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So it has been a very long time since I have been on here. It seems like I was just getting started into the hobby and then went through a break up that caused me to have to sell a 120 gallon tank that had never even seen any water in it. I sold it for $200, but it had a coast to coast...

Hi all, I am moving my tank to my girlfriends place so i can maintain it properly. I have already broken it down a couple of days ago and will likely bring everything over next weekend. I just havent been happy with a few things in my set up, so before I get to far along I want to fix some...

Are salt water refractometers the same as ones that do it yourself wine makers would use? I saw one today at a wine store at a fair price, but want to make sure it is of good use to me. Thanks

Hey everyone. I'm in the process of making a new sump, and I am trying to keep things as neat as possible down there. I understand I would need two utility lights for an algae scrubber and one to grow chaeto, but I was wondering if they have to be utility lights. I want to keep running costs...

I still have two rather large investments to make on my tank (Not including lights which I hope to go LED at some point) 1) Reefkeeper lite with some modules 2) Powerheads My powerheads are fine I am sure, but I like the looks of the Vortechs. I was wondering a couple of things. 1) Should...

Hello everyone. I just bought a new skimmer today, as I realized my old one wasnt working properly and then I broke it trying to mod. it. System has been running for awhile with no skimmer, so I bite the bullet today and bought a Bubble Magnus NAC6. It was more than I was wanting to spend...

Hi everyone. I have a metal halide fixture that was bought from aquatraders awhile ago. It wasnt until recently that I realized my moon lights are on the same power cord as my T5's, so setting up a light timer almost becomes pointless since it has to be a manual switch. This has me...

Hi everyone, I actually won the battle and got my 65 gallon set up back from my ex. It is set up in my bedroom now (I need to find a way to quiet the return pump down), and looking great. I used Dr.Tim's One and Only nitrafying bacteria and my current water parameters are: Ammonia - 0ppm...

Hello all, Some of you may remember me. I had a jbj nano cube, and was setting up a 65 gallon. Things went badly with my now ex, so she kept the tanks and I moved on. I just bought a biocube HQI tonight. Everything seems fine with it (it was used), but the fan is loud on the light. Would...

So I had two nice setups that I was working on, a nano cube and a 65 gallon. My ex fought tooth and nail, and in the end she got to keep the tanks even though I put in all the work. I am really trying to find a reasonably priced nano cube. I wouldnt need the stand, and if the price was right...

Saw this on my local aquarium forum, and thought some of you might be impressed with the thread. Unfortunate that he wasnt prepared for it, but pretty unreal to get that many hitchhikers. mantis shrimp

Hi all, my nano cube has been set up for awhile now. I replaced the lights to the LED's, and I think its messing up my corals. My acan that i picked up last week already looks dead. and others look bleached. Its the professional LEDs (I think 89 watts total). How can i fix things? Also I...

Hi all, I just got back from the hardware store which is now closed for the day. I wanted to make some progress tonight on my 65 gallon set up, not a whole lot left to do so I was hoping on getting it wet and having the cycle begin sometime this week. Long story short.....I bought white ge 1...

Hey guys, so I just replaced my nite-vu leds, 3 of them werent working when I bought the nano cube. The tank looks amazing at night now. My biggest issue right now would be my return pumps. At any given time one of them will throw out a lot of bubbles into the tank, and it makes things look...

This hobby is killing me!! About 2 weeks ago I had added a lawnmower blenny to the tank. He was small and seemed to be enjoying himself. His name was Waldo since he was so hard to find because he blended into the sand and rocks so easily. He survived the leak incident that I had, and all...

Hey all, I just picked up a couple florida rics, and a chalice. These are the first pieces that I have added to my tank that are attached to a plug. What do most of you do...Leave them on the plug, or remove them from the plug and place them on a rock directly? I only ask because I find the...

So my nano cube pump was kicking out too much air, it happens every now and then and this is normally my cue to do a top up. So I did my top up....no big deal. Turned out to be a huge deal! I had turned around and when I looked back and the tank there was water running down between the glass...

Hey everyone, my nano cube has a heater in it that came with it, but it has no controls to adjust the temp. I went out today to buy a digital thermometer, and the temp is reading 84.9, and this is with the heater unplugged for the past hour and a half. I dont get it? The fish have been happy...

So........I am not sure where I went wrong. LFS said to feed my tank with half a cube of frozen food/day. I have a clown, royalgramma, and coral beauty angelfish. I also have 1 candy cane coral, rose anenome, and very small zoathids. 1 snail, 18 crabs and a peppermint shrimp. I came home...

I decided to buy it. $350 for the tank, stand, 2x nano powerheads, tunze skimmer, live rock, maroon clown, coral beauty angel, and royal gramma seemed too good to pass up. The tunze skimmer unfortunately makes it impossible to do a diy fuge though since it takes up so much room. I might get...