Pet Forum / Aquaria / Marine Reef / August 2003

Anybody read this book?
http://www.microcosm-books.com/html/UltimateMarineAquariums.html
Looks interesting.

I'd like to order some stuff from http://www.reefgeek.com on Monday.
I emailed them a couple times at more than one email address this past
week with some questions, but I never got an answer.  Are they out of
business or something?   :0

I bought yellow head gobies ( valencianna strigata -  for id see
https://www.aquacon.com/images/si19.htm) on two occasions a few years
back, they sifted sands great for about a week or 10 days then
disappeared into the live rocks.  I presumed they perished for lack of

You know you are in Texas in July when..
The birds have to use potholders to pull worms out  of
the ground.
The trees are whistling for the dogs.

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Thanks !

So a few weeks ago I was at the LFS and noticed this pretty little cup coral
was on sale.  I had never read anything about cup corals but was told their
care was pretty straight forward.  Well I got it home, put it in my tank and
everything was fine.  Two weeks passed and I decided ...

I've been shopping for a ballast for a retro PC install.  I found a
couple good deals on Fulham Workhorse ballasts.  In specific I'm
looking at the Workhorse 5 Long 120V/128W
(http://www.fulham.com/wh5.html).

Is there a *right* way or a *wrong* way to frag a mushroom polyp? I took a
surgical blade and split one of my polyps and shortly (two weeks) I had 2
mushrooms. I did the same thing right after noticing the one polyp became
two polyps and while hoping for 4 polyps, I now have 0 ...

I was wondering if anyone ever ran a reef system where the sump volume
was much larger than the tank volume.  Although obviously there would
be some additional up-front costs to creating such a system (inital
Salt mix, live sand, sump costs) I wonder if such a system would save

  Hello;
  I just spotted one in my 125 gal reef tank and it's got to be almost a foot
long. I've read contradictory stuff on these worms but are they dangerous to
other reef inhabitants and corals when they get this big?  I haven't seen any

Can old MH bulbs be the reason I am suddenly seeing red slime algae?
My 92 gal tank is an established tank that has been up and running of
about 1 1/2 years.  It is a upgrade from a 55 gal that i have for 5-6
yeatrs.  I have never had a problem with red slime algae or any other

Got a couple tanks (30g, different dimensions) and an old refugium today for
practically nothing. The refugium is made out of acrylic, and the tanks are
glass.
All items were sitting in a garage unused for a couple years, and have

Well, I most certainly DO want a reef setup...  Eventually.
I just cant afford everything at once at the moment.  My plan was to set up
a FO and eventually ease in to it.
Anyway, I have been researching lights and I really like the coralife

Yesterday I got two gorgeous, rather huge Emerald crabs who seem to be
making themselves right at home in my tank. One of them even began pulling
of chunks of hair algea and chowing down. I didn't know they'd eat that
stuff but I am not going to complain about it. However, the ...

My daughter just brought back from Sandy Hook beach (NJ) about 1/2 dozen
animals (jellyfish?), that resemble a 1/4 inch disc, the size of a 1/2
dollar.
The water she transported them in, was very cold, because she placed the