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The all time, most used, biggest published, all the time, bottom of the line AVERAGE is 1.023. There ya go.

What has changed? If this is a real emergency, take a two liter bottle of soda...rinse it, fill it with water, then freeze it. Float it in the tank after its frozen. This is only to be done if its a real emergency. What has caused the temperature spike? If its a problem thats bound to re-occur...

Thanks for the replies so far, don't you wish everything you bought matched the book photo???? The damsel (someone suggested is a honey suckle damsel) I can't find anything on, but he seems to behave medium-aggressive, and picked a spot he likes under the hammer coral. The green chromises are...

OK...in the LFS it was listed as an elephant ear coral, which I read up on...but now I can't seem to get the species to match...anyone know what this is? <a href="http://www.miniocean.com/coral1.jpg" target="_blank">http://www.miniocean.com/coral1.jpg</a> And this damsel doesn't match anything I...

No, no no...I know this is not a blue damsel, I'm trying to find out what it really is.

Saw this in the LFS today, and they had it labelled as a "blue damsel". Ok. It looks very much like a green chromis, a little larger, with an orange body (the same orange as those popsicles we used to buy from the good humor guy) with a light blue coloration that begins at the gills and covers...

I've been through the ich wars, and have fish that lived to tell about it. In my opinion, properly administered hyposalinity is the ONLY way to cure ich. Leaving the tank fish free for 45 days will eradicate it from your tank, but the fish that were in there when the clowns were WILL get ich if...

Clownfish are something, but sometimes they're something else! We have a beautiful true percula, and everything was fine in reefland for a long time. One day, he decided our gornopia was an anemone, and moved in. The reef went to hell in about 72 hours. The clown was stressing the coral to the...

Cowfish are great, very human responsive, very hardy, and get along with almost anything...but they have a dark side! They can release an oxytoxin if severely stressed which can wipe out a whole tank. It literally poisons the water. DO NOT put a cowfish in with fin nipping fish, like triggers...

First, get a piece of paper. Heres some of the things you need, and you NEED to write down the cost. Doing a saltwater tank, especially a reef tank is a slow, slow, (did I say slow?) process. Its not like FW where you buy something nice in the store, throw it in, and watch it. SLOW. You will...

The problem with that is crushed coral works its way to the top of sand over time.

Why would the horseshoes be detremental to a live sand bed? I think they're great, as long as nothing in the tank wants to eat them. They do everything you suggest, they turn over the sand, and they eat leftovers. They don't eat bacteria, worms, or other live critters, so they're not a threat to...

...and salinity. VERY sensitive. Check that your salinity is at least 1.020, hopefully more in the 1.022-1.024 range.

Ok. You smell and your mother dresses you funny. OH - sorry, thats not what you meant. I don't know, I've found that theres not a lot of censorship here, other sites are mentioned, websites given, I don't remember things disappearing. Did something specific happen?

The inch rule of thumb is a good one...but theres a better one. Watch your water parameters. If your tank is overloaded, you will NEVER be able to get 0 nitrite, or under 40 nitrates. The angel thing has been addressed, I'll leave that alone. My point, is that the inches rule is dependent on a...

He's wrong wrong wrong in my opinion. The benefits of a deep sand bed are numerous, and you won't have to clean it at all if you get a proper clean up crew. In our 54 reef we have a 4" deep sand bed, and it sparkles white everywhere. We have about 30 snails, two conchs, an orange linkia star...

An ammonia spike at this point is exactly what you should expect. You said the readings before were fine...but there wasn't anything to start the cycle. The damsels are doing that now. You will see the ammonia fall, nitrites rise, then fall, then finally nitrates rise then fall. After you have...

The laws here on Long Island don't make much more sense...the sandsharks (called dogfish by the fisherman) are so abundant that the boats usually move to get away from them. Yet...you're only allowed to keep one a day per boat. You figure it out. They are usually caught between 1.5 and 3 feet...

This is wild...I've read about them but never seen one. In one of the LFS near me, they have a 2' Hawaiian Dragon Eel. He's HUGE, and he's gorgeous. I wish I had a tank to put him in :) They're selling him for $499, which is quite a deal on this species from what I understand. I'll try to take...

Sorry, I usually do include where the info came from...in this case it was fishbase.org.