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i've got a 125 reef tank and i think i'm about 10 x's an hour. is this enough with a good filtration system in place? thanx for any input.

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after removing fish from the dt wouldn't the tank be ich free 5days? not the fish in the qt but the dt itself. starting with no host the tomont stage lasts according to beths sticky several hours then the tomite 4 days then in the theront stage several hours to find a host or die. this is...

last year a thread contained the name of a noise reducer for overflows,i cant find it does anybody know the name and possibly where i can find one . thanks!

in three months i've lost 4 fish. three mos ago a full grown anthias disappeared overnite.2 mos ago a christmas wrasse died overnite last month my chalk bass died without any signs of physical damage or disease. today i found my one year old coral beauty on the bottom. i have two tanks one...

i just added about 20 lbs of a synthetic rock to a 90 with about 100 lbs of well cured live rock [about i yr old] do you think i need to look for any changes in my water parameters?

the smaller of my two true percs has been 'hovering ' at the substrate for 48 hrsalmost perpendicu lar nose down . at first in a spot that seemed to make a small bowl shape in the sand now moved and abandoned original spot but still hovering upside down . it could be my imagination its so...

i just discovereed my yellow leather coral has white milky scars on two of its fingers and they seem to be spreading. i've never fragged or cut one so i dont know what a damaged ones ******** "flesh looks like. should i remove the small portion of the finger it's on to stop spreading or is it...

do you vaccum a deep sand bed ? is a sand sifting star bad to have in a dsb? i have 3 in a 90. are cerith snails [1inch] 12 in a 90 gallon bad with a deep sand bed?

tomorrow i'm doing 30% change on my 90 g tank. i've been fighting high [35-40 ppm's nitrate for 2 or three weeks and i' tried to do everything to reduce the number. the one thing i'm attempting is bio ball change for cured live rubble. paying the maintenence guy , a very good lfs, to come and...

when i bought my current 90 g fron the lfs he showed me his DTs all 9 running on bios so i bought into it. 4 mos later lots of veteran reefers are saying taake them out they are causing you nitrate problems. i got the idea that if i remove them some at a time the bateria will then migrate to the...

i read mardel pamphlet says ion exchange resins help remove nitrates. i'm fighting high levels and am doing water changes added more circulation and took out protein skimmer cleaned whole unit added prime to new water as directed still higher than should be 30-35 ppm do these resins help? can...

i haven't had any previous experience with tangs but after researching decided on a red sea sailfin. he took to the tank great but i noticed after a few encounters with a large tri anthias [neither backed down but it was brief] some slits in the fins. they are small but both fins have them. is...

thinking of adding a deep water canary damsel to my tank. anybody have experience with this fish? other tank mates are red sea tang, tri anthias, o. clown, chalk bass, coral beauty and a lawnmower. peaceful tank but no real passives. what do you guys think?

i need a chiller for 90 g 1/10 h.p. i believe w/ or w/o pump. new is too much $ for me right now. i'm in florida. let me know if anyone has an inline for sale.

i have all the components from the 34 g red sea nano tank available. the glass crashed after 3 mos in use so all are in like new condition. the specs are on the "red sea max.com" web site. lighting system, heater, protein skimmer , pumps,stand etc. are in a package deal for 150.00. this system...

i just stumbled across what i think is a very very informative web site for new aqaurists ` its *********** . it's a non profit library of aquariana? everything is laid out easily many of your what is this questions youcan find out for yourself. i'm sure the vet's know about this but for us...

i'm setting up a 90 reef tank,the lfs says reef cleaner crew should be 100 plus . if this is so what should i get? mostly colony polyps few lps and small oeaceful fish transfered from smaller tank that went down. this is expensive so i need a little advice.

2 plus weeks ago 34 g.nano split apart at 4 am. bad bad scene. removed l/r and tank inhabs. kept wet and went to lfs got 90 g. i should have in the first place,but i am new to this, so went with plug and go first. filled new tank with everthing saved,40 lbs l/r 40 lbs l/s and all fish and polyp...