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Hi guys! My 60 gallon reef is again alive and well after losing everything back in that Halloween snow/power outage disaster. Got a new lighting system, several corals, 2 clowns and a dwarf red angel, plus some hermits, snails and a few sallyfoots. Everybody is alive and well and thriving. Will...

Hi! I am happy to report that after my power outage disaster 3 months ago, my tank is coming back to life. Rocks, snails, some hermits. Got a powerful new lighting system and the water levels have been stable fro almost two months. So I finally got some coral. A little ten pack of small...

I'm happy to report that the first spark of life has appeared in my new "artificial ocean". The tank has cycled! Sure enough, the ammonia went down to almost nothing and the nitrites went sky-high! Then indeed the nitrite went way down, and the nitrates are about middle. (Forgot the number -...

I can't thank you all enough for these rapid responses and condolences. Good idea to put in the rest of my rock! I will definitely do this today. About the heated water and oxygen. Thanks for the tip, but at the time I still had no power to run anything. What happened was that the night...

Thank you for such a rapid response, BL1. Right now, all I have in the tank is my three biggest old rocks. Old meaning they were there in the cold, then out to dry for a day so its basically just ocean rock. My idea is to give more places for the bacteria to collect - the jet is gently flowing...

We had a storm in my area which knocked out the power for two days. Never thought it would go that long. But house was getting colder. Despite a valiant attempt to save my 60 gallon tank, the lovely D'Jarden's Sailfin Tang - seven inches, and two clowns plus a lot of corals by dumping water...