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Originally Posted by srfisher17 I think the zeolite is an ammonia remover and shouldn't be needed in a healthy tank. I believe this stuff is a FW product. IMO, cheap carbon is no better than no carbon and products like Chemi-Pure or Purigen are better alternatives. +1

Originally Posted by Bang Guy I take that back, I just reviewed the spectral plots and they are very similar. The biggest difference is in PAR, about 90 for the Phoenix and about 60 for the megachrome. Since your phoenix are older the corals may not even notice the difference. So I am...

It's MH change out time and I would like to know if going from 2 14K Phoenix 250W DE to 2 22 K MEGACHROME blue 250 Watt - DE will have any negative effects on my corals. I've already changed out my 4 55W dual compacts last month. I have a total of 720W lighting a 75g tank and the fixture is...

Your are very artistic with all your tanks and I believe that one day you will get a big tank and put us all to shame, you have a nack for aqua scaping

Would this product benefit clams, sponges and featherduster?

Description Filtra P Fast Anti Phosphate Phosphates may be present as organic or inorganic phosphates inside our marine aquarium. Since inorganic phosphates are much easier to be removed from water, organic phosphates will mostly not be impacted by phosphate-binding materials normally...

Originally Posted by spanko But he's got high hopes, he's got high hopes He's got high apple pie, in the sky hopes That's so funny!

Feed Your Tropical Marine Aquarium Fishes! Today I’d like to talk a little about a favorite topic of marine aquarists—feeding. As marine aquarists, our hobby requires more consistent care than some other hobbies. If we stop looking after our aquatic charges—even for a relatively short time—their...

Originally Posted by thang45 Thanks soulsigma very much for the long post. I'm starting to understand it better now. This is my setup: 90gal 38gal sump with refugium with chaeto I use RO water with DDE H2 Ocean PRO salt. I have MSX200 skimmer 2 purple fire fish 2 cardinal 2 clown 1 small blue...

Originally Posted by Bountyhunter23 I have a red sea prizim and i feel like it doenst to as good of a job that it could be doing. Anyone used a Vertex skimmer before? Customer Reviews [hr] 5 Perfect Skimmer 12/27/2008 - by anthony clay from manteca, CA US IMO, I could not have bought a...

I finally got my yasha goby and pistol shrimp today from aqautica, among a bunch of other stuff too! The shrimp is pretty cool, hes already made a burrow with a little door out of gravel.

To understand how to get rid of unwanted algae it is necessary to first understand exactly what algae are? Algae are the simplest forms of plant life on the planet and have been around in one form or another for over 200 million years. Micro algae are the single celled type that can only be...

So what about Reverse Osmosis (RO)? Reverse osmosis is basically when water is passed under pressure through a series of prefilters, to remove particles and chlorine, and finally a membrane designed to allow water molecules through but trap everything else present. An RO unit on average, will...

Why you shouldn't use tap water [hr] If you're thinking about setting up a marine aquarium you will no doubt be encountering no end of questions and plenty of decisions that need making. One of those questions may be, Can i use tap water in my tank? Hopefully reading on will answer that...

________________________________________ Some Useful Books for Beginners ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ There is plenty to learn when starting to keep marines, so reading a good book or two is an...

The poor fish were not suited for a 90g set-up and regardless of his filtration system that bio-load still overwhelmed his system it just couldn't keep up.

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Gorgeous looking rock. The sponges should help and polishing pads would work even better^

Thanks for the tips I am experiencing the same only on a very mild version which needs to be checked before it gets out of hand. I have begun limiting my light cycle from hrs to hrs , covered the window across from the aquarium, reduced phosphates and nitrates, and this week I will up the cc...

Originally Posted by TruPerc I believe this is one of the florida fighting conch's http://images.google.com/imgres?imgu...%3D2%26hl%3Den This closely resembles the Tiger Sand Conch, but the back of the shell is typically more elongated on the fighting conch. +1