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My kenya tree does that all the time. It will be extended most of the time and then it will be tightly closed for a couple of days,then great again.

The main reason for the foam is because no matter how hard you try,you sometime have trouble getting the top of the stand flat. It just makes it safer for you tank,especially if it's a large tank. I have 1/2inch pink foam sheet under mine because I got tired of trying to sand out all the...

Peppermint shrimp love to munch on it. I started out with one in my tank,tried Joe's Juice and before I knew it I had about 20. I bought 3 peppermint shrimp and after 3 weeks I couldn't find one.

You keep wanting to go back to the LFS. If you go there,buy yourself some more cleanup crew,turbo snails,various other snails(around 20-30 total),maybe some more hermits. Don't go adding chemicals to try and rid all of this,you'll do more harm to your tank than it's worth. New tank syndrom takes...

My last name is Morris. I grew up having to deal with 9lives and morris the cat.

Well, mine likes to go between the GSP,the Hammer and the Frogspawn.It prefers the Frogspawn so I would have to go with that.

No! you can't just replace the bulbs.It requires new ballasts and such. I had 220w of compacts over a 29g and that wouldn't keep clams. For the upper tier stuff you need Metal Halides,a single 175 or 250w metal halide would do the trick. The fish and rock will do fine under normal flourecents.

You can also put a filter pad between your baffles and that will prevent microbubbles from getting to you return.

If you kept the salinity and temp within parameters and provided some water flow,it should be ok. It is also a good idea to throw some food in every once in a while to give the bacteria something to do.

Your tank is still young, sounds like a standard algea bloom. Try putting less seaweed in for the tang and make him forage some. Also, do you have a cleanup crew?might want to add some more.

Your sand and rock will provide the bacteria that you need. Some include a refugium in the sump whick can include any of the following-sand,live rock rubble,macro algea. My sump has 3 comparments,refugium(rock,macro algea),skimmer section and return section.

I converted my 29g fresh to salt without any problems. What most are concerned about is if you ever treated your freshwater with a copper treatment. Copper can seep into the silicone and leach out into your saltwater setup,therby causing problems. If no copper then no problems.

Basically a reef tank is when you start adding the different types of corals. Alot will start with a "fish only with live rock(FOWLR)",once you start adding corals you need different lighting(if you want corals that require better lighting),different water flow and such.

reverse osmosis/de ionized, I also have a 29g mini reef. I get my water from a local fish store for about 40cents a gal. I have a new 75gal tank sittint in the living room and plan to start putting water in it tonight. It may take me 4 trips to the fish store but I won't ever just put tap water...

My Perc clown switches between my large frog spawn,hammer coral and a very bushy GSP. He just moves between the three all day. Haven't had any problems.

More than likely its waste,my brain coral does this all the time,usually a couple of days after a heavy feeding.

Like everyone is saying, Take your time. Your ammonia will come down as your cycle continues,you need to give some time for your bacteria to multiply. I wouldn't add anything else until your ammonia is 0,nitrites 0,and nitrates are low. Take your time,don't rush it!!!

The main question should be, is the top of his stand to the tank not level(as in gaps between the tank and the stand) or is the stand itself not level. If it's just the stand then level it using shims, if it's gaps between stand and tank, then use rigid foam between them.

I have been using one of the 4x55 Jebo fixtures for about a year now with no problems. Of course,the first thing I did was take everything out of the unventalated housing,mount the ballasts on a block of wood to allow air to flow around them and mounted the bulbs inside my canopy. Allow...

Also check that your light ballasts are grounded and also ground your reflectors. What you are seeing from the lights are usally induced by RF from the lights and ballasts. Ground everything good and that should go away.