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"Im addicted to reef tanks. i have been struggling with this for over a year now. I was in treatment and recovering but I went back to it after a very painful surgery. and now I have been back on it for 5 months. i use everyday and I don't know how to stop. it's to the point where I no longer...

I will pay someone (US only please, preferably east coast) via paypal to scrape a large amount of coralline algae off of their tank wall, into a ziplock bag and ship it to me. I want to seed a tank and do some other experiments. Make me a purple slushie! I'll pay $20 - $30, if interested in...

For hypo, do you need to remove fish AND inverts or just fish? Someone said on the forums that ich only uses fish as hosts...

On my baby blue hippo tang. If so I have a UV sterilizer and diatom filter (if that matters?) None of the other fish have this... Please tell me it's not ick...

I noticed you have two yellow tangs: Do they fight? Did you add them to the tank at the same time? or one after the other? Did they fight at first? Is one bigger than the other? Right now my medium size yellow tang is in the sump because they would not stop fighting and began nipping at...

Check out this YouTube video: http://youtube.com/watch?v=GTXinF8ZVCo oh and another: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXV1D13f0Ko "The jelly fish came to this lake in Palau through a tunnel which connected the sea and the lake long time ago. Now the tunnel have closed, and the jelly fish came to...

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I would like to clean my sand but I want to avoid an ammonia spike. How can I go about doing this?

I have some Xenias and I want to trade something for some of it. Here's a picture of it in my tank: Sorry, I'm not interested in selling. Only trading. Here is video: http://youtube.com/watch?v=chDXsuRlYoA

I want to make sure it isn't just me. But I assume this is part of the denitrification process. If you pull a rock out of your sand bed, chances are it will be stained black because of sulfur dioxide. It will also pollute your tank if you mix up your entire sand bed. I brought this information...

My friends tank is experiencing an Ammonia Spike two months after cycling. What do you suggest I tell him to do? Obviously water changes but you cant remove all of the ammonia. The ammonia was at .25 now it is at .50 - (rising!) There is nothing dead in the tank, guaranteed. All fish are alive...

I don't know if it's just me but any Blue Hippo tang that I've seen looks so clumsy, stressed and about to die. I've seen them like this in fish store tanks, friends tanks, and my tank. They swim vertically, sideways or diagonally. It really makes you nervous about your tank as a whole. Whats...

Can anyone please please provide me with some information on encrusting gorgonians? I purchased some and it hasn't opened yet. It's been a little over 24 hours...

I want to see elegance corals! Please post yours below! Thanks.

Okay, in order to get rid of my red slime algae/cyano bacteria annoyance I need to keep my lights off as much as possible. I have a xenia colony and a pearl bubble coral. How much light would these need a day? I want to do a "blackout" for at least two or three days. I only want the lights to be...

What is going on with these zoos? Two polyps have these brown threads coming out of them. They are being pulled in and out very slowly, Is this normal for zoos? Ill post a picture if I must.

Here is what it looks like, very fury looking. I can't find this online. The only place I could get it would be two hours away. Does anyone have some that they can break off and ship to me? Ill pay for it of course.

I ordered from SWF.com - a Xenia Colony: This is what it looks like in my tank, (acclimated for 3 hours) What's wrong with it? It looks very weak.. It isn't orange/brown like it is in SWF's picture. It is a blue/white... This is exactly how it looked in the bag when I received it today.

My PH was 8.5 and is now 8.0. I'm worried about this, is this normal? My tank is 2 months old, there are fish in it. Should I increase it very slowly or what? I'm wondering if there's something I've missed.

How long after cycling should one expect to start seeing coralline algae on tank walls and live rock?