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typically inverts are going to like higher salinity.....i keep mine between 1.025 and 29. but this is kind of like temperature in my experience. the number isnt as important as how constant it is. pick a number in your range and concentrate on that and youll be fine.

sorry for the loss of your coral beauty....but im sure you are still feeling pretty lucky compared to what it could have been. I had never heard of a battery powered air pump, and will have to get one soon....sorry for you misfortune, but good thing for boards like this. In cases of serious...

regardless of whether or not people agree you are overstocked, i think everyone can agree that your tank is too immature at 7 months to handle that load. youre just in a position to have to take a couple steps back before you can take any steps forward.....good luck to you.

its good that it helped with the hair algae, but right now you need to be taking fish out instead of putting them in. Im just scared that right now you are set up for a potentially bad situation. I would really recommend taking a good amount of your fish back for store credit and starting much...

honestly if that is your stock list after only 7 months and your biggest problem is nitrates of 30, you are in far better shape than you should be. So... Step 1: Thank your lucky stars Step 2: find a new LFS Step 3: Spend a lot of time reading on this board. Test your water frequently for...

too early to panic.....give it time. its not uncommon for a fish to hide for a day or 2.

sounds like you are on the right track.....best of luck

order has been made, thanks for the help guys....

best thing to do is to look in the fish photography forum, see what you like and then duplicate things here and there. I will tell you what I like, is more small colorful fish, but this is your tank. But first I would seriously recommend spending some quality time reading posts on this board...

Thanks for the heads up about the feather dusters, i actually didnt know that. The ones ive had in the past didnt bother them, but ill keep my eyes on them. But i like peppermint shrimp more anyways, but thanks for the info. i have ordered many of these things from SWF.com before and was very...

I am going to order to complete my CUC tomorrow. My tank is a 37 gallon and it is fish only, but I will go to reef eventually. Just wanted some opinions before I placed the order... Currently have about: 1 peppermint shrimp, 4 scarlet hermits, 4 turbo snails Planned to order: 8 trochus snails...

i dont have a frag tank, so i cant comment on the sump part. But i dont use a mechanical filter, i just put a piece of filter sponge in the bubble trap in my sump.

only reason i dont do that is because it all goes in as 1 big chunk. just seems like if you dethaw it in water first it floats everywhere so everybody gets some food and nobody gets in a fight.

just use a trash can (clean of course), put a bunch of saltwater in that trash can and put all the rock in there as you are arranging your rocks. Then check the bottom of the trash can for loose hermits and snails.

just get a cup of tank water and dissolve the frozen food in that. Then just dump the entire cup of water with the dissolved food in the tank. should be easy enough to explain to someone who doesnt know much about saltwater tanks. You just wont be rinsing your food, but itll be fine.

forgot to add the important part.....it is getting late, I would go to bed and [hr] with it tomorrow. Just make sure you have a powerhead circulating water, and if possible turn one so that it is stirring up water on the surface, this will mix the water with oxygen better. But bottom line...

i think you do need a smaller pump. That is a different type of HOB overflow than I have, but I would guess it is not rate for much more than 300 maybe 600 at the absolute most. with a 700 pump, even with head loss, I imagine it is too much. So bottom line is you have either too strong of a...

im a little confused as to what you are saying is happening. Do you mean if you add water to the display tank that it overflows onto the floor? Or are you saying it spills out of your sump? Typically your pump and HOB overflow will kind of sync up to take care of themselves. the pump will...

they will multiply and be everywhere. Plus I was told they can sting your fish, but mine never really seemed bothered by them. I had peppermint shrimp also, but they never did get rid of it. to empty my tank it took a bottle of joe's juice and some determination. If you just get a bottle of...

i pulled the rock out and clipped them off. I figured since I didnt pay for it, and I dont know what it is, its not worth the risk. I tried to scrub them off with a toothbrush but it didnt work. I ended up using fingernail clippers to chop them off. I learned a while ago in this hobby that...