Pet Forum / Aquaria / Marine Reef / February 2004

Okay, my 75 gallon is set up and running. Salinity and PH are good, sump has
been running for several days, no leaks, looks good, still have some noisy
overflow issues to work on, but oh well.
   My plan is to aquire some LR and a damsel or 2, perhaps blue damsels.

The book says brine shrimp or plankton, I have tried several times with the
brine shrimp packet I got to hatch but it wont do it. and for the plankton,
nobody seems to know jack squat around these shops where I live.

Hi, my name is Sanjay, and I'm trying to learn something about reef
aquariums so I can get started in this wonderful hobby.
Until this point I have had only freshwater experience, and even then it's
been limited to African Cichlids and their limited range of tankmates.  I've

I have never kept any hard corals before and as such have never felt
the need to keep a calcium reactor. I am now considering going this
route and was hoping to get some advise. I have seen several different
generic recommendations by many of you by searching google but I was

I own a 72 gallon bow front tank with overflow, trickle filter, 20
gallon sump. I had to dismantle and sell the livestock when I moved
here to Tucson. I had live rock and fish with great success.
I just found a great deal one a 55 gallon stocked tank with a 48

I recently expierienced two fish deaths, both at the same time one
being a coral beauty, the other being an oriental sweetlips juvenile.
Amonia was 0, Nitrite was 0 and Nitrate 20ppm, I suspected the problem
being my PH level of 7.4 which took me by supprise, but the odd thing

I have had the above for approx 1 month and it does not want to open
entirely,what do they like,low light,intense light,good flow,high
flow,.Flouro,or MH
any suggestions will be tried ,

Presently, I have a 29 gallon saltwater aquarium
with not much goin' on at all. Just 4 base rocks
(about 14 lbs. total) and 2 damsels. It's pretty
much barren looking.

Anyone have any experience, good or bad, with LR from LiveAquaria.com? The
prices, even considering shipping, are quite good, IMO.

What is an acceptable range for nitrate?  I am reading between 25 to 50 mg/L
(=ppm).  I am not sure if I should change more water weekly.  I changed
about 12gal per week for the past 4 weeks and it has gone down a bit.
Thanks for your help.

I was wondering if anyone else has considered skylight tubes as an
alternative in reef lighting (or supplemental lighting) applications.
These are highly reflective ducting tubes normally used to "pipe" in
natural sunlight from your roof top into your house.

Anyone use it, what do you think about the product?

What would be a good replacement for a Rio 600 pump that i have on my CPR
bakpak skimmer? I have a 10gal tall tank, so i cant put too big a pump in
there because of room constraints. Any ideas?
thanks in advance.

   Just a quick question on cleaning procedures for my EV-120.
It is easy enough to clean the collection cup every few days but the manual
also says to clean the Foam Tower.  What exactly is the foam tower?  Is it
the "Neck" part that comes up to the collection cup?  Is wiping it ...

I'm very new to saltwater aquariums and I need some help.  I have a 10 gallon
aquarium with two clownfish, a couple of hermit crabs and a four astrea snails.
I have flourescent light that I leave on 10-12 hours per day.  I have a filter
that hangs on the back of the tank (millenium ...