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i have a snail that some how got onto the center of a blastammosa on its back. is it a gonner or should i just pick it out? i dont think the blastammosa could eat a cirth snail

in all my research i see all ato don't and salt because salt doesn't leave the system through evap. but do you lose salt in the skimate. i ask because the detritus would make a great plant fertalizer like aquapotics if it was not over loaded with salt. they do this with fresh water where they...

so it is only spring and there is people showing up with cooling problems. i have not made any but would people be interested in buying a chiller that works just as good as a jbj but built in a computer case for $150. of corse i would deminstrate that it is just as good but $100 cheaper. i know...

i have a blastammosa frag i got recently and it has another head forming from the side. i almost thought it had a third coming out from the base of the frag but it looked strange. so i picked up the frag to look at it. it is a snail or slug or something. i tryed to do a search on it but came up...

score one for the guy at aquarium adventures. hell told me to put some stonies in and it would go down. well maike gave me some nice birds nest and xenia. smitty gave me an awsome tourch and i think my frogspawn is trying to recover. it is covered in like a white flesh. it lost all the tenicals...

what do i do? the little mushroom smitty gave me has one coming off the top of it. do i just let it go till it flots off some where? thanks

so i have been thinking on what cause my crash, and i have come to the conclution that it was my dsb. it needs life. when i bought it it had mini stars, bacteria, worms, ect. than when my tank sat it died. so there was no life tuning the sand. i talked to the guy i got the sand from and he had a...

so im going nuts and ready to through in the towel. my perameters are always good, the only thing high is calcium. the ony things serviving are the frags smitty hooked me up with. yesterday i picked up a beautiful and large frogspawn. and now it is dying, but the torch from smitty is hanging on...

i dont know if i should have posted this in the diy section but i was talking with smitty about the calcium problem i was having and he sugested i post about the rock. as generous as he was i figuerd it was the least i could do. it is one part portland cement, 2 parts oyster shell, 3 parts corse...

my live rock is leaching calcium. i know everyone would say no way but it is diy and is maid with oyster shell. my alk and ph is good. is it possible to have to much calcium. i know it can cause build up, but im only worried about it hurting coral and fish. thanks

so there is that good post about light and coral relationship, but im wondering if there is any way to know how much light to have. they say that to much light will bleach the coral, to little will kill it. is they a better way than guess test and revise. i know you can move your coral around...

hi i was wondering if anyone knows where to get a pdf of the reef aquarium or if someone has one i could make a pdf with

i was curious if any one new why my snails keep trying to leave my tank. my perameters are right on the money but the sails are always heading for the top of the tank like a mass migration or they were leaving egypt. my ol lady doesn't like them covering the display glass so i figured i would...

hi i have a duncan that im worried about. it has been looking good but every once in a while a lot of bubbly slime comes out and off it. i thought it was poop but im worried it might be spuing zoozanthalli out. spease chime in to help.

has anyone ever made there own protien skimer? i made one out of a absolute bottle and it works great.

today i got my dr tims. when i opend the package i realized i had orderd the freshwater one and only. does any one know if this will still work for my reef, or what the diffence in the to is? thanks.

i keep adding ammonia, about 2ppm, to my tank to cycle it. every day the level goes down to about .5ppm, but there is no sign of nitrite or nitrate. i dont understand what is going on. i could see if the tank had cycled that it would do this but the ammonia level does not go to 0 and there are...

hi my name is mike, im out of westmont. i am new to the hobby but quickly becoming addicted. i built a nano out of an old floor model zenith. it has a 30g main display with a 20g refugium that feeds the main display with pods. i had to recycle it so i have my duncan in a quarintian. and im here...