Pet Forum / Aquaria / Marine Reef / February 2004

My tank is starting now.
I need some advices how to arrange rocks.
I don't like a pile of rocks, but my tank is rather small (120l) so
there is no much room for many ideas.

What is the best method of determining when your tank is stocked to
capacity?
In order words, what guidelines are there to direct a beginner like myself
to avoid killing stock thru over-stocking...

Does anyone have a recipe to remove ink from the surface of lacquer.  My 15
month old son made some not so nice art work on my coffee table.   Pledge
didn't work.
Thanks

Please could somebody tell me what is the best salinity level at 75f for these
corals.
many thanks
Jon Machon

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I added some live rock recently (bought it from someone local) and I'm
now hearing a snapping or popping sound from inside the tank.
I was adding four peppermint shrimp as an attempt at aiptasia control
and then heard the noise about 20 mins later- it was evening and I had

Can you mix a school of Antheas and Chromis together in the one tank?
.. What would be regarded as the smallest school of each for them to
be happy .
Ive got a 7 X 2 X 2    ...i'd like about 3-4 of each in the tank.

I am looking at rearanging my tank, I want to try and get that cliff edge
look, at the moment it just looks like rocks on rocks. Some base rock, and
some live rock and some with living corals on them. Anyhow, there is a bit
of a mix of soft corals and hard or stoney type corals. If ...

what's the most beautify tank you have ever seen? can you post your
favorite tank picture? i found the following:
1. the famous japanese tank:
http://www.cpfarm.com/images/gt_01.jpg

Just a quick observation and question...
On my 135 (72x18x24h), I have 3x175MH 10000K and 2x160 03 actinics.
Actinics are on for about 11 hours, MHs for about 9.5 hours daily. I
have found that upon placing a rock with coralline algae covering it

Back in the hobby after abouta 5 year hiatus.    I just picked up a Kent
RO/DI Hi-S 60 GPD water filter and have been trying to fill my new 75
Gallon tank.
It's ran all night and barely put an inch of water level into the tank.

I'm have a passing familiarity working with epoxy & fiberglass.  (West
System Epoxy, to be exact.)
A buddy wants me to help build some pseudo reefs out of the stuff.
We're both wondering if there are bad leaching effects if we use epoxy

I'm planing to build custom lighting for my new aquarium. I'm going to put 2
* 250W doubleended MH bulbs. Is it necessary to put UV shielding/filtering
glass between bulb and surface of aquarium? If it is necessary, would 4mm
thick plain glass be good?

Does anyone know how to get a Mag 5 to run quieter?  I've padded it, set it
on a cushion base and it still sounds like a rattle.  I checked for
cavitation, modulated the outfeed to no avail.  It still makes the sound
when disconnected from the plumbing.  It doesn't sound terminal, ...

I'm have a passing familiarity working with epoxy & fiberglass.  (West
System Epoxy, to be exact.)
A buddy wants me to help build some pseudo reefs out of the stuff.
We're both wondering if there are bad leaching effects if we use epoxy