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Hello once again living reefers. It has been a long time since I made any posts, work was getting in my way of my tank. :frustrat: However after 4 years with my current 90 gallon aquarium I have been given the OK to get a bigger and will be very shortly upgrading to a 150 gallon one...

Hey everybody, I have a quick question for you all. I am re-doing my aquarium because all the equipment is old and everything I do I find something else so time to get all new equipment. With that done I decided to change out my substrate, I initially went with the crushed coral which was...

Hey Everyone, I am still planning my new upgrade and we have pretty much decided on a 120 gallon tank, 72"x18"x24" about. Now my question on lighting is we are very much looking at LED lighting but we also want to have a wide variety of corals, hard and soft maybe even a clam and such. Do...

Hey everyone I am think in the fall sometime I am going to upgrade my 75 gal aquarium with new equipment and make it look better and quieter for the main living room where it is driving me nuts with the noise. What I am thinking of doing is building a sump for it and running piping through...

Quick question for anyone, my 2 year somehow got hold of a bottle of Calcium additive. Thankfully he didn't drink it but it looks like he was helping with the water chemistry :shock: It looks like he dumped just about the full bottle into the aquarium. We are doing quick water change outs...

I have a question to everyone here. I have been reading many posts here and the majority seem in favor of the T5 lighting. Then others say it is about watts per gallon is more important. Currently I have 4-36" flourescent 96W bulbs 2 are 6700k and 2 are actinic blue for a total of a little...

Well it has taken me 6 months to post my DT but here it is.

Hi again fellow reefers :bouncycig: I was wondering if anyone can try to identify a slug or snail I have found in my tank. I must apologize though I don't have a picture because he is really camouflaged in and I don't have a good enough camera to zoom in through the glass and water. I will...

Hi everyone I have another question for you all. I have a clown fish that is definately sick. For what I have looked at it looks like ich. Clownfish Disease - Brooklynella Diagnosis and Treatment I have 2 questions, First has anyone had any success with "Reef Friendly"...

Merry Christmas everyone, hope your holidays are going perfect. I have a question about my fire shrimp and wondering if anyone else has seen this since they are considered "safe" from what the LFS says. I bought a fire shrimp about 2 weeks ago and added him to my tank and he is always...

Hey everyone, I have a couple quick questions with a torch coral. I just bought a new one about a week maybe 2 weeks ago and it isn't opening up for me. Does it normally take a long time for it to get used to new tanks and placements and maybe I am just too impatient. I have tried it in...

Hey everyone Firstly like to say that my tank is really starting to show signs of life. Over the last couple days I have a lots of new growth on the live rock and everything is floushing...... include the ridicous algae explosion haha. Been cleaning it off the glass every couple hours and I...

Well I finally have something to look at, got pretty tired of looking a tank of water. 75 pounds of live rock and 2 small cheap "Nemos" for my son.

Hey everyone, quick question for all you Octo 800 owners, I got my new skimmer the other day and after a few small repairs already I got it pretty much assembled. However can someone tell me where the the foam goes. I got the small black piece on the outlet screen but the big blue one that...

Hi all. I have received an older 75gallon tank and all the equipment but I need to replace some of it. For one I need a new protein skimmer. I have read the recommendations but I am curious which one is the most quiet because the tank is going to be setup in the main living room. The one I...

Want to say hi everyone. I am just getting started in this new hobby and this site looks like a great forum to belong to. So HELLO