beginner questions

Afternoon all, I've been a casual reader of the forum for a while, and recently my wife and I decided that we'd love to own a reef tank. We are in the infant steps (just own the tank and the stand), but we want to do it right. What we bought was a Marineland, 55g LED Aquarium kit. It came...

I have a new reef tank my set up (2/12/2012) is, 75 gallon eshopps wet/dry 50 lbs live sand 80 lbs sand 80 lbs live rock 500 watt 15,000k metal Halide max jet 1200 power head for water movement Didn't use tap water used well water and on the recommendation of my LFS 7 damsels to make the tank...

Hello! New to TRT! I just started a 55gal tank about 3 weeks ago. I have added 4 peices of LR and ready to get this thing up and running! I recently ordered a Digital Timer Power Center and was wanting advice on this- it's telling me that the yellow(daylight) and blue (nightlight) doesn't...

I just signed on to this site. I spent sometime debating between a reef tank, or a fish only tank. My tank has been running for about a year now, being set up with live sand and argonite. My original intention was to get a puffer fish, but that has since changed. The only fish that were...

I am starting a new reef tank as Follows: 25 Gal AGA 24" Coralife Lunar Aqua light Deluxe w/65 watt 10000k Daylight Lamp, 65 watt True Actinic 03 Blue Lamp, Lunar LED's 470nm Aquac Remora skimmer Cascade 700 Canister filter Penguin 1140 Power head Hydor Koralia Nano Power head 30lb of live...