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I bought some more live rock today and put it into my sump to finish curing it. It had already been curing at the LFS for a few weeks. Later tonight I got out a flashlight to take a better look at the rocks. I was looking at one piece and I saw a small piece of what looked like some rotting...

You shouldn't be changing your water until your tank is finished cycling.

WOW! a hundred gallons an hour? If you want to run a reef tank, heck you're only 1000 gallons an hour short. :D Yes I said one thousand. If you want a fish only tank, then you want to circulate your tank 10 times in an hour. In your case this would be 550 gallons an hour. If you want a reef...

I have a fidler crab and a Serpet starfish in my tank. What are the chances that the fidler crab will kill and eat my starfish? The starfish is only about 5" across with a 1" disk. The crabs body is about an inch and a half wide.

Which color would be better for the back of the tank, black or blue?

After cleaning it out well with your bleach solution,( the bleach will kill the amonia left behind from the snake), rinse the tank thoroughly with fresh water. Then rinse it again with water that has chlorine remover in it, but make it a strong solution of chlorine remover.

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Take the CC out. Chances are that if you are going to replace your substrate, you're going to replace it withsand. If you put sand over top of the CC, the sand will eventually sink to the bottom and the CC will make its way back to the top again. You'll be sorry if yo don't take it out. You'll...

Well I received the Jebo 2003 protein skimmer that I ordered. It came with a pump that is reted at 548 GPH. I already have a Mag Drive 5 that is rated at 500 GPH already in my tank. I was thinking that 538 may be too much for my skimmer. I only have a 45 gallon tank and a 20 gallon sump. So I...

Since you already have it, why not use your 25 gallon tank as a sump? That would make your water system about 15 gallons bigger.

I know you're anxious to get fish in your tank and I would be to. If it were me, I'd do a water change today, then test the water. Then test the water again this weekend. If all is well, then add your clowns.

If I'm not mistaken, isn't Amquel for removing chlorine from water?

Either way, if the tank is leaking, it will have to be emptied, and then repaired.

mine has a smoother tube and the feathers are white with spots of reddish brown around them.

Your sump can be as big as you want it to be, but it has to be big enough to handle your ovrflow should you lose power. My tank is drilled so I dont have to worry about losing a syphon. Anyway, turn your pump off, block your overflow, and then fill your tank to the very top. Now let you water...

You tell him Jill, or is it Jack? :D I had brown algae for a while also. It was caused by the phosphates in the tap water I was using. There is a thing called Phosguard that I used. It is granular in form. You put it in a filter bag and place the bag into your filter. It got rid of the brown...

Tonight I bought my first feather duster. The kid at the store didn't seem to know much about them but I figured I would get more help here anyway. I've been researching them but I couldn't find answers to certain questions. Can feather dusters move on their own? Do I have to place it where I...

Be sure to let us know if that fixes your problem.

I was in the hobby about 20 years ago and just get back into it recently. I bought my first starfish ever last week. It is doing fine. It is a small Serpent star. Its disk is about an inch in diameter with its arms extending out about 2 1/2 inches long. I noticed that when I have the lights...

I wouldn't even attempt to move it with that much water in it. You still have to lift the tank somehow to slide the diskd under the stand. If it's not lifted properly, you could put stress on the glass and cause it to crack. My suggestion would be to syphon about 30 gallons of water out and then...