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I have 250 Coral Life MH fixture on my 65 gallon tank right now, and I noticed yesterday that the center plastic plastic strip in the middle of the aquarium gets really hot when the MH bulb is on. I run it for 6 hours per day and I really don't want to go any less than that. I'm worried about...

I have ran out of options here, and I wanted to try here first before I try something extreme. My 75 gallon tank has been up and running for a year. Its stocked with the following 1 yellow tang 1 green chromis 2 false clowns 1 possum wrasse 1 six line wrasse 1 lawnmower blenny xenia colonies...

So I recently got a pH controller and I would notice that the pH would drop down to around 8 or even 7.9 at times at night, and it was only getting up to 8.2 during the day. My corals were doing fine and so were the fish, but I was trying to get it up to around 8.3. So I figured that I would...

My reef has been setup for around 8 months now, and I want add another fish. Currently I have two clowns, three blue chromis, a lawnmower blenny, various snails and crabs, a starfish, and a possum wrasse in my 72 gallon reef. I feel that things are established and I would like to get a yellow...

I have a coral I bought a few months ago that I think is not doing that well and might even be dead. I had to go out of town and I came back to see that a clam and this coral just didn't look the same. My monitor/controller logs show nothing out of the ordinary during my absence in pH or Temp...

I started in July and things are starting to take shape.....

I recently got a cleaning crew for my tank and everyone seems to be doing OK except for my cleaner shrimp. oth of them have died in a matter of 4 days. My nitrite and ammonia levels are undectetable. I used the drip method to acclimate them, and my nitrate levels are only 2.5. Tankmates...

I bought a xenia, and the shop owner of my LFS gave me a coral on Thursday. I don't know what kind it is, and I was just wondering if someone could help me ID it. Thanks in advance...

So my tank finally cycled and I added two chromis and installed my light fixture. I have 2X250 metal halide 10000k and 14000k and two 96 watt actinic bulbs. However, since I only have live rock and some fish I'm not running the metal halides. Last week the diatoms started to appear so I...

I've done a little bit of research on the subject, and I have decided I would like to create a lagoonal patch reef much like you would see in the modern indo-pacific. I really like the clams and such, and I have devoted a good portion of my life to researching ancient patch reefs. My 72 gallon...

I have my overflow box setup with an aqua lifter and I have the return line from the aqua lifter going back into the tank. I was just wondering if that was standard or if others do it differently (overflow or sump). Also, I'm not sure if the return from the overflow should be completely...

I started my tank a few days ago with 60 lbs of live sand and about 15 pounds of live rock (72 gallon). My cycle is starting and other than a little tinkering with the pump and overflow box, all is going well. I was just wonder when I should install my skimmer and if it is OK to have the...

I bought a 72 gallon bow front tank yesterday, and I decided after many years of freshwater that it was time to try a reef ank. Once I started reading about the setup of marine aquariums I realized that the setup is much more in depth than anything I have done before. I'm not very handy when...