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I would recommend against bubbles. From what I have heard, they can interfere with the coral polyps filtering water for food(or something along those lines). Imo air bubbles don't look good. They make the water look cloudy. If you are worried about the oxygen level in the water, make sure you...

A while back, I posted a similar post, when my long tentacled anemone decided to get in a fight with a ph. It looked in really rough shape. I turned the ph off and then eventually had to pull him out of the screen. Well I thought he was a goner, but him came back and now is doing great. I just...

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If you have metal halides,that can certainly cause tops to crack. A good fan and clearance took care of the problem when my glass top cracked. I don't know if pc. or vho could generate enough heat to crack the glass, but I suppose it is possible if they are right on top of glass.

I agree with panhead about the trate reading. I read that somewhere also. Wait til trites are at 0

7X per hour from sump plus I have 4 powerheads in tank. Works good for me.

Do you have a skimmer running. How often do you do water changes? Water parameters. You could try carbon for a few days to clear water

What did you think it was? And Don't feel bad, I just used you formula, And think I was told the wrong gallon size for my tank. If your formula is accurate, I have a 125(actually it came out to 134) instead of a 150 that I was told when I bought the tank. That is ok though, I think the 150 is...

If I understand you correctly, the tank used to be a cichlid tank, and you used 35 gallons from the cichlid tank to make the sw tank. The rest was added distilled water. If the tank has been up for only a week, and you added ls and lr from an established tank you may not get a cycle. If you did...

I have a carpet for 4 mos. and a long tentacle for 2. Both are thriving(long tentacle got in a fight with a power head but is doing great now). By the way, how big does a carpet get? It is growing at a brisk rate.Just curious

When I got mine, I thought he may have gone off and died. I didn't see him for 2 days, then on the 3rd I saw him after lights out. He stayed mostly nocturnal the 1st week, now he doesn't sleep.lol. He is always trying to clean the tangs whenever they get close to him.

With that amount of fish in a 55, I don't know if you will ever get your levels perfect. You may want to scale back on the fish a little. Fish are a big bio load on a tank. With a 4 in DSB and 120 lbs of live rock, doesn't leave much room for that many fish, esp. the tang. Maybe you can trade a...

I would say you are fine with the water changes as long as things are fine. As far as the clown goes, They never cease to amaze me! They do the wierdest things sometimes.

I think you might mean a Ritteri anemone. From what I have read about them, they require strong lighting and stronger current, and are considered difficult anemone to keep. Try doing a search for more info

SDmarriot might be on to something with the cucumber. I have heard that they can poison a tank when they feel threatened. Also, you mentioned that you just added the snails and crabs. Did you acclimate them slowly to your water conditions or did you put them in quickly. Just another idea to...

If you can keep your nitrate and phosphate levels down near 0, just give your clean up crew time to grow. They will catch up with the algae growth. IMO snails seem to do the best job on the algae growth. I would have about 20-25 turbo snails in a 46 gal.Just my opinion.

This sounds like the algae I had in my tank. I tried to scrub it off with a brush and it doesn't come off. Like a green spray paint. Now it seems to be going away. I suggest just giving it time and keep your parameters low. If it is the same as my tank, it goes away.

Well I guess I can jump on the band wagon too. My name is Andy, 40 years old, and am a mechanic at a Cadillac Dealership. I am pretty new to SW, but have been doing FW for quite awhile. SW is much better IMO. Can't take the money with you so might as well spend it on a reef tank!

I have an aptasia anemone that is coming out of a hole in a peice of lr. I didn't want to get rid of it because it is on a rock that a real nice toadstool is firmly attached to. In fact the toadstool just recently split and now I have two on the rock. Tonight I noticed for the first time 3 new...

I feed it about every 5 days. I have heard a lot of argument on how often to feed them, but mine seems to doing just fine(until the mishap with the ph) with the feeding schedule. I also have a carpet that is getting pretty big and seems pretty happy. Rarely moves and when it does it is only a...