Hello Reefers, I have explained before that I just got back into reef tanks again after about a 10 yr absence. I once won Tank of the month for December 2005, seems so long ago, lol. I'm happy to say I'm back at it again and I have finally put water into my tank to start my cycle. Some have...

HI, I have a 55g FOWLR and the tank has been running fine for a long time and the skimmer was just fine but i decided to add carbon just to clean out any impurities. After I placed the carbon in my skimmer started foaming and over flowing. I read that certain things can change the chemicals in...

Hello everyone, I have a 38 gallon saltwater tank with 8 gallon overflow in the back. The water is kind of cloudy and I have no idea why, and there is white foamy bubbles in the back of the overflow section of the tank. Any idea what the foam is? Is it causing the water to be cloudy? I will...

I decided to come back to TRT because my local reef forum was rather inactive. Thought I'd start off by posting some pics of a recent DIY I did when I came home from deployment. Took me about two weeks off and on. Used base rock, egg crate, PVC and fiberglass resin. All comments welcome!

I just setup my skimmer and its not making foam the inside part looks a little bubbly but the collection cup is not filling am i doing something wrong? its a reef octo nwb-110

I know, this question has been asked before and I have read and taken in that information, but it doesn't give me a conclusive answer for what I need to do. Lets start with how the setup is, I have a 75g tank with a 25g sump, my stand has a thin 1/8" mdf/plywood board on the bottom and my floor...

OK, the skimmer thread has been slow... so show me you NOG!

I am brand new to this forum and have a tank setup with a 8 inch black seahorse, 4 damsels (2 yellow tail blues, and 2 three stripes), a blue koran, a yellow tang, a tomato clownfish, and a normal clownfish. I have recently purchased a over the back protein skimmer...

OK so here is my idea. I want to make my own rocks with caves and tunnels that will be "live" after time. pvc for tunnels, great stuff foam, egg crate for initial structure and crushed cinder blocks and some sort of sand( not sure what to use, any ideas?). So tell me if this will work, Make my...

Okay so first off, I've been doing alot of research into aquariums and this is my first. so i decided to do a lone shrimp tank. got a fullsetup at my LFS including,20H tank, glass top, internal filter, heater, strip light with 15lbs of live sand and 20 lbs of crushed coral. I started out by...

Okay so first off, I've been doing alot of research into aquariums and this is my first. so i decided to do a lone shrimp tank. got a fullsetup at my LFS including,20H tank, glass top, internal filter, heater, strip light with 15lbs of live sand and 20 lbs of crushed coral. I started out by...

Ok, so I decided to try this foam and rock wall idea that I keep seeing here and there. I did a lot of research and some people said to use the black pond foam because it's better and safer. Both are inert after curing, the black pond foam just doesn't need to be covered in a protectant (i.e...

For the past two months I have been working on and compiling information, live rock, and equipment to set up my first reef tank. I have had saltwater tanks for the past two years but nothing more than a FOWLR with a hob filter. The reef tank, and it's members have supplied priceless advice...

I have had this happen once before. Came home from work today and tank is full of white/clearish stringy things all over the rocks and the sump surface water is full of thick white foam. No clue what it is I've googled it and searched on here. Last time i removed all the foam and it went away. I...

So the husband and I were having a discussion regarding my 5gal nano *see link in signature* It's still relatively a new tank- started 6 months ago, the live rock had a lot of great growth of Coralline algae and everything was great. We had some salinity issues (fresh/saltwater mixup) so we...

So I have been running my skimmer since i set up my tank about a month and a half ago (seaclone 100....HA). It has yet to pull anything out of the tank, when i open the top of it i can see that it is bubbling but the bubbles do not accumulate to any amount of foam. I recently moved my powerhead...

Hi everyone, this is my first post ever (unfortunately its under these circumstances) I've followed the site for all my questions and I have found it very helpful. First of all I'll go over my tank specs. I have a 75 gal tank with a 25 gallon sump. I have about 150 lbs of rock between the sump...

Is there a reef safe foam to build LR structures with eggcrates like the example below?

Hi everyone, \ so I have a 75 Gallon with a 55 Gal sump. I have bunch of corals and fish, everyone got along and my tank was as healthy as it could get. Last night i came home to my skkimmer making foam, SOAP foam. ALL MY FISH AND CORALS WEAR DEAD !!!! only thing alive was some Clean up crew...

(This was also posted on RC, but, I've always liked this forum best...:wavey: Hi, from a returning TRTer and BRW!:D) I've been dying to set up a new tank, so, when my 6g nano sprung a leak a couple weeks back, I decided to move up to a 29 and have been trying to assemble the components to get...