Pet Forum / Aquaria / Marine Reef / January 2004

saltwater waste in septic...sound like a bad idea?
I am moving to a house with septic tank/leach field.  Currenly dump about 20
gal per month into my local sewer system.
Does anyone have experiance with this?  Will dumping saltwater into my new

I was thinking about using Sterilite ClearView containers
available in Walmart and other places for my sump/refugium.
They are cheap as dirt and in nice sizes suiting my cabinet.
The only thing they lack is dividers... I was thinking

I have a hood with 3 15" strips and I want to know what 3 bulbs would be
ideal for a small reef tank? I was thinking one white, 1 actinic, and 1
50/50.
Joel

My site has been updated... tell me what ya think !!
Thanks
Brian

I'm going to be setting up a new tank (55 gal)in a week or so, and I
understand that I need to add Amquel to remove the cloramine,(going to
mix my own salt from tap water)  However the Amquel also removes
Ammonia.

I'm creating a quarantine tank to stop the ich cycle. What are your
thoughts on using copper vs. a uv sterilizer? Apparently, I can't use
both?

Hi;
I can't post a drawing so I'll try to be descriptive enough to understand.
I will have an 80g on a stand with a six-inch light canopy above it.
connecting these two bits of cabinetry will be a chase on the left about a

Since last Febuary I have been nurturing a small reef tank (15 gal.),
I realizre that this was way way to small to start with, but in almost
a year I have only had 3 fatalities, and none of them due to water
conditions (knock on wood).

I found it!  Alt.binaries.aquaria via aquariacentral.com.  I clicked yes
and it appeared on my Netscape 7.1 selected news list.
Ruth Kazez

I am unable to get Alt.bin.aquaria, using Netscape.  Is there another
source or is this determined solely by isp and would therfore be
unobtainable by me by any other browser?  I like to look at tank pics
and I think I'm missing a lot.

I have purchased a SCWD from Inland Reef Aquaria and am having real problems
with it, I cant get it to switch direction unless I hold a finger over the
low (at that moment) output, it will switch once then stop,
I can hear a quiet whirring noise if I put my ear next to the SCWD but ...

We had a 12 hour power loss, the house temp got down to about 61 degrees.
When the power came back both my clowns were very slugish, but active,
unbtil one got suckedagainst the protein skimmer(cpr backpack), as soon as
it happened i shut it off. but it looks like the damage was ...

I am not new to the hobby I have been away for a few years  I have a
valid question. when i order live rock from tonga or fiji or florida
for that matter how do i know that is hasnt been sitting in the sun
for 3 weeks baking? or stewing in a mixture of ammonia and nitrite is

Also, some not so great minds disagree.  During the seven weeks since I
set up my nano tank, I have read or scanned every book written in the
past five - sometimes more - years on the subject of mini reefs that I
could find in the public and university libraries here, as well a ...

I have been getting majorly screwed around with by these people.  It's my
first order with them and today is the THIRD time they have failed to ship
my order.  Is this an isolated incodent?
~Mort