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So I started this a little bit ago. Meant to upload sooner. It's a 56 tall, 24Tx30Wx18D. Going to do a reef tank. Also going to try something different. No skimmer. My last tank was a 50, and once it was up and running i couldn't get the skimmer to pull anything. So this time I'm going to...

So my tanks to new for an anenome, yes i know that. Its only been up a month, and im sure at some point it will all blow up in my face, but so far so good. My dumb question of the day, lta's are photosynthetic. They also eat random food floating around the tank. If the little bastards...

So i bought my tank and while filling it i noticed that the center brace across the top seemed extremely flimsy. I kind of wondered if a MH would melt it. Then i was reading some older posts and someone had the same tank, with the same lighting set-up, and surprise. It had melted. So what...

Decided to go with a 56 gal tank, just wondering if anybody actually gets away with not using a skimmer. My last tank was a 50, and I spent weeks upon weeks messing with the skimmer trying to figure out why it wasnt collecting anything. Apparently there was nothing to collect. So i figured...

So like the title says, I'm new again. Awhile ago I got some help from some people on here to get into this hobby/obsession. After a series of unfortunate incidents I had to sell my tank. Well I'm back. I'm ready to try this again. Here's my first of many questions to come. Could I do a...

so just got a random question about mandarins. i know it says everywhere that i read that you need a "healthy" population of pods. thats kind of a broad description. i have pods breeding everywhere in my tank and fuge. if you look into anycracks or holes in the rock, there are pods in there...

so when i moved around the rocks in the tank the other day, i saw this guy. the "shells" about 1/2 inch long and it's on some kinda stalk coming out of a hole in a rock. at feeding time it's got 2 antennas that come out and start feeling around. any clues?

only took me 3 months to get some pictures up here it's a work in progress

so just to prove to biff that her rocks still alive.... and for some help with some stuff i got today first id? id #2 and this one came on a piece of rock that i got from biff , some kind of sponge?

so just a general question, but i go to the lfs, ask 27 questions about 19 different kinds of corals. then by the time i get home to research what i saw. i do a brain dump and cant remember the names. anybody know of a good coral id site.

so i thought i was doing good. hadn't killed any critters (besides a few crabs, cannibalistic little bastards). so i put a couple corals in. they look alright for a week or so and now they're not opening. at least the pipe organ isn't. now today the mushrooms look kinda weak. so i'm...

may be a dumb question, but i was just reading the post below about the berlin skimmer and the replies. i'm not planning on a keeping a whole lot of fish, 50 gal won't cut it, but i'm sure i'll be buying a few mushrooms and leathers and who know's what else. question is, do plants raise the...

oh happy day. i ordered my T5 fixture like a week ago and i finally got it. I think it may be the greatest thing ever (probably not). But compared to a single 48" 10k bulb, the new ones 2 10k's and 2 actinic's, you get the picture. Now for the false advertising bastards at Seacoral. the...

so i guess i still belong in the newbie section, but here's a question for you guys. I blew the ballast on my flourescent today, awesome. now i have an excuse to buy T5. Why is this light fixture so much cheaper than every other brand and every other site I've looked at...

morning, so yep, i'm a newbie. woke up yesterday, cleaned up the 50 in the garage, went and dropped some money at the lfs, came home and bam, got a sw tank setup. then i decided to look up some info on it. got to go back today for the skimmer, and to start buying some rock. (already got 50...