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I had thought i'd been taking care of my aiptasia... hitting them with aiptasia-x whenever i see any and for the last couple week i hadn't seen any.... well today i noticed a couple on the edge of a rock that i couldn't reach (180 gal tank so can't reach the bottom) so i picked up the...

Which, if any, metals are aquarium safe? I know some are obviously not.. copper and iron etc I'm just looking at various types of probes for measuring water quality (nitrates, temp, salinity etc) and nearly all have metal as part of the probe Any ideas?

Because I'm a giant nerd and clearly do all I can to avoid meeting women, i'm starting a project to automate my fish tank. I'm an industrial automation engineer so this is going to be done to industry standards with industrial electrical equipment... no little dinky microcontrollers for me...

I can't seem to find any plans or pictures of anyone online doing this style but can you think of any disadvantages of having a 3 section sump with a drain going to both outside sections (one being the skimmer and the other the fuge) with the return being in the center? As opposed to the...

Finally have something in my tank that i didn't intentionally put there and of course i'm pretty sure it's a pest :frustrat: Haven't been able to get a good pic but i'm thinking i have a little colony of colonial hydroids.. i'm just not sure and am hoping for a bit of clarification.... there...

For my like billioninth time talking about this i'm going to be gone 10 days a month and am trying to automate my tank as much as possible while i'm gone.. i normally feed nori and a chunk of frozen mysis and a tiny pinch of pellets in the morning my live stock consists of 1x 5 inch Hippo...

A while back i asked some advice on whether to keep my tank going despite routine trips away for work. I've now got an ato setup that works awesome and have everything as automated as I can. The ato actually has made me love my tank even more because it got rid of my least favorite tank chore...

So here's the deal. I finally have my tank setup the way i like it and am really enjoying it: here's the rub; I just got a position at work where i'm going to be spending about 10 days a month (straight) for about a year and a half at a remote site doing some engineering consulting work...

Seachem. Ammonia Alert are these actually remotely accurate?

I have my biff(tm) cheato sitting in my sump with just eggcrate between the fuge area and skimmer area... because of my skimmer the water there is fairly turbulent which probably isn't ideal for a fuge? Do you think this actually matters or am i just overthinking it? i can't make any real...

I'm going to be replacing my 3x 250W Metal Halide bulbs and wondering what range i should go with 10K, 14K or 20K? I also have 4 brand new 96W Actinic PC's that i'm running.

Was just watching my tank and saw something that was pretty neat that i thought i'd share. I've found random clumps of sand around my sandbed but have never thought much of it... But today i was watching the tank and one of the fish knocked a cerith off the wall of the tank and it landed...

Some friends of mine raised a spawn of percula clowns and they would like to give me a pair. Two questions i have are: 1. How big should they be before being introduced into a tank of other fish? 2. Will two from the same spawn still pair?I don't know if fish have any anti-inbreeding...

I'm finding doing water changes on a 180 Gallon to be kind of a pain and also very wet and salty.. I'm just siphoning water out of the dt and then siphoning an equal amount new water into the sump... But i find i'm making a huge mess and was just curious more than anything about how people...

Is it common for hermit crabs or crabs in general to molt when understress? Nothing specific happened just curious

i just purchased a handful of nass and cerith snails... I've noticed that almost all of them seem to hang around the edge of the water level or slightly above it partially out of the water. Is this normal behavior?

My mom works at a grocery store where they have a small HORRIBLY maintained reef tank... it looks like crap. Someone donated something that she is wondering what it is... any ideas? i dunno. maybe a sickly hairy mushroom or something?

I bought the API test kits for PH, ammonia, nitrite and nitrate and just tested for the first time and i'm having a bit of trouble reading the colour... Are there any test kits that are a bit more reasonable? Also i'm a little concerned with the results PH is somewhere between 8.2-8.4...

Because for some reason , and i can only blame bad parenting really, I am a dumb ass and broke one of the glass plates covering the MH bulb on my fixture. Now i may have asked this already but i'm hoping someone can give me some direction on where to find a replacement for it.. fixture is...

In my tank all the liverock (got an existing setup) i think may have started out as dead rock and then been seeded with just a bacteria booster or a piece of table shrimp or something... There is no visible life in the tank other than the fish... no algae growing on the rock except for some...