Frequent Aquarium Questions

• What is a good formula for making my own live rock?
  
  
• I would like to know the best thing for keeping the sand and tank clean in my reef tank. I have a sand sifting starfish, brittle star, 7 crabs, and 5 snails.
  
  
• How do you go about attaching the corals and inverts to live rock?
  
  
• What is the easiest way of propagating mushrooms?
  
  
• The coral in my reef tank isn't doing well and the Ph is up at around 8.8. What can I do about it?
  
  

• What is a good formula for making my own live rock?
  
  You can use Portland cement mix with a mixture of aragonite rocks.
  
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• I would like to know the best thing for keeping the sand and tank clean in my reef tank. I have a sand sifting starfish, brittle star, 7 crabs, and 5 snails.
  
  You can add some herbivorous fish, gobies, urchins, sea cucumbers, or conchs.
  
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• How do you go about attaching the corals and inverts to live rock?
  
  You can use any of the aquarium-safe epoxys on the market such as Aqua Stik.
  
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• What is the easiest way of propagating mushrooms?
  
  You can simply chip off a piece of liverock with a mushroom on it. Then you can use some aquatic glue or putty to attach it in an area you want to populate with mushrooms.
  
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• The coral in my reef tank isn't doing well and the Ph is up at around 8.8. What can I do about it?
  
  Hi Colleen, I would first do a 30% water change and add some ph buffer to the new water. Test it the next day and see what the ph is. It's also better to use r/o water if you can.
  
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