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I am thinking about down grading from a 75 to the 28 nano. I was just wondering if people are able to run this set up without a chiller? I have corals im going to swap over and I dont think the fluorescents will cut it but I also dont want to buy a chiller. Any help would be great. Thanks

So I did some tank maintenance last night and when I woke up this morning to go to work I took a peak. To my horror the water was bad, bad cloudy and all my frogspawns have died, my montipora died and is now white, snails are dead, and zoas, rics, and shrooms do not look happy. My clam is ok for...

So my lights came on today and my frogspawn was all drawn in. i noticed the pink flesh is floating and peeling away and leaving nothing but white skeleton. I check my parmas and they are as follow: Ph. 7.8 ( I know it's low I am working on that as we speak) ammonia 0 trite 0 trate 0 Cal 380...

Just received my phosphate kit and did a test. My RO-DI water test 0 ppm. But when I did my tank water, it was .50 ppm. The kit is salifert and says 0 is ideal and at .25 coral growth is stunted. What, in my tank could cause phosphates to jump up and what can I do to lower it? Also with it...

I just put in 5 new T-5 bulbs. My other ones were 18 months old. My question now is how should I acclimate? More specifically, what photo period is recommended and for how long till full 12 hours? Thanks in advanced

Okay, I had an algae problem and I narrowed it down to my lights. I had turned the lights off in the tank for 3 days and when I turned them on there were 3 things missing. Algae, gold stripe maroon, and a blue hippo tang. Are you telling me that a emerald crab killed and ate my 2 inch GSM...

First some tank and stocking info. 75 gal reef Emperor 400 Prizm Skimmer 2 MJ 600's with sure flow mod Aquactinics Tx5 Misc snails, blue legged crabs 1 cleaner shrimp and 1 Peppermint shrimp Gold stripe maroon, fox face, and blue hippo tang various zoos, playa, crocea clam, frogspawn, torch...

I recently moved my torch coral close to some zoas. Well I went away for a week and when I came back I noticed the zoas close to the torch (almost touching) not looking so good and actually some are deteriorating. So my question is and it might be obvious, but will a torch coral win the war...

Yeah is there such a one? My clown bounces back and forth between my frogspawn and my torch. I don't want him to kill either one. So I was hoping there might be a good anemone that walks very little if any that I can put in a reef for the clown. Any suggestions or am I better off leaving it be?

Or crazy me. I was cleaning my tank tonight and I accidently hit my monti and snap a good chunk off. My heart skipped a beat and I thought oh no what did I do. Well heck I just picked it up and glued it in another spot. Now I have 2!!! This hobby is great!!

I have had this frag since Dec. 07 and it is the only coral that has not grown. I mean it looks the same as the day I got it. What is it, I was told it was a kenya tree but then some others say a colt. It wont grow either!!!!

Just got some new frags and was wondering what they are called. Thanks!!

I have these two Yumas that are on a ledge. For about a month now that have slowly moved moved to the edge of the ledge leaving babies along the way. Now they are hanging off as if they are trying to go underneath. Do I let them be or should I cut them off and move so they are back in the light?

Okay I have a 1 year old API calcium test kit that yesterday read 380. Well i just got a new tropic marine cal/mag test kit and the cal portion says 471!! The mag was good at 1300 but how can two test be 100 off and which test should i go by??

Okay I currently run the Aquactinics Tx5 on my 75 and it has been 12 months and I feel its time to change bulbs. This is what I currently run: Ge6500 ATI Blue Plus 12K ATI Aqua blue special 10K ULV aquasun ULV Super Actinic This year I think I want to go with a little bluer look in the tank but...

Has anyone ever added a potentiometer to a power head so you can adjust the flow with a dial?

I have followed a thread below about fragging a frogspawn but I was still curious. My frogspwan was a single branch frag back in December. I still have it attached to the plug and I currently have it sitting in the sand. However since then the head split and split and split and split and...

I was just wanting to see if there is an interest in homegrown phytoplankton. I have a bunch in the works right now and was thinking about bottling it up and selling it for half of they want for DT's. If there is an interest I will look into bottles and shipping for them. Let me know via this...

Okay my emperor 400 seems as though it is getting louder and louder. I have cleaned it and put back together and its loud. Its 5 or 6 years old and i have two questions. 1. can anything be done to shut it up? 2. what would be a good upgrade to something way more quiet?

I am doing a water change and already took the water out of my tank. I went to get my rubbermaid that was filled with 20 gallons of pre mixed saltwater. Well I dragged it over to my tank and when I opened it up I saw a white coating over the pump, the filter, the bottom and sides of the can...