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    Opinions on T5

    Hello everyone, Recently I was throwing around getting an Odyssea lighting fixture. I've heard from a lot of people that they are good fixtures, but too I've also heard the other side as well. So this got me to looking into other fixtures. Now as luck would have it I can't honestly make...
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    Aquascaping

    Hello all, With the intended move from FOWLR to a mixed tank, we've been thinking of moving around our rock. One of the ideas we've come up with was to add some rock to the back wall of the tank using the prime cuts from Marco Rocks. To do this we would need to use this: E-Marco-400 10Lb...
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    Ways to lower Nitrate

    Hi all, I've had my 55g tank about 9 months now, and since we have started to really get the hang of water changes, testing etc, we've decided to start to really look at honing our water quality. Everything always tests good, but our nitrates always seem to run 20-30 ppm even directly...
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    Is this overkill on a 55 gallon?

    Hi all, Doing a lighting upgrade and was wondering if these would be overkill on our 55 gallon? Odyssea 48 inch Metal Halide Fixture 2x250W HQI + 4x54W T5 +6xDual LED We want to be able to keep pretty much anything, but don't want it to be too much light. Also we have the plastic...
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    Saw the coolest thing today...

    Greetings all, I was feeding my wrasse today, and noticed as it missed one or two pellets that our peppermint Shrimp would come out of his hole and snatch up the pellets. Now our peppermint Shrimp shares his hiding spot with our Serpent Star. As I watched, I noticed the Peppermint would come...
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    What is this black and white pod ??

    Hello, Awoke this morning to this in my tank. Have no idea what it may be. It's about the size of a skittle. Just wondering if I need to take it out, or leave it in?
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    55 gallon Cuc...Need advice

    Greetings everyone, Our cycle is beginning to wind down, and we are beginning to think seriously on what CuC we want to introduce to our tank. It's going to be a FOWLR for at least the first year,so of course we want it to be able to work well with the Fish only set up, but also want to plan...
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    Holy Starfish Batman!!!!

    Greetings all, This is my first post so if I miss giving some important information I apologize in advance. My tank is four days into it's cycle and we have found a few starfish in our tank that appear to have hitchhiked on our live rock. Just babies of course, but what's the chances...
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    Hello

    Greetings All, Just a quick hello. New here and to SW, trying to learn the ropes. I have had a look around the forums the last couple of days and I have to say it appears that there is a great group of people here, very informative and courteous. I'm already thankful for what I've learned...
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