Pet Forum / Aquaria / Marine Reef / July 2004

Its growing on my trusty rio800. Looks like a worm. yummie !
http://www.mingsa.com/space/worms.jpg

Can someone get me the exact outside dimensions of the All-Glass or
Oceanic 72 gal bowfront?
Particularly the width at the ends and in the center.
Thanks,

I have recently noticed a fine red algae growing on the glass of my 1yr old
coral tank.  I beleive this started shortly after my last large 2.5" snail
(still have several smaller snails) got sucked into the impeller of the
powerhead (not positive).  Is this an algae I want to get ...

   I live in Australia and I am looking for a good RO unit with DI. They
cost $400 here for the basic model with no DI
Does anybody know a good supplier in the US that would post one of these
units via standard post, most suppliers I have contacted via ebay only post

All
Here are some new pics from our tank (6*2*2)
Hope you enjoy
http://community.webshots.com/album/149890982jXnxRs

Any suggestions as to how to catch a beaugregory damsel from a 100
gallon tank full of rock. Each time I'm nearly angry enough to start
pulling out the rock I take a few deep breaths and think better of it.
It is torturing his tankmates, all of which will willingly swim into a

well I am not sure if you lot will think this is of any use but.
I was chatting with a guy about milling large holes and needing large
cutters. He suggested that if I got a rotating table and a 6mil cutter I
could cut any size hole. so to cut a perfect round circle all I need to do

I am looking for plans for a 50 gallon pentagon corner canopy.  Has
anyone made one of these before?  I have searched the internet and the
newsgroup, but only come up with rectangular plans.  Thanks.

I have a 75 Gal tank with 50lbs of Live Rock. I have a sand base, my tank
has been established for over a year, I was wondering can I add live sand to
the base or is this something that needs to be done during the set up of the
tank.

I've just had a delivery of new corals for my tank.  it wasn't until I had
the yellow polyps in place and opened that I noticed an alien in our midst.
there on the edge was a small 20mm wide anemone.  it's not astipsia as I've
had to deal with them before but I'm worried that it ...

 I'm about to upgrade from PC to Metal Halide lighting and
have been told both TO and NOT TO place either a glass or
acrylic shield or cover between the MH and the aquarium
water surface.    It's about 10 inches from the water surface

For those that do not no, a new bimonthly magazine came out on reef tanks. It is now in
its 4th issue, starting in 2004. For those interested go here.
www.coralmagazine.com

 hey all,  went to 2 wal-marts lookin for pickling lime -did'nt have
it, workers don't know about it. i read a post a few wks. ago you could
find this stuff at a major store like walmart, any other place i could
look. i'm spendin 45.00 bucks with shippin for the 4.4 lb. bucket from

Hey guys,
I've had my 100G tank running for about 6 months now.  All was good
except my nitrate battle, which is now at about 10ppm.
Lately though, I've been getting quite a bit of brown algae.  I've