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When I look on here for different corals some say strong lighting. For a 55 Gallon long tank are T-5 HO considered strong lighting? I am buying my tank piece by piece and want to get the best the first time and not limit myself later on.

I have an empty 55 gallon long with a black stand and a 29 gallon that has been running for 5 years with 50+ pounds of live rock and 2 inches deep of live sand with a cleaner shrimp in it and thousands of pods. Email me at chrisjerichoy2j@hotmail.com for pictures and we can work out a fair...

Do pods only breed in live rock or do they on the glass as well?

Had my tank for about 3 years up and running now and I constantly have this stringy stuff that sticks to my glass. I thought I once read that it was pods breeding on the glass. I have pods everywhere. It was hard to take a good picture. I kind of looks like slimy stringy stuff. Can anyone...

how many snails should I have in my 29 gallon tank. I mainly need them to keep the glass clean so I don't have to.

i just got back from my LFS with some new snails to discover one of them has a redish body color I took a few pics and will post the best ones I could get of him in the bag. After he is acclimated and starts climbing on the front glass I will try to get a better picture. Anyone know what kind...

If these are the only three items I want in my 29 gallon tank besides snails and red and blue hermits is a 29 gallon big enough for two clowns and a cleaner shrimp?

I am about to buy some snails for my 29 gallon tank and was wondering if the following method(which I found on this board) works for acclimating snails. I was only gonna get 4-5 to start with to make sure they won't starve. Also it seems that 1.025 is a good salinity level for the tank to be...

I have had my tank up for three weeks now I moved live rock and sand over from my other tank to this one and the only action I have seen cycle wise is a little spike in my ammonia but nitrates and nitrites are a 0 and ammonia is now back down to zero. Has my tank cycled? I check my levels...

I set up my tank on friday night with live sand and rock that I moved out of my 55 gallon tank and want to move some more of it because I am now in an apartment and the 55 gallon takes up to much room to move and set up over here. So what I want to know is how long till I test for ammonia and...

I just recently moved out of my moms house and still have my 55 gallon there up and running with just a clown fish in it. I have set up a 29 at my new place and took some of the sand and live rock from my other tank to this tank to help it cycle. My question is will the moving of my live rock...

i am not sure where to put the bottom at? i mean i am not sure what even is the bottom. where should i place it and how should i place it?

after i acclimate them is it ok to place them in a glass so that they will not get killed by my hermits? also if they are still alive can hermit still kill them or are the strong enough to block there bodies in with there white disks?

a while back you posted about a method involving acclimating snails where you place them in a bowl for a while then into the tank. i can't find it when i search for it could you post again.

this was taken from another site. my snails i have concluded die from acclimation anyone think this will work? Acclimation Procedure Turn off aquarium lights. Dim the lights in the room where the shipping box will be opened. Never open the box in bright light - severe stress or trauma may...

i have a 55 gallon and i have a maroon clown and a six line wrasse. other then that i have 4 feather dusters and lots of crabs and snails. do they affect my bioload or only fish?

i am wondering how long till i need to investigate matters about snail deaths. my last batch died after a month. this batch has about half living and the rest dead just got them wednesday off swf.com. if figure i am acclimating correctly since half are still alive and all were alive before...

does everyone else have there astrea snails always falling of the glass to the sand bed below? i noticed my six line go after my sand sifting crabs so maybe he is knocking them off the glass. anyone thoughts? i have a lot and about half are on the sand bed in the morning.

can nassarius snails kill astrea snails? my nassarius snails i got from swf.com don't look like the ones that are in the picture off of here there shells look darker. there was a picture on here of a snail killing an astrea snail but i can't find it again.

i have some and the site says they like to burrow or stay in sand bed mine are always on the glass. and there shells look different then the ones in the picture.