Search results

Looks like I'll be getting a new skimmer from That Pet Place for Christmas this year. Any thoughts on which skimmer is best? 175G with a little bit of everything in it. The candidates: C-Skim 1200 Bullet 2 Fission Power Fission Recirculating Nautilus TE Turbo Marine Series Advanced ASM G Series...

On Saturday I brought a medium sized (6" dia.) Bubble Tip Anemone. He has been slowly making his way around my tank (175 gal.) to find his 'happy spot'. This morning he was about 1" away from my Brain Coral, which hadn't fully expanded yet, due to the early hour. When the Brain fully expands...

I have a 60 gallon tank in my garage that i use for water changes. I'm due to do a water change soon. I have been primering, painting and polyurethaning some shelves in the garage over the last couple of weeks. It reeks of chemicals at times, the water has been covered with only a small hole for...

I have been running 2 Berlin XL skimmers powered by Mag5 pumps on my 175 gallon tank. The skimmers both seemed to be doing a decent job. Recently one of the pumps quit on me and the reamaining skimmer is skimming ALOT more than it did with both skimmers running. What is a more effective method...

I am in the process of re-plumbing my return and drain lines. I glued some PVC using the purple primer and PVC cement. After 4 days, I can still smell the chemicals on the new pipes. How long should I wait until I install the new PVC. Thanks, reeferJ

I have a 150 gallon reef tank with 2 Skunk Cleaners, 2 firefish and 1 watchman goby. I have had these fish for about 3 months. I have tried to add 2 Royal Grammas, 1 Blackcap & 2 Powder Blue Tangs (not at the same time). They have all died from Ick. Water conditions are well within the 'norms'...

Had a tank crash a while back, but everything seems to be in order now. Time to spend money again. The plan is to have mostly LPS corals, leathers, maybe clams, maybe linkia and/or serpent starfish. As for the fish, the list will definitely include a Powder Blue Tang, a pair of O. clowns, and a...

I have a Mombasa lionfish, currently feed him krill, and occasionally ghost shrimp. I've been kicking around the idea of buying a school of 10 or so chromis and let him feed at will. Would the lion eat all of the chromis at one time, or pick them off as necessary. I thought I read that lions...

Current inhabitants include a mombasa lion, blande naso tang & foxface along with 3 cleaner shrimp, snails and corals. I would like to add some or all of the following: hippo tang pink tail or crosshatch trigger purple tang possibly an eel opinions most welcome. Thanks

If I were to purchase the antennata lionfish, would it swim around my tank, or hide in a cave? Would a volitans be a better choice for viewing? thanks

Hi All, I haven't posted here in about 2 years. During this time I had some personal tragedies and as a result my reef tank had a severe meltdown. Well she's all cleaned up now and ready for restocking. In the past I had PB Tang, Foxface, Keyhole Angel, 2 bangaii, 7 chromis, neon dottyback & a...

I'll be adding a refugium to my 240 gal. reef tank. I'm thinking about feeding the refugium from the return flow of my skimmer, then a gravity return back to the sump. I was hoping not to have to add another powerhead to the sump, it's already crowded with the skimmer, calcium reactor & heaters...

I have had my 220 gal. tank for 1 yr. now and am thinking about trying an anemone. Research indicates that bubble tips are the best choice. 2 questions: 1. What clowns will host in bubble tips? 2. I already have several corals (bubble, colt, hammer, shrooms, pagoda, elephant ear, frogspawn...

I got a coupla days off from work in the near future, heard great reviews on a LFS in the northern Virginia area, think it was called "The Reef Tank". Does anybody have any more info, maybe their phone number so I can call and get directions. I live in Pa. so I'll be coming down 83. Thanks

Came home Saturday afternoon and found one of my large (3"+ crown) feather duster worms sticking about 4" out of his tube. Sunday I saw his crown laying by a rock, but can't see if the worm has left the tube or if he's just shed his crown. Why would he expose his "worm" part? All water...

I fed my red open brain last nite for the first time. It was a rather slow process, my neon dottyback kept stealing the food from the brain cause it took so long for the brain to "eat" it. Is this normal, or do I have a "slow brain"? If its always gonna be this slow I was thinking of getting a...

^

I just bought Kent's automatic shutoff float kit for my RO unit, it plumbs directly into my sump. I was wondering how I can still get RO water to mix with buffers, additives, etc. Anybody got any ideas? Thanks

A couple of weeks ago, my readings were: pH: 8.2 Alk: 16+ CA: 360 I shut off my calcium reactor until my Alk got down to 10.4, during that time I was dosing Turbo Calcium, and got my CA up to 400. At that time my pH was still 8.2. Last week I turned my reactor back on and now my readings are...

My pH has dropped to 8.0 in the evening, my alkalinity is 12.5. How can I raise the pH without raising the alkalinity? Thanks