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I have had this Monti for over 2 years, over the years I have reduced it and its come back healthy. Under my old fixture it is a rich orange. My old fixture was an Outer Orbit 48" with T5 4x54W and MH 2x150W. Total 500W on a 75 gal The old fixture is dead so I went with a Tek T5 48" 8x54W. Total...

I dropped a small hunk of salt in my tank and it landed right on the anemone last night. I got it off quickly but today it has already begun to die. Its deteriorating and when I waved some flow against him it dispersed through the tank! There are some tenticles left but not good. #1 Is there...

Need help... what tool can I use to cut this plexi? Its a 20 gal long. There are two partitions in there. The problem is the top has nicely cut small diameter holes for water flow. I need to create a row near the middle or bottom to create better flow. My tanks are in place and plumbed. I can't...

I am going to have three tanks; two 40 gallon and a 65 gallon in a closed loop system. The tanks sit all side by side and the sump and Reeflo are in the middle underneath. I have a Reeflo Dart 3600 pump as the return. (The 40 gal tanks were drilled for a 1" return. The 65 gallon tank was drilled...

I am plumbing a closed loop system. The tank is pre-drilled twice. The drain works with an overflow box. The return is standard 1" bulkhead. My question is what do I need to do for the return as far as PVC plumbing configuration? If I have straight PVC coming out of bulkhead into the tank and...

I need all the suggestions I can get... I want this to go as smooth as possible, if thats possible. Let me know thoughts, concerns, etc. So here is what I have set up so far. I have the stand built as you can see. On the top row, I am going to have 2 40 gal tanks anchoring a 65 gal that will...

In the process of thinking of a stand for three tanks that will be same viewing height laid out side by side as a display. I have a 65 gallon and two 40 gallon tanks. I wanted the 65 in the middle with a 40 to the right and left. Wanted to butt them up next to each other for a long 10 foot...

Everything fine last night... woke up this morning and one head of Xenia just looked terrible. Looked at first like there was a coating of slime on it... when I went to blow it off with a baster it just dissolved or "melted" and now gone...

I am about to replace all 4 of my 48" T5 HO bulbs. They go into a Current lighting system. They work together with my two 14K 150W MH bulbs. Right now I am running 2 420nm bulbs and 2 460nm bulbs. Looks good but want to find out the optimal bulbage. So I need your opinion... regardless to brand...

I want to create more realistic wave action. Hadn't thought about wavemakers until now but I wanted to try. I have a 75 gallon closed loop tank with a dual head return being pushed by a Mag12 pump with little head height. I also have a maxi1200 and two Tunze 6085 in the tank. I notice that when...

No matter how much I read I cannot grasp ALK, pH, Kh and Cal... Here is what I have done and what I think I know. Someone please don't just school me but tell me what to do. 1. Apperantly ALK and kH are the same thing? If they are the tests that are out there have different standards of...

THe BTA i have had for a year looks like its dividing. You can see in the middle where its stretching. On both sides it has a foot or an anchor to the rock so looks like it doubled. The piece in the middle wont break and although it seems fine the BTA doesn't look so hot... any advice?

My heater in my tank is all over the board but my tank stays at 84 year round. I played with the heater too much until tonight i realized that i just need a new one. Anyway it seems like there are alot of questions and theories to temp and what is good and bad. I have had good luck with the reef...

I am using pickling lime for a calc drip and I made a couple 2 liter bottles into homemade dripper application. Working OK so far but I have two questions; 1. Is there a good and easy way to calculate how much I should be dripping per day and the concentration of the mix? 2. I made the dripper...

Whatever it is it scared the crap out of me and I flinched like a little girl.... Anyone know what this is. I siphoned it out. Should I toss him or keep him?

I ordered this light and got the freshwater instead of the saltwater. I wanted to see if anyone knows if I could use this for saltwater? I was going to just have a 20g with one clown and maybe few small soft corals. Its 28W and one bulb is "Colormax full spectrum" and the other is 6700K. This be...

Need help on what to do... entire tank is infested with this stuff. It has taken over everthing and is now killing corals. Is there a natural predator or chemical bomb that will actually work? It just too hard to pick off or kill one by one. Would it be wise to separate the infested rock from...

I want to buy larger quantities of carbon. I found on another site, sorry SWF.com, some large 5 gal buckets. Its described as Lignite carbon. I did not find many old threads about this type of carbon. Anyone have any insight to wether this might be a good deal or a tank killer?

So typically this anemone has been super healthy and happy. I have the before pic. Yesterday I added some coral but nothing radical. I did add some calcium and buffer but again nothing radical. Today when its normally at its fullest it looks pathetic... Any first initial reasons?

I can't believe it... I have a large starfish... I think its a brittle star. Purplish in color very slender legs and a distinct round center mass. Its at least 12" long from one leg to another. Anyway I also have 2 cleaner shrimp they have been in there for more than a year. I bought two more...