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I swapped out sumps yesterday and want to plumb my frag tank into my system , i currently have 2 drains dumping into my sump, i want to take 1 of these and feed my frag tank and then drain back into my sump ? any problems anyone can see with this ? thanks

I 8 months old

Is there something i can do or add to have my pump " soft start " back up when its turned off ? i want to do a feed cycle where i program my pump to be off for a certain amount of time but when my pump kicks back on there is a HUGE push of water thru my lines because my pump is large and in the...

Hello , my name is mark , im addicted to buying coral ......... I have this problem where i see open spots in my tank and that little voice in my head says " go ahead , fill me , you always have more room " anyone else have these symptoms ? Can you tell me how to cure this problem ?? Haaa...

im running a calcium reactor and im keeping my kh right at 8.3/8.5 but my calcium is high at 490/500 .. i dont want to keep this that high , i know the relation with calcium reactors but not sure what i can do to decrease calcium level and either maintain kh or increase kh and not increase...

I seen somewhere someone had a very small refrigerator under the stand with bottles of coral food hooked up to a dosing pump with lines into the bottles to feed at night after lights were out ?? Has anyone tried this or doing this ? Looked kinda like a good way to feed corals since most of...

Anybody using this media for po4 ? I'm running a nextreef mr1 reactor , I was told to take out the bottom plate and move the sponges up to the top , did this , no problem .... But this media won't tumble ?? I put the filter pad back in the bottom and still nothing ? Will this still work if...

Currently my reactor solenoid turns on about every hour and half and stays on for about a half hour , now my alk/dkh is steady at about 8.7-8.9 and calcium is holding at 450-460 is this ok for the reactor solenoid to be on/off this frequent ? someone was telling me to try and get a " flatter...

I don't really want to use flatworm exit ... Any other proven methods to get rid of these guys ? I have thousands ! I've heard all sorts of solutions from melanarus wrasse to leaving lights off for a few days ? What is the best solution ? Thanks

Any one using one successfully to reduce po3/po4 ? Interested in running one but have ton of questions thanks

So ... I let my gfo go too long and ran out of more , my po4 went from an average of .05 up to .15 ... All my polyps on my sps closed up ! I have now brought my levels down to .03-.05 my question is how long usually does it take sps polyps to come back out again ? It was probably a week it was...

Ok so here"s the situation : I have a 65 gallon black rubber maid as my sump , my water drains out of my display , thru my floor and into a box that has a small piece of filter floss in it , this box sits on the top of this sump and off to one side. I have 4 -1" bulkheads that drain this...

Any one using one of these ? Have some questions thanks

I currently have a brs 6 stage r/o d/i 75 gpd. Unit , it is very slow at filling a 75 gallon holding tank at 60 # of pressure on my gage .... If i add a booster pump will this make water faster ? And if so will it decrease the waste amount at all ? I have this unit in my basement in my fish...

I have my sump / fuge / water storage etc... In my basement , my furnace is directly across from all of this approx. 20 feet maybe little more ?? I have a wall that i put up to separate all of this from the rest of my basement ... Is there any problems or concerns i should have or something i...

So I have a pair of black and whites I got from another reefer , have had now for about 3 weeks , they have been doing great ! Eating , colors Etc..... The last 2 days I noticed he's been breathing very heavy ?? Other fish seem ok ? Female , sunburst anthias , green chromis , fox face ? 180...

So i have an apex lite controller running my tank , it is an older one approx. 3 years old , i currently do not have internet service in my house , i have plugged this into the the internet and updated it and programmed it .. From time to time it beeps a few times and i lose all my programs ...

My tank has been up and running now for a few months , I added a tennis ball size of chaeto a few months ago , I've noticed that it has seemed to have gotten a lot smaller ? It is very soft to the touch and getting really " thin " my nitrates are at zero and all other parameters check good ...

So I have a nice frag of purple bonzai that I've had for 2 weeks now , I've noticed that the polyps are only fully out at night with the lights out ? They will be just barly sticking out when lights are on ? I'm running 3 250w Hamilton 14k single end metal halide bulbs , I originally had it up...