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Hi LR - please see the photo I've attached. This stuff recently popped up on my newly cycled tank, at around the 75 day mark in the cycle. My ammonia, nitrates have all been next to 0.0. I'm still dosing with RedSea NOPOx. I've sucked out a big batch of this stuff once, and it has regrown in a...

Hello LR people. I'm looking at getting back into the reef game, and have decided on the Red Sea Max E-170 or E-260. Does anyone have a good estimate on cost and maintenance comparison between these two sizes? Aside from the obvious tank price. Would it be much harder or time consuming to...

If anyone can provide a long-term solution to my green hair algae problem, I will gladly PayPal you $50 as a reward (once solution has actually worked for a couple weeks). Yes, that is how frustrated I am with this issue. I've even bought a BRS dual reactor for the tank, which I have not...

I am currently running a Marineland Reef capable LED on my 10g. If I add a nova extreme (2 bulb) 24", would this be a good move? Possibly both bulbs as white bulbs, not one white, one accent. I want to ensure optimal light for my coral, and sufficient light for SPS (currently just 1...

Ok I bought a Cobalt MJ 1200 pump to run my BRS dual reactor. But I cannot seem to get the pump to have enough power at all to pump water. When I detach everything from it, it feels like it is barely sucking when I plug it in. Any ideas?

Last night I got some new mushroom coral. i was threading them onto string to tie onto a seashell. Anyways my left thumb has prolonged exposure to the slimy coating of the mushrooms. My thumb (starting last night before I was done with the mushrooms) became sensitive, like right by the tip of...

This is a video clip rather than a photo. I just got a new Sony HDR-CX580 video camera. Here's some sample footage with a new frogspawn frag I got last night. (Be sure to watch in HD) :) Frogspawn Frag 10-15-2012 - YouTube

I wanted to build an algae scrubber for my 10g, but to avoid cluttering I want to make something outside of the tank. I was thinking about buying a: Aqua Clear Hang-On-Back Power Filter, UL Listed - (30 or 50 model) then placing my roughed-up mesh grid down into the HOB filter. Then placing...

I have one green 'watermelon' mushroom. Since I've got it (2-3 months ago), the thing has yet to open up fully and look good. I feel like I have moved this guy all over my tank to no avail. See video below (30 seconds into video) for his current location: 10-10-2012 Aquarium Update - YouTube...

So after a month or two of battling green hair algae with blackouts and water changes etc., I finally got rid of it in about 10 minutes. All it took was a small wire brush. Just had to be careful not to poke any corals. As I scrubbed, I had a 1/4" air tube rubber banded to my brush, siphoning...

Anyone know what this stringy excretion could be? I came home to it yesterday evening, it disappeared after a little while.

I just bought a toadstool that came on a 3"x3" rock plate. So I razor bladed him off, thinking I could cram him into a rock crevice. Idk what I was thinking because he squeezed his way out in about an hour. I tried gluing him to a smaller rock (out of the aquarium, a dry rock) with some epoxy...

I'm having mysterious nitrate issues. They have been around 15ppm since last Thursday. I have been doing 1.5g water changes daily since then, but I'm still getting nitrates. All other parameters read well. The only culprit I know of is my little blenny, he's probably rotted away by now so he...

Preface: I've had a green hair algae problem, so over the past week or two I have turned off my bright LED's, turning only the moonlights on every now and then. I also placed a couple black garbage bags over the tank to eliminate any ambient light to combat the algae...

I put some black plastic garbage bags around my tank to kill off some green hair algae. The water crept up the bags and into my Marineland Reef Compatible LED lights. The issue is that now when I turn it to the blue LED moonlights, 2 of the white LED's on the far end stay on (very dimly but...

I am looking to add another coral to my 10g (see attached pic - which is a month or two old). Looking for some suggestions. The red arrow shows the spot I'm looking to place it. So high placement, high light, but specifically high flow (pretty much directly in front of a 200gph power head). I...

I purchased 3 snails last week. 1 turbo and 2 asteria snails. Over the weekend, my red-leg hermit crab moved into one of the snail's shells. So I guess he killed it and stole his house. It's funny to see because he looks totally different in this new, larger shell. Anyone ever seen this?

What role do the hard bones/skeletons of Torchs/frogspawns/etc. play? Is there anything you need to know when it comes to proper care of said corals, or can you trim/cut them at will?

Over the past couple weeks, I've gotten a bad outbreak of green hair algae in my 10g. This stuff is getting 1-2 inches long at parts. The strange part is that it's only on my old live rock. The 2 new pieces that have only been in there 1 month, they hardly have any of the algae growing on them...

This nem hitchhiked on some love rock. It seems to be moving in on a frag.. should i throw the nem away? What is it anyways?