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I think some fish were stirring up sand near the intake of the pump and it sucked the sand up. Than the magnet on the impeller rotated in some of this sand and got grooves in it. Thus it makes noise. The new impeller I installed has now quieted the pump as if it was new. What I don't...

I figured sanding or grinding it down would lessen it's effectiveness but I can't use it as is without buying ear muffs. The grooves in the shaft somehow make the unit very loud and the new shaft I'm guessing will suffer the same fate. Spending $30 plus dollars everytime disgusts me. Thanks...

Has anyone ever grinded their impeller magnet shaft? Mine was making noise and I found sand that put grooves in the magnet. Ordered a new shaft which was over $30 with cost and shipping. Now it's quiet again. But I thought what if you could grind the magnet to remove the grooves and reuse...

The Trigger is not sick so not the reason to quarintine him. I was just thinking if he can stay in the tank but be kept in "quarters" for a bit, the other fish can swim close to him, thus (my hope) they will get along? This site when I bought him says he is the most peaceful of Triggers. I...

Any way to quarintine a Niger Trigger by putting him in a underwater box made of netting? I'm thinking this would allow my other fish to swim in his territory for a while and maybe he would learn he does not own the tank? A few of my fish never come out of the rock as he constantly bully's...

I plumbed in the RO unit too and make my own water. Tested it and that is all good too. Forgot to mention I also have a skimmer in addition to all the other equip. No one seems to know what the prob is here and I've tried to follow any/all advice given!

Also, live rock is from local fish store and mostly from this site. Do I need more of it? Pretty soon there won't be room left for the fish!

The tank is all good with readings. I maintain more than I should. I never thought of any dead areas in the tank with water flow but some inverts/fish, etc need that calm area don't they? I can clean the fluvals again and again but nothing changes. Just getting really disgusted here as the...

Running about 100lbs of live rock, new lighting system, two fluval filters, small bio wheel, a "ammonia?" wheel that is a sponge that goes in and out of the water, two power heads just pushing water, etc. The base is crushed coral but can't be as bad as most people here talk about. I have a QT...

Taking advice here I searched and searched and found these little necks today. Had to buy the bag which has about 2.5 lbs or 20 clams. Is this too many for a 75 gal tank? My Nitrates are 160 plus and have tried so many things to lower it. If the clams do it and run out of Nitrates will they die...

Taking advice here I searched and searched and found these little necks today. Had to buy the bag which has about 2.5 lbs or 20 clams. Is this too many for a 75 gal tank? My Nitrates are 160 plus and have tried so many things to lower it. If the clams do it and run out of Nitrates will they...

Bad deal. Lost the new starfish (serpent) and the new Longnose Butterfly. The fish died last night and I don't know when the starfish died but I found it tonight. The liverock I purchased was cured and went from the fish store to my tank in under 30 min so I don't think much die off could have...

I did the $79 or above deal with the website. Added only two fish and than some crabs, anemones, one starfish, etc. I did buy about 11lbs of cured liverock last night and put that in. Should I do some water changes now than or just let it do it's thing? I want to do whats best for the fish.

Just added the other night some new livestock. I'm not pleased with how the ammonia and nitrites have gone up. Unsafe levels. I added some ammonia lock and nitrite remover to combat the problem. Should I let that do it's thing and leave the tank alone or do water changes right now!? 75 gallon...

Need help to order lighting, T5?....etc.... I don't know much about it as there are so many options out there. Don't like the look of large lights hanging from the ceiling suspended above the tank. I have 75 gal tank. Fish mostly but want some aneomes. Suggestions on a decent looking lighting...

I'm working on up'ing the salt as I was told .23 so I'm working on going to .26. My temp was at 83 so I'm dropping to 78. I tested my tap water last night and no issues with Nitrates, Copper, etc but I'm installing a RO anyway. Have not seen any other responses yet on how to drop those...

Hello, brand new poster here. Lots of info! What is recommended for salt level for fish? I've read .26 is good for inverts that I also have in tank. Is that ok? Nitrates: My ph is 7.8 (cannot get it higher even with chemicals), Nitrites 0, Amm is 0, Nitrates are 80 to off the chart. I've...