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So i was checking out the tank a little bit ago and i saw what i think is a bristle worm of some kind. It is about a inch long vary thin and it goes from red to white every 8th inch or so and seems to have spins down the side of its body. Any thought on what this is and if i should remove...

So i am planning on moving my tank here in a couple weeks and just wanted to get some thoughts on what the best way is to go about doing this. For starters i am thinking i am going to be moving all my fish and inverts and a 100 pounds of LR into a 55 gallon tank that i have laying around...

Ok i think this is diatoms but i don't know and i think it is getting out of hand. I dont know if i have made a huge mistake or not but every time i do a water change (once a week) I have been taking a tooth brush to my rock to rid it of algae. I do turn off all pumps and i siphon out as much...

So my light is finally set up and i am now looking to get my first coral. I am wondering what should i look for as being a total newbie to this? Do you know of any good articles I should read up on?

So I am ordering my light today and trying to figure out what bulbs to get with it. I am thinking of going with all ATI bulbs. 3 aquablue specials. 54W -48IN 12000K ATI Aquablue Special T5 HO Fluorescent Bulb - English 2 blue plus 54W-48IN ATI Blue Plus T5 HO Fluorescent Bulb - English...

So I have been looking into getting a Reef light for a while know I and need help narrowing it down. Current USA Nova Extreme Pro 6 x 54w. The only con I have herd/read is that the bulbs it comes with suck. I would hate to buy a new light and then have to stick another 100 bucks into it for...

So I finally went out and picked up a phosphate test kit. I tested my tank and it read 0. Then when i went to do my weekly water change i tested the new water i was going to add. It read between .25ppm and .5ppm witch i now is high. I take it the algae that is in my tank is sucking it all up...

i have yet to get a picture of it but i am trying. I noticed last night that my foxface has little white spots all over his body. Being a total newbie I am trying to read up on this as fast as i can. I know he has been stressed ever since i put him into my tank. He has never been a full...

How much should i be feeding?? Right know i have 2 clowns one semi picasso, and a ocellaris both about a 1.5 inches long. A yellow tang and a one spot foxface both about 3.5 inches. 1 cleaner shrimp. hand full of snails a baseball sized long spined sea urchin. I am feeding frozen...

What exactly is this? It is mainIy centered on this piece of rock but i think i am starting to see it in my DT. This happens to be the same rock i put the shrimp on to spike off my cycle. I think there is actually 2 different types of algae in the picture the one is on the glass and the other...

So i know my tank id pretty new but i am already starting to see somethings that i should change. My #1 thing i would love to change is my sump. I have been doing a bit of looking around and i want to try and build a custom acrylic sump. My main reason for doing this is my skimmer puts out...

So i am in need of adding to my CUC thanks to my Yellow tang. I am wanting to add something other then snails ( i hate snails!). All i really have in the tank for a clean up crew at the moment is a couple nass snails. I am wondering with everyones experience what have they had the best...

I am just starting to get this brown fizzy stuff all over my rock. I am thinking it is brown algae. I have done some reading on what I need to do to get rid of it I just want to be sure I understand what I need to do before it gets out of control. I am going to be buying a phosphate reactor...

When ever I put food into my tank it seems within seconds my skimmer pretty much dies. The skimmer dose start to work again but it takes roughly 4 hours for it to get back to where it was. Witch sucks cause the water doesn't look nearly as clean for those 4 hours. What I am really wondering is...

Okay i just tested my water and since yesterday my nitrites have dropped from .25 ppm to 0 ppm i did the test 3 times just to be sure. Right now my ammonia is 0 ppm, nitrite 0 ppm, nitrate anywhere from 10 ppm to 5 ppm. From what i have read once i get a hold of some cheato that will help...

I was just looking a my tank a little bit ago and I noticed these little white bugs pretty much every where. I don't know how I didn't see them earlier. They are twice as long as they are wide. At most 1mm long. You can clearly see that there is 2 different sections to there body's as well...

My first aquarium is finally just about ready to hold fish. I have been watching the ammonia, nitrite and nitrate levels every day for the last week and recently they seem to be dropping faster and faster. So maybe fish by next week??? I have built pretty much everything from the stand to...

So my tank has been up and running now for 3 days. May water is nice and clean the only thing is I am have a micro air bubble problem. I have looked over everything and I have narrowed it down to the return pump or the piping to the tank. Nothing is leaking so i don't think air is getting...

After a couple months of building and planning i am finally ready to start the cycle. I have a 100 pounds of dead base rock that am needing to seed. I went to my LFS and picked up 10 pounds of live rock. Which is currently in a 10 gallon aquarium with a air pump to help circulate the water. I...