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I posted a thread a while back about the importance of current in your tank. Many people seem to be fixated on lighting, and don't seem to pay as much attention to current (not just water flow in gallons per hour, but the actual flow of the water through the tank). I just wanted to post one more...

Yes another sand question. Has anyone ever used quickrete sand as just filler sand? It's only $5 for a 50lb bag at home depot. I couldn't get much info off the bag (but this isn't the stuff to mix and make concrete, it's advertised as sandbox sand). I'm still working on the 300 gallon, and i...

OK, as promised here is the start of the new tank seup thread. First I'll detail the move, then show you the new tank, and the stand my brother and I built for it. Overall the move went pretty smooth. I emptied the 50 gal into buckets and removed the coral, LR, and fish and put them into the...

Im sure this has been covered before, but..... Has anyone gone from a "typical" ballast to an icecap? And if so would you remommend the icecaps over the others?

My new tank is 24 inches deep. I'm most likely going with MH lights. I'm concerned about my softies being blasted by the light though. I'm considering serval options: 1) 4 x 250 watt 10k bulbs supplemented with some pc lights for dawn/dusk (and maybe leave on the actinic with the halides...

Anyone ever mix lighting in their tanks? I thought about a 4ft pc light and a 4ft MH balast for the new 300. This way half my tank could be used for sps and the other half would be more for softies or lps (and they wouldn't be overpowered by the intense MH light). Not sure how this would look...

I see tons of posts on lighting in this hobby, but most people don't seem as concerned about currents and flow other than trying to hit a certain gph. Just wanted to give an example of how important flow is to corals (and fish) with a specific example. This coral has been in my tank for about a...

Haven't posted a poll before, hope this works. I'd really like a carpet for my new tank once everything is setup, but I was wondering for those of you that have one, where they have chosen to stay in your tank. Most of the pics I've seen they seem to make thier home somewhere on the sandbed, but...

Anyone in the Detroit are that would like some pulsing xenia please let me know. I should have at leas 3 frags I'm willing to give away before I move around the beginning of next month. I'd offer to everyone, but i don't really want to go thru the mess of trying to ship it. I currently live in...

Just wanted to post some pics of the process of fragging my pulsing xenia for propagation. These stalks seperated naturally, and thus i can not remove them from the tank for this procedure without taking out some major chunks of LR. I used a razor blade to make the cuttings. This first pic is a...

I've heard a lot of you praising the tunze streams. I'm considering them for the new setup, but was curious about the strenght of current created and the width of the current. Can anyone give me any good info on how deep into the tank the current penetrates from the wall of the tank? Does the...

Ok. First, thanks to everyone that contributed after my first post. After more research here is my newest design for the new 300 gallon tank. My thought process behind this revision is as follows: (1) my current 50 gallon tank has a well established sand bed (has been operational for 2 years)...

Ok everyone here is the plan so far for the new 300g. I would appreciate any input from people with larger tanks on skimmer choices (i've been looking at ETSS, EuroReef, AquaC, and Precision Marine). I'm shooting for around a 10x turnover with the equiment listed. Please let me know if you've...

I've seen people asking about what cameras to buy to get the great pics some people are posting. I can tell you one camera not to buy. The cannon s230 does not get good macro shots. This is about as good as I could get it with the macro function activated and manual shot activated (no flash).

I've seen a lot of posts lately talking about pests that most likely hitch-hiked in on live rock (mantis shrimp, bristle worms, etc). Here is something that is easy and safe to do other than the visual inspection that you should be doing of all live rock before it enters your tank. Simply place...

I will be moving in month or so and setting up a 300 gallon reef tank. Here are some pics from my current 50 gallon setup. The 50 gal tank will become my refugium on the new tank, so you can consider these the "before" pics. I'll post again once i get my 300 started, so you can all see the...

Can anyone tell me if they have ever seen this before on frogspawn? I'm not sure if one of the "tentacles" has ballooned up, or if it is something else. Note the bubble-like growth in the middle of one of the "heads". This picture was taken at night, so the growth could be seen better while the...