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If you are going to be basically keeping soft corals(octocorals) and lps's, you don't need to really have 400 watt halides. These corals don't...
I wouldn,t use the bio balls. Ok for removing ammonia and nitrite by creating a living environment for bacteria such as nitrobacter and nitrosomas,...
What ever you do to lower your salinity, do it slowly or you will stress and possibly lose livestock!
Welcome to 3reef...You are going to love it here and find all sorts of worthwhile info. Ask as many questions as you can and research and read and...
definitely go with a fan! Evaporative cooling works. You just have to top off your water in your tank. Atleast it will help til you can save for a...
Alot of it has to do with the type and kind of coral you want. Coral isn't cheap to start with but if you are looking for unusual, hard to find...
Glass for me even if the sole reason for this is based on scratch resistance. Once you get scratches, they stick out like a sore thumb...then you...
Most likely a member of the Porifera or Ascidian genera(sponge or tunicate/squirt). Need to see a picture to be able to pin point it better though.
Read #2 of my above post/reply. Either of those or take out pieces of your live rock and swish it around in water you removed from your tank when...
Clowns are nice, however, I would love to get either a Queen, Blue Throat, or Pink-tail Trigger!!!!!!!!!!!Undulated Trigger's are very pretty but...
The hermits that don't get terribly big would be fine IMO. I do like the Blue-leg and Scarlets. Don't know much about the Zebra, Halloween,...
I forgot all about it. I am doing a water change on one of our tanks as well and babysitting... Thanks for reminding me though! Why aren't ya...
Ok, I will answer these questions in the order you asked them. 1) The best way to control red algae, which really isn't an algae at all. It is a...
I had one as well and it never jumped out of my tank in the year I had it. The egg crate will definitely help out for the chance it does decide to...
That is a good one!!!!! My fish tank would be unplugged along time ago!!!!!My Jimmy Buffett and Bob Marley /Caribbean sttel drum music would be...
I use Oceanic due to its higher calcium content and ease of dissolving.
By the way...Welcome to 3reef!!!! What do you have for livestock? Do you have a skimmer? What type of lighting? Too bad you...
Unfortunately I am not that knowledgeable in that department... I will be soon enough though as my 125gallon tank has two megaflows with a 30 gallon...
Not bad...However, I love my- wave2k- water movent system...it rocks!!!!moves alot of water and is whisper quiet...No more powerheads and heat...
You can always purchase distilled water to make your saltwater. You can buy it at most supermarkets, I believe. Just a suggestion...
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