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Hello all. My current cube has been up for about a year now and the coral is getting to big for its home. I am another year away from building a large tank (an upgrade from my old 150 to a 300) and am in the beginning stages of setting up an older one. This cube was taken down about two years...

Hello all, have been out of the hobby for over two tears and decided to get back in... Started taking inventory of all my stuff. I have a nice Salifert kit purchased 2 or 3 years ago. Think its still good? While I'm at it, what about kalc mix and other powders?

Hello all. ive been noticing that my falme scalop has not been so happy of late. all of my perams are okay. im thinking my feeding regimine is to blame. im feeding 10 ml of dt's live fido-pankton once a day. is this not enough? is it too much? should i not direct the syringe into the clams...

is it a big deal? will certain chemical reactions not take place when im mixing new water? or is it just a pain to have to loosen the salt with a salt pick to get it out of the bucket? p.s. i still dont know how water got in there. and the bucket is still pretty full of salt so i dont know how...

i currently am running 2 icecap 442's over my 150g. i also recently moved from my apartment into my new house. this new house is not ventilated very well and im not sure how ling it will be before i fix this issue... anyhoo my tank is at 82f right now and i was looking to install some fans into...

i bought a three stage ro unit (no di, could not afford) two things 1. my unit is a ge and it looks like all of the water is supposed to go through the first two stages and then split. one tube goes to the tap where the water is now more clean but not ro. then the other tube goes to the ro...

im curious becuse i have been googling random things and i came across a site stating that zoo's are toxic and can kill you. iv never encounterd this and i dont normally buy into online hype, but i have now read this like 10 times.

i have been reading a ton lately about about de-nitrifiers, phosphate reactors, and calcium reactors. two things have bugged me. i am interested in building a de-nitrafier using the airline tubing mentioned in a few other threads. im also interested in trying the phosphate reactors (this was...

okay... i was looking at my tank last night and i noticed that my colt tree was not as happy as usual. it seemed that his tenticals where rolled up and his color was more purple than pink. so i tested all my params. trItes where 0, amm was 0, ph looked good 8.4 i think. but my trAtes where 20...

as you can see with teh title.... i bought a 10gpd ro unit from the hardware store yesterday. it was a good deal and was on sale. i needed one so i picked it up. anyhoo it is an ro unit with two big canisters on the bottom and the filter on top. there is not a di included and i wanted to see...

they have been splitting like crazy (10 at last count) in my 150g and im sure if they are going to hurt something. im not sure if the picture caught i but they all have a green dot in their center.

hi all!! i was re-reading the concentious (sp) marine aquarist last night and noticed that the writer recomends blue lenkia stars for reefs. ever scince i have been to this board i have not gotten one because of others oppinions. i know that this book is a little old but where lenkias once...

im going to sound like an idiot for a moment but i was reading another post entitled something like pics of my tank (its in this forum) and there was a pic of a deavles hand. i have had a deavles hand for a while and he doesnt seem to be growing as fast as i had hoped (he has only grown about 3...

so lets do a poll what kind of filtration and light are on your nanos. (im accually in the process of building one in my office at work.)

hello all i live in cincinnati and there is an aquarium near us (the newport aquariuum) its a pretty cool place (not the best but far from the worst) anyhoo. I GET A BEHIND THE SCEANS TOUR TODAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! just thought id share. ps i am so interested in how they filter their water!!!

what about a thorny oyster i know next to nothing about oysters and my wife saw one and asked if we could get it. i said id look into it but when i ran a few searches i couldnt find anything? does any one know any sites or have info?

okay try and follow (it will be hard) i have a fuge that is NOT attached to the display. (im in the process of making it all one system but it will be a few months) There is currentlly a plethera of different mico-algies and a dsb with a little lr. would it be smart to swap out water between the...

as stated above... spacificly the pink stuff. i know that the feater is a christmas tree variety but im not sure about the pink.

After last week i have a little over half of the lr i need. What do yall think?

if there are bubbles in my dsb that means that it is working right? if so yhaaaa!! if not then what?