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So I've kept FW for at least 20 years now but just this month am diving into the FW planted experience... Using a dip test strip I'm showing my KH at 300ppm and my GH at 25ppm. I used a water softener pillow for like 30 hours as I was told some of my fish prefered soft water. My bala sharks...

I've been going back and forth trying to decide which order I want to place... Options are as follows: 1) Order a "12 frags for $259" deal from DrMac which would include free shipping but not a real big selection of Acro frags. (They state online that they treat bi-monthly for red bugs) -OR-...

8O So for the past year or so I've been using those $2.99 thermometer/hydrometer combos from Petco... after repetitively breaking them and buying new ones I decided to buy a straight up plastic hydrometer made by Instant Ocean last night. I had been keeping my sg at 1.026 steady according to...

I've been observing my "asterina" stars and am in the process of removing them ALL. I know some may be innocent but can't decide which ones so it's off to prison they all go. I have two acros that these stars have been eating away at and enough is enough. In observing them I can tell you for...

Am I blind or did the Sump discussion area disappear? Didn't it used to be in off-topic area? The only thing there now is freshwater...

Why o why o why... I've been in reef tanks for a few years now and just don't understand it. Came home after work to feed my fish and the six line wrasse was MIA. My lil female anthias is swimming around by one of my powerheads all in a tizzy but proceeds to act normal and eat when I put in...

So in the pic below there are two things that are bugging me... 1st) In the lower left there is this bump in the ridge that appears to have some yellowish ball inside. This bump migrates all over this coral always staying in the ridges and never seeming to cause any harm. Any clue? 2nd) In...

So I'm sure some of you saw my thread from 10/25/05 where I was absolutely ready to swear off reef tanks... due to me seeing a nasty overnight change to my tank as show below... **and I promise you that WAS an overnight visual change otherwise I wouldn't have slept at all that night...**

So from what I've gathered starfish prey on clams... Is it at all possible to keep a sand sifting starfish in the same tank as clams that are placed on the sand? I know this is a potentially stupid question but with my deep sand bed I would really like to include the sand sifting starfish and...

Can't deal with this. I'm just absolutely sick right now. Three months ago I bought a 260 watt power compact setup for my 72 gallon bowfront tank. For the past two years or so I've only had 3 regular hood lights on top totalling about 45 watts of light (with only low light corals mind you)...

Thought I'd share, maybe some of you can relate... You know your aquarium's glass is clean when: -your cat flinches at the fish swimming towards him/her. -a fly repetitively bounces off it trying to get to the light. -your fish are mental because you just spent an hour scrubbing/scraping...

So last month my husband and I moved to a new home about 45 minutes away and I was extremely nervous about moving my 72 gallon bowfront. Don't worry, everything survived but man was it a pain in the back. My LFS gave me a ton of plastic bags and rubber bands and I still had the styrofoam boxes...

Hi all, Question for you... In about one month I'll be moving to a new apartment which is about 20-30 minutes away from my current one. Should I re-use all 120 pounds of sand that I have in my 72 gallon? Or, should I only re-use some of it and purchase some already "cycled" sand to replace...

This coming weekend I'll be doing a water change on my tank and am wondering about experience you all may have w/ Amquel Plus. I usually use TetraAqua's AquaSafe but after testing treated tap water last weekend have found it may not be my best possible option as there was enough nitrate still...

A big "Hi there" to all of the reefs.org staff! Just a curiosity question here... I see the last available wallpaper was added to this site on 11/16/03. Any plans in the future to add more? Everyone at work gets jealous of my computer screen... :lol: TIA, Mel

Took the flashlight to the nooks and crannies of my tank as I do every so often. (Husband thinks I'm a freak :lol: ) My main point of investigation this time though was under a treeroot shaped piece of live rock near the top of my tank where two of my yellowtail damsels have been absolutely...

I've removed the skimmer from my tank and I'm not looking back. Had a protein skimmer on my tank for the past 2 months and it seems to me that there are better ways to remove organics. The skimmer removed so many things from my tank that my 2 soft corals started to suffer and shrink away...

OK so I know of the following LFS in Rochester, NY area. Does anyone know of any more between Buffalo and Geneva areas... Caribbean Forest - Rochester PetWorld - Rochester The Reef Shoppe - Rochester Petmart - Batavia I've tried checking online yellow pages and website searches but haven't...

I'm about to have people in white coats come and take me away... So far I've taken 2 mantis shrimps out of the live rock in my tank. Took 1 out of the rock when some of it was in a 20 gallon 6 months ago. Took the other one out of my 72 gallon this week after it proceeded to demolish a Purple...

Just curious... I was talking w/ a fellow reefer about how I wanted to purchase a Custom Sea Life lighting unit which included 4 moonlights and he told me to be careful because he heard they're going out of business. Does anyone know if this is true?