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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...

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...

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...

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...

I found some Coralife T-5 lights for sale locally by way of craigslist. They are freshwater -48" coralife high output t-5 dual lamp. What makes a light freshwater vs. saltwater? I have a 55 FOWLR tank and would like to add some anemones and other plants but no corals. Can I use the freshwater t-5?

I have a 55 gal FOWLR tank. Two powerheads, One coralife skimmer, 1 millenium powerfilter. Originally in the tank I had snails, crabs, clam, copepods, (2) false perc's (1) copperband butterfly, (1) fireshrimp. My tank has been running for 6 months now, and all of the sudden I come home to...

I've been noticing some growth over the past month or so of red algae, and some little white dots that seem to appear in groups all over the tank. Everything has been ok until today when I noticed my fireshrimp was on his back, appearing to be dying. I immediately did a water check and found...

This is probably a dumb question, but I've had my 55G running FOWLR running for 5 months now. I'm starting to get a lot of red growth on my live rock, I'm assuming this is good algae growth. There is some purple algae growth that has started spreading on the glass and pumps also. Is this...

Okay, so my 55G has been set up for a couple months now. I have 2 false percula clowns, 1 domino damsel, and some inverts in there. My tank is a FOWLR setup. My question is what other fish could I add in there? I would like to put some type of tang or angel fish but that doesn't seem like such a...

Okay, so my 55G has been set up for a couple months now. I have 2 false percula clowns, 1 domino damsel, and some inverts in there. My tank is a FOWLR setup. My question is what other fish could I add in there? I would like to put some type of tang or angel fish but that doesn't seem like...

After patiently waiting 6 weeks for my tank to cycle, yesterday I finally got my new fish and inverts. I appreciate all the help on this site. You guys make it easy.

It has been almost a full month now that my 55g has been cycling.. All is well except for my nitrite level. It has been hanging at 1.0 for over 2 weeks. What is going on in there? I have 2 maxi jets, 1 skimmer, 1 powerfilter, LS and LR. I'm open to all suggestions here. I've got brown...

My 55G has been setup and cycling now for over 3 weeks. I just checked earlier today and here are my levels: Ammonia: 0 Nitrites: 5+ Ph: 8.4 Nitrates: 10 Temp: 78 Salinity: 32ppm As soon as the nitrites hit zero, I am putting an order in for a cleanup crew. I would also like to begin adding...

First the cycle: My tank has been cycling with LS and LR for about 3 weeks now. It is a 55 gallon, I am running one powerhead, skimmer, and power filter. My levels on January 06 were: Salinity: 32ppm Nitrite: .25 Ammonia: 1.0 Nitrate: 10 Ph: 8.4 Temp: 84 It doesn't appear that the levels have...

I set my 55G FOWLR tank up and I haven't been able to remedy the cloudy water. It's been three days now and I need to move the 40lbs of LR that i have in there but it keeps stirring sand and creating more cloudy water. I have live sand, live rock, my skimmer and my filter running. Am i doing...

I've read books, I researched the boards here, talked to friends, talked to the LFS guru's and just when I thought I had it all figured out..I realize I don't have a clue what I am doing ..Hopefully the pro's here can help me. I bought my two beautiful daughters, whom I love, their first 55g...

Can anyone point me in the right direction for self made skimmers. I just need to know how they operate so I can take those principles and apply it to my own design. Thanks in advance!

I bought a 55G tank and will be running a FOWLR setup for now. Currently I have a 65G needlewheel skimmer by Coralife, and a Millenium 3000 power filter. I will be adding 30lbs. of aragamax sugar sized dead sand, and 20lbs. of Arag Alive Fiji pink live sand. In addition I plan on adding...