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Hello all, its been a while. I'm selling my 46 bow with absolutely everything. Heres a link to the ad on craigslist. 46g Reef Tank Bowfront Anyone who remembers me from this forum knows how much time and money I've invested into it. Cheers:Cheers:

Has anyone else had trouble keeping clownfish alive? Do they have special requirements that I'm not aware of?

I've done some work on the 46 bow over the last few months. Thought I would share a few pics. I've changed the means of filtration. The canister filter was causing high nitrates so I swapped it for a double biowheel and 10lb more LR. I've also got the coralife...

I'm finally upgrading from a FOWLR to a full reef. I've got a general idea of what I want to stock, but I'm having trouble with nitrates. I'm running a Magnum Canister filter and I think thats the cause of the high nitrates, as I do weekly water changes. I was thinking of adding "bio media" to...

Long story short, I now have my downstairs living room to work on and I'm going to build a huge tank that will probably run the length of the wall. Custom stand too. So Im basically just looking for some info and guidelines before I dive in. Anyone have a good site to get started on?

I've got a bit of a nitrate problem currently. I did some research and found this: Emergency Nitrate Reduction If your water tests above 40ppm you should perform a partial water change. If you remove and refill 50% of the water, you will have reduced the nitrate to 20ppm. Repeat the...

I started dosing liquid calcium and strontium and Molybdenum. Basically to promote corraline. The thing is-Im getiing some bright green algae and really ugly diatoms. Ive got snails and hermit crabs. Any ideas?

I got the damsels the other day. I took what appears to be 3 green and 2 blue chromis. They school and the slight contrast in colors is nice. My levels in my tank are finally good. Ammonia is 0, pH is FINALLY at 8.2. The reef crystals worked like a charm. Now that I have like 7 small fish, I...

I just tested my levels... ammonia is at .30, pH is at 7.4 and nitrates are at 20. I did change a few things though. I went from regular I.O to reef crystals, which is suppossed to be pH balanced at 8.4 I believe. I rearranged my LR, too, but I don't know if that would make any...

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Today at work, a trigger beat up a green blenny that we got in from our fish delivery. He would have died in a little fish cup if I didnt take him. SO anyways, now I have a green blenny with a badly torn tail. but who seems to be healthy otherwise. What can I do to ensure his survival?

My skimmer is producing a LOT of skimmate and micro bubbles. I turned the water flow to max, and its still wet skimming. Something tells me this isnt normal. Any thoughts?

I really want to do rearrange my LR to make more sense of things in my tank. Ill probably take out the powerhead connected to the UV sterelizer and connect the output from the canister filter to it instead to make more space. And it looks like I'll need to take out the heater, the canister...

I did two water changes over the past two days, only about 5% each, to lower nitrates. Each time after I tested, my ammonia readings on my API test kit showed .25ppm. I decided to get out my older tetratest kit, and thats showing a reading of 0ppm. I remember someone saying before that some test...

What are some cool looking schooling fish that aren't aggressive? I've been wanting to get a few damsels, preferrably green chromis, but I'm curious as to whether they would school?

What are the ideal conditions for growing and maintaining coralline algae?

Finally picked up my super skimmer. Man is it huge! Ill post some pics when Im done installing :^: :^: :^:

So I was thinking, if its possible to acclimate mollies to saltwater, isn't it possible to acclimate brackish water fish, such as Figure8 Puffers? I'm gonna do some research, but whats everyones take on this?

Ok, so I'm checking my water parameters this morning and I see that the ammonia has went up to .25! How could this have happenned? I did roughly a 15% water change just last night and another 15% water change like 3 nights before that. My ammonia was at 0ppm both times, I just needed to lower my...

Are angelfish reef safe? In particular coral beauties and flame angelfish. Has anyone ever successfully kept dwarves together? The reason I ask is that we have alot of dwarf angelfish in one of our tanks at the store, and they never quarrell.