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Any one ever use Red Sea Salts? I use Instant Ocean and have for years, just liked what I have read about it, but no mention of silicates anywhere in the ingrediants. I like to see"no sulicates".

How long should one depend on a skimmer lasting? I clean the pump and entire body including the plastic aerator balls once a month. Thursday morning I cheked as I always do the system and the large pail collecting the proteins had flooded all through the bottom of the tank. The skimmer has...

Please anyone who uses this product successfully in place of the addition of Cal., Stront.,, and Moly., three times a week, Is it a shortcut and can I depend on it. Having someone caring for my tank for three weeks and she has requested some shortcuts so as to make the care of my tank less...

Well, It has only been three days since the Clarkii eggs have hatched. The behavior of the male has stayed the same. Overly protective of the female and very protective of the rock right next to and partially hidden by their enormous leather they adopted several years ago. Tonight they were...

Is salmon alright to chop and use as marine fish food? I never see it on the list of fresh seafoods and wondered if there is a reason? Too high a mercury count? Thanks for any comments.:confused:

Can someone explain why high phosphates can retard coraline algea growth? Or is this a false rumor? :rolleyes:

:confused: Back again to discuss action I have taken because of the very high phosphate problem. Now for 3-4 months I have been using nothing but RO water from my LFS. All added water is RO. Have checked the level of phosphate in my barrel of RO, very little and none since the LFS has put in...

Anyone in the southern Mass. area want to raise some Clarkiis? I do not have the facilities to raise blackfoot, one turned to yellow and black, the other kept its blackfeet, {fins}but have just discovered a mass of beautiful pink eggs on the rock next to their finger coral. They are hovering...

Any answers as to why my small but far reaching p. zenia can't stop reaching for my neon brain? No matter where I put it, it reaches as far as it possibly can to touch the brain. It had been touching continually, brain shows no discontent, but why?

Any one watch a peppermint shrimp blow up with eggs? The eggs perhaps are not going to develop? They are sticking out of her crevises, everywhere. Would love to help her but perhaps should just let nature take it's course? Any advice?

I purchased Phytp plex and later saw on one of these forums a negative comment on that product. Bought it for my sun coral. Any comments? Thanx

Hi there to someone who knows? My tank is very well estasblished. Acclimated lettuce nudibranchs. Have a very healthy tank with lots of rocks and back glass that I allow algeas to thrive for algea eating critters. The nudi's seemed to after a week become smaller and not as active.They came...

This time around I would like for my Ness. snails to survive. Ordering them from saltwaterfishccom, their procedure differs from other sights. Not having any luck with bumble bee snails ordered and acclimated by the "other" place, perhaps I should use an airater as they suggest. The alternate...

After having my mar. tank for 8 yrs, a problem with my trusty hydrometer arose. It had been reading that the salinity was fine and after watching corals, leathers, one by one open their polyps less and less, I took action and found that in testing it with others hydrometers, mine certainly was...

love featherdusters but, in acquiring two lovely pink ones, the following morning they were simply gone. Found it in tentacle of green striped star serpent, took it away from it , only to find it later attacked by a bristle worm. I believe they are delicacies to the tankmates.

Newly acclimated linkia star , red orange, has tiny brown spots. Anyone know anything? Help