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I would get a small bucket of salt water and a toothbrush and brush that white stuff off while holding it underwater. The purple protective mat they hide in should take a reasonable gentle scrubbing. Then I would dip it in lugol's solution and put it back in the tank or into a quarantine for...

Sounds like you blew a power strip??

To be perfectly fair, I have only heard complaints about LED lighting. Granted I am talking about people who bought stuff made in China that just fell apart within weeks. You can read about it using the search function using words like LED and sucks and rip. I would be willing to bet that...

There is an industry where I come from that DEPENDS on the way crabs attack one another during the molt. There is a delicacy called soft-shelled crabs. And there is an ingenious way to catch them. Instead of crab traps, fishermen take bundles of sticks and suspend them in the water, 6 feet...

Believe me, I will be needing to get rid of it by that time, so I will mail i to you.

The only way I would allow the bioballs to stay in there is if I had a 100 micron filter sock on my overflow water. It seems like you have a situaltion where your incoming water goes through a lot of "filtration" before it gets to the skimmer, but it also sounds like overflow water is in...

speaking of acrylic, if you were to go to an art store and get a tube of acrylic paint, you could pretty easily scrape it off with a razor blade when you wanted to. It's like a rubbery plastic color. And you have to admit, the surface you would be scraping at a later date IS PRETTY HARD AND...

There may be worms that eat macroalgae, but it sounds odd to me. What you need I guess is a fish that sees every motile creature in your tank as a potential meal, like a wrasse.

That's good advice. Like they say you n ever get a second chance to make a first impression, and baby, when you dump sand in a tank improperly, by the time you see what you have done, it's FAR too late, lol.

sorry, blablabla, typical me. There are fixtures with a shiny background, and there are fixtures that feature an individual polished reflector around every lamp in the fixture. It greatly increases the efficiency of the fixture, giving you more light into the water per lamp for the same power...

not a good night last night, I came to the conclusion that my daylight lamp in my fixture was done. Everything seemed SO dim, and the dang thing was only a month old or so. P'd me O. BUT I have to admit, I DID cook two powerstrips one night with a water ballet, so there is a good chance the...

You will probably get a little diatom bloom when you put the rock in after the cycle. Brown patches on the sand, glass and rock. That should go away or be eaten by snails.

Personally I LIKE your problem algae. Wish I had that kind of outbreak. I imagine a tang or surgeon would eat it. To the completely untrained and overly verbose eye, I say it looks like some kind of sargassum or kelp, even though it is not either of those, too many physical differences. But I...

If I was going to pay in that ballpark for T5-s I would shop around for a similar price and featuring individual reflectors for each lamp. If you can't find it, there appears to be nothing wrong with the fixture you quoted. Don't forget your overflow box, for your new 10 gallon sump, lol.

There is a review on the PA site that described this rock as being full of Aiptasia. Here is another tidbit that can help you. Out of the 6 rocks I got, one did in fact have more than 8 Aiptasia. I filled a pipette with well shook Aragamilk and gave 'em an oral disc full. After one day I had...