Pet Forum / Aquaria / Marine Reef / July 2004

My apologies if I'm being too annoying with a lot of questions.  :-)
If I place a pane of eggcrate covering the entire bottom of the tank,
before I add the sand, will that give more stability to my LR?
What are your recommendations on eliminating dead water flow spots in

Hi Everyone.  I hope that someone can help.  I have a 30-gallon Oceanic tank
with about 10 lbs of live rock.  I was hoping to start keeping a few corals
so I upgraded my crappy full spectrum fluorescent strip light with an
Aqualight dual power compact 96 watt actinic and 10,000 K ...

I set up the Q-tank tonight, By the way remind me to clean it when I take it down this time :)
Anyway I managed to get him out.The only thing the LFS had was MelaFix. I put a little more than they
recomended just for the inital dose, then threw in some copper thinking all I need is ...

Anybody out there use Ruby Reef's Kick Ick in a reef tank?  I got a 90g full of
white spotted friends.   How does Seachem's Metronidazole compare beyond being
far cheaper?  Also, any thoughts on UV vs. medicating?  
TIA-M333

Everyone seems to have their best method.  When I used to work at an
aquarium store, we sometimes left the rock for hours in a box with no
water (just like it is shipped), the theory being that the nasty
worms, etc. would die off.  Also, we sometimes gave the rock a

I have a 120 gallon All Glass Aquarium and it has 3 glass tops across the top
that came with the tank.  Sometimes I take these off or even leave it open but
the problem is on each of them the beige/brownish plastic hinge is going bad.
I know it's a very simple piece to hold the ...

Hi Boomer
See below.
Do you have any views on the ability of these resins to act as skimmers?
Phil

I am in the process of setting up a 20 gal quarantine tank for new arrivals
and although I have aragonite substrate, it will be completely empty in
regards to shelter objects.  I do have several rocks that I have collected
over the years and used in my freshwater tanks for ...

Have a 55 gallon FOWLR.  Been running a couple years.  I have always had
problems stocking fish.  At first I thought it was just my rushing things
too much, but now I don't know.
Have about 40 lbs of live rock.  2" crushed corral substrate.  Nitrates and

Ya Ya I know 30gal and a Manderin = failure but I couldn't resist.
We went to my lfs this morn looking for a hippo and maybe some mexican turbos.
well low and behold the manderin jim got in a mounth ago was still there. Nice,fat and
looking happy. I asked if he's been eating frozen ...

I've set up a new 240 gallon tank, one week old with 100kg of uncured live
rock, the first two days the whole house stank, now there is no smell and
many different types of macro amd hair algae is growing.
BUT my 4' tank that has been running for 3 years and is jam packed with

All
Does anyone have experience using Bio-Chem Zorb as a means of removing
organics?
See   http://www.aquariumpharm.com/aqfilter.html

My luck seems to be getting really bad. Got home after a unbelievably bad day, grabed a beer
and sat down with the wife to talk about the shift changes and about 15 min later she jumps up and says
"Oh sh.t I need to check your tank I forgot to turn on the fans this morn. and it ...

How often should you run carbon in your tank?
Is it something that should allways be used used or just now and again, I've
never used it on my 4 month old tank, but it seems to be doing fine.

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