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I read alot of posts about how bad their local LFS is and how they need to take more responsibility for the livestock they sell. BUNK! It is the fish keepers responsibility to know what they can and what they cannot put in their tanks. Nobody can blame the LFS for making a sale. That being...

I'm still tossing around ideas as to what I should do with my 180 tank. Its been running for about 2 years and a long power outage killed many of my inhabitants. Now I have a very expensive generator backup, 5 cardinals, 1 chromis, 2 CBS, a cleaner shrimp and a very hardy Urchin. (I still...

I have had a slight reading in my Ammonia that I just cannot get rid of. .25 everytime I measure it. My Nitrates and Nirtrites are at 0ppm. My PH is also high at 8.8. Yikes! How can I reduce this deadly ammonia reading and how can I safely lower my PH? I've tried water changes but the...

I'm sold on the need for one from the information I got from Stacys post about the need for a quarantine tank. Now, lets talk about exactly what a quarantine tank should be. Does it have a hyposalinity style of water? Copper? Or should it just be a smaller version of your main tank? Is it...

I know that trigger fish are realatively easy to keep and that they are pretty aggreessive to say the least. But could I keep a tank of say 4 or 5 triggers together? I have a 180 gallon tank with 150-200#'s of LR. WOuld they get along if they were fed well? What about the other inhabitants...

My 180 gallon tank is built into the wall in my basement office. The "maintenance" side of the tank is in my furnace room. So the room is a furnace/fish room. I have always wondered what, if anything, having the aquairum in that room is doing to my house, floorboards or furnace. I loose...

I have 3-175 watt MH lights above my 180 tank. One of the lights stopped working so I changed the bulb but no light. I switched the ballast and still no light. I hooked up the "bad" ballast to another lamp and no light. So I have proven that the lamp is bad and the ballast is bad. That seems...

I have a 55 gallon sump for my 180 tank. Currently it is set up as follows: Overlow from tank goes into media area and then over bioballs. Then the water flows into a chamber that houses a skimmer. Then the water goes to a third chamber where two 700 gph pumps pump it back into the main tank...

A few months ago I lost nearly everything in my tank when the power went out for over 17 hours. All I have left in my 180 tank are snails, crabs, shrimp, 5 cardinals and 1 chromis. I now have backup generator power with a line running exclusively to the aquarium. :D So now its time to start...

I just responded about clowns in another thread and it got me to laughing so hard that I wanted to share this. I used to have a maroon clownfish that used to blow the sand around and dig little craters in the sand. When he came upon a pebble that was too big to be blown around he would pick it...

I have a 180 tank that is kept at 78 degrees via 2-heaters in the tank. I have never liked the looks of the heaters in the tank and I have always wanted to put them down in my 55 gallon sump. I am worried though that they may not keep the water in the tank warm enough. Does this make any sense...

One of my MH ballasts blew out on me the otherday. I had been running 10,000 K bulbs in them and I went to a 20,000 K on the one that burned out. Still 175 watt though. Could that have had something to do with it? I need help.

I can't say that I have a very advanced reef, in fact I only had a few mushrooms, LR and a few annenomies. I said "had" because due to some complications during a 17 hour power outage, I lost most of my fish and even the mushrooms and annenomies. There is more to it but thats another subject. A...

I posted this in the equipment section too but I really need advice so I am posting it here also. I have a MH unit that is not functioning. I have the bell shaped lamps that hang over my tank with a 6' cord that leads into the black ballast box. The ballast box has a single toggle switch on...

I have 3-175w Metal Halide lamps over my tank. One of them just stopped working. The ballast doesn't heat up like the other two do and it appears that maybe its burned out or something. Has anyone ever heard of any "Standard" problems or wear issues with MH lighting? Let me know if you need...

I have a sand bed in my tank that is only 1.5" deep. I want to add more live sand to make a 4-5" bed. Here is my question. I have many old empty shells and bits of rock and other little debris that is on my current sand bed. Do I have to remove that stuff before adding the new sand or can I...

This is an amazing tank. I hope this post doesn't break any forum rules but I really think that everyone here will enjoy this. http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2002-11/totm/index.htm

Hi everyone. I am moving into the realm of keeping a few corals and I want to make sure that my lighting is decent. I am planning on having many mushrooms, a few soft corals and maybe some polyps and xenias. My lighting consists of 4-NO 40-watt bulbs, 2-175 watt 10,000k metal halides and...

Whats the single most important factor in keeping a healty reef? Actually I know that there is much more too it than just one thing so if you had to put things in order of importance how would you do it? I am trying to set up a reef and I need input from all of you experienced folks. For...

I would like to add a dwarf angel to my "reef" tank. I put reef in quotes because all I have are some feathers, mushrooms, polops and a few other soft corals. I've researched but cannot find a dwarf angel that will not nip at clam mantles or the soft corals. Is there one that anyone knows of...