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Thought these two transformations would be interesting to post. OB Peacock Cichlid (around October 2020): OB Peacock Now: Sunshine Cichlid (around October): Sunshine Cichlid now: Sorry for the cell phone pictures lol.

This build is back on Planning on doing a bubble tip anemone and clownfish pair.

This tank is still doing well. We had a slight hick up a week or so ago with an ice storm that took out a whole bunch of power lines. We were out of power for three and a half (long) days, but luckily we found a generator the morning of the outage. I didn't lose anything (freshwater or...

My power is back. 3.5 days sounds a lot better than 28. Glad you made it through that!

We were supposed to get snow but instead just got a lot of ice. It’s all melted, but we haven’t had power for over 72 hours. Luckily we managed to find a generator to keep tanks running.

I have a basic Tunze (uses a float to turn on and off). I'm not sure if it is the best one, it is just what came with my tank (I cheated and bought an already established system from a local reefer )

I bought my RO/DI system off Amazon. The brand is RO buddie and I have the 4 stage one. It works well and has brought my TDS down to 0. You can connect it temporarily directly to your faucet whenever you need it. The only problem I have with it is it’s pretty slow and only makes up 2.5 gallons...

My hands and arms get pretty itchy when I put them in them in my saltwater tank. They’re irritated until I wash the salt off with soap and water. Plus, the salt water seems to dry my hands out even more, which really contributes to the burning or itchy feeling. I second the glove recommendation.

I should have paid more attention when buying the leopard, but it was already too far gone. I noticed when I got it home it was very thin and definitely had a bad case of intestinal parasites.

Thank you for the advice! Unfortunately, I don't have a whole lot of self control I did end up overfeeding a bit and I think my mandarin is a bit happier. Right now nitrates hover around 2 which is exactly where I want them! Some updates about the live rock I am currently curing in my 15...

I’m still not sure what is going on. I ended up throwing out all the windelov and it now seems to be effecting the narrow leaf variety. I added some of the browning stuff to a plant only bowl I had to try to and revive it, but now all the Java fern in that bowl is dying as well. Is there a Java...

Small update! Everything is going well. I ended up purchasing some zoanthid colonies and a colony of frogspawn from a member of my local reef board All fish are doing extremely well. I added some pods into the display and a bit into my chaeto refugium. I am planning on doing that frequently to...

It isn’t planted. It sits on top of the gravel. It eventually anchors itself.

I just have standard aquarium gravel. I've had most of the plants for a few years now. I did add the crypt and amazon sword about a month ago so I suppose they could be taking the resources the java fern had been using. I will try adding fertilizer as recommended.

Sorry for the confusion, I'm not sure what happened to the original plant. It is the plantlets are currently dying. I've pulled out about 15 because they are melting and am going to move it to a tub with new water to see if I can revive them. I'm hoping to save the ones I have left. I've seen...

A few developments with this tank! The leopard wrasse didn't make it unfortunately. I believe she had intestinal worms as she was very thin. I wished I would have noticed in the store, but I know for next time. The parameters are all in order and all other fish/corals/inverts are acting...

Hi everyone! I had a java fern windelov that at one point exploded into a ton of plantlets. Up until this point, the small java fern have done very well but now are dying at mass rates (all around a year old now). I have additional plants in the tank that are doing relatively well including...

Is the tank filtered and heated at all?

In my experience, I haven't found my glo-tetras to be much weaker than any freshwater fish I've kept. I've had my group for a little over 2 years now. I would do a water change every time you got above .25 ammonia and/or .25 nitrites, especially if you don't have any kind of neutralizing water...

You're definitely shaking it well enough then. It must be your low stocking, that's awesome!