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I remember my first venture into the reef tank. I was very excited also with my yellow polyps on a rock about the size and shape as a baseball. Warning !!! once you start its hard to stop. <img src="graemlins//urrr.gif" border="0" alt="[urrr]" /> Good Luck !

Originally posted by twoods71: <strong>If I were to chose 3 from the list above I would go with the hammer, open brain, torch. in that order. All 3 are very nice fairly hardy corals. IMO the torch probably being the most demanding. Also the torch will command a decent amount of...

If I were to chose 3 from the list above I would gor with the hammer, open brain, torch. in that order. All 3 are very nice fairly hardy corals. IMO the torch probably being the most demanding. Also the torch will command a decent amount of space.

I started with a 29 and found it a good size tank to start the reef keeping experience. Most say larger is better to start due to more stable water conditions but IMO any where form 29 - 55 is a good place to start or even end. These size tanks are easier and less costly to stock and maintain.

If you place an algae that your fish will eat in your tank it will more then likely be consumed in no time at all and will do nothing to help with nitrates. There are products that are made for feeding algae eater such as seaweed selects. My tang loves this stuff. To help with nitrates many...

The output of a skimmer should be kind of thick and foamy like. If it is like dirty water then you probably need to adjust the skimmer for more air.

The first thing that comes to mind is red slime algae / cyanobacteria. I could be wrong though as there is not enough detail to say 100% what the algae is. If it is red slime it can easily be siphoned out of the tank and there are also several good reef safe products on the market that will kill...

Check this thread out, it may help. <a href="https://www.saltwaterfish.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=3&t=004630" target="_blank">Click on me !!!!</a>

Nice looking 29, I wish you the best of luck with it.

I agree that hair algae can look good in certain areas and if it remains in small patches. The problem however is that hair algae has a tendency to spread quickly and grow over everything. A tank covered with hair algae is not a pretty thing. PiscesBlue, the corals look nice, good luck with them.

It would be hard to give a 100% yes answer to your question but I can tell you the smaller they are the better the odds of them pairing up. Mine were about 2 inches and there was some pretty heavy fighting at first but now they get along fine and hang out together like best friends.

A standard 55 gallon is 48" long and would allow you to use 4 48" bulbs instead of 4 36" bulbs. The price of the bulbs is little if any different and the 48" bulbs are 40W given you a total of 160W. Something for you to think about if you have a standard 55 gallon. As far as bulb combinations I...

Some other causes: Nitrates, dissolved organic matter, improper lighting (wrong K value), and carbon dioxide. From my experience with hair algae the best means of fighting the nuisance is manual removal. Of course other steps will need to be taken to insure the algae will not come back. Here are...

Looks nice...I like it. Thanks for sharing.

In my past experience with fin nipped fish the fins usually grow back fairly quickly. It seems it varies with the species of fish. I have seen fins grow back in as little time as a few weeks and take as long as a little over a month.

3 damsels. 1 of them killed the other two and in a attempt to save them I removed the aggressive one and he jumped out of his temporary tank over night and died. So I lost all 3. Shortly after the lose of the damsels I added a seabae clown that is still with me today. That was over 5 years ago.

Temporary retraction is not always a problem. If the coral is always retracted however then there may be something wrong. 1 major thing to look for is receding flesh. If the flesh looks like it is receding any place on the skeleton then I would pass on the purchase.

WPG is a very general rule of thumb people use on there setups. There are many factors to consider where lighting is concerned and depth of the tank is one of them.

Grill, watch a fireworks show, and pop a few fireworks at home for the kids.

Moved you on over as mentioned above.