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is a mandarin goby going to work in a 30 gallon? if its by itself? other than a clean up crew i thibk thats all i want.

no this was me being danger near electrocuted. about a good 4 seconds of electricity. it sucked. i guess i didnt have the plug on something all the way in.

yeah so its what i thought it was. so im guessing a quick way to tell if you have stray voltage is if everything dies is short order in my tank, which hasnt happened. i have never been shocked except by my powerstrip with a wet hand. should i be testing this too?

I have seen a couple threads about stray voltage, but i dont know what it is. So can someone break it down for me and explain what it is and how you test for it? Also what its supposed to be and how to correct it if i end up with wrong readings. A little info about my tank is 30 gallon tall. a...

ok so im trying to upgrade my lighting on my 30 gallon dt. right now it has a regular strip light in the hood. i as looking on egay and found t5 retrofit kits for pretty cheap, but i dont know what all is involved with retrofitting a strip light to a t5. and they had a 24 inch t5 light for like...

ok so what do you feed those? pretty much the only thing i think i need to do is maintain the water level. ill just keep transfering water from my dt for top offs and when i do a water change ill change out like half. im pretty sure all i need to do is give the corals light, right?

so can someone name some easy to care for corals? something i can take care of, i have never had corals before so i dont know what im doing.

im not sure what kind of light it is, i think t5. its bright enough that at night it lights up my whole living room. its easily way brighter than the 24 inch flourecent light strip on my dt. i dont know what kind of coral would be suited to a tank this small, i dont need a fish, it was just an...

ok so i was at a local reptile store talking to a friend who own the store and was telling him i wanted to buy some of the base rock he has. he used to be big into saltwater but there isnt a big enough demand around here and he couldnt keep up with his dt and all the other things. so the tank...

I have always been told that bubbles are bad in a saltwater tank. Why are you using the air tubes on your power head? I took mine off when i got it. And is that enough flow in your tank? I have 640 gph of flow in my 30 gallon tank. I know its like 20x the amount of water you have in your tank...

yeah ill try to get a better pic today. my camera doesnt do so good on close up but ill try and get a couple different shots. i really want to know what this is cuz its seems likr its taking over my tank.

well i only buffered the ph once when i first started. no other chemicals besides that. the white stuff almost looks like calcium deposits. its strange. it grows every day also, i woke up this morning and it looked bigger than last night.

bump for an answer please.

oh i forgot to add that im using a api saltwater test kit testing for ammonia, nitrite, nitrate, ph, temp, and salt. and i do weekly water changes of 4 gallons. i work six days on and three days off so it might not be exactly once a week but its definetly once every nine days. my cuc is a...

ok its live rock i bought cured from my lfs and took immediately in my tank. i guess a little bit of background would help. i started this tank mid december and started with untreated tap water, i bought 15 pounds of live rock, a mix of tonga and premium fiji. afterwards i realized that tap was...

Yesterday i started feeding frozen brine shrimp. I didn't know how much to add, so i put a whole cube in it. This is in a 30 gallon with just a yellow tail damsel and a small cuc for now. I guess i over fed cuz it was every where. Well now i have a nitrite and nitrate spike, guess i missed the...

ok so im looking at buying a 24" at a certain "smart" pet store. its 99.99 and its a t5 ho. all it will be lighting is a 30 gallon tall with just a damsel and peppermint shrimp and some hermit crabs. the only thing im really looking to add to my tank is two clownfish, and a mandarin goby. maybe...

I run a marineland biowheel 350 and its whisper quiet. Do you have the water all the way up to the edge of the filter? that was my problem and it created lots of air bubbles in the water too. I gotta say after doing a water change this morning and seeing how clean the filters were after 2 weeks...

i dont know about bigger is better really. as long as you have a good handle on what your doing (read" lots of research before hand) then you should be fine with a smaller size. my first take is a 30 gallon and is moving along great. admittingly i stated out all wrong, but i read up on it and...

ok my tank has been set up since probably the middle of january. it has completely cycled already. i have a 30 gallon with 15 pounds of live rock, 2 powerheads and a 70 gallon penguin biowheel filter. well over the 20x flow recommended. first thing in order is about double the live rock, and...