Pet Forum / Aquaria / Marine Reef / July 2004

Hi all! I've read that lighting for an aquarium should be on 10-12 hours a
day. During hours that lights are off, do you guys have the actininc blue
on, is the tank in total darkness? New to this hobby obviously. Any help
would be appreciated.

Pick up or meet half way (will drive up to 30 miles)
1 Midi-D 7gallon a day H2O distiller $40.00
3 ea. Flower Leather frag's $5.00/ea
1 ea. Flower Leather coral $12.00

Anybody have any experience with those fixtures like Current USA Orbit,
Satellite, or the Formosa units that stand on legs on top of your tank?
My concern is about how much light spills into the room out the sides
between the light and the tank. Do you get this obnoxious bright

I am getting ready to get a 200G and I want to do a better job of filtering
than I currently am. I have read "Use a Protein skimmer" I have read "Don't
use a protein skimmer" I have read "use carbon when you have to". I have
read "Use bio balls" "Don't use bio balls"

I have a tang that I purchased recently, and after a couple of days in
the tank, it started constantly fighting its own reflection. The
creature constantly sprints from side to side, and wiggles his/her body
against the tank (I assume it's fighting its own reflection.)

Hi Folks;
I'm able to setup a sump on my undrilled 55gal tank.  I have a Mag7 pump, no
other sump equipment.  I was talking with the folks at Lifereef about using
their Slimline overflow box (I only have 3.5" of space behind the tank), and

So I am in the process of moving a tank right now.  I am setting up a
'new' one to just move the old one into with a new DSB.  My question is
I thought about bringing a few smaller pieces of live rock into the tank
that is being set up to hopefully get some of the critters and ...

I have a full grown clarkii clown i want to try and bleed...the fish is
somewhat aggressive...i add one medium sized clarkii before...and the big
one killed him...anyone have any suggests?? Thanks..

Is it possible to start the tank's cycle without lighting until I get
the hood built?
Thank you.
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Hi;
Does anyone see a potential problem with Caulerpa prolifera?  I hear it is
not as likely as the other Caulerpas to go sexual and cloud the tank...what
are the warning signs if it does?

do you know good website where i could buy some corals ?
Thanx

I have a Oceanic 30 gallon hex that I'm thinking about converting to a
fowlr.  The only lighting I have for it though is a 14 watt fluorescent.
Real estate on the top of that tank for lighting is a premium.  I'm
wondering about the requirement of light for the live rock to have its

Look at this http://www.korallenriff.de/ati_kreisel.html
If you are not fluent in German, use http://babelfish.altavista.com
or other automatic translation service to convert it to English.
What do you think about it? Have you seen it somewhere on US market?

Has anyone ever had their hair algae spontaneously disappear?!?
A few days ago I was thinking I'm going to have to pull some of the rock out
of my tank to get rid of the algae, and this morning, I noticed that there
isn't one bit of hair algae anywhere in my tank, yet my fish are ...

Hi all. Does a reef tank need actinic lights? I have 2 - T8's 5000K
overdriven 4x and 2 actinic T12's overdriven 4x also. I only have some
mushrooms, green star polyps and brown button polyps and they are all doing
great under these lights. I figure what if I just run all 5000K T8's ...