Pet Forum / Aquaria / Marine Reef / May 2004

I've just been on phone to System2000 to find out that the 150W MH bulb that
is in my unit is no longer available.  it's a large Coralux single ended
10,000K bulb. I thought that it was about time that I replaced it, I phoned
and ordered and 4 days later the wrong bulb arrives ...

I am in the process of starting a new tank and I want to get a protein
skimmer.  When the companies say "in the sump" do they mean that the
skimmer goes under the tank or does it acutally sit in the wet/dry
filter?

Can anyone please help me I have a aquareef marine aquarium also known
as a minireef aquarium.All I have is the tank it is supposted to have
a internal filter but all I have is empty compartments where I think
the filter media went.

It seems I am one of a couple people having this problem lately.  My
tank is about a month old.  Not done cycling yet (chem is 78 deg,
1.025 spec grav, pH 8.2, Nitrates 15ppm, ammonia .25 ppm, nitrites
.25ppm phosphates 0).  75 AGA w CBR overflow, 10 gal sump, mag 9.5

Can someone please tell me what should initiate a water change and how best
to do this with minimal distruption to the tank and it's inhabitants?
I was told by one guy at the LFS that it was required monthly (±20%?) but
another guy at the same LFS reckoned it wasn't required unless ...

I have had my 46 gallon tank running now for several months with 6
medium sized gold fish in (wanting to add more soon).  Last week we
started to see a black mold growing on the glass and on the rocks.
Now its gotten a little worse. The water is testing fine and the fish

Well, I spent years fighting what seems like a loosing battle with
consistent Cynobacteria battles (I always seemed to have perfect levels of
nitrite, ammonia, phosphate etc.). It used to get everywhere in my tank
spreading like wildfire. After 3 years its seems to have finally gone ...

I put a small colony of xenia into my tank a few months ago.  (I'm not
sure exactly what species, but it's not the pulsing type.)  It really
took off- spread out over the rock and grew really tall, almost up to
the water's surface.  Color was a light brown, and the fronds were

My mini reef system has been up and running for 12 weeks now and my live
rock  is covered in green algae, is this normal ? All parameters test ok.
Firefish and hermit crab introduced two weeks ago all doing fine.
John C

a couple of days ago one of my two bubble corals just deflated until all
that was left was a white skim on a piece of rock. there were no water
quality issues that I can pinpoint other than the removal of about 24 sea
slugs that may have been plundering my corals.

I thought I posted this last night, but here it is now:
Yesterday I picked up some new T-5 lighting to replace my VHO supplementation
over my 55g.
http://www.melevsreef.com/pics/0504/t5.html

Hi! I have a 55 gallon FOWLR, Jebo Protein skimmer and wet/dry filter. My
lighting is 2 - 55W 10k and 2 55W actinic blue PC. A/N/N is 0/0/15. What
type of corals can I keep? I am looking at mainly mushrooms and soft corals
that are hardy as I am new to the hobby. Is there a website ...

I am considering this model for my 90 gal.  I like the way you can hook
it up to a bypass off of your overflow, which allows you to use no pump
to operate the skimmer.  Has anybody used this skimmer?  Does this
skimmer really work well this way or does it require the use of a pump

Hello, I have a Berlin turbo, that seems to be doing nothing. Have run it
for two weeks with hardly any froth.  Any recomendations on a good skimmer?
I am tired of wasting money.
GB

Last weekend I bought a rather dense colony of mushrooms and today I
noticed three or four of the smaller ones had "jumped" off the rock they
came on and are floating around the bottom of the tank. Is this normal?
Haven't seen it happen before. I was going to just stick them ...