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A little about me, my name is Lonnie and I am an instructor at the University of Northwestern Ohio. I teach in the hi performance division of the automotive side. I've been into reef tanks and saltwater about a year and a half. It started when I wanted to surprise my daughter with a larger 10g tank for her goldfish (that she had for 4 years). Well long story short I ended up killing the goldfish and feeling bad. Whats a dad to do? Set up a saltwater take of ...

I've been having issues with low ph for as long as I've had my tank, even possibly contributing to my sps losing color and sometimes dying. My calcium was super high, but my low ph caused my alk to be low and nothing would grow. I ran the test where I aerated some tank water with outside air for over an hour and my ph raised from 7.8 to 8.2. Now that I'm dosing kalk my sps are starting to color up again, but I almost never get a ph reading over 7.8. Would you worry about your parameters if it ...

So I work in the home theater industry, and LED TVs are the hot new trend in HDTVs. Just like in anything else, they are energy effecient, cool, and so small that they have somewhat revolutionized TV. I am seeing this everywhere, from flashlights to home lights to streetlights. They don't seem like they cost very much to assemble, yet they are way out of my price range for the tank. The LED TVs have dramatically dropped in price over their first year, like many other technologies do. I can't ...

Can we post stuff about something going wrong here? lol
I decided last night to syphon a bit of the substrate, and put a power head to the rocks and back of my rocks cause there has been too much detritus to my likings that was accumilating.. basically sending crap everywhere.. so i did a little water changer afterwards to try and pick up the most i could..

My yellow tang today has quite a few white spots on him... I have never had ich in that tank that I know of, and I know ...

I am in the planning stages for a 120 Gallon reef aquarium (48" X 24" A 24"). In preparation for my new tank I pulled in two new 20 Amp. circuits. Now the question is how many outlets to install and how to divide up the loads (powerheads, skimmer, lights, heaters). Should I split up the powerheads so if one circuit fails I only lose some circulation?