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Hello guys! I don't know how many of you remember me, but I was a pretty active poster a while ago, it's definitely been over a year. A lot has changed since then and I don't currently have any tanks of my own, but I've stayed pretty active in reefing by making a little side job out of helping...

I was wondering if anyone has ever tried/heard of using a redder light over a refugium? From what I understand, algae does much better under the red end of the spectrum so it makes me wonder if I could use one of those infrared reptile night bulbs over a fuge and get crazy results. If nobody...

I'm just about ready to put my new 90 in place and cycle the new live sand I've gotten from a friend. I've got all the equipment and all that's left to do is clean out the tank itself and paint the back. I'm definetly planning it out more this time around. I found an online magazine on RC that...

Just noticed my yellow tang pooping while he was devouring a seaweed clip and it was white and got to like 2 full inches before it broke. Did a little bit of googling and I've heard that this comes from A.) Internal Parasites and B.) Indegestion? I didn't know fish really got indegestion...

Yeah, seriously. 33 high-end corals and 3 inverts (a red linkia, tuxedo urchin, and some kind of cucumber). And guess what I'm paying? $275. I wanted to wait til I had them so I could just post with pics outright, but I'm just way too stoked. 14 of them are various exotic zoos and palys. I...

I started my frag tank like less than three weeks ago and it's already cycled. I thought that was really strange. I definetly was testing at least twice weekly the whole time and it was like any cycle but in hyperspeed. The weird part is.. It's left with VERY little nitrates. Somewhere between...

So I know I started a build thread for a pony tank awhile back and that never really happened.... but I now have all the makings of my frag tank except stuff to fill my fuge and..... water. I'm waiting for my RO tote to fill up now though. Pics: There's the tank with me holding my Current...

I'm getting ready to set up a frag tank but I need to replace the stock 10k bulb that came with my pendant. I'm also going to be changing my main tanks bulbs within the next two months too. Any suggestions? Iwasaki? XM? I'm looking for probably 14 or 15ks

So since the summer weather has been hitting, I've seen HUGE spikes in temp. The middle of the night is usually around 78 and while the halides have been on for 5 hours or so it spikes to around 84. It was much worse at about 80-86 before I got a small clip-on fan that runs all day. But it...

I've been selling a few softy frags here and there lately but lost a few sales just because they would have to wait for them to attach to plugs and sometimes lost interest by the time the frags were ready. I'm considering building a frag tank so I can always have something on hand. I want to...

I havn't really been on here in awhile so excuse me if this has already been brought up, but a guy I know gave me some of the new Instant Ocean gel food that he got for free in a bucket of IO salt. If you don't know what it is, check it out. It's kind of like frozen foods, but without...

I just got myself 7 SPS frags for $100. Most of them are a pretty good size too. Check it out. Lime green Hydno. Makes me really wish I had dedicated actinics on my tank, but the 14k bulbs are nice too. Orange Digi, I love this one Some kind of acro...

I started dosing epsom salt because I did a magnesium test for the first time in a month or so and it was down to around 1200. I also just started kalk dripping around the same time. Epsom salt (Magnesium sulfate) has a natural PH of around 6.0, and apparently tends to lower your ph, I thought...

I'm far from a good photographer and my camera is junk. But I got some cool pictures of my dogs in the snow storm last week. We got roughly 18 inches in northern Jersey, and needless to say, the dogs loved it :D This isn't a dog, but kinda cool I guess. Cleveland the rogue warrior of the...

Was at the Petco where I used to work the other day and noticed a tiny little LPS head hitch hiking on one of the paly colonies they had. I showed my old manager and told him what it was and he let me break it off and take it for free. I'm 90% sure it's Galaxea, but it's so tiny and hard to...

Alright so I've decided to try doing kalk top-offs because my calcium supplementing doesn't seem to keep up. There are spots of coralline that are starting to bleach and my calc is down to like 360 on a regular basis. 1. I've heard that kalk drops your magnesium. Is this true and does it mean...

So I've had this branching hammer a few months now and havn't noticed any new branches coming out, although the flesh is growing a little. Lately I've noticed this thing that kind of looks like a hitch hiking feather duster attached to it, but I've been thinking it's a duster and havn't thought...

I've got a Mandarin that has made a home out of the back of my tank. It's only a 55 and I know Mandarin's can be weird about territory so would a goby be alright to add?

I think I'm gonna try ordering a fish online. Should I go with liveaquaria or is there a better place? I live kind of near NYC if that matters. I figure while I'm at it I'll get my money's worth on shipping and order a coral. I wanna get some kind of LPS that's very colorful and can handle a...

I'm ditching my HOB skimmer because it's ugly as sin and selling it to someone today. I've been looking around for a used external skimmer without much luck but it's looking like I may have to go skimmerless for at least a little while. So if I just kept up with my 15% water changes every week...