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The end is here my corals have finally finished dieing. Despite all of my efforts. The only thing to decide now is to keep the tank as a invert tank or move all the rock and inverts to my agressive tank and use this tank for my freshwater fry. I know I can not sacrifice any more corals for my...

For two weeks now none of my corals have opened and things such as my colt and bubble coral are shrinking, yet all readings are fine (amonia 0, nitrite 0, nitrate 0, ph 8.3, calcium 450, salinity 1.0250 I have not changed any of my routines either. I change 10% of my water every week. My...

Can someonr please tell me the phone number or web addresse for hagen. I just got two fluval 404 filters with a used tank I purchased but need replacement hose and a few fittings and I do not know where to find them. I am serching the web now. Thanks for anyones help.

Has anyone ever tried to make one large aquarium with agressive and reef inhabitants together like the ocean. Just a thought. Say corals, fish, live rock, crabs and shrimp all together. Does anyone think it could balance itself out like a reef in the ocean. How large of a tank would it take. ;)...

Can someone honestly tell me if you need to use a DI unit with your RO or not. Have read that use a RO/DI makes it very hard to buffer your water properly and get calcium levels up verses using just a RO. Someone please find the truth. ;)

Has anyone here used the sun for their tank lighting. I have seen one tank so far use sunlight supplemented with metal halides. I am working on plans for our new house and was tinkering with the idea of using a very large sky light to funnel down sunlight to a 1000 gallon built in tank and...

Has anyone ever heard of too many pods? Heard a rumor that you can have to many and it can be bad for your tank. Just wanting some input as I have never heard this before and I do have tons of pods some as large as pieces of crushed coral. They are going crazy. Maybe I'll get a mandarin. Thanks...

Does anyone know where to get a stone fish? thanks for any help. ;)

Seen a new lfs when the wife and I were out around town today and decided to stop in. Nice store inside and even carried saltwater stuff. 90% of them here dont do any saltwater and I live on the gulf. Anyway was looking at some filters and they wanted $170.00 for a Fluval 404 the same filter I...

Feeding habits of fish is on blue planet on discovery now. It is very cool. Just wanted to let everyone know. ;)

Has anyone had any experience with french angels? I haven't heard a lot about them but I have a friend that said he can get them for me for free. I am just trying to get all the info I can on them before just putting one in a tank. Thanks. ;)

Hey Lionfish haven't seen you around in awhile even put a post out for you and didn't get any response. Glad your back and all your knowledge too! ;) :D

Does anyone here keep their aggressive tank like a reef tank? I mean no filter material in the filters and only using LR, Refugium, LS, Skimmer and only using cnaister and hang on filters for water circulation. I am going to try it as I have had it with battling cyno and hair algae they have...

I have razor algae growing in my refugium and the stuff is taking over. It is time to trim. If anyone is interested in trading some razor algae for another type of algae please e-mail me with the type and your addresse, I will pay to send to you if you do the same. I would like to get some...

Hope this image works. This is hairy crab he is the only one of his kind in my tank and has been there for 3 months now. Does anyone have any idea what hairys hair is? Is it aptasia. I do not know as hairy is the only thing in the tank with this on it. He does not switch shells, I guess he likes...

I use a 30 gallon plastic garbage can with lid to make up my saltwater in advance. I keep a power head running,air pump and heater (temp. at 78). I have been doing this for 5 months now and today when I lifted the lid to check salinity I noticed tiny browinish black worms crawling around on the...

Is this too much? 1 Yellow Tang, 1 Blue Line Trigger, 1 Humu Humu Trigger, 1 Black volitan Lion, 1 Snowflake eel and possibly a tusk . In a 135 gallon with Live rock. Also is a 20 gallon large enough for a small octopus or seahorses? Thanks for everyones help. :rolleyes:

Has anyone ever used a coil denitrator? I have one on both my 135 and my 55 and they have been nothing but a hassle. I have had them up and running for a few months and have not seen any change in my nitrates, which are not high now or before the coil denitrators. I was just wondering if they...

Does anyone keep sponges or have any info on them? I think there cool looking and am trying to learn something about them. Are they o.k. in reef tanks, what about with fish. How hard are they to keep? :)

Two of my red leg hermits were alomost all of the way out of their shells and were belly to belly but they were not using their claws to pinch eachother. I thought at first they were fighting but the more I watched them it looked as if they were having ---.They would do this for a while then...