newbie with some questions...
hello everyone, i am new to this site and it looks really good! anywho, my cycle finished about a week ago, and i just added a fiji blue devil to my tank today. he seems very happy and healthy, getting used to his/her new home. and boy is he fun to watch! there is one hole in the rock that is large enough for him and he loves going in there.... backwards lol well i was wondering if there ar.

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Forum: Newbies to Reefing Posted By: d.french Post Time: August 21st, 2006 at 05:22 PM.

Live Rock
Planning to add some Live Rock to your tank? Do you want "cured" or "uncured" rock? Knowing which questions to ask your Live Rock supplier and understanding the answers can....

For you and I, the third planet from the sun; you cant miss it, the one with the satellite about half its diameter. For suspended solids, microbes, mulm, detritus, among other euphemisms for fecal matter, uneaten food... that place is outside your system ASAP. Extraneous material interferes with wate More

Ive seen set-ups where the lighting rig costs exceed the rest of the system combined. This emphasis doesnt seem unreasonable; after all, humans are visually-orienting organisms. Additionally, there are photosynthetic needs in systems More

However, many of these mechanical media are victims of their own success, if you will, and begin to accumulate large quantities of gross particulate and detritus, which slowly breaks down, and leads to the formation and accumulation of nitrate and phosphate. By regularly cleaning and replacing these mechanical media, it is possible for the hobbyist to remove large quantities of undesirable matter from the system before it begins to break down and degrade the aquariums water quality. Many of these filter media need to be cleaned and/or replaced se More

Why Do My Fish Hide All The Time?
Fish that hide all the time are a baffling and frustrating problem for the owner. Here are suggestions for how to coax your fish out into the open where you....

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Worst Nightmare has occurred
Well I woke to silence about 4 weeks ago, didn't hear the faint sound of water running or pumps pumping. I came out to find my 240 gal reef tank dead, nothing running, lights out, pumps off, and 8 inches of water missing. :tears: From what I can tell at about 2 am both breakers tripped (GFCI) and....

Flowerhorn Cichlids

Flowerhorn cichlids is a hybrid cichlid that was developed in Malaysia during the second half of the 1990: s. It was created by crossbreeding different South American cichlids. Exactly which cichlids that were used to create the Flowerhorn is a well kept secret only known by the breeders who developed the species but they did most likely crossbreed Trimacs (Amhilophous Trimaculatus) and .