What???!!!

I left for four days. I have a saltwater tank, 55 gal. It contains two clownfish, a trigger fish... A blue lobster and before I left, a young fake rose anemone...
Upon my return my clownfish look lost and frantic! No anemone to be found and where it resided... The blue lobster left its shedding...Is it possible that my lobster ate my anemone??? I see no other explanation... I want to know why!?!?!? After I find out IF. Please educate me???

Tank pics, and an unhappy Softy

I'm Back! I joined this forum a while ago and showed you my beginning tank. Here are some pictures of it now! Notice the soft coral has decreased in size, and almost seems to be tearing apart. This is thought to be a result of the previous Leather V Anemone battle (Which I did not post about) but seems to be continuing. In other news, I took a trip and left my parents with the tank, hoping nothing would go wrong, and I come home to a dead angelfish arrow crab snails and a critical floating starfish. Thankfully it has recovered fully. My bristleworm issue isnt stopping due to any biological intervention. Would crowding them out with hermits work? I also got a fancy new disc Anemone! My attempt at a hard coral possibly failed, it looks strange, but hast changed much lately.
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Suicidal anemone?

Hi guys,

its been a while since I posted something but I have a question....

About 3 weeks ago I got this beautiful giant anemone that I placed in the front of the tank and she was just happy there for about 2 weeks and then she decided to move all round. At some point she was on top of the giant rock with power head blowing directly into her...

Well, today I found her upside down just jammed into the rock and i became kind of worried and then I picked her up and move to another spot in the tank right under the light and she'd have plenty of pace there however she let go and the current jammed her back into the same spot... she the pic below...

I have not clue what to do... :( I just want her to be happy. I feed her twice a week with a scallop meat and she eats it.

PLEASE give me some advice...

Dramatic Decrease in N & P with Chaeto?

Hey guys! So my new sump build is a killer success and I am stoked. I now have a 100gal DT and a 55gal sump with Chaeto. I wanted to ask you guys if any of you have noticed this. I went back home to NYC for a few days and had someone feed my fish and inverts but since I had a Fluval 406 canister filter that I cleaned everyday that was no longer being cleaned for a few days my nitrates and phosphates shot up. I have had my sump running now for only a full 24 hours and I literally have seen my nitrates go from 30ppm to nearly undetectable using the exact same test kit (API) a day apart. Now granted there is more water volume but the sump isnt even filled to the brim obviously so its like what? 40 more gallons added? so say estimate 40% more water.... that would equal only 40% less nitrates. So it should be reading around 18ppm... I know the Chaeto eats up nutrients... but this quickly? I just didnt know it was going to be that dramatic... and with my phosgaurd, chaeto and wet skimming, my phosphates are also undetectable. Pretty stoked with these results.. just confused.. anyone?

Best circulation pumps for 37G tall Seahorse tank

I am setting up a 37Gallon high aquarium (30Lx22.5Hx12D) for Seahorses (which I have had before). I have a sand bottom, live rock, and I am adding a 5Gal CPR refugium with protein skimmer filled with MUD, live rock frags & porous rock media and Calerpa. These will serve as my filtration. I know from past experience that I must have low flow or adjustable flow circulation pumps or powerheads to eliminate dead spots and keep the water circulating. I was considering a couple of the Hydor Koralia 240 nano's down low and a Hydor Koralia 425 up top. Any suggestions from Seahorse keepers?:rotflmao:

Dcropley's 34g blog

So I figured I start a build thread on my new tank. THe tank is a 34g Deep Sea Aquatics 24x24x12'' rimless starfire glass tank, With a 30g sump. THe tank came with a bunch of equipment but I plan on replacing most of it with quieter pumps. The stand is a black 32x24x24 and I plan to refinish it white. I cleaned the tank and it is spotless, the stand is primed and waiting for paint, the StarBoard bottom is on its way. I will be doing reef saver rock from BRS and a Syncra Silent pump, ecotech xr15w pro, vortech mp10wqd and a 4stage rodi. I figure about a 4-5 month build time and cycle time.
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Corals not happy

Hello!
I have a question about my corals.
I have a 10 gallon reef tank. Almost 7 months old. It was downgraded from a 55 gallon when I moved back home with my parents briefly....they didn't want a large tank. I did not have a second cycle and did it all pretty seamlessly about 3 months ago.
It has been fallow for 3 weeks, but just put two baby clownfish in it. One is a baby domino and the other a baby nemo (not sure which species, but the generic $19.99 clown). I am planning an upgrade toa 20 or 30 gallon sometime in the next 6months so by the time the fish have grown a bit they will have much more room. Not planning on getting any more fish due to the small size of the tank.
During the fallow period, I fed weekly brine shrimp to keep the cycle going and all water levels are pretty stable except the pH is pretty low in the morning (7.6-7.8). I know this is normal but I hate it! So I do buffer daily with Aquavitro eight four. It helps a lot.

The corals I have are:
A large star polyp rock with two species of SP's. Two small Zoa frags and a leather toadstool.
my star polyp has almost always been okay except there are two MUTANT pods that I found munching on it in the middle of the night while removing a bristle worm. When I say mutant I mean they are huge for pods. The size of a small insect, probably a half of an inch long or more. I've never seen pods that size. I saw two of them actually EATING my SP's and I can see the damage they are doing and don't know how to rid my tank of these vile creatures.
They still open up during the day though.

My leather coral is the most bipolar of them all! It just "shedded" and grew quite a bit actually but it is still a bit white around some edges. It will be wide open at 10 AM and by 8 PM it is completely shriveled into nothing.
no ammonia, no nitrite or nitrate (oddly, I test 0 for nitrate all the time on my API liquid test kit...this is weird to me), pH is a bit low but every day I buffer. I have no clue what is happening.
It is not browning and I have pretty powerful lights but they are always on low, its a great light setup I think. Its a huge LED unit that I had two of for my 55 gallon. But I use one turned almost all the way down.
Flow: The leather has always been right under my Aquaclear 30 getting plenty of flow and it generally seems super happy with that. But then it shrivels back up and I don't know what to change because I don't know what is making him unhappy.

As for my Zoa frags, I'm so stumped on these. Zoas have never really enjoyed my tank. They are supposed to be super easy to keep but my zoas are always dull and half the time don't open. Is my tank possibly TOO clean? I am running an AC 30 on a 10 gallon....? One of my frags opens a lot, but is super dull in color and looks really rough. The other never opens at all anymore.

A few weeks ago I started dosing Fuel (I believe by Seachems) twice a week for the corals. Doesn't seem to do them any good.

Again, here are my parameters so you can tell me what you think it may be.
Ammonia - 0 (once it got up to .5 about a week ago but I have no idea why. I do regular water changes. I changed the water (about 30%) and it went back down and has been 0-.10 since then. I use Amquel and prime even if there is a tiny bit of ammonia.
pH - 7.8-8.4
Nitrite - 0
Nitrate - 0 (never over 0, which is odd)
Temp - 76-78
Lights - http://ift.tt/1pNUiSX that light turned almost all the way down (I promise, its quite decent light and turned down its very dim, just like the fish stores coral tanks look, no browning on my corals at all)
Flow - I use an AquaClear 30 HOB, this creates plenty of flow I think for a 10 gallon, but I'm open for suggestions!

Please let me know what I am missing here! I want to get my corals in order so I can get an anemone for my clowns to host. I don't want to do that until I am better at keeping corals, though.
Thanks!

liveaquaria sites down?

Anyone else notice going to www.liveaquaria.com says there site is currently down?

I tried to order some discus this morning and found this out the hard way.

empty Tank

I cant deiced what to do with my tank. I started up a new 220 gallon last summer now I have moved all my fish and coral that were in my other tank so its basically empty. It is a 72 gallon bow front with a 30 gallon refuge and a coral life skimmer. There is sand and some live rock left in it. I have two thoughts break it down and put it up on Craig's list or do a FO tank or maybe FO with some LR. Thoughts?

Red flat thing?

Found this on the bottom of my tank and it appears to be growing outwards and I was just wondering if anyone knew what it was

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Sharpnose puffer diet question.

I want to start feeding my sharpnose puffer meaty foods that still have shells attatched, online it only lists clam, but my question is how do i prep the food for the freezer with shells still on? Should i just freeze clam halves and then smash em up once their frozen? Before theyre frozen?

Could i use something smaller like small mussels or scallops? And it lists hard shelled shrimp in diet, is this as effective for beak maintenance as the clam shell?

Thursday and stormy

Good mawnin', TRT!

Coffee is ready. Scones and bagels of all kinds to start our day.

Finished mowing the yard. Here's a photo of my yard looking from my carport to the street.

Rainy and storm today. Bleh.

Lots of love and hugs and peace to everyone!

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Good morning Thursday!

Good morning TRT friends, and.....HAPPY THURSDAY! Wind is starting to woop up around here, so we'll be having 'rollers' on the creek today. And thinking this is ushering in the next two days of sogginess for us. Buttermilk waffles with fresh strawberries to go with our coffee and pink milk to get the eyes opened. Hope all are well, and have good things to look forward to today,
Hack

ID This Algae

So for a while now i've been watching this algae grow, as well as many others in my snowflake tank, eel's are messy after all, anyway i've been thinking about shutting down this tank and getting something a bit smaller for a zoa garden/morph tank but curious as what this algae is? It looks nice and seems to be thriving in the horrible nitrates but then so does my brittle star, he's survived a lot in there, including a hole in his disc. Anyone know what this algae is?

Excuse the glass, havn't cleaned it properly

Adjusting HOB RO100 protein skimmer

I'm confused on how to adjust my protein skimmer. It's the HOB reef octopus 100. Within the first 30 minutes of me putting it on it really pulled out some gunk. The next morning had about a half inch of gunk in the cup already but the bubbles were not flowing over into the cup anymore. I adjusted the cup down and it seemed to overflow too much. I dumped the cup and cleaned it and put it back to where it was barely overflowing and left it for most of the day and it pulled out a lot more gunk but when I got home the bubbles were not overflowing again. Do I leave it in the same spot and let it fluctuate or is there a happy medium I need to find? This is my first time with a skimmer so bear with me.

Octo skimmer 150s classic advice

I just got my protein skimmer in today!!!! Now I have never had a protein skimmer before and was wondering how to set the darn thing up. Ive heard that to get the right skim mate that there should be little to no bubbles in the neck and that it will take a couple of days if not a week or so for it to build up a head to start skimming. Is this true? and any advice is welcome.

My saltwater tank

My 8 gallon jbj has
O nitrite
0 nitrate
O ammonia
SG 1.21
PH 8.3
My chromis I bought today from lfs ,I put it in my tank went straight to the top and stayed there for a while and now just hiding in the live rock in the back.

My chromis is hiding in back after I put it in

My 8 gallon jbj has
O nitrite
0 nitrate
O ammonia
SG 1.21
PH 8.3
My chromis I bought today from lfs ,I put it in my tank went straight to the top and stayed there for a while and now just hiding in the live rock in the back.

I need some input

Well I have two things, first and foremost I added to many fish to quickly to my tank and now have an ammo problem... Test showed .50 ppm this morning so I did a 20% WC which dropped it back down but it's going back up. I have recently added 2 clown fish ( I heard adding them in pairs was important) and a cool little fire shrimp. This is what was in there before the clown fish and fire shrimp, I have a colony of Zoas, 1 damsel, 1 cleaner shrimp, 6 hermit crabs. Also I got some kind of sea star which is missing limbs possibly from some recently added live rock. My tank has recently fully cycled it's a 14 G Biocube, with skimmer and bio balls ( I've decided to keep the bioballs too). My plan is to take out the shrimp and clown fish and hope that the rest of the livestock make it through the mess I caused. I am kicking myself as I write this, one issue I have though is I don't have another tank to place them in temporarily. I do have a 2 G bucket(used for WC) and a small isolation tank probably about 1/2 G, I can't afford another tank right now. So do you think those would be able support the fish, that I can isolate while my mess gets sorted out?

Secondly, has anyone used Berkey water filters for their salt water mixes. I have a berkey filter I use for my drinking water. I hear it's about equal to RO probably not as good as RO/DI though. I've been using saltwater from my local store, but would like to start mixing my own since it would be cheaper and easier for me.

Help with Tunze 9004

I received my Tunze 9004 from bulk reef supply today. I checked everything out and it all appeared to be okay. I hooked it up and the bubbles were coming out of the vents for the water intake instead of into the cup. I called bulk reef supply and the lady who helped me asked if the air hose was connected, which it was so I tried it again and the same result. She told me they have a lot of problems with them and to call Tunze which I did and was told they had never heard of that and were unable to help. Has anyone ever seen this? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Golden Head Goby

Hi All:

I am interested in a golden head goby. I am hoping that he will be a sand sifter and algae eater.

His tank and mates would be:

Ammonia-0
Nitrite-0
Nitrate 5-20 depending
pH-8.2
Sal. 1.023-1.025 depending

92 gallon corner bow front
25 gallon sump
skimmer
3 power heads
30lbs LR
1-1.5" sandbed
UV sterilizer

2 Ocellaris clowns
3 blue/green chromis
1 cleaner shrimp
1 male purple eye/lyretail anthias and 2 females
1 red flame angel

ANY THOUGHTS?

VIDEO: Felicia's 40 Gallon Mixed Reef Predator Tank

Pipe size.

Hi everyone! First post here ..

Soooo I made one of those PVC overflow things that you see all over Youtube with 1.5" piping and it's been working great. I ordered a 1.5" ball valve with unions, and just realized that the ball valve itself is about 1 1/4" ID .. will it affect my flow since my pump puts out about 1100gph ? Without the ball valve, it flows really well, maybe a little too well .. So if I add the ball valve, will it restrict the flow that much?

The reason why I wanted the ball valve was because the overflow is actually flowing more than my pump puts out, so I wanted to restrict the flow of the overflow just a tad, but I don't know if this ball valve will restrict it too much seeing as how it's a quarter inch smaller in diameter. All the calculators I've used states that 1.25" will only flow around 950gph .. Would it be different since I have 1.5" leading to the 1.25" then back to 1.5" ?

TIA!

New Fish Question

Hi All:

I have been getting diatoms on my sandbed. I do 15-20 gallon WCs every 10-14 days with RO/DI water that I make.

I have very minimal on glass or powerheads. A little on the rock. I would really like a fish that will eat it wherever it is. I skeve just about all CUCs so I prefer doing what I can with maintenance and an omniv0rous/herbivorous fish.

Any ideas? Params below.

Thanks!

Ammonia-0
Nitrite-0
Nitrate 5-20 depending
pH-8.2
Sal. 1.023-1.025 depending

92 gallon corner bow front
25 gallon sump
skimmer
3 power heads
30lbs LR
1-1.5" sandbed
UV sterilizer

2 Ocellaris clowns
3 blue/green chromis
1 cleaner shrimp
1 male purple eye/lyretail anthias and 2 females
1 red flame angel

Maintenance question

Hi everyone,

Just some quick questions and really hope you can help.

I have a 25g tank that I will be adding coral too at a later stage, it's finished cycling and so far I have added a percula clown, 4 hermits and 4 snails, they are all looking great

I am going to be doing 10g water changes weekly. I have activated carbon, phosguard and filter floss in the filter.

My questions are:
How often do I change the activated carbon?
How often do I have to change the phosguard?
How often do I change the filter floss?
Also is there any other maintenance or replacing other than general stuff such as glass cleaning?

Thanks guys, appreciate the help!

Finally (again), the 75 gallon reef build!

Hey TRT faithful! As some of you may remember, last year I bought a 75 gallon tank with overflow, stand and sump and was going to set it up. Well I noticed the seals were bad and attempted to reseal it myself. Well I broke a panel and scrapped the idea. Well slowly over the past year I've been getting ready. And Saturday is THE day. I have everything I need at the moment. Have a jaebo return pump, bulk reef supply RO/DI unit, 2 200w hydor heaters, tunze power head along with hydor power heads. Eshopps skimmer, 2 fully programmable full spectrum led lights, and picking up the tank and salt Saturday. Have to drive 110 miles to Lexington but it will be worth it for a 75 gallon tank with overflow for 229. It's already paid for just have to get it at ky saltwater supplies. I plan to have it all set up Saturday running with water and cycling. Pics to follow!

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Dosing needed? dosing pumps suggestions

I am thinking about starting to dose my tank. I have a 120 tank with mostly lps coral. My Calcium is typically around 400 which i am happy with but my alk is staying around 7. I would like to raise both of those numbers.

Does anyone have any suggestions on what kind of dosing pumps to get. I dont want to get anything crazy and i do not have a controller or anything.

Hello Wednesday!

Good morning TRT friends, and......HAPPY WEDNESDAY! Enough time for some blue berry and cinnamon raisin bagels to go with our coffee and pink milk for starters this morning. Only March, and our docks are all ready filled with boats....considering April 1st is when folks usually want them in. Strange season so far. Hope all are well, and have good things ahead of them,
Hack
P.S.
Igor stopped by and asked if 'I knew what day it is'....and before I could answer him, Yoda giggled and started to tell him, when all of a sudden these guys cut the both of us off and told him.

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Hello from Phoenix AZ

Hello, I'm Jeremy and I'm super new to the hobby, started a Biocube 14 about 5 weeks ago. And have been hooked I can't wait to start another bigger tank when I get a larger home. I hope to get advice from you more veteran reef tank enthusiasts to learn a lot from these forums and eventually be able to help new members and hobbyists. Thanks for the help in advance.

Returning hobbyist

Hello,about 5 years ago me and my husband had a 55 gallon saltwater FOWLR setup,had it for about a year,and then it had to be torn down. We recently just setup a new 30 gallon FOWLR. It is now in its third week of cycling and i cannot wait to start stocking it :) We have 20 pounds arag alive reef sand and 20 pounds arag alive crushed coral. And somewhere around 36 or so pounds of Rock. Four pieces are new precured and the rest is base rock. HO T5 lighting with moonlight leds,a fluval under water filter,and fluval heater. I'm excited to be back in the hobby,fingers crossed this time goes . :)

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coral rx

I got an sps coral this past Saturday and follow my regular acclimation and dip process using rx, today I was looking at the coral with a magnifying glass and I spotted red bugs , so I dipped again this time I added more of what is recommended , guess what , I still spotted red bugs.
Does this bugs come off instantly or they die slowly, or this product just sucks.
Anyone has experience with this product?

substrate ?

Hello,i have a 30 gallon FOWLR tank that I will be stocking soon and would like to get a sandsifting goby. My substare is 20 pounds caribsea arag alive reef sand and 20 pounds caribsea arag alive crushed coral. Now my question is do u think the goby would be ok with that particular substarte? Will try to upload a couple pics of my setup and substrate. Please any feedback would be greatly appreciated.

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Power Head for a Biocube 14

Hello, I am brand new to this site and new to the hobby. I've looked through some forums trying to get an Idea for a powerhead for my Biocube 14. I read one thread that said the Jebao RW-4 would be a good one for it and even some of the answered questions on Amazon said it would be fine. That was not the case, way to powerful for my size tank even on the lowest setting. I'm glad I got it because I will use it on a bigger tank later on but for now I still need one for my little tank. I appreciate any input.

55 g aqueom all glass was tempered lol

I reserched my 55 g aqqueon tank and fdlt comfortable that it wasnt tempered... Couple seconds into drilling turns out its tempered.... Now i have no choice but to get a bigger tank... Ahahah

Skimmer in its own seperate compartment

I would like to set up first a prtoein skimmer for a FOWLR then follow that with the rest of the sump as I progress from my first FOWLR tank.

The tank is the Juwel Rio 300 I have already, so is that a viable proposition to have the Protein skimmer in its own little tank with about 10 inches of water on one side of the cabinet then create the rest of the sump further down the line ?


link below
http://ift.tt/1RGnox5
You can see the two cupboards underneath in the pic.

Duncan Coral Reproducing

So my LFS had some individual Duncan heads on sale, so I decided to pick one up. I noticed that it has 3 newly-developing heads on its sides after being recently fragged. I did some googling and saw that they can get pretty big and build on themselves quite a bit.

Since mine is relatively small and only a single head at the moment, the stalk is pretty thin...maybe 3/4" wide (if that), and the frag rock is about the width of the stalk itself. Once the heads start adding on, will that base stalk increase in width to compensate for the mass it accumulates? Is there anything I could/should do to prepare for a potentially overbearing weight or load on it, or does that work itself out? Maybe put on a wider base stone at the bottom?

Film on top of water

In my 5 gallon tank I have a film build up on the top of the water I only have a 10 to 15 gallon filter on it ANY idea what this might be and how to get rid of it

1 day sale

1 DAY SALE

:bigeek: 24 HOUR SALE IS NOW UNDERWAY :bigeek:

A trio of three

If you were to add a trio of the same species fish to your aquarium, a trio that would be best buds, friends till the end, have eachothers backs, an all around geniune friendship (man i need more friends), what would they be?
Pictures encouraged!

2 Emerald Crabs?

I have a 40gal tank and just discoverd I have some green bubble algae in there. I would like to get another emerald crab since the first one has been doing a great job picking away at things.
So is it okay to get a second one? The first one is small, still has not molted yet and does very well with fish and small crabs.

Is it ok to get a second one?

selling complete MH 400w setup

I am selling two complete MH setups for a very good deal because I need to get rid of them fast. They are completely wired and ready to work, will obviously take them out of my canopy and have them packaged great for you. This was used on my friends 180 gallon and he had SPS growing everywhere with no problem, but he is getting out of the hobby for a little so I am posting it to sell it.
For the reflectors:
I have 2 Lumen Bright Metal Halide Reflector (this isnt the mini one so it is 20x20x9) they retail for $115 new each, so $230 total.
For the ballasts:
I have 3 (one extra) LuXcore 400w Selectable Wattage Electronic Ballast they retail for $150 new each, so $450 total.
For the bulbs: (which are around 4-6 months old, will need replaced soon)
I have 2 lux or radiums, I am not sure exactly what they are and I forget but on the low end they retail for $50 each, so $100 total.

All together new this would cost around $800 total for the setup. I am looking to sell everything above which is fully functional as you can see in the pictures attached for only $450 shipped and I am negotiable on that price. Please post or pm me if you are interested.

Worm?

They are all over this one rock and the red part pulls in when something gets close. any ideas? good, bad?

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Green Bubble?

Found this on a rock a couple days ago. Does not seem to move or grow.. any ideas?

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Watchman help

Yesterday while doing a water change my watchman goby decided to swim up to the tube and go for a ride today he is a pail white any idea if he'll be OK

RO/DI damaged?!

Good morning!

So I received my new RO/DI unit from BRS and in all the excitement didn't read the manual. I ASSUMED it was similar to my old unit which had a RED waste water line. So I hooked up the new unit to my faucet with the BLACK line thinking this was the main water supply line. Well after about 8 hours and little to no water being produced, I red the manual in case there was a really long break in period. That's when my worste fears were realized. I had hooked up the waste water line to my faucet and ran water through it this way for about 8 hours. I've since reversed the lines and I'm now producing water. My question is did I somehow damage any components in the RO/DI unit?! I don't have any test kits for the water quality but will try and take a sample to the LFS later today when they open. Thanks for any help/thoughts!

Happy Tuesday!

Good morning TRT friends, and.....HAPPY TUESDAY! Sunny and WINDY today, to dry out from yesterdays rain. Blueberry bagels to go with our coffee and pink milk to get us started. Hope every one is well,
Hack

Brown stuff in anemone?

I got this bubble tipped anemone about 3 weeks back and it's been doing great, stays in one place, eats property, etc, but in the past 3 days I've noticed this brown stuff on the anemones foot. I tried pulling it off but it's almost attached so I stopped. I'm thinking this is like some fecal matter but I have no idea.

2 Kessil A160

For sale Two Kessil A160 led lights. My dad passed away last December and we have recently sold his tanks and lighting, but still have two Kessils left. They were purchased last summer, so they have around 6-7 months use, 8 hours each day. 115.00 dollars each or 220.00 for the pair shipped anywhere in the US(except Hawaii). US Postal money order payment only. Private Message's please.
Sorry no mounting hardware is included because he used a custom bracket that went with one of the tanks. Thanks radsdad's son.

My two empty tanks LOL

Hello,

Right now I have two empty tanks having re-homed all my freshwater fish.

They are.

A totally stripped down JUWEL RIO 240 with internal filter removed.

My main concern about using this one is that about 6 months back I had a white spot out break and used a well known Blue med tha'ts copper based, Whilst I have diligently scrubbed out the tank with a high pressure hose and with more care used look warm water.

I removed some of the silicone on the top and cleaned even under that. I am still a little worried with the stories I hear about copper based meds.

Is the 240 worth the risk.

TANK 2 : JUWEL RIO 300
This was recently just cleared out. Juwel have now decided to change the way they name their tanks as the 300 is 350.

Its about 5 months months old and used to be an African Chiclid tank.
It has 4 Juwel T5 High Life standard and a 100 LPH so seems at least reasonable for FOWLR tank.

Opinions and thoughts please.

Oh btw the trim has been resaeled that I lifted to clean

New Dosing Plan and Calcium Carbonate Precipitate

A few weeks ago I started dosing to increase my Ca, kH and Magnesium levels after discussion with the owner of a reef farm in my area. I have listed my current levels and the levels I am shooting for bellow.

My Current Levels:
Ca:400 (Salifert)
kH:11.4 (Salifert)
Mg:1300 (Salifert)
Nitrate:.5 (SeaChem)
Photphate: undetectable (Salifert)
Salinity: 1.024
ph: 8.12(night) 8.28(Day) (low/high)(Apex Lab Grade Probe)



Dosing Info:
ESV Bionic Ca: 15ml/day
ESV Bionic CO2-: 15ml/day
ESV Bionic Mg: As Needed
All dosed by hand in the morning (About midnight Tank Time)


My Target:
Ca:415
kH:11.4
Mg:1350
Nitrate:undetectable
Photphate: undetectable
Salinity: 1.024

I am seeing a small amount of what looks like precipitate in the water and a small amount building up on the bare bottom. Is this something that is normal to see when dosing to these levels?

Also what do you all think of the levels that I am shooting for. I have selected these because I am moving toward sps and I purchase the majority from the reef farm that recommended these levels, that's what all their tanks are kept at. I can already see that my birdsnest is loving the raised level, although i have no clue where they were exactly before. (API test kits are horrible!!!)

Juwel internal skimmers anybody use them?

This is my first post in on the forum other than my introduction so hope its in the right section....

I have read reports on the internal JUWEL Protein Skimmer, the price tag rings alarm bells right off as it always seems you get what you pay for. Its just over £100 UK. doesn't seem a lot of room for qualiyt over indulgence :thumbup:

I have always been diligent about water changes with fresh water tanks having owned South African Chiclids and the other end of the spectrum an Amazonian tank with wild caught angels, so a little experience of water parameter ect.

SO THE JUWEL PROTEIN SKIMMER

Do they work are they nose buckets ?

I hear you have to glue them to the tank yourself?

Anybody have opinions.

My tank is going to go on a second floor the house is over a 130 years old and the floor is made of oak beams so can take a lot of weight.

but with it being in the guest bedroom, I dont want it over cluttered with stuff and I am not of the hugely mechanical nature as well.

So if not the Juwel Internal would prefer either a HOB or Internal of other make...

Hello from Liverpool UK

All the way from over the pond to most of you :D

I have kept Aquarium freshwater fish off an on over the years. Recently got a tad bored of my Mbuna Chiclids so fancy something new.

I have the new Juwel Rio 300 ready to convert and also have an old type Juwel 240.

Tons of questions will ask in appropriate place :dance:

Help! I don't know what's wrong with my Coral Beauty!!

When I got home from work, a small rock had fallen in my tank. My coral beauty was laying in the sand. She's breathing hard, and only swims when I scare her. No sign of ich. No outward signs of damage. Did the rock fall on her? Did my gbta sting her? What do I do? She was fine before I left for work.

Anemone stuck in power head.

Hi, so, I've had my GBTA for not even a month. Yesterday, the two power heads I have in my tank stopped working, so I had to use an old power head until the store opens tomorrow. I put some pantyhose over the part where the water gets sucked in, but when I came home from work, my bta was stuck against the pantyhose. I cut the rubber band away and took the hose off, but some of the tentacles seem to be packed in and stuck to the hose still. The power head is off, and the nem in on the rocks. It's opened up and looks ok, except for the hose stuck to it. Any ideas?

Is something eating my zoanthids?

I bought a rock with probably 40 zoanthids on it. I'm watching them dissapear almost over night. I have maybe 20 left. My other frags are doing fine, it's just this rock. There is this brown stick looking mess around some of them and I'm not sure what that is either. I did remove a fiddler crab from the rock when I bought it so I don't think it is a crab. All I have in my tankis a scarlet skunk cleaner shrimp, one ocellaris, a small blue legged hermit crab, and some snails.
:help: :confused:

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VIDEO: How to Control Phosphate in a Reef Tank

Aquarium Algae Control: Bubble Algae, Dinoflagellates, Bryopsis, & Turf Algae - Part 2

full psectrum led users, do you tinker with reds/green/uv numbers?

i recently purchased a reef breeder photon v2 24" fixture, and surprisingly it lets me dim every color channel individually, instead of just blue channel and full spectrum channel(whites and red/green/uv).

im going to do the usual with the ramping of blues in the morning and then incorporating whites during the afternoon hours, but since i can ndividually change the red green and UV, what percentages should they ramp at?

does anyone else use a full spectrum build with 6 channels? do you keep uv greens and reds at the same level as whites? or should i drop reds and inhance UV's (which to me looks alot nicer)?

i messed up the post title btw, its full spectrum, doh!

Ca/mg

Hi im new to this and setting up a reef tank well ben running now 6 months , but im not sure if i have a problem , its around 300 l (65gal) with 100l sump , iv only live rock and two fish , plus pulse coral , my po4 is fine , as is my no2 and ph and density 1.024 but i wanted to try and build up coralline algae , before i added and more corals , i ask in my local fish shop and he gave me kh coralline gro , but im not happy with my ca and mg readings and can anyone give me any answers to get these right , as my ca was 800, and mg 900 many regards and as much help needed

help needed please

Hi im new to this and setting up a reef tank well ben running now 6 months , but im not sure if i have a problem , its around 300 l (65gal) with 100l sump , iv only live rock and two fish , plus pulse coral , my po4 is fine , as is my no2 and ph and density 1.024 but i wanted to try and build up coralline algae , before i added and more corals , i ask in my local fish shop and he gave me kh coralline gro , but im not happy with my ca and mg readings and can anyone give me any answers to get these right , as my ca was 800, and mg 900 many regards and as much help needed

Cloudy tank

Alright guys and gals. I've been trying to get my reef back on track and thought i was doing well but I'm not. I was battling cyano for about a month because I slacked where we had our little girl. So I got some time, cleaned everything pretty well, removed the sand and removed the cyano. Thought all was well but about a week and a half ago my tank got cloudy. It's like a brown cloudy. I changed 10 gallons last week (out of a 30 gallon tank) and it never changed anything. Changed 5 more. Nothing. I've been changing carbon filters every 2 days but that does nothing. And yes I do have a hang on back filter but 90% of the time I have no media in it. It's mainly for flow. Can I make a batch of water, take all the rock out, shake it out really well in a bucket of new water? What would you all do?

Great Barrier Reef coral bleaching at 95% in northern section

Really sad news coming out of Australia. The Northern portion of the Great Barrier Reef is in really bad shape.

http://www.abc.net.a...section/7279338

Arrow Crab eating Cleanup Crew?

I have a 55g with the following inhabitants in it:

2 clownfish
1 pink sea urchin
1 longspine black urchin (it was on a piece of liverock)
1 cleaner wrasse
1 blue damselfish
Cleanup Crew of hermits and Snails
Arrow Crab
Scooter Blenny

I recently purchased a cleanup crew of 4 snails and 4 hermit crabs

Come to check on them and Gibby(the arrow crab) was snacking on a snail!

Today he has been eating a hermit crab out of its shell.picture below.


Anyways, any idea what I can do to make him stop eating the cleanup crew? I got the cleanup crew to get rid of red algae. I feed all my fish brine shrimp.

Id needed Plz

Lots of tinny white worm and eggs on glass, photo taken with phone using a telescope lens.




Hope someone can help?:cry:

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What do i do with this ??

Hello everyone,

I am new to reefing and have a protein skimmer that I know nothing about, I cant fine any manual. I have no idea how to set it up or if I should keep it. Any info will be helpful. The only info I can provide is that its a E.T.S.S manufactured my AETech it has a external pump. And there is some sort of long tube in the back with a pvc elbow.
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hi all

hi all im a newbe with marine 25g tank, looking help with some id.

Crabby Crabs?

I have 2 emerald crabs in my 75G and bought a cool Strawberry Crab about 5 days ago. This morning I saw a pink leg on the sandbed.

LFS said said they'd all be fine together, but obviously something happened.

I drip acc'd the new crab for 2 hours and she seemed fine and was eating. I can't decide if the other crabs killed her or if this was just one of those accidental death things that sometimes happen when you move stuff to another tank.

Any ideas one way or the other. She was such a pretty color kinda bummed she didn't survive.

New guy from CT

Hello everyone, My name is Devon and I am new here. I only have about a year or more experience keeping salt water fish and corals, But have great experience both raising and maintaining a group of discus in my planted 240g aquarium. I love the hobby and learning new things and listening to others. I'm coming to this forum because I am expanding my reef tank. I just bought a deep sea aquatics 34g waterfall tank with a 30g glass sump with skimmer and mag drive pumps for a steal $175. I plan to do a bare bottom with starboard and keep mainly LPS and soft corals with zoas. My other home is Simply Discus and you can check out my discus tank if you'd like. In the mean time I will be browsing the forum scoping out the place.
http://ift.tt/1MvCFlh
https://youtu.be/6x2xDKu1OGA

A dreary *onday

Good *orning TRT friends, and....HAPPY *ONDAY! A wet start to the week around here, but looking to perhaps clear up for the afternoon. Rain? Fingers crossed! Let's have scra*bled eggs and bacon to start the week with our coffee and pink *ilk. Hope all had an incredibly good Easter yesterday.....Sorry Perry, that just sounded like a yuckie one you went thru. We get to have a ton of 'left over' type *eals around here....only 7 around our table yesterday, and allowed for the potential of 14.....,yeah, but left over ham is O.K.:thumbup: Do you best to enjoy this day,
Hack

Torch not happy hosting Clowns

Got a beautiful Torch, it was doing fantastic in my tank for 3 weeks.... Then clowns hosted in it. Saw them as I shut down lights lastnight. This morning Torch was closed up & tonight well there is open bare skeleton heads... Is there hope for recovery?

It was a sad sad day this mornin.

So I've been fighting an algea bloom, nothing unusual for a new tank, I bought a yellow tang and thing we're looking up. After about three weeks the tank was getting clear of age then bang and bloom. Yes I was doing 20 gal water changes ever weekend. (45gal tank) so I decided to try a new product that someone had recommended, the rea sea phosphate remover... I must have over dosed and sucked all the oxygen out of the water and killed all my fish, yellow tang two clowns a fire goby, a Dimond goby, and two green chromies. I've learned my lesson and now I've done a 25 gal water change and will not be adding fish for a few weeks...

Too much flow for a 29 gallon aquarium?

I've always heard there is no such thing as too much flow in an aquarium.

Well, I'm setting up a 29 gallon which is going to primarily be an SPS Aquarium with a 10 gallon sump. I ordered an 800 gph overflow and asked for 1" PVC for the drain, I've been informed that they can only put 1" PVC on their 1200 gph model.

Would a 1200 gph overflow be TOO MUCH flow for only 29 gallons?

cycling help

the first test is last week,the second is this week
my ammonia seems to not want to go down

and what is the brown algea diamos.

nitrite does not look blue in picture but its as blue as it can get

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first sw tank

Hi name is middy live in UK had fw for years so finally done first sw 75gallon tank
Filter fx6 very well maintained
2x165 watt leds
2 jecob w4s
2 jecob w8s
2 tmc 200 watt heaters
Tmc auto top up
Twin brs reactor
22 kilo marco
15 kilo live java
55lb 1mm coral sand
Bubble magus e5 skimmer
Tank is two months old
Ph 8.1
Salinity .25
Temp 78/79
Ammonia 0
Nitrite 0
Nitrate 15
Phosphate 0
Cal 420
Mag 1320
Alk 10.5
Opinions on readings off tests would be good please bit worried about nitrate
10% water change every 10 days
5 stage ro di unit tds in 266 tds out 0

Cadlights conic bioreactor 110 shipped

I'm selling a cadlight conic media bioreactor. I used this in the past for a bio pellet reactor. Worked great. Cleaned and ready to ship in original box. Asking 110 shipped. In great condition. Comes with about 500 ml of tlf biopellets.

Happy Easter and Ageing

You know ... time has a way of moving quickly and catching you unaware
of the passing years. It seems just yesterday that I was young, just
married and embarking on my new life with my mate. Yet in a way, it
seems like eons ago, and I wonder where all the years went. I know that
I lived them all. I have glimpses of how it was back then and of all my
hopes and dreams. My first girlfriend, my first real job, first car, first fish tank. I lived a good life, worked hard loved hard and traveled a lot.
But, here it is... the back nine of my life and it catches me by
surprise...How did I get here so fast? Where did the years go and where
did my youth go? With my hair I guess.

I remember well seeing older people through the years and thinking that
those older people were years away from me and that I was only on the
first hole and the back nine was so far off that I could not fathom it
or imagine fully what it would be like. Most people were older than me, certainly important people like Presidents and doctors. Now they all seem like kids to me.

But, here it is...my friends are retired and getting gray...they move
slower and I see an older person now. Some are in better and some worse
shape than me...but, I see the great change...Not like the ones that I
remember who were young and vibrant...but, like me, their age is
beginning to show and we are now those older folks that we used to see
and never thought we'd become. We used to talk about skiing, SCUBA diving, going down the rapids, girls, the war we fought in and now much of our conversations are about operations we had or are going to have, Grand Kids, IRAs, reverse mortgages and Old Tank Syndrome.

And so...now I enter into this new season of my life unprepared for all
the aches and pains and the loss of strength and ability to go and do
things that I wish I had done but never did!! But, at least I know, that
though I'm on the back nine, and I'm not sure how long it will
last...this I know, that when it's over on this earth...it's over. A new
adventure will begin! Yes, I have regrets. There are things I wish I
hadn't done...things I should have done, but indeed, there are many
things I'm happy to have done. It's all in a lifetime. I still feel strong, but when I try to lift something that used to be easy, it is not so easy any more. I am a person that almost never asked for help with anything but now some things are just a little to heavy. I used to have no problem installing the outdrives on my boat, now I can barely wrestle them into my car. I think I am in good shape and I still swim every other day but aches and pains pop up every day and you wonder what you did to get them.

So, if you're not on the back nine yet...let me remind you, that it will
be here faster than you think. So, whatever you would like to accomplish
in your life please do it quickly! Don't put things off too long!! Life
goes by quickly. So, do what you can today, as you can never be sure
whether you're on the back nine or not! I lost many good friends in my life, some of them very young and some recently. Many who were very young in the war. As I get older and the people I know and love age with me I find myself going to a lot more funeral's than I used to. Almost all of the people who attended my wedding who were family instead of friends are gone.
My parents and all my Aunts and uncles I used to visit as a child are all just memories.

You have no promise that you will see all the seasons of your life...so,
live for today and say all the things that you want your loved ones to
remember...and hope that they appreciate and love you for all the things
that you have done for them in all the years past!!


"Life" is a gift to you. The way you live your life is your gift to
those who come after. Make it a fantastic one. LIVE IT WELL! ENJOY
TODAY! DO SOMETHING FUN! BE HAPPY ! HAVE A GREAT DAY Remember "It is
health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver. LIVE HAPPY
IN 2016!


LASTLY, CONSIDER THIS:
~Your kids are becoming you......but your grandchildren are perfect!
~Going out is good.. Coming home is better!
~You forget names.... But it's OK because some people forgot they even
knew you!!!
~You realize you're never going to be really good at anything that you were not good at before.
~The things you used to care to do, you aren't as interested in anymore,
but you really do care that you aren't as interested.
~You sleep better on a lounge chair with the TV 'ON' than in bed. It's
called "pre-sleep".
~You miss the days when everything worked with just an "ON" and "OFF"
switch..
~You tend to use more 4 letter words ... "what?"..."when?"... ???
~You notice everything they sell in stores is "sleeveless"?!!!

~Everybody whispers.
~You have 3 sizes of clothes in your closet.... 2 of which you will
never wear.

~~~But Old is good in some things: Old Songs, Old movies, and best of
all, OLD FRIENDS!!


Stay well, old friend, and let
them laugh in AGREEMENT!!! It's Not What You Gather, But What You
Scatter That Tells What Kind Of Life You Have Lived.


TODAY IS THE OLDEST YOU'VE EVER BEEN, YET THE YOUNGEST YOU'LL EVER BE,
SO ENJOY THIS DAY WHILE IT LASTS. :rolleyes:

If Anyone Is Still Interested....

I just bought a brand new 2016 KTM 500 Six Days Slovakia :D

Happy Easter Sunday!

Good morning TRT friends, and.......HAPPY EASTER! Buttermilk waffles to go with our coffee and pink milk. Busy day ahead, and will 'hop' in and out of it.:blob: Back to the Easter Bunny stuff,
Hack

Good Morning and Happy Easter.

Happy Easter!


Coffee is ready.


Just starting to rain, Going to be a wet Sunday.


Have a Great Day.

check out my 60 gal reef tank

Hi Guys,

Check out my reef tank. It is a 60gal cube with:
- 2 aquaillumination sol blue led lighting with stock controller
- HOB aquamaxx protein skimmer
- 10 gal sump with custom filtration chamber
- calcium reactor using calcium & magnesium - ph controlled c02 tank injection.
- cheapest chiller I could find
- live sand & live rock filtration

- the experiment was to not change water. It's been 3 years of just adding water.

https://youtu.be/WU4_Jv7xspk

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Identification help please

Haven't been on here in a while but today I come looking for identification.

A picture's worth a thousand words but I feel the back story is worth noting.


Several months ago I bought a green star polyp frag and shortly after placing it, it fell into a hard to reach spot in my rockwork. I decided to let it go because I didn't want to destroy my aquascape trying to recover it.

I recently found a new specimen and I can't figure out what it is. It looks kinda like a tube worm which I have bunches of however it has a few peculiarities.

First of all, the tubes seem to have a central common base that they all sprout from and secondly the "feathers" fluoresce under my blues. Is this evidence that my long lost star polyps survived or is this something else? What do you think??


These are teeny tiny!!! The zoas behind them show how tiny.