Tank has been running for six months. Did a nitrate and phosphate test both at zero ph 8.3 nitrite 0. Why do I still have algea in my tank? Lights are 9 months old t5’s on eight hours a day and using ro water from Lfs. Please help don’t know what’s going on? View original here: Looks like diatoms?

Hey, i know all about bristle worms. however, ive noticed a "spider" egg sack looking mass on a rock in my tank. This is not the first one. the pictures im about to upload is a picture of the SECOND sack i found, the first picture is the result of the first sack exploding into many little while stringy worms "i think". PLEASE help me find out what this is and if i can get a fish...

where can get one of these grabby tools i see people feeding some of their eels with? Read the original:  grabby tool

Hey, I recently completed a long awaited project for my 40 gal breeder reef tank. I have just finished the SS hood and have some questions about lighting. I have a 250mh light currently on a garbage pendant and was wondering if I could run the lamp in some sort of a ventilated cool tube and enclose the top of the hood? The hood extends 7" from the top of the water and the tube would be mounded...

Remodeling my dining room area floors and adjacent walls etc. And someone had turned the power off to my system and it remain off for weekend thru hot weekend. 15 years of collections and growth gone that quick. I was devastated and still in disbelief. I had friends of lfs I was supplied corals to on a reglar bases. But all gone by a simple oversight by someone who wasn’t thinking outside their...

I have a 40 gallon breeder and it is being overrun by hair algae. Is there anything i can do other that pluck it by hand? Here is the original post:  Hair Aglae Problem

In the last week I have had these little white creatures pop up in my sump. There are about 2 dozen of them now. I have seen none in my display only in my sump. They are attached to the acrylic and to the particle sponges. They are about 1/4 inch long kinda fuzzy in appearence with a fluted opening on one end. Can’t get the photo to upload, once I get i figured out i’ll get it on Read...

My dad ran this tank (55 gallon) since I was a Freshman in High School up till about 10 years ago. I assisted him with maintaining it and a 155 gallon tank, so I have some experience. It was a reef tank that he was able to keep afloat until he moved and everything died in it when he moved. I’m now 30 and he is giving it to me. That said, I’ve done a leak test on the tank for a 24 hour...