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the best advice to your 300 dollar question is... picking out a skimmer is very subjective to the advice a skimmer owner can give you ! theres loads of skimmers out there all saying their's is the best product on the market. that leaves us to scratch our heads and wonder. i've made my own...

i've had great success with a green colored sea grass common to the hobby under 5 watts per gallon. but, i would say this amount of light isnt enough for most sea grasses since that which i'm fimiliar with grows in very shallow waters... the output of the sun in shallow waters ( from my...

i have a frogspawn which i've had for 3 years now. when it first came into the retail reef store in my neighborhood its tenacles were extended beautifully and i bought it. a month or so later they are distended and have been that way for about 2 years 11 months. i've been in this hobby for...

Nonsense... both of my reef tanks are skimmed and I have fanastic success with keeping both soft, SP's and LP's. Furthermore, on display in a salt water sales local pet store ( from whom I've purchased for the last 20 years ) is a leather coral the size of 2 1/2 pizzas in a 75 g. with one...

i have a 29 g. nano reef tank and a 55 reef tank going right now with well over a thousand bucks worth of live soft and sps corals in the nano, for example... and i fuss over this tank with pretty much the exact same approach as you do with your 90. i change out the carbon every first of the...

hello... the first thing to do in any and every case is to do an Internet search and collect all the data you can about anything to do with anything ! theres a lot of ' bum scoop ' to be had on message boards... when you have a biology question about your tank go to marine biologist sites...

How do ? The best stuff in the world to rid a tank of aptasia is Aptasia-X. I've used it a lot and it is indeed reef safe and kills aptasia in about 2 minutes. The stuff is applied with a seringe directly on the things mantle... then watch them go bye-bye ! As far as starving aptasia...

Top of the mornin' to ya. Clams burrow. I keep a few in my refugium which has 4 inches of coral gravel in it. I got a bag of clams ( which are filter feeders ) at the supermarket, live, and after a few hours they're almost completely buried 'cept to filter water by their various own devices...

Total trash ! Doesn't cure Ich but rather, kills corals. Maybe someone has had success with this stuff and it would surprise me if they did. Kick Ich is nothing more than Snake Oil designed by its inventors as a get rich quick scheme... after all, we all would try a remedy for the dreded...

Everybody waters the best environment possible for their beloved reef and FO aquariums... so do I ! From equipment already attached to my filter system which includes a sump, 100 micron filter bag, mineral mud, mangroves, calurpa, live rock and sand, protein skimmer and finally, a UV sterilizer...

I like to tinker and so I'm going to apply some technology used by a California city water company to my reef tank ( 55 g. ) cuz the technology they use removes gaseous impurities from their drinking water. I saw the idea on TV... maybe Science Channel ? Anyway, the similarity of purifying...

Yep, the problem with reef keeping is not having an Ich outbreak but keeping a reef tank with expensive, showy, beautiful fish like tangs. I've been keeping salt water fish for almost 40 years now and have had reef tanks for the past 20 plus years. Learning from experience, and I'm retired now...

My fellow hobbyists... here is some advice to consider from someone who's been in the salt water hobby for nearly 40 years now... and I've also worked part time in a pet store salt water / freshwater / pond department in my retirement. In my younger days I collected in Florida and brought live...

Yep, the problem with reef keeping is not having an Ich outbreak but keeping a reef tank with expensive, showy, beautiful fish like tangs. I've been keeping salt water fish for almost 40 years now and have had reef tanks for the past 20 plus years. Learning from experience, ( and I'm retired...

OK, so you have an micro algae outbreak... welcome to the club ! You didn't say where your water is coming from when you do changes. Do an on line search for your area's water quality if you are a city dweller. If you have ground water thats a different subject. Tap water has pollutants in it...

Not at all like today ! Back in 1971 there was no such thing as live rock, live corals, metal halides, drilled tanks, sumps, mangrove seedlings and a thousand other ' common ' items available to the Aquarist today. You did the 6 week waiting period for your tank to cycle... live rock wasn't...

Originally Posted by 505titan do powder brown tangs eat lettuce? if this is true do you have to boil it like you do broccoli why feed a fish human food ? do you know for sure they can process human food... digest it properly ? why not just give the tang algae sheets available at most salt...