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Hey Guys, Well, it breaks my heart.. but the time came and I had to move. My system had to come down for a while. All the livestock is safe and happy in a friends systems, but my question relates to my tank(s) themselves. I have two 40 gallon breeder tanks, one of them is a sump with...

Im a bit new to stars... but my Tank has been running for a few years now. (40 breeder display, 40 breeder refuge), about 100 lbs of live rock total to help support a mandarin. Im looking at restocking my CUC, and looking at the "30-90 gallon reef package" on here. My concern and question are...

New bulbs for my 2 PC fixtures, and a koralia 3 to replace a very crappy maxi jet. I have been running the lights with old bulbs (got both fixtures used), so I hope this will help the corals, and combat my growing algae issues (yes, pun intended). Overall, thank is looking good, despite the...

Well, after years of researching, planning, and building my system with the hopes of supporting a Mandarin, I picked mine up from my LFS yesterday. The setup: 40 breeder tank w/ 40 breeder sump/refuge. 100 pounds of live rock. The rock has been in the tank for about 6 months w/ no preditors...

OK, so far, for all my tanks, I have purchased pre-mixed saltwater locally. *ducks* My local place is haveing issues with their equipment and isnt kicking any SW out right now. So, I got some salt, got some RO water. Tossed the water and 5 gallons worth of salt in a 5 gallon bucket. Tossed...

The skirts on my various Zoa colonies are starting to get very long and frilly. Someone told me that this happens to *shade* themselves when they are getting to much light, just adapting. I have recently added 33% more light to my tank. Is this what is happeneing? Lighting is current USA dual...

Wish I had a camera.... kinda. He was large, but im sure they get much bigger. I would say at longest he stretched out to about 5 or so inches. Well, gonna have nightmares tonite!

Getting a 1/4 Frag of this guy. Any ID?

2 items. 1 - any ID on these? (pic was taken under atinics, so that may distort them) 2 - the look more like pallys i think? If so, what would the lighting requirments be for them (didnt get any care guidelines when i picked them up) I currently have them on the top thrid of the tank...

I am going to be setting up a 10 Gallon QT Tank. Will keep the filter media in the sump of my main setup until its ready to use. For the 10 gallon tank, i picked up a free filter... i think its the equivalant of a Emperor 400. Is this going to overkill the QT tank? It was free, so not a huge...

Well, i got an amazing Ricordea from someone at a local frag swap about a month ago. Blue one. attached it to a rock and put it in the tank. Its about 1/2 of the way up from the bottom in the tank (40 breeder). It was doing fantastic. a few days ago, I noticed that it started to not open up as...

I emptied all the rock from my 8 gallon, trying to move my yellow watchman to my bigger tank. Well, the little guy is hiding in the rock itself. I would move the rock into my larger tank... but I have a concern. A while back, I had something in my little tank killing my snails, some smaller...

Emerald Crab - just got one. CAme home from work, my new zoas from the swap are all closed up, and hes sitting close by. I would like to think hes eating the algae in there... but my tubs blues look like he clipped the skirts on them, and some of other ones now have gaps where i think there were...

Setup so far. 40 breeder w/ custom overflow. 40 breeder sump (holds about 25 gal when running 1 koralia #2, and 1 maxi jet (600?) that will be replaced with a koralia 3 very soon current dual PC 192 watt total. 1 96 daylight, 1 96 dual atinic about 100 pounds of liverock 40 pounds of sand (most...

Just took a look at my system... its been up and running for a few weeks now, just the 40 gallon display tank, the 40 gallon sump/refuge, 100 pounds of live rock, and put some macro algae in there today. Both tanks have *tons* of pods everywhere. I notice they seem to like to hang out in the...

OK, 40 gallon display tank, with a glass top, 192 watt PC lighting. 40 gallon sump/refuge tank. Tank is sitting at 80 degrees since I got the top. Any suggestions to bring temp down? Ive already unplugged the heater... still no drop.

OK, so we got a glass top for the tank. The evaporation was getting up there. Its a glass top, section in the back that is flexible for wires and such. 2 large pieces of glass connected with a bit of plastic in the middle. I can already notice the light that makes it into the tank is cut...

At what point can I add cheato to my fuge? My cycle is complete, im guessing im good to go?

So.. the cured live rock has been in the tank since sunday night. I notice some algae growth. And I also notice lots of cruddy buildup on the rocks themselves. Not sure what it is, but if I aim a powerhead at the rocks, *lots* of crud blows off into the water. What is it? No other animals are in...

Here is it with 100 pounds of LR. Put into the system on sunday night.