder if water changes are really a good thing / restrict growth? I know a lot of you will probably have a lot of negative comments on this behavior, but please hear me...

I just cleaned my sump out to do a major spring cleaning. I had a major flatworm outbreak in the sump (only) and when I saw them I cut the sump off from the DT. I could not find medicine locally, so I let it sit, without heat or top off for about 3 weeks. By the time I purchased the rid-x (or...

Hi guys, Not sure if this belongs here... but here we go. I came across this tonight and I could not pass it up. http://ihavetohavethat.com/index.php I have everything on a GFCI receptacles, but my timers are really old (some digital that reset when the power goes out) and these things...

Hey guys, I saw a smaller (3-5") anemone at one of the pet stores the other day and the worker had no idea what type it was. He also could not give me a price. His answer was "ask my owner" to both questions. I did some goggling, but I could not find any blue species of anemone accept for a...

Hey Guys, I'm going to Fire Island for a batchelor party and I was going to see about collecting some things while I am there. Since the drive is 3+ hours I'm not really considering any livestock, but I figured I could take a few gallon ziplock bags of mud, but I have some question. 1. Is it...

Hey guys.. I have two nice size hermits hanging out in my BTA. They seem a little too close for comfort and they keep getting stuck and rubbing their large shell in the tentacles. I've noticed that the BTA has been getting brown lately and I'm wondering if that might be related? The "brown"...

Hey Guys, This may sound like a silly question, but I have to know if I am somehow doing something incorrectly. The other day I was over a buddy's house well a house he's watching over in Cults Neck (mere $2.4m). The house was insane and it had an in wall tank that I think was about 120g. The...

Hey guys, I'm falling into some bad times with my tanks and I wanted to get some opinions. Yesterday, my Mantis totally died in my 15g tank. It's not totally surprising since I think he may have had some shell rot and it was probably a bad molt. After I removed him I did a 4gal WC and this...

Hey guys, How dirty can the filters get before you need to replace them? I have had my AWI Typhoon III now since Oct or Nov 08 and I use about 30-40 gallons of water every two weeks. I tend to fill up a 32g brute to the inner line once every two weeks for my WC. Then in-between I fill up a 5...

Hi guys, What is the guidelines for waiting 24 hours for using newly mixed salt water? Is it 24 hours from any changes or could I get away with a water change later tonight with this scenario? I have had 32g's of salt water in the garage for about 26 hours now. When I first mixed the water...

I was wondering if anyone ever crunched the numbers on costs associated with certain tank sizes? I was planning on upgrading (?) my non-RR 47g tall to a 46g bow that I will be putting a coast-to-coast, internal, overflow on. But, as I am researching it just seems like a lot of work for a minimal...

Hey guys, I woke up this morning to my little tank and I stepped in a wet carpet and noticed that the 10gal nano had lost about 3-4gal's of water. Obviously the stand is Not as level as I thought since the water only spilled over one side .. or the leak is on that side. I picked up the 10gal...

I'm wondering if anyone can look at my combination of T5 lights and advise me.. I want a configuration that doesn't look (too) yellow and looks similar to my current Coralife Power Compact lights. My current configuration is 1x96w 10K and 1x96w 50/50. I already put an order in, PA group buy...