Reefs

Updated pictures, Cyanobacteria start showing on the bottom of the tank.

It turned out it was just stress from water pressure as mentioned above.. fingers crossed though. I removed the internal filter and added CPR hang on back refugium, I supported the bottom of the refugium with wood so it will not add any pressure on the aquarium, I had to do some modifications to make it fit because I have limited space on the top brace. At this time the aquarium is going through New Tank Syndrome, I got some algae growth.

The acrylic is 1/4'', I thought about draining some water and see what happen.. my other option is to switch this tank with 40 gallon breeder freshwater Riparium that I have.

Here is a picture with ruler in the back to give you an idea. one thing to add is the bow location is where the heater used to be, is it possible that the heater caused it?

Just bought CPR hang on back refugium, while trying to see how its going to fit, I noticed that the back of my aquarium is bowed in the center( now we can call it bowfront and back tank)..I was trying to fill it all the up when adding the refugium but now I am really concerned. Is it normal for acrylic tanks to be like that? what should I do?

I am newbie to reef keeping but from the pictures I can tell that you done a great job, how long that tank been running?

This is how the tank looks like from top, I don't know if that is eurobrace. and yes I can hang some equipments on the back side.

So I need to fill it up and upgrade the lights, do I need to just replace the light bulbs with other high watts bulbs or I need a new fixture? The light bulbs I got now are T5 and 28'' long. Here is some pictures I took this morning.

I am worry that the fish may jump out .

The tank is an upgrade from 20 gallon long aquarium, I moved everything to the 36 gallon. here is couple pictures (sorry for the low qualitty) while the tank in progress, I 'll post more pictures of the final set up when I have chance.

Finally I got this tank runing, I am new to the saltwater hobby so if you have any suggestions, or if you think I am doing something wrong please let me know. The tank is 36 gallon acrylic bowfront by SeaClear. Lighting: Coralife 1 x 31 watt 6700 K and 1 x 31 watt actinic. 10 hours on. Heating: 100 watt marineland heater. Filtration: one internal whisper filter, and two mini elite power heads. About 30 lbs live rock and 15 lbs fine grain sand. - 10% weekly water change. Corals: - Zoas, green star polyps, mushrooms, green montipora, pulsing xenia, and other soft corals. Inverts: - Cleaner shrimp, emerald crab, algae eating snails, hermit crabs, bumblebee snail, peppermint shrimp. Fish: 1 maroon clown fish, 1 yellow tail damsel fish, 2 yellow clown gobies.

I will look into that, I hope to find them at the LFS.

That is good to know, Thanks.

Yes I meant to say larger zooplankton, in fact I do have 2 cleaner shrimp in the display tank but my refugium is just a 10 gallon. is there a way to tell the male from female cleaner shrimp?

I want to set up a refugium, I am wondering what kind of zooplankton/ or small inverts to use that can breed fast and provide some food to the display tank?

Can any one share their experience on these flat worms? are they really bad to have in the aquarium?

Thank you.

I think green paly, left. and armor of god at the right side.

They are about 3mm around, Here is 2 pictures af them on the corals.

Is 20 gallon enough for wrasse fish? is it okmto keep them with gobies?

Hi, everyone. My first post in here, and have some questions: I have 20 gallon long reef aquarium with 2 yellow clown gobies and cleaner shrimp, along with some soft corals. I start to see some small red flat worms in the tank, I am wondering if the gobies will eat them? how can I get rid of them? Thanks