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Looking for quick opinion on the Vortech power heads for reliability. Thumbs up or thumbs down. First 10 respondees make up my mind for me LOL.

Aquatic auctions makes me laugh. The same person runs on the bid up on himself from 133 to 220 dollars. Right!

Hi. Finally replacing my lights in my Aqualight Pro. My tanks now over a year old. I bought part number 54085 which has 4 straight pins instead of 54086 which has the square pin configuration. The vendor won't take 'em back. Listed for 25 each but you can have em for $25 total for both...

After a year of things going very well..... Early in the week one of my clownfish (my first fish purchases) went hardwood floor surfing. I had just about got over it when tonight's disaster happened. My flame hawkfish apparently tried for a turbo snail, the snail retracted into it's shell...

I find no evidence or can see no reason that rinsing of fish food does any good other than potentially contaminating it with the holders and creating a mess as well as additional work. If someone has some data, I would appreciate it.

Hi all. My tank is now 1 year old, I just turned 50 (gak) on the same day. Here is my first attempt at uploading photo. I bought 7 new frags at a swap in Connecticut on the weekend. IMG]http://i543.photobucket.com/albums/gg451/pulker_2009/DSCN2128.jpg[/IMG]

Well my tank just turned one year old.:jester: The boss(wife) gave me the ok to purchase my own RO/DI system. I have been nabbing free stuff from our large work but its a weekly hassle and I feel funny about doing it. I was looking at airwaterice and filterguys stuff. I will probably...

Anyone have experience with this pump please? Seems like a good buy for 15 bucks for my ato system.

Well. My first tank is almost a year old and I've learned a lot from here. I recently bought a fire goby named Firefly. Although I have a quarantine tank downstairs I have never used it assuming my LFS stuff was always healthy. Well after a couple of days a noticed a big white spot on the...

Hi all. Haven't checked in for a while. My tank is now 6.5 months old. I have learned a lot. I added a 20 gallon sump about 2 months ago. My only major issue was a huge nitrogen spike shortly after that. I am guessing that a large turbo snail I put in for algae control died. I lost a...

I can't get my calcium above 260-280 ppm. I have started one week now doing with esv 2 part calcium buffer. Even putting 20 ml of both components in does not seem to do much except drop the raise the pH a bit. What's up with that? Tank is 6 weeks old and has cycled with 50 lbs live rock...

Hi all. My tanks a little over a month old. Brown algae has come and almost gone, getting green algae now. Fritzyme to help me along. I have a false gramma and a damsel in it and they seem to be doing well. The two LFS near me both refuse to sell me any coral yet which I suppose is a good...

Ok ready to go.. I think. NH3=0, NO2=0, NO3=5mg/l. 3/2 Added live rock 55lbs and live sand 60 lbs to new tank 3/13 My first nitrite reading ,woot, ammonia high 3/15 My lfs suggested I add me 3 oz. of fritzyme , skimmer off 3/18 Ammonia down to zero 3/19 Turned back on skimmer...

I know, I'm such a newb. Curing for 9 days now.

Hola again. I'm curing my 50 lbs of live rock in the tank and doing 8 gallon water changes every other day. I'm using wellwater of pH 6.7. I have been using freshwater pH-UP up to get to the desired range. It seems pretty quick to do as opposed to adding these buffered mixes everytime! Is...

Ok. Just started buying my stuff for my 46 gallon bow front. Do i really need an emporer power filter in addition to the Live rock and AquaC skimmer I'm getting. This is more expensive than i thought.:spinner:

Hola. I'm from CT and impulsively am getting into saltwater. Bought a 46 gallon Seaclear Bowfront from Petco. Seaclone 100 protein skimmer. 2 150 watt submersible heaters. 60 lbs of live sand, an emporer filter. Thought i would buy 25 lbs of fiji live rock to start before adding fish but...