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I just lost my 2 new seahorses to the suction under my Rio powerhead! How can I protect future horses from this? The intake area of the pump was facing down. I have now placed it toward the back of the tank. I had tried wrapping a filter pouch around it, but it clogs quickly. I want to try...

I have been using Oceanic salt and my Calcium levels are very high (675). I don't dose with anything. So far the tank seems fine. Lots of purple coraline, fish are fine as is my emerald crab. I have zoos, yellow polyps, and sun coral. (tank is 3 mos old) h*

Need some help with calcium level. I have 29g, LS, 22#LR, 2 percula clowns, yellow-tail damsel, emerald crab, 10 snails, blue-leg crabs, mushrooms, yellow polyps, sun coral. I use Oceanic salt and was making very frequent water changes to get nitrates under control....I don't add ANY...

Thanks for the input. I did change the direction of one powerhead and now that it has been several days, the clowns are swimming all around the tank and are fine. They seem very interested in the PHs! They are also getting along well withe the Yellow-tail damsel now. :)

Someone???? Anyone???

I am so excited! I finally added 2 percula clowns to my tank yesterday. I have 29 gal, 18#LR, LS, CPR Bak Pak, PowerSweeper and empty HOB running for circulation. The clowns have been swimming, what I would describe as "frantically" back and forth across the front of the tank since I put them...

Viper Thank you for your response. I've only posted a few times and usually don't get much of a response to my questions. Perhaps they are too simple or too broad?

I have a 29 gal tank. I just got a Coralife PC 30"...I see alot of posts that say to run the 10,000K and Actinic at different times...in this light there is one 10,000K and one actinic paired, so they are always on together. Is this OK? Other question....I have a BakPak skimmer..today I took out...

Today I changed from CC to LS. I have a 29G tank. Only 10lbs. LR, but I'll be taking care of that next. One damsel and several snails and crabs. I have a Bakpak filter with the media in and a HOT Magnum with carbon running. Will I have to "clean the filter" because of the sand. I was very...

Sorry. I mis-typed. I meant crushed coral. I wa also worried about doing too many woater changes too quickly. Will the tank start to cycle again?

I have crushed gravel substrate. I didn't know if I should remove the gravel and replace with sand now. Would I have to empty the tank in order to do that? Can I get my nitrates down WITH the gravel?

I have 29g tank that has been running for 6 years. I haven't been keeping up with it and the nitrate levels are sky high. I want to turn it into a reef tank. I had an UGF which I removed last weekend. I have replaced 12-15 gals of water. How often can I continue to vacumn the gravel and change...

He is a stars and stripes puffer. I have had him for 1 year.

Thanks for the posts. My original post was to find someone to file the tooth. I called several LFS, but no one knew of anyone, but I did hear about a regular dentist that filed his own puffers tooth. So..if it comes to that I will give him a call. In the meantime I'm hoping eating some of the...

:) Thank you for all the great suggestions. My guy is still eating the frozen cubes. I added some turbo snails and he is ignoring those. I have pleny of live rock, but he never chews on those either. I have tried the shrimp and he hasn't liked that either! I'm afraid that the tooth is so big he...

Please help me find someone to file my puffers beak. It is very overgrown and I don't think he is eating much. Stays at the bottom of the tank alot. I live in the south suburbs of Chicago.