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Originally Posted by Robyn thanks everyone, and ouch, I feel even more unworthy of my little piece of ocean in my family room than ever before however, I agree taking care of my tank myself, is the only real solution, and I'm willing, but am soo clueless. I've read books and none lay them out...

Originally Posted by beaslbob any number of things can cause a spike in ammonia. Something dead, over feeding, accidential toxins, many many things. hopefully your fish are fine. As a start I would stop adding food to the tank until amminia/nitrItes drop doan again. FWIW your experience is...

Originally Posted by CAM78 I feed my fish once every few days. Prob has nothing to do with what you are talking about though. Newer tanks go through more changes then established tanks. Are stirring up the sand when doing W/C's? This might create a spike. I have slightly on a few occasions...

Originally Posted by xlr8 This is just my opinion. Feed only as much food as your fish can eat in about 5 min. Another one that was suggested to me is small portions 2 or 3 times in a day rather than one big feeding in a day. But I would look for something dead, maybe a snail or crab? $.02 It...

How does water parameters go from being perfect one week to a spike in ammonia/nitrite/nitrate the next week? Tank has been established for 4 months now. Livesand/rock, inverts, and two clown fish in there.. The only thing I can think of is overfeeding?? Which I don't believe I have..I...

Water all clear now.. I guess it had nothing to do with the water parameters and everything to do with my protein skimmer. I was without a good skimmer until almost a week ago when I bought a new one. Now that it's almost fully broken in it is skimming like crazy and the water is nearly...

I just bought a Fluval 305 cannister filter but I have yet to take it out of the box because I'm still not convinced I need it. Any opinions? If I keep the Fluval i thought about converting my current HOB Millenium 3000 to a refugium of sorts or at least keep it as another place to store live...

Originally Posted by don1234 Okay I went back and read one of your post and saw where you have mixed sand and aquarium gravel for the bedding. Here is another thought why the cloudiness may not be going away, the salt could be eating away at the gravel and releasing some type of chemicals...

Originally Posted by don1234 Hmmm then that may rule that theory out. Was the rock dry when you got it? It looks like live rock that needs or needed to be cured. I purchased some uncurred live rock at one point in time I placed it in another tank until it curred for about thirty days and the...

Originally Posted by don1234 Possibly you could have had a bubble anemone or any type of anemone for that matter that was a hitcher and that has died or gotten sucked up in your power head or filter. When bubble anemones get sucked up in a power head they usually make the tank look exactly...

Originally Posted by meowzer How often do you change your carbon? What ammonia remover are you using? What are those blue things on the bottom of your tank? I just changed my carbon and ammonia remover last night so they've been in the filter for about 3 months. I use ProCarbZ which has...

Originally Posted by IBEW41 what kind of sand bed do you have and are the sponges dieing? I used 40lbs of live sand mixed with some common white aquarium gravel. The sponges seem to be doing ok but from what I've read they die a slow death so it could take some time before I start to see any...

Originally Posted by Flower Macro algae can go asexual and cloud up the tank. How long was the brittle star in the tank? How long did you acclimate it? Coralbanded shrimps are mean. Feather dusters loose the crown sometimes, they grow back so don't go thinking it is dead yet. If there is not...

I should add that I did a 10% water change a week ago.

I just ditched my coralife 65 since it started having serious microbubble issues. I ordered an aquac Remora and have been running it for a couple days now as an HOB. Style, quality skim, water return, and noise level are all better than the coralife.

I've had my tank setup for almost 3 months now and the cycle just finished. Not sure why it took so long but I have about 40lbs of base rock and 40lbs of live sand and my skimmer was not operating right for most of that time, which left my two maxi jet 900 powerheads and millenium 3000 HOB...

I put a new Orange Tree Sponge and a Feather Duster in my 55 tonight but I'm a little uncertain whether they will attach themselves to the LR or if I need to plant them into the sand or LR myself. Any suggestions? I'd like to point my powerhead towards them but I can't until they are both...

Originally Posted by Jstdv8 I have a coralife superskimmer, hated it in my DT before I got the sump cause every time the water height would change due to evaporation my skimmer would overflow or not produce anything and or send alot of microbubbles into the tank. I have a sump now and the...

Running a 55 FOWLR, 60LBS of live rock, some live sand. no fish currently until I get the tank where I want it. I started it a couple years ago and had some issues so I shut it down for a while. I have a 65gal coralife protein skimmer that I use as HOB. and a cheap HOB filter that does an...

In doing a little more research I found that the 48" freshwater light includes one 54 watt 6700K Daylight Lamp and one 54 watt Colormax Lamp. The saltwater light fixture includes one 54 watt 10000K Daylight and one 54 watt Actinic Bluelight HO lamp. Currently I don't have anything in my tank...