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I'm back into salt after a 3 year hiatus. My 72g bow crashed and I just couldn't keep it up. I converted my 28g bowfront into fresh. I've been through a lot of changes and recently got married. My husband wanted to get into salt so we bought a 29g Biocube last weekend. Right now it's only live...

Hello to all my old friends! I know I've been gone quite a while. Yote, Bobby, Biff.. missed you all! Tank is doing ok. Combated some red algea, but it's mostly under control now. Lost a couple of fish, but I think mostly to "natural" causes. Just yesterday I noticed the strangest...

I picked these up today. The the candy cane and polyps are frags. tank is looking pretty! How do I know if the hammer is getting too much light? It's kind of in the middle of the tank - the rock it's on is odd shaped and hard to put on anything. I also got a galaxy frag, but the pics don't...

Okay...I'm going to TRY to post a pic... if you can't see it it's in my gallery along with a picture of my star and my doggies. They were so cute I couldn't resist! YEAH!!! IT WORKED!!! THERE'S NO STOPPING ME NOW!! LOL

We are getting into the season where severe thunder and lightening storms occasionally may make the power go out. This scares me to death, not only that my fish may get cold, but that the sump will overflow (again :frustrat: ) if it happens while I'm not there. Can anyone direct me to a site...

I am looking at starting to add corals, so I took my water down to my lfs to test for calcium. They said it was 500. I've never dosed with anything (I try to stay away from chemicals). Is there a way to bring it down and how do I keep it from getting that high? Isn't ideal 400-450? Is 500...

This is a similar question to knowing how much light one needs, but how do you know if you have enough water flow from the power head in your tank? I put in a uv steralizer and now I'm afraid my rio 1600 isn't enough. I can still see little ripples at the top of the tank, but don't really see...

I'm probably approaching my quota on questions, but here's another. I've had a watchman for about a month now and he's ALWAYS hung out at the bottom between the rocks. He has a specific cave he's always in. I did a water change yesterday and today he's out in front of the rocks and has...

Ok Biff. I'm officially submitting my application to the AFT Club. Came home tonight and my tank has turned totally green in one day. Params @ 0, Ph 8.3. Plan to do a water change. What else do I do? Will it hurt my fish?

What are the best cleaner shrimp to get? How many? And are UV steralizers really beneficial? I've been reading up on equipment and don't really know if this is something I should have or save my $$$.

My new lights came in and they all work!!! YEAH!! We added a tang. My kiddo bought it with her bday money! Way cool! All my params are good and we are chugging right along. I was thinking of adding some corals - possibly a bubble or hammer. I've been looking on the sites and they say...

I'm REALLY going to show my ignorance here, and Yote, this is probably a question for you since I know you have the same lights. Aren't the blue actinics and white lights supposed to be on at the same time? I bought the electronic timer strip and set it up per the instructions with the white...

I feel so complete! Like I'm a "real reefer" now! My lights came in yesterday. Yote - Thank you, they are awesome lights! And I FINALLY got my little clowns. Everything is doing well. I found all three crabs hale and hearty this morning, the Goby (we've named him Walter) is still in...

It's not letting me upload the pic from my gallery, Bobby I bow down to you :bowdown: I can't get it to work now. I've posted 3 pictures in my gallery of some blue thing I found on my rock. It's attached - is it some kind of coral or something I should get rid of right away?

I tested my water today (I've been doing it every other day) My ammonia and nitrites are now at zero and nitrates at 10. My PH is 8.3. My ammonia spiked about a week ago and has been coming down since. I took water to my LFS to confirm. Calcium is good as well. What are some good fish to put...

Finally got all 80# of my caribbean rock. I REALLY love it. I'm glad I went with the caribbean instead of the fiji. Now I have to wait for it to cycle again. <sigh> No hitchhikers yet.... Won't let me upload pics - says they are invalid files????? I've resized them and they are in jpg?

I haven't posted in a while, but have been here everyday keeping up with the posts. I finally got my rock - but only 1/2. The other 1/2 will be here next week. I tried to upload some pictures last night, but they are too big and wouldn't go. Haven't found any hitchhikers yet. I'm really...

Things were flowing along great. This morning I noticed that the water level dropped and lost the siphon on the filter. I topped it off and got the siphon going, and noticed the powerhead was not pumping water back into the tank. The sump overflowed. I took the powerhead pump out of the water...

Hey guys! Picked up the tank this morning. A LOT more for my money than I originally thought!! The filter system isn't what I'm familiar with. It's a canister that sits under the tank with bioballs. The powerhead is awesome. And the skimmer is top of the line as well. Someone asked me...

Hi all! I've been surfing the site and have found a lot of great information. Thank you all!!! I just purchased my first tank - 72g bowfront - that I hope will someday be a reef tank with clowns. I have a MILLION questions! I have been reading anything I can get my hands on, but some things...