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Hello everyone, I am back. Have not been on Living reefs in a while. Since I have last posted I have gone bigger (tank that is). I went from a 75 gallon tank to a 210 gallon tank. I love it. Looking to buy some more sps coral. As I said earlier it is a 210 gallon reef ready tank. Black...

As many of you already know. I am going to upgrade to a larger tank. I am pretty Illiterate when it comes to wet/dry filters and sumps. I was wondering, do i need to have a wet dry and a sump, a sump by itself? or the wet dry by itself. Do sumps work as a filter in itself? I was flippng...

I am going to do it. I am going to upgrade to a bigger thank. Slowly of course, my wife will kill me if I run out tomorrow and buy a new set up. So I plan on going out and buying it piece by piece over the next several months. Here is what I am planning. I would like some recommendations on...

I currently have a 75 gallon tank with 2x250 watt MH lights. Light were recently lifted off the tank and are hanging between 17 and 18 inches above water level (thanks bitterwine for the advice, doing better). I was thinking about getting a bigger, longer tank. My tank and lights are 48inches...

I really love the look of the powder blue tang. I have spent mega money on 3 different PB tangs and have had no luck. Non of them lasted very long and non of them ate. One continually circled the tank till it died. I was told by someone that this is a difficult fish to keep. any advice on...

I have a 75 gallon SPS tank. With a sunpod 2X250 48" metal hallide fixture. I originally had the light sitting directly on the tank (with the provided legs). I have noticed that no matter how deep I put my coral I keep bleaching them. I have even bleached some of my rock. My water specs are...

My tank has been up and running for about 3 years. Have not had much problems. Grew a lot of purple and green coraline algea. Rocks were looking great. Lately my rock seems to be lookig grey. and some of my hard coral also look grey, like they are stained the same as the rock. Not sure if...

I have a 2X250 MH sunpod with 14k MH. What is the difference between 14k and 20k. I know 20k is a bluer light. Is there any other difference. I have hard corals. and want to keep this a sps tank with a lot of acros and birdsnest.

I have a 75 gallon tank with a 45 inch 2 X 150 sunpod metal hallides. I have about 6 or 7 sps corals and various other corals. I have noticed that all most all my sps coral are bleaching from the bottom up. My parameters are perfect. Nitrate and nitrite are almost at 0. Phosphates are at 0...

HELPPPPPP! I noticed some of my hard coral are bleaching allittle bit. I know this is reversable so I checked everything in my tank and got the following: Nitrite=0 Nitrate=0 PH=8.3-8.4 Here is where Iam concerned: Alkalinity 17dkh (wayyyy to high) Calcium almost 600. (Is there such...

I have a RO system under my sink at home that I bought from rainsoft. Can I use this water to top off my tank. Is there a difference between ro and ro/di? I have not used it and noticed it looked almost identical to my local petstores system that they use to make water I m constanly buying...

I currently have a 75 gallon reef with a emperor 400 a caniister, seaclone, 130 lbs live rock and sunpod metal hallides. I want to up grade to a 180 gallon tank and am sure that a hang on wont do. I know nothing about sumps. Is there a book you recommend or articles to read? I know nothing...

Just wanted to thank everyone who gave me advice about upgrading my lights to Metal Halides. I ended up getting the 48" 2 X 150 Sunpod for my 75 gallon tank. I LOVE THEM :bounce:. I have been following advice given about my current coral and they seem to be adjusting well. I originally was...

I currently have a 75 gallon reef tank. My metal Hallides are coming in about a week and a half (2 X 250). I plan on up grading tanks in about about 2 years (what I say to my wife). May be in a year or so (more realistic time). I was thinking about getting something 48 inches so I can us the...

I bought a gorgeous powder blue tang about a week ago. He seems to be eating off the rocks occationally. But not as much as my yellow tang that I have had for about a year. My yellow tang will eat off the rocks. Will eat brine shrimp, will eat the dry seaweed stuff on a clip you buy and even...

I have an established 75 gallon reef tank with an orbit florecent fixture on it. I would like to change to Metal Halides. I have been iching to get some hard corals. I was thinking about getting a 48" 2 X 250 watt sunpod. I have talked to two local pet stores about lighting and am getting...