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im new to salt water too but i do know that the watts per gal will tell you nothing for reef keeping. different bulbs put out watts differently. IE a 60w incandesent is = to a 15w cfl. Also you have to consider the color spectrum. Normaly with reef you need 10000k. There is a ton more too...

I was looking around the web doing some more research and i found theese. http://www.petsmart.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2753932&utm_medium=nextag&mr:referralID=29bc6c6a-23ae-11dd-9333-000423bb4e95&utm_source=cse The 20w looks promising but i can not find how much lux or lumens theese...

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I do a 50% wc on my 55 african tank every week religiously. You have to over stocked and messy eaters lol.

african peacocks get to be about 6" and need a 55 gal tank. there are only a select few types of pleco's that are small enough for your tank. most grow to over a foot long. The loach too can grow to a foot long. Loaches are slow growers but with out adequate space you will stunt your fish...

water params?, amonia, nitrite nitrate. 1 pleco is too much for that tank let alone 2. Clown Loaches do better in groups of 3 or more and will need prob a 75 gal tank. What type of cichlids ?? 5 seems like alot of any type of cichlid for that size tank. lol im too slow.

Well every sunday is my tank cleaning day. I have a routine where i feed my fish then an hour later i do my cleaning/water change. Well today I started doing my w/c before i fed them with out thinking. My Tiger Barbs were in protest and started niping at my arm while i was poistioning the...

Yeah this would be a great experiment . . . too bad my tank is only a month and a half old and i am a long ways away from even considering coral lol. I used to live in huntington just south with my parent then i moved out and live north of town. yes it is a small world. we could be related lol.

Ok i was bored and trying to figure out this lighting thing. I read all about MH and other options but i was wondering why you can not use regular cfl for smaller tanks? Most coral at a depth of 15ft get a lux of 20,000. And at 30ft get 10,000lux...

Ok i got a ball of chaeto a few weeks back and since i do not have a fuge i put it in the tank. It made a mess. I have a penguin bio wheel on it running with filter floss and a pack of purigen. Today i purchased a clip on 60w desk light and a 6500k daylight cfl. I removed the filter floss...

well i plan on trying to spot feed him more and put some other cheaper inverts in there for him to snack on so hopefully he leaves my hermits alone. where abouts in ohio r u ?

even the cheaper faucets usualy come able to be unscrewed, because you have to be able to take it off to clean the screen if it becomes cloged . . . thats very strange.

well my featherfin swam upside down for a week next to my african buterfly fish then he swam back down with my pleco and sat next to him for another week . . . he was a crazy fish. . . oh yeah especialy with most catfish species they will eat anything that fits into there mouth. FW tiger sharks.

give them a bath in the tank maybe they will think twice before aproaching it again.

Well after purchaseing some hermits over the weekend i have noticed i lost some. The shells were there but no bodies. I seen on today climbing on a piece of LR. An hour latter i walk bye and his shell is in the sand and I find a few pieces of his legs scattered. The only thing i can think of...

sounds like sound advice thanks.

ok my tank has been set up for a month or so. It finished cycling about two weeks ago. And for the past week i had a nice brown algae bloom. Is it time to add a clean up crew? I have a 40 gal fowlr, may eventualy be reef. Which of what should i get and how many? I have read up on clean up...

Cleveland Ohio RMS AquaCulture West Side 6629 Engle Rd. Middleburg Heights, Ohio 44130 (216) 433-1340 East Side 4927 Robinhood Drive Willoughby, Ohio 44094 (440) 975-9090 I have only shoped at the west side. The staff seems decently knowledgeable, just depends on who you get. Good...

looks good, can't wait for the in tank pics

I was going to do that but my gf wouldnt let me :banher: