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Saltwaterfish has a package for a clean up crew of 50 assorted hermit crabs and 50 assorted cleaner snails. For a 110 gallon tank with a 1inch sand bed and about 70lbs of live rock too big of a crew? As of right now I only have 2 crabs ruling the tank and no snails.

Hello, I have posted some pics of my protein skimmer here and was wondering if someone could tell me if the settings look correct. I keep feeling like I must be doing something wrong because I am just not getting much in the way of junk in collection cup. It seems like if I go much higher than...

I recently purchased a Reef Octopus protein skimmer and the instructions said that it is a 3-4 week "break in" period. How do I know that it is truly broken in? When it is broken in how should I adjust it so that I get the proper amount of waste being pulled out?

Hello, It has been a long time since I have posted on the forum. I still try to keep up but it has been a while since I have done anything besides water changes for my tank. It is starting to show. My main issue is red slime. Although it is not out of control, it is an eye sore. It is...

Hi everyone, It has been a long time since I have been on here. My tank had been running great until Ike came along and tore up my neighborhood including the power lines. Sadly I did not have a generator nor a plan of keeping my fish or coral alive. My fish died within the next day. My coral...

I have had a 55 gallon for a number of years. I finally decided to take the plunge and install a 30 gallon fuge (which was up and running since yesterday). I noticed today that all my coral are shrunk up. Is my reef good as gone? Did the new 30 gallon throw my tank into a cycle? I am really...

I will hopefully soon install a new fuge for my 55 gallon tank. So far I have a mag 7 and my overflow box. Can I get some advice on what all I should have installed between these devices plumbing wise. My main concern is how do I handle the different flows between the water coming into the...

I asked a similar question a little while back but I want to put my mind at ease before I finish hooking up my fuge. What will happen if I forget to top off my fuge to replace the water from evaporation? If the water level in the display tank drops below the overflow level, will this cause my...

I am in search of a new skimmer, being that I have not have not had very good performance from my precision marine/airstone driven. I was just wondering if any of y'all have any experience with Euroreef skimmers. Are they really the best? What makes them better?

I wish I could take a picture but my camera is not that good. At night time, what seems like hundreds of these tiny white creatures come out. They have been in there since I started my tank about 4 years ago but the population has really increased lately. They are about the size of a grain...

I built a refugium that I hope to have up and running before the end of the week. I have just a basic overflow box on the back of my tank going down to a 29 gallon fuge. The return will be powered by a 700gph mag pump. My question is when I have a power outage and I lose siphone on my...

I see a lot of pictures of plans for sumps/fuges but I am never sure if the plans that were shown worked or not. If you have pictures of your successful sumps/fuges, could you post them? Thanks!

I am currently having a problem with cyano and my latest conclusion is it has to be my filtered water. I have a 55 gallon tank that I faithfully change 5 gallons of water ever week. I have very low nitrates. I am thinking that the membrane on my Coralife is no good anymore. (It is about 2-2...

At some point I plan to upgrade in tank, hopefully within the next year. I want to do it right this time. Good size tank, fuge, skimmer, and I want to be able to monitor my water perameters better. I was just wondering if anyone uses Aquanotes software to monitor their perameters? Is it a...

I have been struggling with my reef the past 6 months. I finally bought new light bulbs (4X65W pc lighting). I have lost mushrooms and a frogspawn in the last couple of months. My other corals have not been doing well either. When I bought me lights, I also bought an electronic thermostat...

I can not figure out what I am doing wrong. My mushroom coral keeps shrinking and eventual it is gone. I have two different types of mushroom coral in my tank. The first type (I can not remember the name of it. It is brown and kinda fuzzy) started shrinking and eventually disappearing about...

I have a 20 gallon tank with about 30 lbs of live rock. Is a 20 gallon too small for a maroon clown? If it isn't what else can I put in there? I will only put about 3 fishes in my 20 gallon. Thanks for the help

I am wanting to take off my emperor 400 off of my 55 tank and put it on a 20 gallon tank that I have. I have in the 55 gallon tank around 70 lbs of live rock, fluval 304, and a precision marine skimmer (and as of right now I also have the emperor 400 too). If I took off the emperor would this...

I have a few variety of mushrooms in my tank. I have one in particular that for some reason usually starts closing about 1-2 hours before the lights go out. I can't remember what the name of this particular mushroom is but it is a dark brown and fuzzy. My other mushrooms in my tank do not do...

I have a very small amount of the bubble algae (only three). After reading some of the threads I decided I am going to get a emerald crab. Being that I have such a small amount of the bubble algae in my tank, and I also have about 25 hermit crabs in there will he have enough food source after...