Pet Forum / Aquaria / Marine Reef / March 2004

Short of causing a war I would like some advice on a protein skimmer to use on
a 30 gallon reef tank. I t has been about 15 years since I was in the marine
fish hobby and I kept coral pretty well in a 125 but now I am thinking about
getting back into the hobby and although I have ...

I have beat my face against Google and can't find a web site for this
company. Is there one?

I have a calcium ractor, been runnig it for about a year.  Normally the
Ca++ was around 400 ppm.  thought everything was good with ph of 8.0 -
8.2. Then recalibrated my pH meter and now reading 7.6!!
Yikes...  Started adding buffer daily. pH was slowly rising, now to about

I have a 125 gallon reef tank with a deep sand bed.  That's 4-5" of
Aragamax sand.  I find that I am having horrendous problems with red
algae covering everything.  I did a 50% water change last week and
already everything's covered again.  I can practically set my watch by

Anyone have any good suggestions on how to control Xenia and star polyps.
They are starting to get out of hand in my tank and 50 percent of my live
rock is now covered with them.
Thanks

Just paid 125 bucks (plus 20 shipping) for a 250W 10K MH retro kit. Comes
with a 18" batwing reflector, socket, 10K bulb, 10 foot ballast to bulb
cord, 3.5 foot ballast to wall cord and a magnetic ballast in a steel case.
This is going over my 46 gallon bow front lagoon.

If I was to setup a tank for the purpose of growing some coral cuttings what
would my lighting be and how deep should the tank be ?, I was hoping to
stick with fluro's and a shallow tank for now as it's cheaper to run.

I bought a few kilo's of base rock the other day and some more live rock
from the one shop, I was wondering what the expected time would be to see
these base rocks getting signs of coraline alge.
For the lighting in the tank I changed from duel daylight fluros and 150watt

How do I get rid of these things?  It seems to be multiplying.  Please help.
Thanks in advance!
Robin

I couldn't resist this Sebae I saw in a fish store I don't normally go to
yesterday.
The poor thing was in a tank left in the sub with no rocks to attach to and
under

I have had a freshwater tank for 3 years or so now and am quite comfortable
maintaning it. Recently I contacted the guy to set up a marine tank with all
the beautiful fishes!
The confusion is how much should I spend? He keeps saying things like we can

I'm gonna be a papa! My Watchman Goby pair laid eggs. How long until they'll
hatch you think? They appeared about a day ago.

What is the best wave maker on the market today? Is a mave maker the same or
better than a water movement device?
Moon

My son has a marine tank set up and has some new fancy lights (sorry,
can't be more precise than that) and would like to put them on a
timer. He has  everything plugged into a  bar plug (extension cable)
and has been looking at the electronic timers, but they say that they

In a nutshell the problem is my 70G tank established 15mths just shows
no sign of growth in sps, lps, softies everything thives (just) but
for example the softies never quite mqnqge to fully expand, LPS bearly
expand etc etc.