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Chris, I have been dabbling with nano reefs for a few years now. I started with a 10 gallon with all diy lighting. Currently I have a 24 gallon nanocube running. I am right with you now as I am in the midst of setting up a 3 gallon. I got a JBJ picotope and added about a 1.5" sand bed of...

Kzoo, You are right, I am cycling the rock to go into another tank. I feel like it is a great possibility that the tests have gone bad. They had been up in the attic for a while exposed to the temperatures. I didn't clean the rock off so that could be a big part of the problem. I will try...

First of all, I have had (set up, cycled, maintained) many saltwater tanks throughout my history with saltwater from large aggressive to pico reef. That being said, I have never seen anything like this. I recently bought one of the nano rock packs (10-15 lbs) from the good Drs. I put the rock...

Check out this link ---> http://msnbc.msn.com/id/14834763/?GT1=8506?GT1=8506 Apparently they found a place off New Guinea that has at least 10 new species including several types of flasher wrasse and a new epaullette shark.

They are called narwhals and they do still exist. They are an endangered species. My vote goes to frogfish. Those things are amazing at blending in and hiding themselves. They can move while eating so quickly that the human eye cannot keep up. It just looks like the shrimp in front of them...

Oops I almost forgot the picture. Like I said, he will run out of his cave to attack my fingers but whenever I pull out a camera he hides in his cave. As a side note since I thought this was funny, he hates my girlfriend. Whenever she sits on the futon next to the tank to watch TV, he runs...

I have had a 24 gallon nanocube for about a year now. About 5 months ago I noticed a small white hairy crab. I knew that hairy crabs are generally dangerous but it was small and I rarely saw it. I forgot about him for a while then was reminded about him when I saw him grab a hermit crab and...

The most important question that you need to answer is whether or not you would like to keep corals at some point in the future. If so, for several reasons (heat, amount of light, time...), I would chalk up the money and get the complete hood system from coralife. PM me if you want to know a...

When I was first starting, I had the same problem, red slime algea (cyano). I tried everything. I think I almost starved my fish. Don't do that. I did five things within the span of a week and it was gone and never returned. I am not sure which was the cure but I'm sure they all contributed...

Debbie, I went the route that you did by going as cheap as possible. I built my own canopy and wired three screw in fixtures. I have 2 20 watt 50/50 bulbs that you mentioned, and one 19w 6500k curly compact flourescent. It is a lot smaller than the 50/50 bulbs but is kind of yellow. The...

Yeah, I only have a lunare wrasse and blue damsel in the 75. I have a lot of filtration (large wet/dry and turboflotor skimmer) also so that will help. Any advice on how to keep the emperor healthy. I know he needs nori to graze on and sponge included in his diet to survive (niether of which...

Update: I went over to help him last night and the water wasn't exactly milky. It was a yellowish cloudy. It is not from sandstorm, something else. The ammonia, nitrite, salinity, and pH were fine but the nitrite was at 25-30 ppm despite a 50% WC the day before. I told him he had to get the...

I had thought of turning off the lights and not feeding for a week to 10 days to get rid of the cyano, but he has that anemone and the corals that rely on the light. I would put them in my tanks but I have a 75 FO that could hold the fish for him but is only lit by NO strips. I have a nano...

I helped a friend of mine set up a small reef tank about two months ago. He got a 36 bow corner tank. He got 50 lb. LS and 50 lb. LR and a BakPak II skimmer on my recommendation. He also got a 250 watt 10000K MH with 110 watts of actinic VHO supplementation. He recently got a chiller because...

There aren't too many wrasses that would be too big for a 125. I don't think it would be too stressed to find food. I would reccommend a lunare wrasse or a harlequin tusk. I have a lunare wrasse in a 75 with a huma trigger and it swim right in front of the glass all day long and makes the...

I have been letting it run and dumping the waste and it seems to be getting a little bit yellower but that is about it. Could it be that I have an overabundance of organic waste from not running a skimmer for so long?

Harlequinnut, I tried tweaking the knobs and even took them completely off and it still fills the collection cup up. Squishyfish, where does the second pump go? It is not included with the skimmer. I have the needle wheel pump pumping into the input (grey elbow tube). I may call the...

I got mine at a charity auction for $165. Good deal huh?

I got a Turboflotor 1000 multi for Christmas to setup on the side of my sump. I set everything up like I thought is should be and plugged it in. The problem is that it seems to be pumping too much. It is filling up the collection cup with just water pretty quickly. I don't know how to adjust...

Alright I have a question. I am going home from college on Christmas break in a week. I live about 2 hours away so I will be able to come back periodically. How often will be sufficient for coming back to feed and do maintainance on the tanks when I will be gone for about three weeks? I have...