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I have had my 29 gal up about 9 weeks now and so far every thing is goine very well. My question is this. If my water peramaters are good.. should I still do a water change every week? My ammonia is always zero, my nitrites are always zero and my nitrates where at 30 last week, this week at...

Well, I just responded to this add... I hate to part with this beautiful tank, but we are moving and there is no room to set it up. 135 gallon glass aquarium with wet/dry filter, submersible pump(fairly new), tubing, glass top, reef supports, light that holds 2 flouresent bulbs , heater and some...

Well my tanks been up and running for like 6-7 weeks now. I have to say everything is going great. I tested my water agine today and its near perfect (nitrates <10 wish there where zero :P amonia 0, nitrites 0 Ph 8.1) . I couldnt have done it with out all the helpfull people on this bord...

Well I dont know where this guy came from but I just found him the other day. I dont have a camra that could take a pic of the thing its realy small. Its like a slug with horns on its back all over it spending alot of time on the glass. Any ideas?

New skimmer, jebo cheep-o on 29 gal.. I know that when they are new then make bubbles. My question is how long is this going to happen, and is it harmfull to my tank to have so many bubbles in there? Its not as bad as I have heard some people say there skimmers are when new. I can see everything...

So, I have one camle back shrimp in my tank and no other shrimp just yet. Fun thing is he sits on the same rock most of the time, the fish in the tank dont like to be close to any eachother or any other creatures it seems. But, they hover right in the shrimps face all the time while he feals...

My LEDs came in the mail today! time to start puting to gether my moon lights. All in all it would proly be easy just to buy some hehe. But im an electrition so this should be cake.. Ill try to get some pics then I get started. (btw 100 Blue LEDs 12 bucks pluss shipping) Now I just need a power...

Ok, so my tank is only 6 weeks.. I put some star polyps in there witch are doing well so far. Now I know sun coral is hard to take care of.. im a newb and have no right to have any just yet.. however, My g/f conviced me to by a frag of orange sun coral for 10 bucks at LFS. Ill feed it she said...

Well I scraped my idea about bulding a sump/fuge for my 29 gal. Turns out I dont have the room for it, I thought I did. But I have seen the hang on the back ones, how good are they? I was thinking of bulding an "in tank" fuge for pods and plants. My "plan" is now to take a couple specemin boxes...

I have a 65 watt coral life light, with this I have found I can keep most lower light corals. Now If I was to purchace a second 65 watt light, would it be twice as good? Could I keep corals that need more light? I have a 29 gal tank btw. I was talking to the guy at LFS who was going off about...

Just checked my water and its seems there is a posable spike in amonia and nitrites.. its hard to tell since I have the red sea test kits and they kinda suck. I have read them incorectly before in the same way. I trip out and its hard to tell the colors apart on the low end readings hehe. Fish...

So Iv had the 29 gal for 5 weeks now. Everything is going great! I have had no fish die.. they have been in there for a week or so. Water peramiters are awsome all so far. Everything is good. My question is this: since im trying to work my way up to some corals how long shold I wait to try an...

Just got a new light for my 29 gal. I have not had this tank for long, about 5 weeks now. I have a few fish and some inverts every thing is well with them. I want to work my way up to corals so I got a new light today at the LFS. I had just a "growlight" before not any good for corals. Today LFS...

Iv got a new 29 gal that just got done cycleing, I was thinking of useing an old 10 gal tank I have to make a sump type set up but Im newb so im not shure what all I would need to set it up. Im asumeing a pump to pump from the sump to the 29, and some way to get the water back down to the 10...

So, my tank is new, I have a sand sifting star and some hermits also an emirald crab some snails. Today I saw that there is a tiny star fish in there about the size of my pinky nail. How do stars reproduce? where did this tiny thing come from?

Im new here, I just started a 29gal tank (use to keep oscars in it) Now its salt. Its been up and running about a week and a half. Live sand, like 20ish pounds of live rock in there, everyting seems to be going well. A few days ago I put two small hermit crabs, an emerald crab and a blue berrie...