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How many gallons is the nano tank?

How many gallons is the nano tank?

The tank is only 30 gallons. I would think a rabbit fish may be too large(?).

I am using RO/DI water for my water changes. I don't have hardly any microalgae, and I have two trochus snails, but they don't eat macro. I am running phosban in my tank, but maybe it needs changing(?). I have a TDS meter and the RO/DI right now is at 3ppm. Tank has been running for 9 months...

That link helped a bit to narrow down what I have. Basically a smorgasbord of algae :? I have the Bryopsis, Sargassum, what looks like a grape Caulerpa, along with some other tough hair type, that looks a bit like Chaetomorpha. I also have dinoflagellates, which looks like a brown "snot"...

I have a 30 gallon tank, and my live rock is overrun with a lot of macroalgae. Since it is too small to house tangs or rabbitfish, are there any invertebrates that will eat macro algae? I have two trochus snails, but they only will eat hair algae.

With respect to the Hamilton and the PAR rating, will it be much of a factor since my tank is only 12" deep? Also, if you go with the XM bulbs, do those run on a pulse start or probe start ballast? I think the Hamilton is a probe (?).

I am having an acrylic tank built that has the dimensions of 2ft L x 2ft W X 1ft H. This is a shallow tank that will house SPS and Clams (approx 30gal) and I will have a 10 gallon sump. The tank will be open top. I am looking at a MH pendant fixture, but I am unsure which to go with. I was...

As mentioned above, if you are just keeping fish, you can use the filters. The problem is when you want to keep coral. Mechanical filtration is great as long as you change the media at regular intervals, otherwise there is a buildup of nitrate. This was the problem with many of the wet-dry...

I have always put my hands in the tank, and the only problem I know of is accidentally hitting a rock or something to cause it to tumble. I only stick them in there to clean the glass and if anything falls over.

I have a Fiji devil in my 16 gallon nano, along with a ocellaris clown and a bicolor dottyback. Somehow there is an equilibrium (much akin to the common yard in a prison). The clown chases the damsel away, and the damsel trades punches with the dottyback. The dottyback never touches the...

I have been buying my water from the supermarket since I first setup my nano reef almost six years ago, and I have never had any problems. I think I am going to buy an RO/DI unit when I remodel my kitchen because lugging around water jugs to and from the supermarket can get tiresome. I tested...

Supposedly, Iodine is removed quickly as a result of skimming, but I don't know about other trace elements. Again, in my tank it came with a built in resovoir that came with the skimmer, so I have always used it and never found it to be deleterious.

When I emptied the tank, I tried to siphon out most of the particulate matter that was suspended in the remaining water in the tank, so I didn't lose a significant amount of sand. I never had a real intricate population of sand critters-mostly small tube worms and an occasional bristle worm. I...

From reading what Skylsdale wrote, I was curious if cleaning out the sand bad is beneficial in the longer term. In my case I have my nano for almost six years and during that time I have lived in 4 different places, so I had to move my tank. Each time I siphoned out the accumulating sediment...