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Hello everyone I am new to this site. I just wanted to say hello and introduce myself. My name is Gina and I have a 183 gal cube tank. I recently had a battle with ich getting into my tank. Still haven't figured out how but in any event it killed most of my fish. When I first started seeing signs I pulled all the fish from the DT and put them into a 75 gal QT tank. During the ich TX most of them died. Not sure what went wrong. After about 3 weeks in the QT just one by one the started to go. Eating ...

I'm interested in purchasing the Tunze Comline Reefpack 505 for my aquarium because it has different equipment that I want to use integrated into one system. However, I don't want to have to put money aside for two months to purchase the system. If I decide to purchase each piece individually starting with the Protein Skimmer. Can I purchase the Tunze Comline Filter 3166 with the integrated Tunze Osmolator 3155 combined in the same unit separately? Or do I have to purchase the unit as a whole to ...

UPDATE
OK guys & girls , got some updates to show you. Picked up a couple hole saws and got started DIY Bubble killer to reduce water splash/bubbles and noise in the sump. ..... If you've never seen a closeup of an arbor and hole saw, here it is.


It fits most hand drill chucks. Note the alignment pins and threads on the arbor.



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I hate to share bad news, but...

The Toadstool Leather that was moved out of my reef is in terrible shape. It was moved into a trashcan with live rock on July 4th. I knew it would slime heavily, and it did. I changed the water twice that week, doing 50% water changes in the barrel.

While I was out of town over the weekend, my tank sitter texted me that the house smelled terrible and that it was certainly the leather. As soon as I got home, I drained out 50% of the water ...

I've had my RBTA for about a year and a half now and it's only gotten larger, never splitting. Well, after I moved him over to my new frag tank as part of my tank upgrade he finally did! I now have 2 RBTA's in there. Hopefully I'll be able to trade or sell the clone for enough to replace my little yellow bellied hippo tang that died in the move and get a little more sand.