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I treated my fish in the formalin dip a couple weeks ago. It was extremely easy. I took a 1 gallon water jug that I bought at the grocery store. I cut off the top so the fish could easlily fit in. filled with water from my quarantine tank and ran an airstone. Because the jug held less than...

Private messages are nice if you are selling something and you give directions to somebody. You probably don't want everybody knowing the directions to your house. On other forums with more members and alot more post, they are allowed. It may be so people don't PM back and forth aother...

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Thomas. Would you know what the type of coral is in my tank on the right side in the middle of the star coral. At night it looks like a piece of leather molded in the shape of the rock that it is on. And it opens like, and waves like a star coral but does not have the colored centers like...

here are few pictures of my 125. I have 1-2 inches of aragonite fine sand and run a magnum 350 canister filter. I really don't like the DSB because it takes up so much space in the tank. My nitrates read zero and I only have to clean the glass about once a week if lots of sun hits the tank...

Are you concerned that after dipping your rocks in freshwater that you may have a small cycle to contend with now?

If you plan on doing a fish only tank with no corals then you don't need all the live rock and the deep sand bed. A very good reliable setup for a 55 gallon fish only tank is a good filter like a magnum canister or an emporer 400 filter, a decent skimmer like a sea clone or back pak and either...

I don'y know. I have always run about 2/3 10k and 1/3 actinic so I have never experienced browning. Just what a LFS told me a couple years back.

The only thing that I have ever heard is that to much actinic can cause some corals to take on some brown coloring.

As long as your fish are not fat or skinny then you probably are doing good. Do you turn off your filters when you feed? In my 125 gallon reef I feed half a square once a day. I also have the reef that the fish feed off of also.

I would keep the bio balls and run a prefilter. Also every so often 6 months or so, rinse them off with some tank water from your water change and they should not contribute any more nitrates than live rock or sand will. Bioballs won't reduce nitrates but that is what you have live rock and...

Forgive me if this was mentioned before. I did not read through the whole thread. Have you tried also putting powerheads down in the back bottum corners to push water down and around the rocks to help push any gunk up into the water column and hopefully to some mechanical filtration for...

On my 125 gallon I run 2-140 watt vho 10k and 2-95 watt actinics, and the corals are doing great and have grown like crazy.

I can remember when I walked off the Lincoln after six months afloat and how wonderful it felt to just walk on grass and drive a car around town. I can imagine how exited they are. One thing that my family could not understand was an hour after I got home I drove up to the mountains for some...

YAYYY I know:rolleyes: :rolleyes:

Lots of people say to run Fish only tanks in the lower Sg range because it is less stressful on the fish than the higher Sg.

I say go with the 900's, less wattage and seem to run cooler. You only loose 65 GPH also. Thomas: who is it now?:;)

I don't want to type that much and you have it on disk right:D lower wattage only 65 GPH less than 1200's run cooler :p :p :mad:

4 Maxijet 900s

VHO's will run a whole lot cooler and really look nice. From what the manufacturers told me ( corallife and URI ) the bulbs can easily last over a year. Granted if you run them 16 hours aday then you would have to change them all the time, but that goes for PC's to