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hey i have a few questions: what gph pump do you think is best? can this be the only thing in my sump? i mean can this be used in place of a protein skimmer, UV sterilizer, etc. and be more effective? I am thinking of setting up this set if it is more benificial to my system also since it seems...

how strong does the light have to be for an algea screen and where can i purchase a clip on the sump light or a complete set? any online? thanks for the help

i just checked my ammonia levels and they look to be zero

yes i have an octopus, sorry i didnt think to mention that. i also have a UV sterilizer. the UV sterilizer was really for a pond.

i am in the proccess of adding a sump with a refugium that has cheato algea but i havnt connected the two yet because i added more sand to the refugium to get a deep sand bed and am waiting for it to cycle. right now i am just using an aqua clear 110 filter with ammonia remover pouch. i had the...

i have the ammonia test bottles one and two and the card but i dont have the directions. can someone give me the direction lol, thanks

do you think it would be safe to do a 50% water change tommarow since i did a 25% water change today or should i wait

i checked right after the water change, so you say you think its the sandbed. i certainly hope so. i will check tommarow because i think i might have disrupted the sandbed and the water is foggy from the change. also i was looking up algea scrubbers, do you know anything about this and how to...

i just did this thread but i am writing it again cause i do not c it. two weeks ago i had bought a lionfish but he was too hard to keep so i went to get rid of him but in the proccess of catching him i accidently knocked a giant can of opened flake food into the tank. at the time i did not...

two weeks ago i had bought a lionfish. to feed the lionfish i bought minnos and silversides to feed him. this got way to hard to do because i also had a trigger in the tank that would steal the food. unlike the lionfish that ate the food whole, the trigger striped them and left remains that uped...

hey i have a 150 gallon tank which has been up and running for over 6 months now so it is stabalized. i have a sump with two compartments which came with the tank and i wanted to set up the sump and make the one compartment a refugium. my question is if i could use marine mud and live sand...

hello everyone, i have a 150 gallon tank which i have set up and running for over 6 months now so i believe it is stabalized. i have a sump with two compartments that came with the tank and i wanted to make one of the compartments a refugium. my question is if it is ok to use marine mud and live...

i have a 150 gallon with a picasso trigger, emperor angel, a lyretail hogfish, and a three striped damsel. i think i have been doing a good job except friday i had accidently dropped my fish food into the tank and everybody got ick. it was pretty funny though cause my picasso trigger got it...

hey thanks for your responses, sounds like too tough a job for me. they look really awesome too, what a shame. i deffinitly dont want to loose the fish i have though.

hey can someone tell me about boxfish, i was interested but need to know more about the poisons they secrete in the water, thanks for the help.

i just got my lionfish and had been feeding him rosy reds. but i was wondering if there was a worm of some sort i could get that he could eat. i feel bad about feeding him guppies, and from what i read they are not that healthy anyway, and he will only eat what moves. thanks for the help

nevermind i found out what he is. he is a lyretail hogfish not a hawkfish, thanks

hi i bought a fish today from the store and originally thought it was a hawkfish. now i am wondering if it is an anthias (i know big difference). i usually dont just buy a fish i don't know anything about but i asked questions at the shop and they told me it was positively a lyretail hawkfish...

hey i have a picasso triggerfish that has a big white spot on the front of his snout. it looks to big to be ick, of course i usually think of ick as being little white specks. i have him in a 150 gallon tank with a emperor angel and a damsel. i dont think there is something wrong with water...

before i started aquarium keeping i read books on quaruntining. i bought a cardinal that died in quaruntine after 3 days, and my emperor for my 150 got ick after two days in the quaruntine tank, but once i put him in the display tank he was as happy as a clam, i checked my nitrate levels and...