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I have an existing 29g fowlr setup that has been running for 6-years. 2-3 inch sand bed, 25lbs live rock, 2 maxi jet 600 PH's, an eclipse hood w/ carbon & bio-wheel. Top off w/ store bought RO water. sg- 1.026 temp- 78 ph - 8.4 amm.- 0 nitrites- 0 nitrates- 5 The only inhabitant has been a...

I acclimated a LMB about a week and a half ago. 3 hour drip and water quadrupled in clean bucket. No lights or powerheads for 3 hours. He seemed to do well. Swimming around tank and rockwork, pecking the algae on the glass and rocks. About two days ago I noticed he seemed somber? hanging...

I have a 29g that is 30" long... Should I purchase the 24" or 30" lights? Will the 24" fit with legs? Has anyone had an expirience with this that would say 'definitely go with the ___"? Does it matter? The only reason I ask is I can by the 24's local and I would have to order the 30's... All...

Do you drip acclimate snails? Or float and drop? Nassarius specifically... thanks

I bought a LMB last Sat. He has been in my 10g QT since then. How long should I keep him in there? I know 3 weeks is the recommended QT time but he eats algae and he doesn't seem to be eating the spirolina flakes I have added. I have placed a piece of live rock from my main in there with some...

I acclimated a LMB yesterday into my QT. Right now I have placed a piece of LR from my main in the QT. Any suggestions on feeding this blenny while he is in the QT? He is still quite shy. I have caught him moving around the tank a bit but he is quick to relocate when he sees me. I guess I am...

first try at pics of my newbie 29g. I have a lot of work to do!

Hey. I'm back... and I need some expert advice. I made a bunch of newbie mistakes. But I learned a lot. I now have a QT running and I've sucessfully added my first healthy fish!! I have a 29 gallon, 40lbs of live rock, 3-4 inch sandbed, 2 300gph PH's, an eclipse 3 hood w/ 40 watts of lighting...

I have heard people talking about gluing things to their PH's or gluing frags etc... I thought someone said superglue!? Can you put something that has been superglued into your tank???!

I have 2 Hagen Aquaclear 401 PH's. They have been eating fish and snails for long enough!! How do I stop this madness? I put a filter medium over the cap but it slows the flow dramatically. Any suggestions please. I am ready for new additions but I refuse to do it until I solve this mess. HELP!!

OK I am an idiot. I have 2 300gph powerheads in my 29g and 1 of the same in my 10g QT. In my main I had some snails get sucked into the cone that covered the intake. So I took the cones off, I think the cones were to adapt the PH to an undergravel filter or something. Then later in my QT I cam...

I have a 6 month old 29 gallon with 2 clowns. I am QTing a royal gramma for addition to the main in 2 weeks. I am considering one final addition, perhaps a bangai cardinal. My LFS has a dozen or so and I am having trouble resisting. Are they aggressive? Will they want to eat my peppermint...

I noticed my cleaner shrimp (3 peppermint and one skunk)Have black spots on them. It began w/ one of the peppermints. It molted and it went away. But it is back. Someone said Epicaridean isopod. Big words scare me! What is that? How do I find out if the have it? How does it get there? Can...

I just got a few shrooms. They came on a half shell. Will they move off to the live rock? Should I encourage them to move? The shell isn't perfectly stable and I don't want a snail or hermit to knock it off or something. Can anyone give me some mushroom etiquete?

Firefish Goby was dead on arrival. Are they tough to ship? Everything else looked OK. But I am bummed. Has anyone gone through the whole return deal?? Is it worth the hassle? Next: do you go lights out in your tank when you add inverts? How long do you QT a specimen that is in good health? 3...

5 weeks ago I set up a 10g QT. I jumped it with a container of substrate from my cycled main. I have fed it regularly and after a few weeks I threw an aggressive blue hermit in there to save a snail or two. I have been testing weekly. The nitrites topped out a while back at 0.2 then went...

I have a 29g, with 35lbs of live rock. I am a rookie and this is a fairly new FOWLR set up... down the road I hope to upgrade to a semi reef. I began with CC and switched last month to sand. One of the first purchases from my LFS was a half dozen blue leg hermits as a clean up crew for my CC...

OK I had moved my fish to a QT for treatment so I figured it was time to change my CC to sand. I bought 50lbs of Old Castle Southdown from Home Depot. After soaking it in water and removing my CC (to a pair of pantyhose) I added the sand to my tank over a few days. The cloudyness cleared up...

OK. HELP. I have a 29 g with 25lbs live rock, CC, a 401 powerjet and a carbon and biowheel filter. After my tank cycled and read 1.024, 8.2, 79F, Ammonia 0, Nitrite 0, Nitrate 0: I purchased 2 aquacultered clowns a pepermint, turbo snails and some scarlet hermits from SWF.com and added them on...

I purchased an eclipse 3 system to top off my first SW tank, 29gal. It was fish & live rock only. I would like to make the jump to a semi or mini reef. First I will need to add 100 watts or so. Has anyone out there added lighting to the eclipse 3? What retrofit kits would you recommend for...