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I have a custom t5 setup in my hood and one of the flimsy plastic clips that mounts the light broke. Does anyone have any idea where to get some new ones that wont break so easily? Thanks

Yes, it is true. I am going to be moving to Europe to for school and I cannot take my tank. I have not found anyone who wants to keep it going, thus it must be taken down and pieced out. I have never done this before so I have no clue where to begin. i have 50lbs of really nice live rock that...

I have been doing a little research on methods of maintaining great water parameters. I would like to get into some of the LPS and easier SPS corals but I need to stabilize my water parameters before providing an optimal environment. My parameters are as such: PH 7.9, KH 107.4 ppm (6 dKH)...

My tank has been running for 8 months with Chaeto in the refugium in my sump. The Chaeto has not grown at all but has gotten smaller. The guy at my LFS said it would be growing so much I would need to trim it, but this is not the case. My nitrate levels are 0 and the Chaeto gets 24 hours of grow...

I have heard people talk about the pros and cons of using a dosing system. I am not familiar with how these work or what I will need to set one up. What are the benefits? What kind of supplements do you dose? Just trying to figure out if I want to go in that direction and if my tank is a good...

For anybody that has a reef octopus skimmer I have a question. I just got a new reef octopus 4" pin wheel skimmer today. Boy the construction is like night and day to my old bubble magus skimmer. If you have a chance avoid bubble megus, nothing but problems. Anyway, my sump is pretty small...

I just noticed algae growing on top of the sand. The only other time this has happened is when I was cycling. The tank is 7 months old now. What could be the cause of this growth? I recently added two fish. Could this have caused it? I also cleaned all the surfaces of algae, could it be growing...

Hello Everyone! I have a 60 gallon reef tank with 20 gallon sump, about 70 gal of water total. My pump circulates the whole tank about 17-18X an hour, so pretty good flow. People were talking about how healthy their fish and corals were after adding some more flow, so my question is, should...

Over the last several weeks I have noted what I thought were brown/green leaves or algae. They are very small and rounded like leaves. Once I looked closer, they appear to be small worms. They resemble flat tape worms and move slowly. They are just spreading across the live rock. Can anybody...

I have two ocellaris clowns, and to me it looks like they are always trying to find an anemone to bed in. I have several corals that resemble anemonies, like a torch coral and cup coral. I would like them to have an anemone. Is there one in specific I should llook for? Will the clowns take to...

I am going on a three week vacation at the end of the month and would like some peace of mind. I have not left the tank for any extended period of time since I started the tank, and with all the coral and livestock, I want them to make it. Anyway, I was looking at purchasing the reefkeeper lite...

I just got a JBJ ATO unit. The guy at the LFS said to put it on mode B, which means one of the sensors is the max and one is the mix.Does anybody have any experiences with these units and knowledge about the best mode setting? Thanks

Hello Everybody! I have had my 60 gallon tank going for four months and it has really started to look good over the last month. I noticed a lot of aiptasia starting to grow on my LR, so I got a peppermint shrimp and it has not been a problem. Until recently, when I noticed that I have a...

The chaeto in my sump, which has never grown very well, has these almost translucent blobs at various intervals wrapped around the algae. They were not there when I got the algae. Are they bad or part of the plants growing cycle?

I have these green small round patches of algae that keep appearing on the glass. I have a acrylic safe algae scrubber but they are really hard to get off if they come off at all. Let me know if there is anything I can use or do to keep this type of algae off the glass.

I have had my tank going for about two months. I have hair algae growing on the LS. What's the best way to keep the sand looking clean?

I recently purchased a powder blue tang from my LFS. The guy at the store said he was an herbivore and would eat algae on the rocks in the tank. I have 50 lbs. of live rock but my tank just got done cycling a month ago, so there is not that much on the rocks. I have a clip with some seaweed...

I added two clowns right after my tank cycled. A couple days later, one died. They seemed to be attached. Now the remaining clown seems to be less content. It has been several weeks since the other clown died, I was thinking about getting another as a companion. If I add another percula of...

My tank has hundreds of very small oxygen bubbles floating around in the water. My right powerhead (return flow from the sump) spits out a burst of little bubbles every 15 sec or so, and they are everywhere. The guy at my LFS store told me when i sat up my tank that if large air bubbles are...

I just noticed this morning some creature, may be a worm or something, that casts these fine human hair looking filaments from the live rock down onto the sand bed. The hair is then retracted pulling whatever it sticks to, sand and small bits of whatever, onto the rock. Anybody know what it...