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I had a tank disaster here a few months back with our 5 yr old dumping handfuls of flake food into the 55 gal and killing all but 2 clowns :-l I have been cycling out everything, w/out fish and am going to rebuild. I want to move the 55 gal into my wife's office, and build a new stand...

I used to have just an algae turf scrubber in my closed system sump (no baffles). It was not clean and was thankfully nudged into re-doing my sump into something better. I have recently added a new skimmer, bubble trap and refugium (6"DSB+LR). So I wanted to add that extra bit of filtration and...

I took out my algae turf scrubber when I re-vamped my sump tank. I have a refugium set up now and still want to incorporate the ATS. I have ran across bucket style ones and wanted to make one out of my screen and piping. It all sizes up but with the lighting is where I'm getting confused. I...

I have recently redone my sump with a refugium. 6" DSB, 2 LR's and 2 clumps of cheato. I have a 2700K CFL spiral over the top. I have read up that 5100K is the best? Would if I ran one of the lights above, and another on the side of the tank?

I originally started out with running an Algae Turf Scrubber, HOB skimmer, dual media reactor, and ATO with baffles separating the ATS. Shortly after filling the sump tank the baffles broke free and I ran an open system for several months. After time I had green and brown nasty growth all over...

I'm in the process of installing baffles into my 29g sump. I have a HOB Coralife skimmer that does not need much space in the first compartment. The first section will have my filter sock, and skimmer then to baffles, and the return then refugium. I want to make the refugium as big as I can...

I am in need of a revamp of my current 29g sump. Its an open system now with an algae turf scrubber, dual media reactor, HOB skimmer, gravity ATO, and mag 7 pump. There is nasty growth going on and need to install baffles and do it up the right way. My question is I would like to build the...

I have been thinking of redoing my 29g sump. It is an open system with ATS, HOB skimmer, and dual media reactor. There has been nasty growth of light brown, and green algae growing on the rock rubble on the floor. I have a DSB in the display tank, and no green algae growing, just some cyano on...

I know this has probably been asked and I've heard this happens but wanted to get a 2nd opinion. Here is was my Toadstool leather as of this morning. I want to place it on a rock for it to attach itself. There was a small rock semi-attached to the base of it I pulled off. Untitled by...

I am possibly getting a Solana 34g tank. I have an Odyssea 4-T5HO light on my 20 tall now. I was going to swop everything over the the Solana eventually. Would I be ok with the T5 light (2-10K's & Actinic's), or would this LED fixture be sufficient for soft, & LPS corals? Could I possibly...

I have a 20 gallon high tank with 3 power heads. 2 Hydor Nano's and a 660 type on the sand bed. I had a HOB filter that I turned off and wanting to remove. I have noticed a film layer on the top of the water, and when i agitated it with a net it looked like brownish flakes. I have this Reef...

I have a Reef Octopus Hang on Back skimmer rated for 60 gallons used for 7 months. I was throwing out a feeler on if anyone would be interested in trading for a Hydor Slim Skim skimmer. I'll post pics of this later. :bounce:

I would like the experts and reef keepers help me add, improve, or critique my piece of the ocean. Here is a short journey of things i've changed, and learned. Here is a current shot at my 55g. I went for the minimalistic look and added a lot of my live rock to my sump. PICT0515 by...

Just curious what this little guy is? I see Coepods popping out under my zoa garden often, and saw this guy crawling around. Any guesses? Some type of weird bug on the zoas by felix_434, on Flickr

I wanted to clean up my sump tank, and lower the Nitrates and Phosphates in my system. I kept having to wipe down the walls of my sump tank, clean up nasty detritus from the floor and wanted to keep it clean. I did some research on filter socks and the material used to make them. I went to Jo...

I now have 1" PVC for my return with 2 90 degree elbows connected together (over the lip of the tank) with a threaded coupling in between, then a 45 degree elbow into the tank. I am wanting to add loc-line in place of this. My plan was to take out the last 90 elbow turning into the tank with a...

I've had my pair of clowns for 8 months now they've been fine. I switched them from my 55 fowlr to my 20g reef. I typically top off every morning cause the tanks at work. I didn't top off on Sunday and today the fish have white spots, their fins are white and one is swimming lathargicly and...

I took out the coral beauty I had (thanks for advise on LR's) and put him in my 55g at home. I took out my 2 clowns from home and added them in here. I was thinking of adding some type of shrimp, or something. What do you think would be a good fit? Thanks

We have a decent sized Anthelia waving hand coral that needs trimmed. I would think I would have to cut off the polyps to a frag plug, or rock. I couldn't cut or trim the stalks back could I? Thanks

i have a 20g tall with coral and 2 clowns. My dual bio-wheel filter i have taken off the wheels, clean it every 3 weeks, and have a mesh bag of carbon, and another with GFO. I turned it off to feed, and the tank makes 0 noise. I do 3 gallon water changes every saturaday. How much would it matter...