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I am getting close to finally setting my tank up and I am currently stocking up my supplies, what I need to know is, what is best to use in a sump/fuge. Should I use mud or a deep sand bed, and how deep should the sand be in the main tank, since I am doing one or the other in the sump? Also I...

I am in the process of making my sump/refugium and I am trying to figure out the best way to do my sand bed. I was wondering if should put a deep sand bed in my sump and a shallow sand bed in the tank, or only put a deep bed in the tank. I was also wondering what is best to put in the fuge like...

Well I am working on finally setting up my tank and so I am going to be asking alot of questions for a while so for now here is the first... I have 200 pounds of dead rock that was given to me a while back. It has been sitting on a shelf in a garage for a long while, anyway I probably need to...

Well I have been reading alot on qt and I was wondering should you qt inverts, and coral as well, or just fish? I was wodering because when my tank is ready a friend of mine is going to give me some frags from his tank. I was going to put them on in, figured all will be well but then started...

Well I bought some glass tops for my aquarium a while ago, and then I read some threads here, and there was questions about what to cover your tank with. Well some wrote that they had glass tops on their tanks and their corals were not getting enough light because of it. Well my lights just came...

I was in an lfs the other day and I was talking to him about my base base rock and wanted to see how much his live rock costs when I am ready to buy some. Well he showed me a product he had, and for the life of me I can not remember the name, I think it was jump start, or kick start, or...

Well the other day I recieved from my Uncle 200 pounds of dead dry rock that he used to have in his aquarium. My tank is 180 gallons, so of course I probably can not use all of it, and I want to add some live rock to seed it. The question is how much live rock to dead rock should I use, or...

O.K. I am getting ready to get the second most expensive part of my tank. The problem I am having is I am on the fence over getting a halide setup or I was really looking at the nova extreme pro. My tank is 180 gallons and I am planning a reef. I was told that you can keep just about anything...

I am getting ready to start getting equipment for my 180. I was lookng at the Nova Extreme Pro 72" T-5 light set. I know it does not have metal halides but I do not want those anyway. If anyone has used them or knows anything about them let me know, lights are too expensive to make the wrong...

Hello all! I have finally started to put together my first reef tank! . I have always had a fresh water tank and always wanted salt but being in the Army and moving around all the time it was not possible. I have a 180 gal. reef ready tank drilled on the left and right and it will be used as a...

I am trying to upload some photos and I set up a photobucket account I resized the photos and used the img code, it starts showing that it is uploading and it never ends. Is it norml to take forever to upload? I can not get anything to show up. Does anyone have any suggestions?

I am setting up a new 180 gallon reef ready tank. It will be a room dividing tank so I will have no background and needs to be viewed well from both sides. I need to know the type of lighting that would be best. I want to set up a reef and I am confused on whether or not metal hilides are...

I have purchased a 180 gallon custom tank to use as a room seperator, the overflows are on the right and left side of the tank. Well I was all excited to start building my stand and realized that I have a problem. I did not take into account that one side of the room has a 18" drop off and the...