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Advice is much appreciated. I have the Red Sea Max 130 (not the D version). Currently I have the stock skimmer. I would like to add the inTank media rack and the Tunze 9001 (looks like the 9002 is no longer produced?). It is my understanding that these 2 products will fit seamlessly in my...

I purchased a healthy, 2 inch yellow belly blue tang from my LFS, and put it in my QT where I treated it with treatment dose Cupramine for 2 weeks, as per Lee's and others' recommendation. The fish has been eating a lot and generally behaving very healthy. I closely observed it daily and so...

My LFS is in the process of ordering a medium sized (3 inches) yellow belly for me, and I am trying to decide if it is worth the price increase, or if I will be stuck with a more expensive fish with a faded belly. So, a few questions: - Yellow Belly Blue Tangs supposedly do not develop their...

I've got a RSM 130 (non-deluxe version) with everything stock, including the skimmer. I do use the surface skimmer upgrade, and the water level is just barely above it, so that surface water flows downward into the filter intake. I have low-to-medium bioload with only 3 fish, some soft...

The air intake is quite noisy. If I direct the tubing into the main tank this helps but not enough. I have tried stuffing a small amount of tissue paper into the tubing-- it seems to act as a muffler and helps cut the noise down quite a bit-- but this reduces the air flow below what I want...

Has anyone figured out a way to use Miracle Mud in a RSM without setting up a separate refuge? Would it be possible to put it in a very fine filter sock and put it in the chamber underneath the protein skimmer?

My clown just developed this while in the QT. What is it?

Just got back from my LFS and the owner suggested not only to quarantine the blue tang I purchased but to treat with copper as well before adding to my reef tank. I thought the quarantine process was to monitor the fish for disease and treat if indicated. I've read that blue tangs have ich so...

I've got a RSM 130 that's about 6 months old. All my fish died due to a marine ich outbreak so I'm letting the tank run fallow for 8 weeks as suggested. Its been about 4 weeks since any fish. All that's in there is about 30 lbs of live rock, a long tentacle anemone, some green star polyps and...

I've never been able to keep mexican turbo snails for very long. Seems like 50% die within a few weeks of adding to the tank and the rest slowly die over the next 3-6 months. And they are never very active. In fact, my trochus snails are much more active. I do a slow drip acclimation process...

I have a 3 inch maroon clown who is extremely aggressive with anemones. I have gone through many medium-sized BTAs, and have always suspected the clown was just too much for them. They would do well and eat for a few months and then gradually shrink away. So today I bought a large...

I'm a new RSM 130 owner. I have the stock system (no media rack or tunze skimmer). How are people setting up their filter media with the stock system? I'm using chemi pure elite, purigen, some filter floss and a little seachem matrix. I've found that if the purigen or chemi pure elite are...

Just got a young, male 2-3" Blue throat trigger from my LFS. 2 questions: 1. I can barely make out the coloring but have read he will become more colorful as he matures. When can I expect this to happen (months, years)? 2. Lots of people talk about their male-female pairs but I don't...

Does anyone have any experience with placing macroalgae in the back of a RSM for additional nitrate control, perhaps in the skimmer compartment? Seems like it may get enough light to grow.

Starting up a new reef tank. I've been using Coralife scientific grade salt for a long time with tap water and never had any problems with cloudiness. Now I'm using RO/DI water. So I mixed in the appropriate amount of salt to 5 gallon jugs a few days ago, added the water to my tank, turned on...