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lawnmower bennie or emrald crabs

Great, thanks all. I will go back to the drawing board. I will try to explain to my wife the need for a wave maker. Somehow I don't think I am going to get anywhere But it's worth a try.

Has anybody used the Power Sweep Powerheads? Or are their better ways to mimic the ocean's currents? Thanks Chris

That is just my point! one workes and the other in the hands of a novice will kill fish. It will just take a month to rob the life out of the fish. Salt water with a spg 1.023has more buoyancy than hyposalinitie water, thus the fish floats and requires less effort to live and move about. Saving...

What do you think is more stressful? Tank temp going up a few degrees for a day or so, or lowering the spg of the water to unnatural levels for a month or more. Seems to me that a change in water temp is a lot more natural and in turn a lot less stressful on the fish.

I have had great results with curing ick by simply bring up the tank temp to 82 to 84 degrees for 48 hours. The fish can take the temp but when the ick becomes free swimming it can't and dies.

in my tanks the emeralds don't fight with the hermits. But I thought the emeralds would eat the green hair algie. Sorry to say they eat everthing else.

any time you can add to your system do so, 5, 10, or 15 gal do so, while you might think it does not pay it does trust us.

Starting over, do I do water changes every time ammonia starts to go up? or do I just let the live rock do it's thing. 55 gal tank 120 lbs live sand and 110 lbs live rock all new. I just want to know what you think. I think do water changes to keep the ammonia down and get the most of the live...

I need your help! I will be redoing my 55. I will be adding 100 lbs South Down and 50 Lbs LS, also at the same time I will be adding 100Lbs LR. Here is the question do I do water changes while the rock cures to keep as much life alive as I can, or do I just let it sit and change the water after...