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Water flow does create heat, yea thats right atoms moving against eachother in a high pressure area in a pvc pipe flowing from the pump this is kenitic heat not thermal heat production. heat will always be a problem especially in the summer , yea

50/50 and actinic blue lights if you want coraline purple algea, full sectrum lights for green Calupera. I use 1 48" Blue actinic 1 48" 50/50 . 1 24" blue actinic and 1 24" 50/50. high outputs are better. metal halides are better too. it all depends and want kind of growth you want. blue light...

green carpet anemones need Clown fish to help them stay healthy and clean you should always have good clown fish for the anemone they cant survive without clown fish to take care of them, clown fish live without a anemone but the anemone absolutly needs the Clown.

The more fish and life forms you have the more Nitrate will be produced, the more fish you want the more arobic micro based filters you will need" O2+ enviroment", and you gotta use some kind of denitrification filter "O2 depleted environment" that houses anerobic bactria types to brake down the...

to refuge or not to refuge? Refuge! I use a 40gal plenium with a mini mud tank refugium suspended in the 40 gal above the plenium 2"from top of sand bed with Green Calupera in the mud tank and on a live rock to help it attach, using full spectrum 2- 24" Flor lites on 48hr off 12 hr on 48, the...

I have been using a coraline excellerator additive called "Purple UP" it works!

I use a 360 gal per hour sump pump in a 40 gal sump feeding a 75gal tank, the pump is one used for outdoor goldfish ponds magnetic rotation, it keeps the tank at 77 F as long as i keep the air in the house at 73 F, these pumps are cheaper than inline piped pumps, but create alot of heat because...

The sound you are hereing is probly your sump pump cavitating from lack of water and air getting into its inlet if you are using a insump tank pump try lowering it down or make sure you have enough water in the sump and enough water supplying your sump pump inlet line.

I have 15 Aptasia in my tank, They killed one small fish in 5 months, i used huge and i mean huge amounts of kalkwasser mix for three weeks, it caused the ph to go nuts up to about 9 or more, the Aptasia retracted into the rock and started to die, but it was so hard on everything else in the...

Ph will Drop every day while you are gone on vacation, a ph of 7.5 is real bad, when i had my tank going for 2 months i left for 2 days came back and the ph droped from 8.4 to 7.5, and some crabs were dead and fish had ick, i later decided to use a home made pcv pipe 3" wide x 12" long caped the...

when a big hermit crab like i have molts for the first time i thought it died they discard their outer layer over thier entire body so as to grow more as thier outer layer prevents them getting any bigger cus it is hard to protect them from attack, coral banded shrimp do it too, it looks kinda...

I have 7 blue green Chromis they like to act really hungery but i only feed they as much as they can eat in 5mins, fish convert over 50% of what they eat to body flesh, very good compared to other life , they dont need as much food as we think. they like brine shrimp much better than mistis and...

I have Three Hermits in my 40 gal plenium filter sump they molt about once a month. They really should not be in the same tank as fish as they will eat anything meaty if they get a claw on it.

I have a question about my 40 gal plenium/w mud mini tank. the bottom has three layers of egg crate = 1.2" then fiberglass mesh (bug screen) then 2" of crushed florida coral, then more fiberglass mesh, 2.5" of live sand. i have three very active and large hermits keeping it clean they are doing...