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Supply and demand plays a part as well as other variables in my opinion! Size, type of coral, number of polyps or heads associated with size, color,...
If you are not planning on keeping stony corals(hermatypic), then it is possible to have a thriving tank without the use of a skimmer or other...
Start fresh and don't have inverts in the tank during a cycling as they will die! Good luck!
Hello and welcome to 3reef! Best of luck to you... Enjoy your tank and its inhabitants!
Best type of filtration is the biological that is present in live sand and live rock. Then you have your filter feeders such as fan worms and corals...
Pretty nice with an astonishing price tag unfortunately! Maybe in the future the price will drop, but till then sticking with my halides! I...
Zo's are highly toxic first of all so caution should be taken if you are touching them with open cuts etc.! Having said this, they are very hardy,...
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ATJ's Marine Aquarium Site - Reference - Organisms to Avoid
Clown fish are closely related to damsels, hence they are fine for the cycling process and the initial stages of a tank set-up!
Hydroids can be removed by either removing the rock and drying it, adding keyhole limpets or waiting it out as they will shortly die off, but you run...
Matt, don't sweat it!!! My 30 hex has been in the experimental phase for 4 months now without a skimmer as my skimmer on the 75gallon tank broke,...
Yes, periodically Octocorals will develop a mucus coat! This is their way of riding algae, parasites, detritus or sediment buildup to afford them a...
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The addition of iodine and intense lighting are essential and ideal and will go along way to ensure your soft corals are thriving.
One of the best things you can do to decrease the chance of an outbreak of ich is to keep temperatures as close to constant as possible. Another...
Yes the biggest issue to me for using colored sand instead of the natural aragonite if you have corals is the bleaching often evident on the...
Hello, Welcome to 3reef! Best of luck with your tank... I hope you get alot of pertinent info out of this site!
Maybe create a surface skimmer!
I don't think it is coralline as normally it takes awhile to develop and doesn't happen during the initial cycling phase. Coralline takes awhile to...
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