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Unfortunately for those who know me I stripped my reef down and transformed the tank into a freshwater planted tank. I have four pumps that have been out of the water for a month or two now and I decided to use two of them. Whats the best way to clean all the coraline and junk off knowing that...

Well its been great but it's time for a change. Due to recently loosing all my corals I have made the decision to try my hand at a planted fresh water aqaurium. I have all of the top line equipment already and I'm doing all the studying needed now. The only problem is I have about 290 lbs. of...

I just went through every tank owners worst nightmare ! Tank crash ! I have no idea what happened and am having a weird experience getting it going again. Parents were in town on vacation and loved watching my tank, especially my 14" in diameter carpet anenome taking in a large shrimp that I fed...

I have been fighting these for awhile. I have used injections of lime water, kalk m ix, stop aiptasia-x and nothing works. It kills the ones I inject but within days every square inch of rock is covered again. The problem I can't solve is that I have large cave systems where large aiptasias have...

Can a copperbanded butterfly fish and a yellow tang be kept in a 125 together ? My tank is currently is very peacefull but contains a 5" yellow tang and a 6" blue tang. I'm a little concerned because the butterfly has a similar shape as the yellow tang in my opinion.

I'm interested in putting one in my tank because I have a huge aptasia problem. I needle kalkwasser them once and week and seem to have the same ones back + 50 in a week. I have nothing that will bother the butterfly but a couple of concerns from him. I have a feathduster that may be at risk. I...

I want to purchase a calcium reactor for my tank. I've always had trouble with this tank keeping my calcium levels up and haven't had much purple coraline growth. My last tank which was smaller I had too much growth. This tank is three years old 125 DT, 35 refugium, 35 sump, octo 200 ( with a...

I've come to realize that my slicce PSK 2500 pump on my Octopus 200 is a piece of sh.. and would love to throw it off a building. I have had a problem with it since a few months after its purchase. If I shut the power on and off then the pump doesn't come on right. I almost always have to take...

My sand has started getting a rust colored top to it. Any ideas how to solve it ? The tank; 3 years old, nitrites, nitrtates, ammonia and phosphates test as close to 0 as you can get. Alkalinity tests high and for some reason my calcium test wouldn't work. I can stir it up and it will be rust...

There are so many ways to set up a tank. I can't stand to have a light system that isn't totaly surrounded by a canopy. In a dark room I want the beauty of the tank showing with any esquaping lighting. Mnay others may prefer the hang above light that may have a 4 or 6 inch gap over the water and...

...In spot killing some Aiptasia. I usually inject them with kalkwasser and it works great. I have the injection needles (straight, 45 degree angle and 90 degree angle ). Problem is I have some cave systems that have some huge ones in the back. I kill them often ( way more than I used to ) and...

I'm about to invest in a water top off system. I lose from three to four gallons from evaporation through out the day. This constantly decreases the water level in the sump so that my protien skimmer isn't optimized to its potential. Anyone know about the; Tunze Osmolator universal 3155 auto...

I've have gone years with hardly any salt creep and recently I'm getting what I consider alot ( probably is not considered much at all by others ). Anyone know why this would happen ?

I'm very sad but have to find one of my clowns a new home. I have had two pairs of clowns living in full peace for more than two years in my tank. Each pair has its small and large partner. Overnight the large black clown took over the carpet anenome home of the smaller percula clown. He is...

After 6 years of very successful saltwater tanks I am at my limits of frustration ! I can't deal with the problems I am experiencing and need to vent. I just need some support right now from members who can relate to what I'm going through, so please read this ! I reacently encountered...

I should of put from 8.3 to the 8.4-8.6 range. Lets start by saying I'm embarraced having to ask this !!! I have six years saltwater experience and have never really encountered any problems other than red slime and hair algea once each. I've never had to raise or lower my PH because I have...

This is my second time posting this thread ( 1st time in new members ) Everyone thought it is cyno or couldn't identify. I am absolutely positive its not cyno. I help IDing so I can 100 % cure. The pictures are at its worst. It only attaches to algea or rock and floats upwards in a hair like...

These are just a couple of new pictures of things I've added to my tank. I a slowly changing it from a FOWLR to a reef. The first two Are of a mushroom leather I added a couple of months ago. The next is some type of leather I added a few days ago. The other ( please ID), red flower things have...

This is in my refugium. It appeared and spread over the chaeto. I rinsed and cleaned the chaeto by removing it and then pumped almost all the water out of the refugium ( during a water change and the water was replinished from the DT and I added the new water to my sump. The tank was spotless...

put snails of any sort in there predrilled over flow area of there tank. My tnak is algea free but I have to use my hand to scoop in the predrilled container area to remove lots of algea on occasion. Does anyone put turbo snails or anything in thiers ? I want to but If they fall off the suface...