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I guess I should have known better. I bought a candy stripe pistol shrimp at Hidden Reef for my yellow watchman goby. I asked the guy if he thought it would be a problem with my six-line, since he harrassed my peppermint shrimp so bad that I had to banish the shrimp to my refugium. He assured me...

As above, my aqua-medic fixture blew-up this morning. It had been sparking some, so I figured the ballast was bad. I ordered a new one, set to arrive tomorrow. Well, of course, the sparks really few this morning, and the light stopped working. I took it apart and saw that one of the end-caps...

Any one recently get a bad Salifert calcium test kit? Mine's reading over 500 (needs another 0.53 mL of CA-3 to get the test tube water to turn blue). I'm assuming it's my new one that is bad, and not the old one (my old readings were more around 380-400, a more believable number). In the...

does anyone care what the pH is of their top-off water? I've been noticing my pH ever so slowly move from 8.3-7.8 over the course of the year my tank has been running. I just checked my top-off tank's pH... off-the-scale low, as it is distilled. So, I buffered it with some baking soda up to 8.0...

here's my current 10 gallon... I'm moving across town and getting married in a month. Here's the expected upgrade, an 18" ADA cube: Here's my thinking on livestock: transfer all inhabitants (birdsnest, green acro, orange monti cap, gsp, xenia, frogspawn, candy cane, two scolymias, and...