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what is he best time for water change to least bother fish/ coral? morning, day, evening or night? lights off? i have corals till the top of the tank.. so last couple of times i have noticed that when i do water change my water level goes below the top corals. and when they are fully opened up...

hello guys, has anyone used seachem reefsalt?? i used to use coral life and reef crystal. i mixed my first seachem reef salt. it mixed well and turned into clear solution with in first hour.. But overnight the whole bucket turned milky and cloudy. Look at the attached picture and on this link...

hey guys i have one small pico style tank for my betta fish. i wanna convert that to saltwater/reef tank. what do i need to do? do i need to change filter completely? or can i just clean filter and change the filter media? how should i wash the tank? do i need to use special cleaning agent to...

hey guys , pls look at my tank 4 months old. Please let me know how i am doing and how it looks. i need honest advise and feedback. pictures link: http://gallery.me.com/pneupane#10004...r=black&sel=21

hey guys, i need to cover my rimless tank. in my 40 gallon rimless, i use this bracket: http://gallery.me.com/pneupane#100013/Mount .. that gives me something that glass top like versa glass top can rest.. look at the above link. But those brackets are too small for my 70 gallon tank (cuz it has...

hey guys, hydor Koralia pump? or maxijet with "Hydor FLO Rotating Deflector" ? does hydor koralia pump just pump water in one direction? whaat is better and why? or what are advantages or disadvantages of each?

hello, i just bought this tank: http://www.reefbuilders.com/2009/04/...-line-oceanic/ its will be shipped to me on tuesday. but the stand was very expensive and i bought stand locally in my petsmart. is that a bad idea to buy diff stand? one thing is that the locally bought stand has no top and...

i am tired of brown and green algae on my tank. And everyone else has crystal clear clean tank. I am so frustrated. I am using ro/di water, i am using ro/di water for top offs. What could be doing wrong? Only thing that comes to my mind is i must be over feeding. So here is the question. i have...

i currently have aqua lifter vacuum pump. But its not working for me to use to Auto top off. I have jbj auto top off with maximum time set to 14 minutes but seems like aqualifter is not powerful enough to replenish the water lost and so jbj auto top off system goes into the power lock mode...

hey i got a ATS UPS battery backup like this http://www.apc.com/products/family/i...?id=21#anchor1 . and seems like it works only for computers.. what kinda UPS battery backup do u guys use for your filter/ powerheads/ return pump etc?

hey guys, i see some white deposit on live rock. what can that be? is it common to have that? pls help

hey guys just wanted a quick advise. i have a phyton water changer that i use in freshwater. if i just wash the part that goes in freshwater, can i use that to drain water out of saltwater tank? or is it not good to do that? same question for algae scraper brush? if i wash the brush can i use it?

my torch seem to be dying. i posted couple of pic. Two of the heads seems to be damaged. Is it because the head is touching the rock? will my whole coral die? should i move to another location? http://gallery.me.com/pneupane#10001...&bgcolor=black...

can i put frogspawn and torch side by side. Even their base touching each other? or is that bad. i have a rock with big hole. i am planning to put frogspawn and torch both on the same hole. is that ok?

i got a torch coral 2.5 week ago. I placed in bottom of aquarium. Looked very happy. But about 1.5 week ago, since it was close to other corals, i moved it up a bit. also was time for my water change. did the water change. Still looked happy, tentacles fully streched out. But then i added some...

hey guys i have 4o gallon tank and getting ideas from my work saltwater reef tank. Can u please help me identify corals in these 6 pictures please. 1. http://gallery.me.com/pneupane#100013/One&bgcolor=black 2. http://gallery.me.com/pneupane#100013/Two&bgcolor=black 3...

hey guys, whats the thinnest algae scraper. FIRST reef tank and i guess i made a mistake of having rocks too close to glass there is so much now that i cant even think of moving it. So now the solution is to find thinnest algae scrapper for certain parts with long handle. i have less than have...

how can u tell if feather duster is dead or alive. He seemed happy for few days. I have 2 of them. One i see has his crown out. But the other one, last time i saw his crown out was yesterday. Is he dead? his top tube is completely closed. BTW his tail is not buried in sand. and the whole thing...

hey guys , pls look at my tank 4 weeks old. Please let me know how i am doing and how it looks. i need honest advise and feedback. pictures link: http://picasaweb.google.com/neupane/Aquarium642009#

hey guys, i got a zoa frag.. about 10 polyps. i was having hard time attaching with epoxy. i took it out of the water several times.. and one of two polyps on side must have been crushed. does this mean whole frag will die? in general how much of manhandling does zoa withstand?