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At some point over the last year I had a small leak from my sump. This leak managed to cause a little trouble with my cheap stand for my 95g reef. Of course this gives me a perfect excuse to upgrade to a larger tank . While I'd love to go really big, my current space (home office) only really allows a 180g setup (6ft x 2ft x2ft). During this upgrade, I was hoping that I could setup the new tank and plumb it into the existing system prior to moving any livestock over while both benefit from the ...

I just wanted to give a hurrahhhh to Neptune systems for their great support. If you are planning on the purchase of a controller, I would recommend Neptune for everyone. Not only do they offer one of the best controllers on the market, but there support is second to none. Twice I have had issues arise with my apex that Curt at Neptune was able to instruct me via email in order to fix. He has always gotten back to me in the same business day. I have not seen this kind of support from many companies ...

We are always going to get new items for our reefs, from other hobbyists, from fish stores, online and at frag swaps. Frags are bought and sold willy nilly and within mere hours pictures are posted of those new acquisitions. What concerns me is that those new pieces appear to be in your reef tanks and not in a temporary quarantine system.

An article I wrote for Reef Hobbyist Magazine just hit the local fish stores. If you don't get that printed version, here's the online PDF. ...

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I have a small (3 in. or so) hippo tang that I've had since around Thanksgiving who has been very active and healthy, but he seems to get small outbreaks of ich that go away by themselves. Last week he was pretty bad, and in the time I got the stuff together for a treatment tank he got better. Last night he had several spots on his head, including one pretty big one, and on a couple fins. Today I can't find a single spot. Should I treat him for it or is that something that will just come and ...