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Thanks rlablan!

I have at least 10 very very little starfish that appeared on my tank walls today. They are about the size of big grain of coral sand. I had 2 sand sifting starfish. One died about 3 months ago and I haven't seen the other one for about 6 weeks (I assume it died). I still don't see the adult...

I have an aqua-c ev180 on my 120 gallon reef and it works great. I haven't had any water quality issues.

That is beautiful!! No problems with the flame angel picking at the Clam?

You're not the only one. I'll be interested to see the view count by the end of the day :)

I'm looking for a recommendation for new fish that I can add to my tank. I only want to add one or two medium size or a few small fish. I'm looking for entertaining fish. I always research fish (and anything else that I add to my tank) and have checked out many but nothing is better than a...

I noticed tiny black spots on my Regal Tang on 12/5 (and rubbing against the rocks). I took him out of the DT and put him in the QT on 12/6 after a freshwater bath. I gave him 2 more freshwater baths while I lowered the salinity in the QT to 1.009 with water changes over 2 days. The black...

I very well could be wrong but it looks like aiptasia to me. I had the same thing a few weeks after I started my 120. I bought 3 (true) peppermint shrimp and it was all gone in a couple of days.

I would run it 24/7 unless you have a reef tank in which you could run it less so that you're not pulling all of the food that corals may consume out of the tank. Again that depends on how good the skimmer is. If you say it's crappy and doesn't do a great job to begin with or is undersized, I...

aiptasia - do you have any fish that will eat shrimp? I had some of this and added true peppermint shrimp and they ate it within 2 days

What's in your tank?

Hi all! I have a 48"x24"x24" that is my first reef tank. I have a current sundial fixture - 48"x9.5" with 4 t5s: 2 Blues, 1 Actinic, 1 superwhite (all ATI bulbs) My LFS told me that this was fine for zoos, mushrooms, leathers, etc. I have a zoo and a couple of mushrooms that are doing great...

Probably a rather odd question but when I put a dried seaweed sheet in my aquarium on a clip, my tangs and angel tear it up and big pieces often come off. They come loose and get sucked through my vortech 40 blowing them all over the tank. Is there a trick to putting these in the clip or is...

I think the remora pro is rated up to 120 gallon?? I am definately no expert so use this post as you wish but I spent a good deal of time researching skimmers and most things I read stated that you should go big. I got the Aquac ev180 for my 120 and I have small to medium load right now. I...

Just read through this again. You don't need to put valves on the drains. The overflow in the aquarium is setup to limit flow to the sump once the returns are off. Mine only drains a couple of gallons once the returns are shut off. You may need check valves on the returns if you don't use...