Amen brother! You nailed it wtrhed. The three most important things you can ever do to achieve success are: 1. quarantine 2. quarantine 3. quarantine And not only that, you should keep all new fish in a separate tank for observation and/or medication for 4-6 weeks to make sure they are healthy and e...

Friends don't let friends do nano without a real protein skimmer. You let one little anemone run himself through the powerhead and without a proper skimmer you'll have 10 gallons of scum soup before you can say "Damn, that tank was clear this morning when I left for work and now it's solid brow...

tbmoore is absolutely right. Most Saltwater fish are dead before they ever reach the pet store. They just don't stop swimming until after you buy them. Cyanide not only destroys gills but it also destroys the immune system and shuts down vital organs. It causes a lingering death that takes weeks or ...

Now how did that old song go?

Don't add a thing
if ya won't quarantine...
don't do it, don't do it

or something like that

Hey ShagMan,
That sure is a good looking calcium reactor
Keep me posted on that feedback.
I dont know if you got both of my emails but I am probably easier to find at the first address.

Thanks for the welcome. I have been active in the hobby for over 20 years, but I am currently in the process of remodelling an old farmhouse that we bought out in the country. So there is no system right now. When we are finished with the house and get moved in, the new tank is going to get top prio...

Using well established live rock and live sand from a healthy existing tank is much more important than using the water from the old tank. even though some nitrifying bacteria exist in the water column itself, the real cycling work is done by the colonies that live on and in the rock and sand. There...

I don't know who declared the silica sand issue to be false, but I don't believe it. I can tell you from personal experience that if you use beach sand you will have unending algae problems. When I worked at Sea Lab we used beach sand all the time and always had problems with it. Even if silica sand...