Recent content by oolongmonk

I have a 145 gallon tank with a 40 gallon sump. I have a protein skimmer and almost zero bioload(4 clowns) I feed very very lightly and do about 20% water changes a week. I have had an algae bloom that haas been going on 4 months now and Im absolutely baffled as to what, why and how? I can seem...

Can I just drain the water and add coral? For some reason my zoas are all doing bad. Everything else in the tank is doing well. Im looking to get the zoas out of the tank before they all die out on me so Im in a bit of a rush.

Trying to catch a Powder Blue Tang who is about 5 inches long. I'll be willing to $$rent$$ it if that's possible. Thanks! John

Currently in the middle of setting up my 140 gallon reef tank. I'm fairly oblivious when it comes to lighting. The unit I bought came with a 5 ft hood with two tubes in their. I have no idea what kind of bulbs they are. This hardly seems sufficient though. I current run some high intensity...

So I was able to pick up a nice tank from Craigslist. It's an acrylic 140 gallon with stand, canopy, pumps filtration, and skimmer. The only thing that sucks is that it has it's shared of scratches on the front glass. I had a few questions regarding the setup. First of all everything is caked...