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I would like to expand on what inwall75 mentioned above. Sand sfting Sea Stars as well as Sleeper Gobies especially require alot of foodstuff in the...
I love this guys!!!!!!Good ole' conversation with alot of good input and feedback...this is how we all learn and it sticks in our heads! This is...
you are right, just the nitrification process!!!! The denitrification process is anaerobic. I guess I was rambling on but thank you for correcting...
Hey, no problem mon'! I have never cleaned my sand bed...My inverts such as Queen Conch, Nassarius snails, sea Cucumber and worms etc. do the work...
You want to have sand sifters and burrowers, to make your sand bed more porpous which aids DO to the bacteria etc. and helps with the nitrification...
If we only knew then what we know now!!! I never knew you could cycle a tank without ever having a Damsel in a tank!
As for the Mangroves, I don't think the reverse daylight is needed as long as they receive light during the day in some form or other. The reverse...
Yes, you can stack up your live rock to hide your pipes just the idea of a wall and lack of caves and holes or breaks in the rock work pattern will...
Hi Tyslin, A deep sand bed is good for a few reasons such as bacteria can adhere to it, thus increases nitrification and denitrification. Sand bed...
To me too much live rock is not essential to the success of a reef tank or tank in general. If you stack your live rock like a wall what you are...
Welcome to 3reef! You can do it the way you are right now, or you could just lessen the time that your lights are on and slowly increase the...
I had a Snowflake and a Chain and they did ok together as they were fairly small with alot of live rock for hiding spaces and the tank was a 75....
Blade runner... you need to stop going on vacation or working(hahaha)you fish commit suicide when you are gone! sorry to hear about your Sohal...
Hey jMattingly....any relation to one of the best first basemen in all of baseball who played for the New York Yankees????? DON MATTINGLY???? At...
inverts are very succeptible to rapid changes in alkalinity, pH, and salinity! It may be that you had a change in one of those that you weren't...
Yes they break off pieces of live rock and coralline algae with their mouth called Aristotle's latern. The pencil urchin is however the least...
Only a couple shoud do for you and your tank. Size of the refugium shouls be taken into consideration as well.
Personally, I like to purchase all of my rock live from the various parts of the world. The reason being you get different algal and organisms that...
Their are times when, if you add the same type or similar style fish together at the same time, they may do ok but that unfortunately isn't the end...
Michael, I have a mag7 which I use to power my Aquac EV180...very quiet as is the 9.5 which I also have. If I can offer you a suggestion, why not...
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