Desperately seeking color

A pic of our tank is here http://i1130.photobucket.com/albums/…e/fulltank.jpg From left to right, frogspawn (triple color), Xenia (since the pic has died), Flourescent green mushrooms below the Xenia – look very drab with the regular light, but a beautiful green in the actinic, next is a Very...

dark red tree like things on live rock

I am just starting a tank, just 4 weeks into it, just live rock and live sand in tank. and now i have dark red tree like things growing on the live rock, can some one tell me what it is. and i could use some help on what to do next in the tank, the pet store around me is not much help and the tanks they...

Existing live sand bed?

I have an existing 90 gal reef tank, that has a 6" live sand bed with plenum. The sand bed has been in use about 15 years now. I keep wondering if i’m better off with it or should i consider removing it? At the time, everyone was pushing for this method. I’m wondering if after this many...

need help with unidentified growing object on live rock

i just set up my tank about one month ago. about one week ago i bought these small pieces of live rock. The live rock pictures i included has this little small leaf paddle like flower growing on it. Its blue and has white lines going from the middle to the tip of the paddle like thing. The next thing is...

Nature Ocean Live Sand x Play Sand

So im just starting up my 55 gallon tank and i have 50 pounds of natural play sand and i just added 40 pounds of live natures ocean sand. just wondering should I add about 10 more pounds of live sand? also i tested my salintity after i added the live sand and seen a huge rise ….is that normal? Read...