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if you just got your skimmer then it will take a few days for the skimmer to work correctly. just keep playing with the settings. adjust the water level just below the place where the tube on top starts to get smaller. lastly alwys remember with skimmers you get what you pay for. if you have a...

that figures. i have an algea thats hard to get rid of lol. so you think that a lawnmower bleeny and another crab should do it? anyone else got any ideas? i dont like reaching in with my hands into the tank. you never know what we have on our hands and then introduce something else into the tank

yup just drop it in and away you go. you dont need anything else to kick staart your cycle. now just sit and sit and sit and sit and wait and wait and wait and wait and read and read and read. and after that read some more

ok drawing on my at home plumbing experiance lol. i would say use a u tube and drill a 1/4" hole about 1-2 inches below the water line of the main tank. this will break the siphon if something like the power goes out!!!!!!!! the water drain into the fuge then a pump will return the water to the...

ok this tuff is getting on my nerves. i have 15 bluelegs, 2 tubos, 2 ceriths, 1 pepermint, and an emerald crab. the emerald at first devoured the stuff but now doesnt mess with it too much. my occelaris bite and pull at it once and awhile but dont do much damage to it. i have manually removed...

in a few books i have read the "old notion" of 1 lb per gal comes from the use of florida lr. this is a dense rock. stuff like hatian and fiji has more pores and so it is lighter than the same size florida. inturn if you have 100 lbs of florida it is probably the equivilent to about 75 lbs of...

the only thing i can think of is that when a large chunk falls in its like adding too much salt to the water. this will inturn cause the calcium to persipitate and lower the ph of the water. then by adding it to the tank it will then change the chemistry of the saltwater. if i am wrong someone...

i would say that the cloudy water is from the shrimp. if you got an amonia spike then you might just want pull out the shrimp since it has done its job.oh about the fish pick eighther or, not both youll be sorry. damsels are not the best tank mates for most fish other than themselves. about the...

ok from what i have read about clowns is that if you have a school of them there will be a dominate fish and that will be the female.the next one will be the male, and all the others will be male. when the dominate female dies the dominate male will turn female and one of the other fish will...

i have a a glass hydro and i pulled it out of the package and asked if i could put it into the lfs's tank and let him check it against his refracto and mine was spot on out of the package. i never heard of seasoning one before. but thats my $.02

you forgot one last thing he could do. i always preferred the gfci circut breaker. this will make all the sockets into a gfci interupt socket. they are expensive but i rather those then a single socket. the only downfall is they are alot more expensive then the socket. like 4xs the cost of one...

it sounds like a good deal in pesos lol. or maybe korean wan......maybe japanese yen.... no it doesnt sound like a good investment. but thats my $.02

i have some fern like green algea growing on my sand. i have 15 hermits and a pepermint shimp in my tank. none of my guys realling do anything to it. also i have some red stuf that looks like little red leaves like a birch leave on on of my lr's. here is a pic of the read things. this is about...

if you have nothing in that tank but water sand and rock all you need to do is plop it in and it will cure in your tank. when these guys/gals say cure it in a separate container it is because there are living creatures in the tank and the amonia spike will kill them. since you have nothing in...

well maybe he just up and died? if everything is still doing fine, then maybe he just ate something that he shouldnt have or gotten into a fight and lost? it might have been just his time to go. if there everything plossible was exhasted then the only thing left is the implossible but thats my $.02

i just left mine in. it didnt seem to bother anything and i figured why move all my rock out of the way just to get something thats going to disintergrate in a month. but that my $.02

well i have a mix of live and tufa rock and within a few weeks i saw some new coriline growing on the tufa and the live rock but thats my $.02

well the 6500k are more to the yellow spectrum of light but it has a higher "par" then any of the other lights. but.......i have a book that is written by pletta called"ultimate marine aquariums" and none of the 50 tanks use 6500k's. they use everything from vho and ro combo's to mh. alll of...

there we go i was hopeing you would see this bang. i know you deal with other types of cardinals but i thought you were about the best to answer this. i have a comprehensive book on marine fish. the book doesnt have anything on --- of these fish. all it has is unknown. i got the one just to be...

well what i would do is have on vho 6500k and 1 actinic. the 6500k has the highest "par" out of all the bulbs out there and the 10k is the whightest. its on the yellow side of the spectrum though. but thats my $.02