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I have a clarkii and I have found that if you get several foods frozen/flake/dried ect and alternate it helps keep your trates a little lower and keeping flakes on the low end of the feeding scale helps combat algae as well (alot of flakes have high phosphates which feeds most algae). I feed 2...

well im pretty sure its not due to low lighting... I have 150 watts of HQI MH lighting over a 29 gallon tank that is long rather than deep. I'm sure I could have more lighting but the amount of heat generated and the probability of upgrading the tank in the next few years just didn't seem to...

So I have had my reef running for like a month or so now... with 3 scarlet hermits and 5 astrea/turbo snails doing all the cleaning. They have been cleaning a great deal however... there is this long green algae growing on one of my bottom rocks and some on the sand... I'm not sure what it...

So I just got a hand-me-down in sump skimmer from a fish store (net cost 0 dollars). I am psych'd because it will fit in my tiny 10g refugium that I am building... However in the collection cup there is a little nossle attached to a pice of vinyl hose that I am unfamiliar with. It looks as...

Hi everyone, So a few days ago my gf decided that she wanted to pick up a new fish for our tank on her way home from work... (without telling me). So she arrived with a small clownfish that looks to be wild (very deep orange coloring ?). I acclimated the fish for about 2.5 hours using the drip...

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Hey guys, I just placed an order on swf.com and I need to cancel it... anyone have any clue how to do that on the 'order status' page. It says thats where you do it but there are no buttons or specific instructions on how to do that. thanks in advance

decided it might be helpful to tell you its a 29 gallon reef tank that is soon to have a refugium attached... (has skimmer and a very well maintained canister filter while im building it). Hope this information can help with any advice given. thanks in advance

So a couple of days ago I posted here regarding my cycle... the general opinion was that since my spike was soo soon and that the whole thing only took a week I should 'test' the water with a peeled shrimp. So I did that last friday and have been since been awaiting a spike... the most I saw was...

So I am building a refugium out of an old 10g fish tank for use with my 29g reef setup... I bought a kit online to do this with precut pieces (all glass fittings for the tank size) now I'm just curious if you guys can point me in the right direction as far as pump placement and type. I already...

I had a similar question before I started as I don't have roaches but my apartment building sprays for them as well as ants and all sorts of crap every year. One solution a friend of mine employed with his freshwater aquarium & reptile cages is to go to home depot and buy a large section of...

Hey I read that post chain very informative... quick question how many methods of filtration are you running on your tank currently? I'm trying to get a successful reef going, and once I start thinking about corals I figured a refugium was a good step. currently I have a skimmer, and a canister...

I've been reading ahead to see what kind of purchases I will be making to improve my tank in the future, and one that crossed my path was the CPR hob refugium I think they are called (aquafuge & aquafuge pro)... I was curious if anyone has had any experiences with these in a positive or negative...

when you say put a shrimp in... are you referring to a peeled raw shrimp or a live shrimp as in a tank inhabitant? to answer your question on how i cycled it: I cycled by using a LARGE amount of LR/LS for my tank size... I have 50 Lbs of LR and 20+ Lbs of LS in a 29 gallon tank. Both were...

Just curious if my cycle is complete at this point... or if I should wait a few days to be sure... ammonia: 0 nitrite: 0 nitrate: 10 ph: 8.2 calcium: 350 alk: 9.8 the nitrate is at a false low level due to the suggested water changes to lower my ammonia a few days ago. The entirety of the...

Hey again all, Once again you guys have helped a great deal in this startup process, and now I'm nearing completion... well relatively it'll still be about a week i'm figuring. ammonia: 0-.25 nitrite: .25-.5 (down from the reading of 2 yesterday) natrate: 10 (water changes to lower ammonia...

Hello again, I got some quick and good responses yesterday to my problems so I figured I'd come back again. As per the reccommendations on the boards yesterday I did a 4-5% water change last night to help correct my high ammonia levels (>1.0) during my cycle. I currently have the following...

so i've started the hourly water changes 10% each... until ammonia is under 1.0... my follow up question is how much damage did i do?... I'm on day 3 since I added LR/LS... day 1 i had an ammonia spike of 2 by the end of the day... by day 2 i had an ammonia spike way up between 2-4... and then...

Hello again all, current parameters: PH: 7.8 calcium: 350 alk: 9.8 ammonia: 1.5 nitrite: 2 nitrate: 10-30 Just curious if its safe to do a water change to boost ph levels during a tanks cycle? :notsure: I had previously been topping the tank off with just RO/DI water and my ph dropped as a...

Hey all I just added my LR and LS yesterday and the tank is extremely cloudy (as I expected it would be)... I have read on several posts that running a canister filter during the cycle is not good as it is designed to remove the ammonia and other acting reagents that are causing the cycle to...