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Hey guys I could use some advice, I noticed my heater had some bubbles inside the glass heating element. I unplugged it and examined it further and noticed that there was moisture inside the entire heater but no visible cracks. There is also a brown spot on the white particles inside the...

This has been puzzling me for the past couple days. I recently transferred my zoas to a new tank and a few day later I noticed some sort of parasite all over them. Their size makes it difficult for me to take a picture of them. This is how I would describe them: Very tiny, around 1-2mm long, see...

Here's a bit of a background on my setup. I setup a 40b with sump about mid July. I currently have live rock and some acid washed/ power washed dry rock in the tank. So here's the situation I could use your input on. The tanks been running for over a month now and the cycle is still at the...

I recently setup a 40b and I'm looking for live rock for it. I'm looking for light weight, porous rock preferably pukani. Does anyone know of any stores or people that are selling live rock for a decent price in the northwest suburbs? Thanks in advance for your help.

While building my sump I found a great source to buy acrylic sheets. Len's Ace Hardware in Addison will cut custom sizes of acrylic(They call it plexiglass). They do the cutting on the spot and in my opinion do it for a good price. I bought several 8 inch x 12 inch, quarter inch thick sheets of...

This wrasse is from the May 2013 POTM. Looks pretty cool, and I would like to find out more about it. I looked on liveaquaria and couldn't find it. Here's a link to the picture, you may also find the same picture on the homepage of this site...

I'm slowly putting together a 40 breeder dt and had several questions regarding plumbing a tank. I've done google searches and scanned the forums but couldn't find the exact answers. So here they are: 1.)Should the overflow and return pipes be of the same diameter? I was planning on using 1 inch...

I'm looking to buy 24 watt straight pin power compact lights for my 14 gallon Biocube. Can anyone recommend a decent priced, reputable store or website that sells these bulbs? I've seen them at beyond the reef but they wanted $24.99 per bulb, and aquatic adventure was no different. I'm wary of...

Hey guys, I wanted to introduce myself to the forums before posting so I wouldn't be some random guy. My names David, I'm from the suburbs and I recently got into this hobby. I'm currently using a biocube 14 as my saltwater tank. I got the tank for free from a friend a while back and finally...

I was at reef imports today and noticed a bunch of employees from beyond the reef packing up all the livestock. The owner of reef imports(don't know his name) told me that they got bought out and couldn't sell me anything. I later went to beyond the reef and one of their employees told me that...