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Hey guys, sometime soon i will embark on the arduous task of transporting my tank. It shouldnt be that hard in comparison since it is only a 20long an there is no livestock except for a clean-up-crew.I think i have it planned out well, ill put most of the water in buckets. Ill put the rocks in...

my clownfish was completely fine today. I just walked in and found it lying on the bottom gasping for air. He had been fine the past months aside from occasional white feces. Its not my params. Is there anything i can do?! the fish store is closed.

hey ive got these little white anemone poylp things all over my tank. It initally started with one which i didnt remove. I dont really see it as a major issue because i dont have any corals. However, i would very much like to know what they are exactly. My camera is terribly blurry even on macro...

Gahh! i didnt think id ever have to post in this section. My false perc has been swimming strangely, well, stranger than usual. I would almost like to say he has a sudden case of swim bladder disease, can clowns actually get this? He seems to use alot of energy to stay bouyant, its as if hes...

well... thats my question. Mines already about 2", i dont know how old exactly seeing as it wasnt tank bred. would it make sense to get another one now? Also should i give it a bit of time to make sure that this one is a female?

Hey, ive had my tank set up for a while with a green chromis as its only inhabitant (didnt cycle with it.) I finally got a dsb and chaeto in the fuge so the trates have went down to nothing. So, now im looking for new fish. I originally intended to get 2 more chromis and hope that they school...

Hey im just wondering is there is anything actually harmful about nussance algaes. My tank has been inhabited for about 2 months now. In my fuge im starting to see brown diatoms and red cyano maybe (not slime.) im not really concerned that it will spread to my dt because im not really running...

I have been quite unsuccessful in keeping hermit crabs alive. I got three just for starters in my 20g. After about a month 2 of them died. I got 2 more to replace them. One of those died the day later and was picking at something at the end of its "tail." Today the last of the original three...

Due to popular demand, im posting pics of the fuge i built. I didnt want to buy an expensive prebuilt one or a small hob, so i made this. The 2.5g sits on the back and is actually above my dt. I fitted 3/4" Cpvc to the filter intake to pump water in and made a siphon to pump the water out. It...

hey, i got a plant light from home depot as many people suggest for their chaeto. I picked this bulb up for $6, its 50 watts and perfect size since i can only fit a strawberry basket size in my fuge. However, i called phillips later and they thought the color intensity was 2700k. I know chaeto...

Hey, i have heard such a broad spectrum of opinons on chromis compatability. I have heard from the lfs that they will not cause any problems, i have heard that they do fine singly or 3 or 5, also from someone that unless you have 6 one will bully the others till they are dead. Im not sure who to...

Hey, this isnt a huge complicated diy project. I wanted some fresh brine for my fish so i was thinking of hatching them. Most directions say to keep the eggs aerated in a container of sw. Would it make sense to just put a small soda bottle sitting in my sump/fuge filled with tank water. This way...

Hey, this just got me really curious, this site sells a 2 gallon nano. It looks like it has rock, small corals, and a cleaner shrimp. It comes with lights and a filter for 40 bucks and ill bet buying water for changes would be cheap. just wondering, has anyone ever had success with something...

Why is it instructed to change out the sponge in a filter. My filter pamphlets says to get a new one every 2 months. I rinse mine and squeeze it out every once in awhile so it doesnt get clogged and such. Is it actually essential to change it out, or do they just want your money?

quick question, i was gonna add some lr to my FO and was looking into lighting. The lfs dude said lighting is not neccesary for lr. Now i do understand that lr, regardless of lighting, will provide the biological filtration, but i would imagine not lighting it would make alot of the algea...

This seems like a dumb question because i have never heard anyone talk about it. When i set up my tank i bought a bag of aragonite sand, not thinking, and assumed it was live. Now i do understand that it has plenty or calcium, buffers, surface area for bacteria and whatnot, but since it was...

I have done alot of researching on refugiums/ sumps lately. There is still one thing that absolutely puzzles me. When the sump is below the DT i do not understand how the siphon or overflow can exactly match what the pump is putting out. My reasoning would be that unless the pump was EXACTLY...

hey im working on a simple FO 20 gal tank ive already got the salinity, filter, ls set up. So the next step i suppose would be to cycle it. I have read that some hasten this by letting a frozen shrimp sit in it for 3-4 days. I just wanted to know if this is recommended and not just a half @$$ed...