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Good afternoon, I'm back to the forums after a long absence. A little back history: We started our reef experience with a 40g tank that we had going well for a number of months. We were given a 55g tank by friends and decided to move all the 40g stuff to the 55g tank. That started a downhill...

Good afternoon: I have been keeping a 10 gallon freshwater tank here at the office and I've been giving thought to changing it to a saltwater nano tank. I'd like some of you veteran nano keepers to offer your thoughts on what would be necessary to make the switch. Currently I'm running 2 - 6500K...

Good afternoon everyone! Man it's been quite awhile since I last posted here on SWF.com. A small update: The 55 gallon tank was moved into the den from the bedroom, and then just went to crap! I gave a couple of reasons, 1. I think I became a little lazy in my husbandry, and 2. The tank just...

Ok, we bought a diamond back goby last Saturday...she was out and about until about Wednesday, and we haven't laid eyes on her since then?? Should we be concerned? Should we start pulling LR out of the tank and do a search for her? Or would it be somewhat normal for a DBG to stay hidden for some...

Good morning, Ok, frustration is past, worrying is over, now we just want to settle down and get our 55 SWA looking decent again and get it healthy for the inhabitants. 55 gallon swa emporer 400 2 penguin 175 ph 2 penguin 125 ph red sea prism skimmer 60lb LR 3 1/2inch DSB Here are our current...

Ok, I need someone to help me out here. We got a Red Sea Prism skimmer for our 55 gal tank today...it was on sale...and best we could afford right now....will get the Remora hopefully by the end of the year...... anyway, cleaned it, put it on the tank, plugged it in...looked cool...foam bubbles...

Good morning...well our 55 gallon tank is doing very well...the Nitrates have lowered to about 10ppm right now... I have a question about the "pods"...we have about a gazillion pods running around the rocks and the sand...see them scatter when we turn the lights on. Should we consider getting a...

Good morning; When I looked into our tank this morning, I noticed one of the mussels on a rock had "let go"?? It was laying on the sand bed. Anyone had that experience in the past? Is that normal? Is it a tell tale sign of a problem? Just wanted to check in and see.

Good evening, Well we spent the weekend transferring our two saltwater tanks into one 55 gallon swa. It's a stock tank so nothing drilled. I have a 20 gallon long tank that I'm considering using as a sump/fuge. Would that be sufficient for the 55? I also have a 40 gallon long tank that we were...

Good evening; If there is anyone within a drive from Little Rock, Arkansas, I have a 32 gallon Oceanic hex tank for sale. Sale includes tank, wooden stand, and an AGA hinged glass top for the tank. Will sell for $75.00.

We were at our LFS today, and saw the coolest combination.... they had a pistol shrimp, that hosted a diamondback goby......said the shrimp would go anywhere the goby went, and would not get out of tentacle reach of it......... now that's something we want to consider adding to our...

Ok, here's something to discuss; I've read in a number of threads that people do not use any type of HOB filter system on their reef tanks, letting the LR and the LS function in a DSB as a suitable filtration system and just using powerheads to move the water. That just makes me a tad bit...

OK, we're going to move the 40 gal tank from our bedroom to the family room so more people can enjoy it, and we can have a little more room to work on it. I'm planning on emptying out as much as possible, the LR, crabs, snails, the two fish, into a rubbermaid tote and put a powerhead in there to...

Before we went to bed last night, I noticed that the tank temp in my 40gallon tank was hovering around 84 degrees...so I turned the heater down to 72 to get it to level out. This morning when I got up I didn't see any change in the reading, so I've unplugged my heater altogether. What are the...

Hello everyone; Well I'm back for awhile, as long as work doesn't get too frazzled soon again... Anyway, we have our 40 gallon long tank going, and we're going to settle for having that right now until we can afford to purchase a 175-200 setup pre-drilled with sumps, etc. With that said, we're...

Ok, the anemone finally died...three weeks after his brush with the powerhead; crabs cleaned out our clam we had... the water tests show good readings, but the tank is looking terrible.... We don't have the available funds to pour into purchasing the upgrades that we need, and I can't seem to...

Good morning, had to share this story with you... I noticed this morning that our LTA had moved a bit and turned on its side, so I thought I'd put it back upright. Well when I got my hand close to it, our cute cuddly little perc clown just went nuts and started attacking my hand. It nipped me a...

OK, so we're going to convert our 55 gallon fresh tank to a salt tank. Let me run down a list of what I DO have, and you vets can help me along with what I'll need to add to make sure the switch is successful. 2-Emporer 400 filters 3-powerheads Coralife 4x65w lighting - all white lights (I'll...

Good morning everyone. I am coming to you all for advice and suggestions. Let me give you the details of what we have currently, then tell you what I'm considering and open the thread for suggestions. We have a 40 gallon long tank that has about 45-50lb of live rock, approx. 3 inch sand bed...

Hey gang, quick question about a coral we bought. We bought this torch coral last weekend from a LFS. It is small but had a nice wavy head on it. We brought it home, acclimated it, and put it in the sand because thats where the LFS had it....after three days it hadn't opened up a bit, so I...