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Hi, I started a 30 gallon foWOlr tank and added two damsels almost a week ago -they're the popular purple/gold juveniles you always see in LFSs. I had thought that being the only two fish in a 30 gallon tank would give them plenty or personal room, but one is constantly seeking out the other...

Hi, I will be setting up a 30 gallon tank this week. I've had salt tanks in the past - 12g and 29g FOWLR tanks and a 30g simple reef tank. Would I be able to keep a captive-bred sea horse and a starfish of some kind in this tank? Can you point me to good info sources on both of these?

done... the sand has been returned. Thanks guys Next on the agenda, where is this place you speak of with $20 sand?

Hi all, I am setting up a new salt tank for the first time in several years. It is only 30 gallons, because a) that's all I have and b) we're in a 3rd floor apartment so there's only so much I can risk. Plan on fish only for now, adding live rock later. This will be my first attempt to ever...

I work part time at a pet store in the mall and they have a 140 gallon show tank at the front. Not to call the guy that does the fish stuff a moron, but he's stupid. They only have a trickle filter on the tank....no skimmer, no nothin, and they have a lot of reef in it. Well everything seems...

nitrates have always been high in my 10 gallon tank. I'm wondering if maybe I've got too much of a bio-load in the tank. Here's the specs on my tank: Environment: 1 - 10 gallon 2 - 20 pounds indopacific black aragonite 3 - 8 pounds of LR 4 - a good sized wad of that sawtooth blade plant stuff...

either the toilet or I march it out to the dumpster

where can I find a true PC actinic bulb ?

OK, so I know what coraline algae IS, at least to some extent, but after searching the board I haven't really found anything that says what it DOES, at least no more than to say it's "beneficial." Can someone give me the "Scientific details" as to what it does and how to make it thrive...

anyone know? or have any opinions?

So, in our 30 gallon tank, we used to have 2 percula clowns, a royal gramma, a high-fin goby, and a coral banded shrimp. A recent trend has developed in our tank where whole chucks of fin suddenly disappear. It's not gradual, just all of a sudden we have a gimp fish. This seems to happen...

With the plants, will they live floating or should I plant them into the aragonite?

Really? Remove the charcoal and biowheel?? Could this also be why our nitrates are high in our 30 gallon? We've got a similar setup on that one, but it's an Emperor 280 biowheel and a Jebo submersible cannister filter. My substrate is Aragalive IndoPacific Black Aragonite.

one other question, these sawtooth-blade whatever plants, do I need to sink them down into the aragonite or are they fine just as a bunch around the filter intake? I put it there because one of my fish loves to bite at the intake and get himself stuck.

I've got 3 small fish, a small emerald and fiddler crab, along with a couple of snails and small hitchhiers. I feed the tank twice a day. Filtration is a Penguin mini-biowheel filter and a submerged canister powerhead/filter that I used to run in my turtle tank. I've got the canister full of...

My nitrates in my 10 gallon are consistently between 20-40ppm even with weekly water changes and a canister filter of SeaChem DeNitrate. I know everyone recommends a refugium for nitrate control, is there a way to do an effective refugium for a 10 gallon? I put some of those sawtooth whatever...

the way male fish swim is erotic:)

Not sure if anyone has seen or heard of this device, but it's a combination hang-on filter and a mini protein skimmer. My thoughts are it won't work as well as individuals, but I'm only running a 10 and 30 gallon, and I thought it may help keep my 10 gallon a little cleaner. I'm currently...

I like to eat my starfish poo poo:D

Some of you may remember me telling that a few weeks ago some kid at the LFS told me it was OK to put a brittle star and a bubble-tip anemone in a 10 gallon when it had only been set up a few days. Well, of course, they both started to look fairly poor for a while, but they're on the uprise...