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Ok, lighting is important but not the only variable that needs to be addressed! Water flow, filtration, temperature, water parameters-stability o...
I wouldn't clean your live rock in fresh water, though it has already been done... Uncured live rock is a great way to cycle your tank-and the need...
Hi and welcome to 3reef! Glad you feel that way about 3reef as well... Best of luck with your tanks and hope you enjoy them as much as I do mine!...
Many of the live sand offered for sale is composed of the same aragonite with a myriad of bacteria and trace elements/buffers. To save money, you...
An Octopuses life is only about 8 months long! They are very difficult to keep as the water needs to be ideal-therefore, optimal filtration is hey!...
Can you take a picture of the worms...better way of identifying the worms!!! Most of the worms found in our tanks are beneficial to our tanks! Even...
Anything can happen and is not impossible. Good filtration and the hopes that their won't be an aggressor fish...you should be fine!
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Nice!! I plan on getting these soon!
Show off!!!!!!!!!! Hahaha! How the heck did you land a catch like that!!!!!!????? I have never found a White-Faced Tang(Acanthurus Japonicus)...
Hi, glad you found 3reef! Welcome and best of luck to you and your tank!
With the lack of stony corals containing a calcium carbonate skeleton(hermatypic) and Tridacna clams as well as other calcareous inverts, calcium...
Hello and welcome to 3reef! The button/cat's eye coral you are referring to is called Cynarina! It is a fairly hardy coral which will live and die...
Nice little set-up...It is amazing what you can do with such a small container of water! I have a few nice stonies growing in a Dunkin' Donuts...
Fish and crabs are unlikely to graze on the star polyps either. They are very hardy and also come in a couple shades of green!
The number of fish kept in the tank will have alot to do on the fish's size, and the tank size. The reason why many reefers don't keep too many fish...
Kalkwasser has a pH make up of about 12! Kalk is also stable for a short period of time before carbonate hardness and depreciated level of Calcium...
You will have less irradiance at both ends due to the shortness of the bulb to the length of the tank. I would avoid placing higher ligh corals at...
Eventually, you will have algae growth, hopefully coralline!! But corals will also grow as I have Xenia, Montipora capricornis and zoos attaching to...
As long as it is eating and not acting strangely, then it should be fine.
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