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So this afternoon I came home from work to see my two new Black and White clowns had been beat-up on pretty good. The one isn't in as bad a shape as the other. The one that's been pretty beat-up, looks to have lost a lot of its tail-fin. I've separated the parties, the two injured clowns into a...

Ended up doing closer to a 30% water change. Have lost a handful of snails and ph is still 8.4. Any suggestions? (Maybe I'll give up on the refugium and go back to a canister cause I can't keep loosing livestock.)

Thanks guys. I think I'm going to add some more lr to the sump for now, and do a 20 percent water change and see where that puts me.

Additionally before the change my ph was at 8.1 and now is 8.4.

Right, so the skimmer is my only mechanical part right now. I added some activated carbon filter pads between the baffles tonight So.... Right now the water comes down from my HOB overflow, is split and half goes the skimmer side and the other half to the chaeto/3" sand side. After that the...

I take it back. After adding all the reciepts up, I have closer to 90 lbs of lr

The DT is a 55 gallon. Meaning I want to completely unhook the mechanical canister filter.

I had been using a mechanical filter before, and it kept spitting micro-bubbles into the tank no matter what adjustments I made to it (it only ever changed the frequency of the bubble bursts). So the goal of the sump/fudge is to act as my filter. I don't have my log book with me, so I can't say...

This weekend I finished installing about a 30 gallon custom sump/fudge. Its divided into three sections (skimmer, return, fudge). With the end two flowing into the middle. I have sand and chaeto in the fudge side. Should a piece of lr be in there as well? (If so, how much?) I have about 40...

I wanna add a sump to my 55 gallon tank. After researching the size that I should have and all that I settled on a 20 Gal Long tank to use for the sump. Went and bought the tank, got it home and was all set to start on my baffles. Thought that purhapse I should dry fit it beneath my tank and its...

The fixture can handle up to two 1800K bulbs no problem. 6-8 bulbs? Holy crap.....I don't think my tank is wide enough for 6-8. Maybe I'll just have to stay the way I am for now, and in time upgrade to a different system entirely.

Thanks. I'm still a newbie, so I guess I'm slowly learning. Is there a setup out there that would be low profile enough to fit underneath within the 5" clearance of my hood?

Yes, its two bulbs, single reflector.

Before reading this forum and doing a lot research, I trusted the guy at the LFS. He sold me a 54W Hagen Glo T5 HO 48" setup for my 55gal tank. (Now I realize this may not have been the best setup.) At the moment I'm only interested in a FOWLR. I've had it setup for about 8 months now, no real...