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Hi everyone, got 4 corals in my tank now. 1. Yellow Figi Leather coral 2. Pipe organ 3. Startbrust polyp 4. Colony polyp Its a reef tanks, 30 lbs LR, 2" of LS 20 gal tank I have a coralife 65 watt 50/50 lighting fixture. I up graded to a coralife 1 -65 watt actinic / 1- 65 watt 10,000k compact...

Hi everyone, About three months ago I bought from SWF.com, 1 firefish, 1 gold coral banded shrimp, 1 randail pistol shrimp and yellow watchman goby. All are fine and the purple firefish is alway swimming around and never hide in the reef. After being missed for a day, the yellow goby and the...

hi all, I just got a purple firefish and a yellow watchman that I put in my 20 Gal with 30 lbs LR 20 lbs LS. I have noticed that they make quick darts in the water and on the live rocks. My tank is five months old and I just started a refuge to help the tank and copepod population because i wish...

Hi all, Sorry for the bad pictures, need a better camera. I hope that the white tube looking thing is not the stem of the pest ( Aiptasia ) anemone. I had to move, so I put my lr in a bucket and covered it for three months. its now about 5 months later and this thing just poped out today...

Hi all, I ordered some stuff today, and need to know when it will come? I think that saltwaterfish.com will send it out Monday and i should get it tuesday? anyone know? :thinking:

Hi everyone, I got my cheato's in and placed them into my skilter 250 and put a light on it. My DT lights shut off for the night and my refuge light turned on. I dont like the light that shines thru the DT from the HOB skilter 250 refuge. My DT back is painted black. Should I : 1. Turn refuge...

Hi all, I did it! I will get my new skimmer in 4 days.

Hi, Can you keep this with a couple of small fish in a 20 gal tank? Does it move around alot, as to get sucked into a powerhead? How big does it get? you have nothing listed on this guy on your board! Any infor on this guy, thanks ReefRobert

Hi eveyone. I have a 20 gal with 32 lbs lr and 20 lbs ls. Getting my cheato this week and turning skilter into refuge for pod, nitrate, and po4. I have 1 blueleg and 1 big hawailan zebra hermit crab right now. I need some snails that will eat hair algae and will not eat my pods? The fish I want...

Hi everyone, I have to do a Re-think! I bought a Blueleg hermit last week and he's doing fine. This week I bought a huge Hawalian Zebra hermit crab, must be about an inch! I have 32 lbs of live rock that lefty and other climb all over and find food. I also have around 40 different size empty...

Hi everyone, My tank is 5 weeks old today! Ph 8.2 Alk 2.2 Amm .35 Nitrite 0 nitrate 20 PO4 .2 Ca 350 temp 78.6 SG 35 ppt I have a 20 gal with a skilter 250 (turning into refugium with cheato), and rio 600 powerhead rated at 200 gph. that is 20 time the tank volume. I have a oil slick at the top...

My cycling 20 gal SG was 34ppt according to my Hydrometer and the instructions that are in the "Natural Reef aquariums" book that I was basing my 20 gal on. I purchased a refractometer from Saltwaterfish.com and it was 30ppt. This refractometer came in a very nice plastic blue case with foam...

Hi, looking for about a handful of cheato shipped to Ohio before it gets any colder here! ReefRobert

Hi all, Ok, so you have been taken for a ride with the skilter 250, It just dont work good. Turn it into a refuge with cheato.

Hi, I am cycling my 20 gal now. I have a skilter 250 that I am turning into a refuge. My question is, do I have to wait until the cycling is done before puting the algae in, or can I put it in now to take advantage of the high nitrate and phosphate levels because of the cycling period. Note...

Hello all, I have just orderd a refractometer for my reef from swf.com, becuase you people here, and this site is a great help to me. :cheer: I have a question about the refractometer, Is it calabrated already or do you have to calabrate it only once when you get it? Thanks all.

I am useing ESV B-Ionic and my Ca level is 300. I added 5ML, and my reading today were 300. So I added 10 ML today and will check level tomorrow. How much Ca does your system suck up? Maybe I should have bought the gallon jug

Hello everyone, I am reseaching what I wish to put in my reef, and The different beginner/easy stuff like Colony Polyp, mushroom, leather coarls, ect... I know they need light, Iodine, strontium and trace elements, But most also say Miro-plankton, Zooplankton and Phyto. My question is, Is that...

Dont know if these are going to come out or not?

After pulling my lr out of my aquarium and puting it in the sun for a day to dry off from the fresh water bath I gave it, then placing it in a 5 gal bucket with a lid on it and storing it for 2 months, because I had to move, it still good. :jumping: ***) going to cure it in a 20...