Recent content by jabels5

Where do they come from, everything I have put in the tank has been clean, also do I need to put some fish into this tank to eat them, I have a 72 bow front also, this is my 20 tall just min stuff in it, no fish, last time I did a good cleaning I put the fish in the big tank, now I can't catch...

I was looking at my 20 gal tall, and all over the back glass is a lot of these little bugs. They are almost clear in color, about 3/16" long and maybe .050" wide, every thing in the tank seems health, no fish in there, just a clean up crew, a couple mushroom corals, and some brittle stars. Does...

I have a pink tip for about 1.5 years, but tried a BT, it went under a rock overhang and stayed there, if I moved it, it went back, till it died, my clown loved it, the pink tip is great, but have tried 2 BT and both died. Good Luck

I have a 72 bow front with soft corals and some fish, I want to mod my refug and sump. Right now the overflow goes in a 30 gal short, with a 10 gal sitting inside the 30, the protien skimmer dumps into the 10 and it overflows back into the 30 and the return pump is on the far side of the 30. I...

I have had it in my house about 7 mo, its a 5 year set up then moved. I bought an RO/DI system, before that I was using ro bottled water. The local shop keeps trying to sell me a phosfate reactor, but its a little spendy, should I think about getting one or do you think with a good clean up crew...

I have about 2.5 in of live sand and 100 lbs of live rock in a 72 bow front.

Sorry guys, just did not think before I asked. Thank for all the advice. I cleaned the whole tank today, removed all the algae I could get my fingers on and scrubed the glass. I put the corals in a small 20 while cleaning. My skimmer finally put out a lot of green goo, so hope once the water...

I am new to this and I may be asking some dumb questions, but I am trying to learn. What is cheato, I have seen it refered to several times.

Thanks for the info, but if I find I have TDS, how do I lower or get ride of it? Also I am thinking of putting live sand and live rock in my sump, so I can change out the live sand if the phosates start to go up, and make it easier to do water changes. Right now I have a 30 gal sump with a 20...

I am new to salt water and corals, 1 year. I am having a green hair algae problem in a 72 bow front, with LPS corals I have done the water test and all was good I put some phospate filters on, did the water change, reduce the lighting, reduced the food, replaced the lights, and even pulled most...