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very nice flow. What do you have your gph at?

water readings as of last night: Temp: 78 degrees Salinity: 1.024 Ammonia: 0 Nitrites: 0 Nitrates: 5 Ph: 8.2 Tested Ph again this morning and it was 8.0 so I added buffer to get it up. I have some stress coat I may put in there but they physically look ok as far as...

went home for lunch to check, Ph was was down but not horrible. Applied buffer appropriately and will do further testing tonight. Harlequin Tusk is still laying on the bottom but is hanging in there. Still hope he pulls through... anything that I can do to help when I get home?

I summarized everything here . please assist with this. Don't want to lose the tusk

yes, abit like that. will test for that when I get home. Didn't want to test last night as I don't think accurate readings would have been given with all that changed.

So I got home from work yesterday to find my pump in the filter not working and my Harlequin Tusk laying on his side in the corner and the Foxface completely black. They are in a 55G as I am setting up my 125G. The filter is a Penguin Biowheel 330 with a 300 GPH powerhead pushing a UV filter...

do you have to worry about starfish leaving the tank like an eel will? sorry for hijacking the thread... great looking starfish too!!

sailfin/yellow tangs are just as suspectible to disease/problems as other tangs but are considered more hardy b/c they recover better and respond better to meds/quarantine from what I have read

Acanthurus (glaucopareius) nigricans (Linnaeus 1758), the Powder Brown or Gold-Rimmed Surgeon Acanthurus japonicus is white cheek

I have been crazy busy at work so I haven't had the time I would have liked to get this going quicker but I have put in the sand, 30lbs of live argonite and 120 lbs of dead sand for a 2" or so sand bed. It is settling now and I will be aquascaping the LR I have while still looking for some...

from what I have read, if there are too many in a small area they cannot establish territory so there is not much to fight about.

only get a volitan if your friend is planning on upgrading his tank sooner rather then later

the setup came with a UV and skimmer pictured below. I will have the skimmer setup in the wet/dry and the UV separate. Only thing I am missing now is a pump. For FOWLR a 10x turn over rate would be what I should go for right?

Originally Posted by scotty37 I have been hearing everyone freaking out about the silicates or whatever in the play sand? Is there a certain kind that doesnt have that? and What did you seed it with that matched it up so nice? I asked the same question a few days ago and read here. I have three...

Originally Posted by murph145 i picked him up for $20 like 3 years ago from the LFS just got lucky i guess never really scene as bright of yellow since did some research and found this about the fuzzy dwarf: Three principal colour morphs exist: brown (most common), red (less common though...

$3.49 per 50lbs of sand and looking great!! Love the powder brown tang too. Want one of those when my tank gets better established

I picked up some "garlic guard" at the LFS, just go ask them. have seen some people on here that will dice fresh garlic for the food to soak in too.

any chance at repair? the caps come off but the tube looks sealed

silversides thawed with some garlic and vitamins soaked in. mine loves to chase ghost shrimp for a treat every now and then. have also seen him eating the algea sheets put in there for the foxface.

just picked up three bags of the sand yesterday so I'll try and remember to get some vinegar tonight and play with it. Will take pics/let you know.