Pet Forum / Aquaria / Marine Reef / February 2004

My tank is slowly but surely comming along now, on the weekend I added a Sea
Apple, Bubble Tip Anemone, Coral Head and some hard yellow/orange tree
looking thing.
At this stage everything looks good, but after adding these guys to the tank

A leather coral that's been happy in the tank for some months now has
decided not to extend its tentacles for three days. Everything else in the
tank seems happy, Pulse Coral (Xenia) is flourishing and the anenome has
never looked happier. The rest of the corals appear normal.

Has anyone noticed and significant Increase in their electric bill once they
strated using MH lighting. I have 2 175wmh and 2 110 actinics, the last 2
months my electric bill has been about 60 dollars more than usual.

I'm starting a tank, rather small one (120l)
Can you give me some tips to make it looking the most stunning?
I'm planning only softies, and one or two fishes, some snails, feather
dusters etc.

I remeber hearing about this before, and I thought I knew the answer to this
question.
I thought a strainer on the inlet of the powerhead would stop an anemone
from getting sucked in.

I had a Sally Lightfoot Crab for 9 months.  I purchased her when my tank was
3 weeks old.  At that time, my tank had a lot of green hair algae.  The only
algae that I have now is the stuff that forms on the sides of my tank.  My
problem is that this morning she died.  I was doing my ...

Can someone please tell me why I do or don't want a Plenum system?  Are
there any definitive studies available?
Thanks,
Dan

I am considering setting up a small aquarium to include living rock a couple
of small fish and inverts - shrimps etc.
How small can I safely go?
Will a 12 gallon tank be adequate with frequent water changes?

I have a quick question about cycling my tank.  The tank was setup
January 18th and has been cycling since (9 days).  The live rock was
fully cured and had some nice growth on it.  I have actually had no
visible die off on the rock.  In fact, Anthelia has grown like crazy

I'm setting up a new Knop C reactor and after reading many articles, I'm not
sure which media to go with, Koralith or Caribsea ARM.  Here is what I
heard,
Caribsea:

Anyone have experience with these?  I think I remember Marc said he had one?
I've read that they live off of copepods and amphipods (spelling?).  Isn't
that BAD for a reef?
I saw one of these at an LFS and it was love at first sight!

Anybody got any ideas on a good sand sifter to keep my sand stirred up
some? It also needs to be inexpensive if possible, and it is a DSB.
--
reefman MC

I am considering setting up a small aquarium to include living rock a couple
of small fish and inverts - shrimps etc.
How small can I safely go?
Will a 12 gallon tank be adequate with frequent water changes?

I have quite a large Hepatus Tang. It is pretty happy,
looks round and healthy but it is ALWAYS HUNGRY...
It seems like his stomach is a well without the bottom.
You can throu anything in the tank and it disapear

I took a few pics of my tank today. It was established approximately 6
months ago and things seem to be going very well. The pics are available via
the link below.
http://www.mindmess.com/reeftank2/