Pet Forum / Aquaria / Marine Reef / August 2004

A couple of weeks ago, after being out of town for 2 weeks, I was
pleasantly surprised to find that my rose anenome had split twice
(from one to three).  Since my tank has limited high-light areas
necessary for anenomes, I ended up trading one into the LFS for

I've haven't seen much of it on this group, but I think a few do it yourself
posts would be cool every now and then.
Not all of us have the deep pockets it can sometimes take to run a reef and
every penny saved helps. Besides,

any ideas. he's embedded himself in honeycomb of rockwork that'll mean I
have to wreck the reef to get him.  at the moment he's very shy and
slightest movement and away he goes.  the crabs picking at the rockwork
around his latest hole but could he have nailed my clown that's just ...

I was curious to know how many people out there reduce the current flow in
their tanks to simulate calmer night oceans?  I have a 240 FOWLR and
although there are good hiding spots in the LR for the fish to sleep in, I'm
afraid that once the tank is fully stocked, sleeping ...

Exactly how concerned should I be about a snowflake eel escaping?  I'm
starting a 75 gallon fish-only tank and want to include a snowflake
eel.  My tank is well covered, but I do have two openings on the back
of my tank to allow for filtration hoses and a hang-on protein skimmer

OK, I posted earlier asking about snowflake eels escaping.  I decided
not to get a snowflake, because I just didn't want to go through the
trouble of sealing my tank up really tight.
I've decided to get a green wolf eel instead.  I've heard that since

When changing water in my tank (no sump), I use a maxijet 1000 pump and
some plastic tubing to siphon water out (maxijet in the tank).  Then, to
put the newly mixed water into the tank, I use the same pump in the
bucket with the tubing going up to the tank.

I am gearing up to place an order with Premium Aquatics and I though I would
see if there were any reefers near Chicago that would want to combine their
order with me so we could split the extraordinary shipping costs of the
Bulbs.

Exactly how concerned should I be about a snowflake eel escaping?  I'm
starting a 75 gallon fish-only tank and want to include a snowflake
eel.  My tank is well covered, but I do have two openings on the back
of my tank to allow for filtration hoses and a hang-on protein skimmer

I have a 4 year old 150 gallon reef tank.  The tank was custom built
for me, and came with a protein skimmer built by the tank maker.
Although the tank including the fish, LPS and SPS have done very well
in general, I still have persistent low levels of nitrates 2-5, and

i have a sand sifting sea star that is losing a leg.... it looks like it is
wasting away right at the body.... any one know what is causing this... all
water perameters are fine... all fish and corals are fine too...
SNC

Battling for years, and reasonably in control.
But recently cut my lighting by just one hour, to 9 hours a day (last 4
weeks) and the problem has completely cleared up with no adverse effect on
anything.

If I described my anemone as having -
* long tentacles, light brown in colour (some with a hint of green)
* the outer tentacles being white at the bottom
* a white base firmly entrenched in a crevice between two rocks....

Hi Gang
The year before last somebody started an exeriment using a separate
refugium with a 2 foot deep sand bed.  I saw a post that all was still
running well last year.  But in the process of moving I lost the

I recently upgraded from a 65 watt power pc to a 400 watt metal halide. I noticed today that there are bubble sitting on top of my DSB (1 year old) and a fair number of bubbles mixed in the sand and crushed coral that I can see through the glass. Is the new lighting a coincidence ...