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When my GF and I started this tank about 6 months ago we made the rookie mistake of using water from the tap. We had bad diatom and hair algae because of it. Because we rent I can't really install an RO/DI system the way I would want to so we started getting water from our LFS which is not so...

My girlfriend and I got one of these Finnex refugium lights for our refugium and after about 2 months the bulb already burned out. The bulb that came with it was a 26 Watt 6500K 3 U type bulb. It had what seemed like 2 daylight U's and one U was actinic blue which I'm sure does nothing for...

So I am going to be installing a 10 gallon sump under my 29 gallon aquarium. The distance from the bottom of the sump to the top of the tank is approximately 46 inches. The Overflow I have on order is the Eshopps PF-300 rated for up to 75 gallons with a flow of 300 GPH. The return pump I will be...

I am adding a 10 gallon sump to my 29 gallon tank. It is going to house my Aquaticlife 115 protein skimmer, a decently sized refugium section and a rio 1400 return pump. On this system do you think that the Aquaticlife 115 protein skimmer will be enough? I will be doing my 20% water changes ever...

I'm looking at adding a sump to my 29 gallon tank. I think I have just enough room for a 5 gallon tank under the stand. Can I make a sump/fuge with this? Looking at the Eshopps overflow. What would I need for the return pump? Just don't think I'll be able to fit a 10 gallon under the stand.

Kinda crappy pics but do they look okay? The Mushroom will not open up for over a week now don't know why. Water parameters are good all other corals doing great.

So we have a True Percula Clownfish that has recently started becoming rather fond of our Xenia coral. It is to the point where he almost hosts it. He will hover above it and sometimes go inside it. The Coral seems to be staying open while he does it. I tried moving it and it keeps happening. Is...

So we got a purple mushroom coral about 3 days ago. We put it in our tank and it opened up immediately. Now, since yesterday it has been kinda shrively and only partially open. Also it is turning from a purple to a darker purple with rusty red mixed in. It is in a lower flow area and has medium...

So my GF woke up this morning and the green star polyps we got yesterday were open. That is the first pic. When I got back they were closed. That is the second pic. Do you think they look okay?

Just as the title says. We got our first 2 corals today (purple mushroom, and a green star polyp. After placing them in the tank what I once thought was a peaceful peppermint shrimp went right for the green star polyp. It looked as if he was picking at it... Possibly trying to eat? We have him...

My gf and I are currently having some trouble with a brownish algae that is growing on our sand bed. When I remove it it sometimes has hairlike growths coming off it that are dark brown or even blackish. When it comes off the sand it comes off in a clump like sod almost. Tank: Standard 29...

Ideally I'd like to have the tank painted but seeing as how it is already set up and I don't have a large enough area to paint the thing I made a black background out of some fabric from wally world. I took 2 pieces of fabric and sewed them together with a hem (yep I can sew... barely) and then...

Okay so I was originally going to get the reef capable LED fixture from Marineland as an upgrade to my Aquatraders T5 Unit. But for the money I was thinking maybe I should just go for a higher end T5 Fixture instead of a cheaper LED fixture. Here is the AquaticLife unit I'm looking into. It has...

This is how I modded my skimmer and it works great! Skimmer Mod.AVI - YouTube

So I have an Aquaticlife 115 mini internal protein skimmer. I really like this skimmer. It put out a lot of microbubbles when I first got it about 3 weeks ago. After about a week the bubbles went almost totally away. It was getting some green algae developing in the chambers so I took it out and...

So we have a 5 gallon tank that we use for emergency quarantining or for observing new fish before adding them to the tank. I made an egg crate insert for it with different size shelves for frags. This way we can take it in and out to fit the current needs of the tank. Let me know how you like it!

Simple question, where can I get some Chaetomorpha for cheap? Anybody had good luck with a certain online vendor? I just got my HOB refugium all set up with the LR a little live sand a retrofitted pump and nice light. All that's left is to purchase some Chaetomorpha!

I've been considering getting an Aquaclear 70 or 110 and converting it to a HOB refugium. My girlfriend today however was like "hey, you know that breeder box we have laying around we never use, could you convert that into a refugium?" I'm thinking why not? Here is the breeder box. It works...

I have an Aquaclear 50 HOB filter that I've grown attached too. I've decided to stop running the bio filter and filter sponge. What I'm thinking of doing is putting activated carbon on the bottom, laying a small piece of egg crate over top of it to act as a base and putting some LR rubble on top...

As some of you may know I have a 29 gallon aquarium that was set up a little more than a month ago. It has about 25lbs of live rock (still need to get about 25lbs more) and about 2.5 inches of sugar sized sand on the bottom. I run 2 Koralia 425 powerheads and 1 Maxijet 400 powerhead. I have an...