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...

6 weeks later, an update

We started the 29G biocube 2 weeks before thanksgiving with 30 lbs live rock, 20 lbs live substrate and 10lbs sand. The LR had a couple of hitch-hikers and they are still alive. Added a protein skimmer and a submersible heater. In 2 weeks we did not see any ammonia spike and no corresponding Nitrate,...

Need some pointers

Hello, this being my first post I would like to say Hello to you all. I have been reading these forums months before my first post and I finally registered. I have a 90 gallon fowlr with a 25 gallon sump. this tank has been up for almost a year now. however when I started my tank I did not have all the...

Need Help!

Hello, My Name is Amanda I have allot of experence with fresh water fish but I recently bought a 70 Gallon Salt water Tank. I got the tank up and running and decided to add fish… Unfortultly one of the fish brought ICH into my tank and now all of the fish are infected. I was advised to use ICH...

Sump tank Care

I have a 180g tank with a 100g sump tank. The present system has been up and running now for app. 3 years and generally doing well. However the water clarity in the tank could be a lot better. Throughout the tank are small particulates. This leads me to my question about sump tank care. Do you do any...