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I have a main 120 Gal and a side 55 Gal tank which I would like to connect together and share the same filtration system for less maintenance and saving on cost. On the 55 Gal, I?m thinking of putting slow breed fish such as sea horses, pipe fish or garden eals and possibly a few corals...

I started to build a new tank and started from scratch around 3 months ago. I have dried rocks and dried sand. I followed the Dr. Tim One and Only bacteria, and feeding a small amount of ammonia to keep the bacteria alive. I have never added any live goods to the tank yet. I also filtered my...

Hello, I'm setting up my new tank which is a 120Gal with a 30Gal sump. CUrrently I have 1" pvc pipes coming down from the tank to the sump. There is currently 5 90 degrees elbows trying to slow the flow of water (too much that's causing water level on the tank to raise a bit but not...

The tank has been set up since last Sept. I have about 70 lbs of rocks and about another 70 of sand. I have a few fish, but mostly invertibrate and corals.

Hello, I have set up a Deep Sand Bed of about five inches. last night when I was fixing thing sup, I moved a little bit of sand and the underneath sand was blue/black. I heard this was not good and could be fatal for the living on the tank. What can I do? It would be almost impossible to...

I've had my tank for almost a year. Currently have a six T5 48" lighting, a reef octopus skimmer and am using GFO and Carbon reactor for filtration, I also have two refugium one on back and one on the sump. In the last few weeks, nothing has changed, but am getting a large amount of brown...

I use Dr. Tim's one and only. Which is suppose to prevent new tank syndrome. But this sympton is not a cycling symptom, its high alkalinity. I was trying to raise the PH level and it didn't and it raised the alkalinity level instead.

Tank been running for a bout a month. I'm ussing the Hanna instrument test kits. I have a 120 Gal Oceanic tank with a 35 gal sump. T5 system, and basically I just mixed salt and RODI water added the Dr. Tim One and only and a small cleaning crew. That's all I've done with the tank, besides...

I've been adding Alkaline8.3 to the tank to bring my PH level up to 8.3. The tank been stuck between 7.8 and 8.05 and won't go up any more. I have gradually been adding the alkaline8.3 as recommended, waiting it's 24 hours before adding more. I currently have a 120Gal tank with a 35gal...

I am currently using two refugium and have a question on the HOB. I just got a hang on back refugium, and don?t know the vendor. The return which looks like a pvc pipe going back into the display tank, I can?t figure out the correct size. It?s not neither 1? or 1 ??, and I was looking for a way...

I'm setting a refugium and have gotten different kinds of algae. Is there anything I can get to keep the algae in the refugium. It keeps falling in the bubble trap. I have a custom acrylic sump, is there anything I can buy that would allow the water to pass by and leave the algae in the...