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I like to keep this fish, please advice me, any special think to take care this fish, how about food and compatibility with reef aquarium. I like to keep 1 pair of this fish. My tank is 120g and mostly softy and hard coral. Fish List: 1 Brown Tang 2 Clarkii Clownfish 2 Tomato Clownfish 2...

May be you right, I think my water circulation is not very strong especially at the middle and back of my tank, since I change the power head position. My protein skimmer do a very good job, I have to clean it on every 2 days. For my top-off water, I used RO water and for water change I used...

For the past 2-week 1 see a lot of bubble on my live rock and the rock turn brown in color. Is this bad new for my tank? The bubble mostly on the middle and back of the tank at the top layer and also at the back glass, in the front I don’t see any bubble. Is this bubble to show that the starting...

The heat and temperature will be no problem because I used chiller to control temp, and also this will be no direct sunlight through this glass. For your info my tank 4ft wide and the glass panel it only 2ft wide, so I place in the tank in the middle. For the water I used FSW collect it from...

I’m going to move my tank soon after my rock finish curing. My plan is I going to place my tank at the glass panel at the wall. This glass is about 4in thick, 2ft L and 6ft H, and not the clear glass so only 30% to 40% the sun light will be go thorough to the tank and also the sun is not direct...

The LR will not be too long out from the water, I will make sure everything ready before I do the changes. The mandarin will be transfer to 50g tank, this tank about 1 year old. To wait a month before adding livestock, that will be to long, because all coral have to sitting in the plastic...

I’m going to move the tank soon. During this event, I would like to add in more LR. Tonight my LR arriving, I will curing the rock before add in. My plan is to do the moving after the LR has been curing and take out all LR from the tank, clean it before mixed with the new one in the tank. 1st...

I just change my lighting from mixed florescent and T5 to T5 only. Now I have 6 T5 54 watts on my 100g tank. I know you will say that is not enough, my coral mainly less light requirements, only soft coral mainly leather coral. The question is how is the mixture of the light? I have a few...

Bigger sump, I don’t think so, not necessary. You still can run with your present sump as long it can put LR & LR in it and space for growing algae. Let run with sponge less filter and let nature take care = natural filtration.

At the return pipe I will be attach filter sock to filter unwanted think that go through there. Let run with sponge less filter and let nature take care = natural filtration.

That what I wanted to do, before that I would like to hear some advice from expert keeper. In my plan there will be live sand and rock in the return area, the water will be go through LR and LS before enter the fuge with lot of LR & 2 in of LS and then enter the return pump compartment back to...

You have to clean the sponge but not in 1 time, u need to clean some at the time because if you clean all at 1 time that mean you kill all the bacteria lived in there and you need to re-grow them again. This is not good for your tank. And if you let it there without clean it then the sponge will...

My tank has been running for almost 2 year and now i wanted to change the filter setup, i would like to used natural filter ( live rock and live sand ). Possible to take out all the sponge from the sump and change to LR & LS and used filter sock. PS: i don't like to see this sponge in there and...

In my area only 1 LFS and this shop only sell Ozoo brand. That not much choice to me. Thank you and I will closely monitor the level of the Calcium and Alk before adding any calcium or carbonate.

I would like to know on how to adding calcium into my tank. I buy a azoo calcium powder, and it say there 1 spoon of calcium mixed with 5 litter of water and have to finish in 5 to 6 days. I used dripping system into sump. About 1 litters a day and takes about 45mint to finish. My question: how...