Hi all, I bought a leather coral on the 6th December and it keeps opening and closing a lot. Sometimes it is open for days and then closed for days and at other times it is open during the day and closed at night. It has shed a mucous type stuff a few times which sort of looks like when you peel...

How good are 4x65w power compacts for a 55g. tank.. 2x65w actinics and 2x65w 10k. I plan on running them on this schedule: actinic on @ 0700, @ 0900 both on untill 2030(830p)then actinics untill 2200 or so...Any ideas? any experience with PC lights and coral? i know MH are better but just don't...

Hey all, i need some help...again! I just purchased some LR from my LFS and it came with some "creatures" im not too sure what they are. Maybe some of your expertise can help me. I attached the photos on here, so i hope this works. If not, ill have to find another way to show u the pics. Pic #1)...

Hello everyone! As I mentioned in a post earlier this week my new 65g marine tank is in its second week of cycling. I've got 90# of live rock in it and have had the lights running on their timer ever since I set the tank set up and everything in the tank (and I do mean everything) is covered in...

I have recently received a new 50 gallon glass tank for Christmas. Merry Christmas to me. I have kept smaller sal****er tanks for several years (3-12 gallon Eclipses) and have had great success. However, I am lost with this newest endeavor. I have read volumes of information now in attempt to find...

Hi folks, I have a CPR SR in sump skimmer. It skims very well as long as there is sufficient air getting to the pump. The little elbow fittings seem to clog easily, and I want to replace the Rio pump with a maxi-jet 1200. According to one website, amekaaquatics.com, you can get a venturi fitting...

I'm attempting to determine the flow rate of an overflow box for a new reef tank which is in the design stage. I have a formula provided to me by a civil engineer that I think is applicable, but would like to know how others have gone about determining their overflow rates. Sharp-crested...

Hi, I plan to put "Outer Orbit" fixture over my 50 gallon tank: http://www.drsfostersmith.com/Product/prod_display.cfm?pcatid=12779 All-Glass Tank dimensions are as follows: surface 36"x18", hight 18". It will be DSB setup, so the water column will be only 14" high. I wonder if one 150 W double...

Placed an order for livestock from liveaquaria.com on Dec 26th. Waited for the order and called them several times to see why I hadn't received it. The last time I called them they said due to them not getting the ball rolling on the order that Dr Race Foster wanted to give me the complete order...

Hello all, Anyone have any opinion on or experience with GARF's "bulletproof reef"? It's a very simple, low cost system--uses a plenum, 3-4 tubes of NO flourescent lighting, no sump, no skimmer even for six months. It seems like a nice alternative to some of the setups you see online--for...

Hello folks, Happy new year first of all. My wife and I have decided to set up a new salt-water tank in our living room. Since I'm totally new with the marine tank, I have some questions and hopefully you pros can help me out. 1. Petco is selling a 12 gallon tank complete with all the...

I live in Scotland, East Coast (near border) 80 miles North of Newcastle. Wondering if any fellow seahorse keepers would be interested in swapping fry or even selling fry or adult seahorses to me. I have been keeping the Estuary Seahorse, a Kuda species, sometimes also know as spotted,...

Here is a question for us all - what do you consider to be the perfect sized tank? Is bigger always better? Most people i chat to always want bigger tanks... ~m

Anybody here has a fish tank in mentioned dimensions ? I would like to see some pictures of such setup to see how good would it look in my room as mini-reef :-)

hi, What size bottles fit on Aquaverve water coolers? All of our coolers hold industry standard 3 & 5 gallon water round bottles. Please keep in mind that while square bottles will fit on the coolers the bottle covers will not fit over them. Where does the water bottle go? Most of our coolers...

I have a 75 Gal tank for the past 4 years or so. I have FOWLR and a few fish. This morning everything was hunky dori, this afternoon, Its starting to get cloudy. The only thing I did to the tank was a partial Water change about 7 days ago, nothing since then. Can anyone help? Thanks

Hello everyone! My new 65g reef tank is in its second week of cycling and is growing brown algea at a prodigeous rate. This in itself doesn't bother me as it's a normal part of cycling and once everything settles down I'll add some herbivors in to snack away. What's caught my eye is the HUGE...

Gotta love live rock. Always new critters showing up. Tank has been going three years, with no new rock additions. Never saw this before, probably been living in the substrate and doesn't normally come out. Any ideas what it...

About 7 weeks ago I started a 110 gal reef tank with about 100 lbs of LR. After two weeks and a good buildup of brown alge, I added a 12 hermit crabs, 6 snails and a lawnmower blenny. A week later I added three soft corals. At the one month point the water test was: ph: 8.2

i have a sump full of live rock and skimmer. i've ditched the sponges, ceramic media and bio-balls and have three chambers full of live rock. My tank is a 40G tank lit by florescent tubes (MH only caused heartbreak and algae, lots of algae). Now i want to add some calerpa to keep the...