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I'm looking for some ideas on how to run some outside air to my tank in the basement. I can't seem to get my pH over 8.1. According to my pH probe I'm sitting around 7.7-8.0 each day. I have cheato lit 24/7 and its pulling out CO2 and nitrates. There are absolutely no windows in my fish room in...

My recent ORA Green Birds Nest is suffering. I'm trying to figure out what I did to it. The issue is that the base started to go white (like bone) and is working its way up slowly. The top and middle (as of last night were still ok). I had the nest in the middle bottom of my tank. I figured...

Today I started another round of a black out period on my tank. The cyano was making a comeback =( . Currently it just looks like dust on the sand.. no slime spots like before. The glass used to have to be scrubbed every 3 days, not I'm down to once a week or less. I have cut feeding down to 1...

Please advise me on the state of my anemone.. Doesn't look so hot. It tentacles have not been out for a while and its been hiding in darkness for about a week. Today it moved out to an upper rock. I've been running my lights at minimum for the last 3 days (8 hours blue, 2 hours white. I get home...

Well.. I'm in the middle of fighting some cyano. It's an improved situation since I first started but I did a phosphate test of tank water a couple days ago and it measured 0.11 ppm. I changed my GFO and tonight was 0.00. Great.. well ... out of curiosity I decided to go check my brand new vat...

I was doing some maintenance a couple days ago and was reaching to move my screen off the top of my tank. My hand brushed the water (I wear usually nitrile gloves when I put my hands in the tank, but this time I didnt') and it tingled. I went and touch the surface of the sump water and it...

Hey all! I'm really enjoying my new aquarium! I recently spending a lot more of my time testing and check parameters (because I enjoy it, and I'm really trying to keep a pristine tank for my fishy friends). I'm not able to battle what I think are diatoms. I never had this issue with my first 30...

My new BTA apparently didn't like where I placed him. I'm trying to create the ideal location in the middle of my tank, Lights, flow, etc where she will want to attach herself. Currently she has crawled behind my rock work about midway up where there is very little light at all. It has been...

So I just added a Diamond Goby to my tank last night. I read horror stories of them jumping out so I have sealed off my canopy around all 4 sides. There is literally no way for him to get out of the tank. he can jump but will land in the water. I even made acrylic cover for my over flow so he...

I never bought the green coral. When I set my 29 gallon up about a year ago these were not even visible. One day one polyp popped out of the rock and then boom.. it exploded. It just wants to go everywhere! The white one next to it on the left I did buy, but I can't remember what it was called...

I'm thinking about installing a check valve in my saltwater mixing station. The purpose is to prevent accidental contamination of my connected RO/DI Tank. There will be a shut off valve as the main prevention, but right behind it I wanted to add a check valve for insurance. My local Menards...

I'm starting to play around with the idea of implementing a mixing station with auto water changing capabilities. I'm looking at possibly using 2 storage containers, one RO/DI and one for mixing salt. I'm sure most of you who have been around have seen the standard set up with ball valves where...

So up until about a month ago I was running Chemi Pure Elite in my system in a filter sock. I changed it out every 2-3 months. I added a Carbon/GFO reactor this last month, which seems to really be doing a good job handling phosphates and providing some extra clarity to the water. I'm...

I was wondering if there is a certain ideal color we should be seeing in our protein skimmer skimmate. Can we diagnose issues based on what our protein skimmers are pulling out. My skimmate use to be very green, like hair algae, but has become a muddy brown color over the last couple months...

I went to check on my 30 gallon aquarium over at my fathers last week. I'm about a month or 2 away form moving all my live stock over to my new 120 gallon. I was going to grab a couple pieces of Live Rock out of the 30 gallon to help seed the 120, but I got over to his house and found Aiptasia...

Little bummed. I was cleaning out my tank 2 days ago, and I walked away for 5 min to get a bucket. I left the top off of the tank, and when I got back I noticed the dog sniffing around at something about 5 feet from the tank. One of my Firefish was laying there. I quickly scooped him up and...

I'm currently working on setting up a new 120 gallon reef aquarium. I discovered a thread on the algae scrubber site about upflow algae scrubbers (UAS). It seems that they have been successful replacements or additions to skimmers. I know there is mixed feelings about not running skimmers at...

I have a hammer coral that fell over in my tank. A snail knocked it over. I didn't notice that one head wasn't getting any light. the one head died. The other three heads seem happy and are healthy. Would it be advisable to just leave the dead head or can I cut it off and then super glue the...

I got this frag about 6 ro 7 months back that really started to grow well. The reddish/orange monti was covering the top of my rock. Starting to take a nice shape. However I had a hair algae outbreak 2 months ago. I did a black out period and upped my PH a little bit. The hair algae for the most...

Currently I have a 20 gallon sump which includes a fuge in the center compartment for my 29 Gallon display. However, I'm working on a 120 Gallon tank build and i'll be building a new sump out of either a 40 or 50 gallon breeder tank (whichever I can get first from CL or the $1 per gallon sale at...