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Got a small group of zoa's and they seem to be annoyed the last few days and I finally got a semi viewable pic of something that seems to be growing between them. Couldn't find anything similar when I googles zoa pests. Doesn't really look like nudi eggs. You can see it fairly clear in the pic...

My tanks been up and running since January and everything's gone pretty well. I noticed in the last few days what seems to be a real short filmy looking algae growing pretty much everywhere. I'm wondering if it's the start of a hair algae breakout, or what. I tried to get a picture, but it's...

So I bought my first cleaner shrimp this afternoon, along with 5 new turbo snails and acclimated them all together. Floated them for about 20 minutes or so, and then dripped them for hour/hour and a half ish in a 5 gallon bucket. Turbos were all fine, but the shrimp was pretty much DOA. He...

So my 120 has been set up for a few months and everything's good so far. Just have 1 lonely foxface in there, but he's fine as are the snails and crabs. I've been debating a mesh top to prevent any suicides, but finished half of it tonight and absolutely hate how it looks. Do most of you guys...

I'm planning on adding my first fish soon... I have a 29g tank ready to set up to qt it, and was wondering how long before I get the fish should I have the qt going. I've had a filter pad in the sump of the display for a couple of weeks now, but wasn't sure if I should leave the pad in the sump...

So I added a small clean up crew finally... 10 snails and 10 hermits, and turned them loose on Sunday. Everything seems fine, except it looks like 1 snail didn't make it. Hasn't moved in a couple of days. Not terribly concerned, but I was wondering if I should just leave him in there to rot and...

I know sometimes it takes skimmers a while to break in, but I'm wondering how I'll know it's broken in and whether or not I should try to dial mine in. I've been running mine for a little less than a week and I had it so the top of the foam was around the middle of the neck and that's moved up...

So I'm pretty sure I'm cycled... I added 1 shrimp and never saw an ammonia spike, was worried that I didn't see ammonia so I added a couple more and still didn't see an ammonia spike. I've finally seen my nitrates head way up. I was getting ready to add a cuc, but I wanted to get the nitrates...

So I'm about 2 weeks into my cycle and my first piece of shrimp deteriorated into almost nothing and I was never able to pick up any ammonia or nitrite readings... I have about 20 lbs of live rock (with 70/80 dry) that I figured must've been able to handle any ammonia put off by the shrimp. So a...

So I've finally got my cycle started and wasn't sure if I had enough of an ammonia source. It's a 120 gallon tank with 40br sump. I've got about 80(ish) lbs of dry rock and 17 lbs of live rock from the lfs, and I chucked in 1 raw shrimp to start it off. I wasn't sure if just one shrimp would be...

I'm getting ready to start building the stand / platform for my 120 and was looking for some comments on my plan. Just want to make sure I'm not going build something that's going to fail... The left and right side will actually be above the foundation of the house with some wood in between to...

So I was doing some work on the space that's going to house my 120 and was dry fitting the sump and making sure I'd have clearance for getting the skimmer in and out and managed to chip my 40g breeder sump. No idea how it happened, but I found the glass chip on the floor so I'm sure I did it...

I'm still moving forward with my 120 (I have my sump and got my skimmer last night so that's exciting), and was trying to get a handle on what I'm going to keep for fish. I'll be doing the tbs package for my rock/sand/critters and I plan on having some soft corals (zoa's, toadstool) and I'm...

I know if I ask 100 people on the web I'm likely to get 100 different answers, but I value the opinions I've seen on this board, so here goes. If you were starting a 120 gallon tank, and had the money, would you start with all live rock (from tbs), or would you go with a % of base rock (marco)...

I've been wondering if the space under where I'm planning to have my tank will be tall enough to get a skimmer into... I'm comfortable with the clearance needed to get the collection cup on and off if it were in the sump, but i'm concerned I won't have the space between the top of the sump and...

So I'm still going back and forth between waiting 6/7 months and going big, or going with a nano and getting that started relatively soon. One of the things i'm worried about is the space where I would have the big tank is a kind of cubby that's built into my family room. I've got a small tank...

So I've been lurking here for a few weeks and I've been doing as much reading as I can get away with at work and I think I've finally settled on how I'm going to start my first reef tank. Originally I was going to go with a 120 gallon but after talking with the wife it was going to be too much...