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Hello Can I place peppermint shrimp in my refugium? My refugium have only about 10-12 hours of light. Basically once my lights in main tank goes off the refugium lights turn on. Is it safe to place peppermint shrimp in there? I have a lot of aiptasia in the refugium so shrimp will have something...

Hi Several days ago I noticed hundreds of small black dots under my bubble tip anemone. I took a closer look and it looks like they were little clownfish babies. But last night I came to feed the fished and they were all gone. Is it possible that one of the living things in my aquarium ate...

All the problems started when I set up alkalinity dosage pump. I have cyano all over the tank and green hair algae on back wall. Here are my parameters: Magnesium - 1600ppm KH (Alkalinity) - 7dkH Calcium - 440ppm Salinity - 1.024 Phosphate - 0 ppm Nitrate - 0 ppm Nitrite - 0 ppm pH - 8.43...

Hi guys On Saturday (3/1) I bought a female banggai cardinal. It is small. I already have one male banggai cardinal in my tank and it look like it was picking on my female on the begging. Now she only stay in a corner of a tank on top of it , where the flow it's pretty slow. Have not been eating...

Hi I have build dosing pump system using pumps from http://www.aptinstruments.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=AI&Product_Code=SP100FO&Category_Code=SP100 I connect them to my Apex outlets #4 and 8. What I need to do in Apex to check if they work as they should? Is there a...

I have some troubles with the aiptasia. Bought 4 peppermint shrimps but they did not eat it at all. So I decided to inject aiptasia with kalkwasser. Turn off all the pumps and powerheads and injected aiptasia. After couple minutes peppermint shrimps climb to aiptasia and start eating it. Will...

I have two little fishes phosban reactor. Before I used their phosban media. Now I would like to switch to seachem phosguard. When I placed the media in my reactor last night I cannot make them to tumble. My pump is a maxijet. Valve it's open all the way and still no tumble. Should I remove the...

I realized my bubble tip anemone that is hosted by one of my clown fishes have changed it appearance and it looking worse and worse everyday. Is it dying slowly?

I just get these last night. What is that "eye" looking thing on the back of shell?

I have my turbo snail for about 2-3 months. About 3 weeks ago it went to one corner of my tank and stayed there all the time. On the bottom. I got concerned it might be dead so I took my "stick" and pick it up. I saw the hard shield moving and closing. So I left it alone. I check on it every...

Hello I have my tank for a year now. About two weeks ago my tank start to get a spots with brown hair algae. Please check the photo. I took the photo from internet and my algae is exactly the same except it's brown. I do 20% water change every week. 3 weeks ago my first baby was born and I...

I need to raise my Calcium level. Can I just premix it and add it to my ATO container? Will this be okay?

Okay here is the story. Last Monday I purchased a diamond goby. For the first couple days he was fine.Shifting sand and swimming around . But after couple days past he start to hide under rocks ( I believe that he have mate with my pistol shrimp) and I only see him couple times a week. Yesterday...

Hey guys I have those for a while and have not feed them since then. Please help me identify those so I can do research on how to feed them,how often and with what. Thanks Candidate number 1 Candidate number 2 Candidate number 3 Candidate number 4 Candidate number 5

Hello guys Long time no see :D. I have coralife super skimmer 65 and it is in return chamber of my sump. Also I have a filter sock on my return. Question: Does it matter how deep below the water surface I will place skimmer pump? Does it matter when I have the sock on? Right now the pump is...

I have used a circular saw to cut my acrylic. Edges come out straight but have to clean them to use weld-on #4. I used a router and then messed up all edges that have to be joined together. Now they are not perfectly straight. Is there any other way to make the edges straight as possible?

Let me introduce myself first... Hi my name is Kris :mrgreen: Couple days ago I received a 55G tank from my friend who quit his reef tank. He only gave me the tank,lights,sump , hang on skimmer and a pump with powerhead. I need to clean the tank first and then start to put everything together...

Hello Guys I'm just starting to set up my first saltwater tank. My friend used to have a saltwater aquarium but he moved to a different state and gave me his. It is 55 G and have Pro Clear Aquatic System model PRO75 filter. I need to purchase a skimmer. I do not want the skimmer to hang on the...