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I have a 3 1/2 year old set up and I am going to be moving so I planned to break the tank down, recycle it, and start everything from scratch. I planned to get some new sand to have a fresh dsb. Is that necessary? I was planning to reuse my LR but was wondering if that needs to be replaced...

Sometime in the next 6 months I will be moving and am trying to plan moving my tank. Fortunately I don't have too much live stock, 2 false percs, a yellow clown goby, shrimp, snails, crabs, sand sifting cucumber, and a handful of small corals. I also have about 60 pounds of LR and 60 pounds of...

The day after I did a 6% water change (about 3 on a 45 gallon) all of my fish were gone (2 false percs, 1 royal gramma, 1 purple firefish). The the only body left was too far gone for me to get a clue about what had happened. I tested my water and the levels weren't pristine, but the were only...

I got a new purple firefish from the LFS 3 nights ago but I have only seen him once since putting him in the tank. Is it common for them to hide in the rock work all the time? I've read that they do well in pairs. If I got a second purple firefish, would that help him come out. I'm a little...

I have a realtively established tank (9 months) and I have never had an outbreak of Ich before. Right now I only see one spot on one of my clown fish (I have 2 false percs and a Royal Gramma). I have also noticed the infected clownfish rubbing against the LR and seeming to favor the side with...

I have one of those heaters with a titanium shaft heating element and it just killed my Long Tentacled Anemone. I had seen the anemone touch the heater with its tentacles many times over the months with no problems. However 3 days ago it's outer body (part on the outside a little above the...

I have a magnet cleaner with the felt pad which is useless against the green coraline I have growing on my glass. Are there any glass safe magnet cleaners that have a rough surface like the algae scrubbing pads?

I already have 96W PC on my 30G, and I just stumbled on a web site selling a 96W Corallife Aqualite hood at a pretty good discount. If I were to get this my watts per gallon would jump to 6.4, but it would all be PC. Would this allow me to keep some of the things that require high intensity...

I stopped using the 36 inch 20W NO hood that came with my tank when I upgraded to PC lighting. However, I am considering putting the NO strip back on the tank in addition to the PC lights to increase my overall light. Can I use VHO in this strip? The ballast itself is 24 inches and this hood...

Right now many of us are on an anti phosphate kick, which is probably a good thing. However, about a month and a half ago I decided to try chemi-pure which is essentially a special blend of filtration media designed soak up all kinds of excess nutrients, including PO4, and allegedly stabilizes...

Steve Weast, owner of the most beautiful home aquarium most of us will ever see, recently let us know that he uses a Fluidized Bed Filter for handling excess phosphates. Instead of using traditional FBF media (apparently usually sand or quartz), he used iron to soak up phosphates. I'm...

Yesterday morning I was feeding a small scallop (a little smaller than a nickel and about half an inch thick) to my anemone and one of my clowns knocked the scallop to the bottom of the tank where it was quickly drug into a cave by a peppermint shrimp. I couldn't really get at it although I...

The rule of thumb for keeping a mandarin is 100#'s of LR for adequate pods. This isn't going to happen in my 30G, but I have read many threads about fuges being great for pod production. If I set up a spare 10G tank as a fuge would that produce enough pods to support a mandarin? If it is, do...

I know this sounds crazy in a hobby where a lack of cash is usually the only thing keeping people from getting more lights, but my new lighting is too bright. In order to keep corals that my false percs can host in, I upgraded my 30G's original 20w standard florescent light to a 96w SmartLite...

I just got a flame scallop and after 2 days it is dead. Ever since I got it, it had been harrassed by my scarlet hermit crabs. I separated them several times over the past day and a half. And the last time I separated them, was the last time the scallop appeared alive. After I moved the crab...

After about 1 month of cycling with LR, and another month of just having hermit crabs, snails and feather dusters, I am finally going to be purchasing fish from swf.com next week. I plan to get a royal gramma, a false perc and some cleaner shrimp for my 30G tank. All of my levels are good as...