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...

My Hex Reef Tank

Greetings, I hope this is the right spot for this question. Right now I am planning on making a 42 gallon Hex tank that I am "ressurecting" after a long period of disuse. I want to make it an invertebrate/sea horse tank. This is my second foray into reef aquarium keeping and my first to be...

Help identify

I have noticed this twice ever since I put a protein skimmer in my tank, Their is a oily milky substance covering the top of my water, its thick and slimy, I just used a cup to clean it out, I did the same the other time this happened, any ideas. Thanks Here is the original:  Help...

Help with protein skimmer

I have been running my tank now for a month or 2 with no protein skimmer, so I just bought a prizm hang on back skimmer. after noticing my nitrates were thru the roof, any how what is the best setting for these, the instructions are not very detailed. I have a 45 gallon tank with about 45 pounds of live...

Upgraded from 20 Gallon 90 Gallon

I have now had my 90 gallon take running for about five months now and only have a maroon clownfish with about 180lbs of live sand. The filtration is in a 75 gallon sump, a reef octopus protein skimmer a, activated carbon and a refugium. As for the lighting i have two 150 watt metal haliade bulbs. Now my...