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Here is my General story, if questions arise, I'll answer, I'm going insane. I have 125 gal display and 55 gal sump/refugium. For the past 2 months I have been battling green hair algae, I have gone through 2 major water changes, I have scrubbed the rocks and been clean for days, then the hair...

Hey all, I need some advice, last weekend I bought a Fuzzy Dwarf Lionfish for my 80 gal. Before we bought I had the store feed the fish, and this one had the most voracious appetite. We got him home and drip acclamated him for over 2 hours. He's off in a QT, but I've tried, frozen mysis (what...

Can anyone tell me if sponges eat the nutrients that chaeto needs, my chaeto is bleaching out, could that be the reason? There is a lot of white sponge throughout my fuge. Thanks, Steve

Seems like Micro Brittle is the answer. And apparently they are a good thing, next to too many being esthitically unpleasing

I need some help, my tank is getting invaded by these long thin legged white starfish. I would describe it as a white Brittle starfish. Here's the thing, this morning on 1 rock alone, I counted at least 10, when the lights first came on. Right now the largest is no bigger then the head of a...

Need some advice. Here are the dimensions of my tank, 30"w x 18"d x 24"h, 55 gal, 1 1/2" sand bed. With a 25 gal sump/ref. My question is about powerheads, I have a Koralia 4 powerhead, with access to another, is ts too much for this tank or should I get the other one fixed and get it in, 1...

As an experienced person on crashing tanks, the QT is the best possible thing. Set up the QT, with a lower salinity then yours, like 1.020, then keep changing a little bit of the water everyday, don't let the cycle get going, then watch the fish for ich, do this for a week or two, then sart to...

If you want to keep your Damsels, yes these are the territorial ones, before you add your next fish, once those are ready to come out of QT, then try the mirror trick, put it in a corner, so they are attacking the mirror and ignoring the new ones, or dark out the tank and keep I dark for a day...

Water is set, running a 55 gal DT, and 25 gal sump/refug, here are first round of thoughts. 2 Ocellaris Clowns 2 Bagnai Cardinals 1 Scopas Tang 1 Fuzzy Dwarf Lion The Scopas I saw today was already 2 inch long, the rest are still in a juvenille state. Anybody know of a sand sifting goby, that...

Thank you both, I was going to go with a Lionfish, but then I got thinking about the wow factor, 1 fish is wow, many colored fish is WOW! I'm working my list now

First question, what do you call the level of feeders, like top, middle, bottom, I'd like to stock my new tank in a balanced Eco-system. Also any thoughts of fish to create this balanced tank?

Thanks all, I was watching an article on you tube, a guy from university of Oregon? (I think), he was saying that the return should be, twice the overflow line to increase the circulation. Has anyone seen this? Does anyone agree? Still need your input, please.

Hello all, I will be going into he DIY section to research, but was wondering if any one could throw me a bone? I'm restarting my tank, but this time it's being done in a way I can be proud of. I've got the 30 gallon, but this time I'm going to add on a 25 gal, sump/refuge. My question...

I just got a used Wet/Dry Trickle sump filter that I want to attach to my tank. It was used on Freshwater tank from a friend who has been disease free with his fish, but there is some bacteria on the bio balls and some of the sponge filters, is there anything I should be treating that filter...

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Anyone know of any articles written in English, not a bunch of math, about plumbing in a sump? And how it should work! Thank you.

As to the flow, I'm not sure exact numbers, but with a HOB Filter and Skimmer and Powerhead, there is a pretty good movement. I have cut down on my feeding during this incident, and phos is coming down. I'm keep my Nitrate as low as I can with water changes, they have been high, but getting...

Okay, I got some new Reef ready LED Lights, and my LFS, forgot to tell me they need to be so high off the water. Anyhow, this lead me to a major Red Slime outbreak. I've just finished treatment 1 Of Chemiclean, and now I need to repeat, do I do the 20 percent water change first r just reat...

Thanks all. Really appreciate the advice, hopefully the fish do as well, other than that I'll enjoy the leftovers. ;-)

Okay, like regular shrimp, cod? Would clowns and a wrasse eat this?