Pet Forum / Aquaria / Marine Reef / July 2003

Re: Kalk Dripping
Where is the best place to drip the kalk into your system?  I am pretty sure
i read you dont want to drip it into
your tank.  I was dripping it into my sump right where my return pump was.

If i hear a clicking or popping sound and my cleaner shrimp has vanaished do I
have A mantis shrimp in my tank????

I have successfully kept a 36 gallon bow front reef for a number of years
and have recently decided to venture into the serious nano reef space. Specs
on my new reef tank are as follows:
7 Gallon AGA Bow

Does anyone have a Sanders Piccolo Skimmer? If so, can you tell me the
dimensions and where I can buy one. Thanks.

I need to do a water change in my 90 gallon tank and I don't have a sump.
The problem is that my anemone has made its way from the bottom of the
tank(under the halide) across the tank, wrapped itself around my large
leather than back across the tank, up my mountain of star polyps ...

After debating, and thinking, and debating whether to take the plunge
into MH from VHO, I finally made the large investment in a chiller and
250 watt HQI MH fixture.  Just fired it up and quite frankly it
overpowers my existing 460 watts of VHO to the point where it is sort

I have just added a new one little fish - premnas biaculeatus into 79 US G.
tank and I saw that my two a.ocellaris are teasing him. What should I do ?
Will they stop teasing him ? (Will they make it up ? )
I think that my two ocellaris are protecting the anemone ...

Im about to transfer my contents into a bigger tank. Whats the best
way i can get rid of mantis and pistol shrimps out of my rock without
damaging the good things in my rock..

I need to get rid of the bubble algae taking over my tank.
I have tried emerald crabs - no success.
I am thinking of starting over.
help !!!!

Im wondering if anyone can help me i have a old style reef devil II and I
have lost the cap for the collection cup.  The cup is 4" in OD, would
anyone have a old system lying around or this part that you would like to
sell or know where i would be able to find one for this ...

I've been using a Rena 100 for the last 2 years to run a 6" and 1"
airstone in a 20 gal and 5 gal tanks, respectively. The Rena is nice and
quiet but it's not quite strong enough to run my 2 airstones, IMO. I was
wondering if the Tetratec DW-18 would be a better pump to use for ...

After calculating this months deficit i set off to buy a) more live
rock, b)a dwarf angelfish, c)a blue cheeked blenney and last but not
least a particular coral from one of the lfs's. I came back with the
coral ok but the live rock and Coral Beauty i want (have paid deposit)

I've made a 4 gallon plexi hang-on sump/refugium for a 10 gallon reef
I'm working on. The concept was to have a pump in the tank supply the
sump via a tube, and let the sump overflow back into the tank. My LFS
guy says this is a bad idea because all of the plankton, food, etc, gets

Acording to the Livequaria.com description, Astropecten polycanthus
do not have suction cups so they cannot climb glass/rocks. I am not
sure if Liveaquaria is right or wrong, but my star has suction cups and
does climb glass. Maybe I have something different, not Astropecten

Hey guys, we had a meeting, and I took a few pictures.
http://www.melevsreef.com/dfwmas/07_2003/july_meeting.html
Marc
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