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i have a 90 dt and am going with mostly soft corals. i have a 4 bulb straight pin fixture with individual switches. i'm getting ready to order bulbs all 65 watt. 2 of them will be atinic 03 bulbs and here's the ??. should i go with 10 k white or would i be better with 6700daylight colormax...

nordy skip the plexi idea and go get a 2 x 4 piece of egg crate or also known as light difuser . this will allow your tank to breate properly and light entering the tank will not be an issue

i just set up a 90 dt . i'm using 170 lbs. lr which is cured and i'm going with a shallow sand bed of carib sea aragonite ,probably about 50 lbs. my ? is do i do the shrimp thing with a raw shrimp and remove it when the amonia hits 1.0 and can i put some misis shrimp in a media bag and...

thank you . my main reason for asking was also for water flow where if i had a lot of rock against the back i probably wouldn't have much if any

simple ? is it a good idea to rest lr on the back of the tank??i have a 90 dt and will be placing about 170lbs of lr . thanx in advance

thank you for the advise .i'll rag vinagar and rinse a few times till no more of the vinager smell is present . thanx again

What Is Beat For Cleaning A New Plastic Garbage Bucket In Preparation For Water For Water Changes? Thanx In Advance..walt

i have 3 leather finger corals . my ? is why do they not open every day ? i have compact lighting (12k) . they open for 3 or 4 days and then they might stay closed for 2 , 3 or 4 days. i have them at different levels in the tank and they all seem to act the same.thanx in advance ...walt

i have 4 clowns in my tank .i have 1 anemone. pretty much only 1 ( the female the larger one )spends time in it. but they will do fine without one as well .so it's your call. i will tell you this ,some anemones wander alot mine finally found it's spot and has been there for quite a while.so if...

i have a hagen test kit .it tells me for every drop i add it equals 10mg/l(ppm)as calcium carbonate (caco3) it tell me safe range is between 10 and 13 drops .i'm at 10

thanx for the quick reply. i just now tested alk and came out with100mg/l. ph is 8.3

for a while now i've been battling trying to raise my calcium level. i've been using turbo calcium and even dosing a little more than they reccomend. my magnesium is at 1280 .can someone please tell me if this turbo stuff is any good and maybe tell me what i can use to get better results . i...

not my nite, just got my oil tank thawed out and i siliconed in 3 of the 5 baffles and realized the tube said not for continious under water use my ? is and i know i read it on here is what is the best stuff to use for putting glass to glass . thank you in advance ...walt

i understand eggcrate will keep the fish in as well as providing ample gs exchange

so i guess sticking with the cheato is the best thing to do . not that i'm dissatisified or having trouble.i'll just start calling what i have "miracle cheato" thanx walt

i'm getting ready to make a refugium out of a 30 long and i was wondering if anyone has anything good or bad to say about miracle mud ? i also would like to know if i used the mud if i could eliminate the cheato i have in there now, and eliminate having to run a fuge light. thanx in advance..walt

thanx for your reply. since i set the tank up a few months ago i've always had air coming down the return tube.it's clear 1"line. yesterday i did a little scaping and messed with the tube in the overflo to no avail. this morning i noticed the tank level was up a little higher and there was now...

hole in top was clear .i raised the pipe back up to where it was and had to turn the return pump down just a whisker ,it's a little giant, it seemed ok full blast when i had air in the return line but is just a whisker too much now , so all looks good now again thank you for the replies..walt

first of all thanx for the reply. the dt is just slightly higher than normal maybe only a half " from the very top of the tank.so should i poke at the air hole on the top of the return pipe cause i'm afaraid of flooding

i have a 90 dt and have always had trouble w micro bubbles. i rescaped yesterday and a friend asked why there was so much air in my return line.i thought it was normal. well i messed with the height of the overflo tube in the tank overflo and set it about 1 " below the top of the teeth. today i...