Pet Forum / Aquaria / Marine Reef / September 2004

Hi everyone, I'm new to this group, but not new to the hobby. I've got about 10 years experience in the reef/marine aquaria hobby and I've decided to
start up again after a five or six year hiatus.
I seem to remember that about 8 years ago a company was making glass aquaria ...

I'm in the process of planning out my 29 gal. reef tank.  My question
relates to the deep sand bed.  I know that the deep bed denitrifies
better because there are anaerobic areas where bacteria can break
nitrates down.  I'm wondering if one could "simulate" the effect of a

I remember reading a post of something like this a while back but now that
something has nabbed one of my clowns it's time for a replacement.  I had
noticed that although they shared the tank one clown would protect his furry
mushrooms from the other so I assumed that they hadn't ...

My 4 year old 150 gallon reef tank has evolved to currently hold SPS,
LPS, Fish, invertebrates, clams.  It has approximately 170 lbs of live
sand, and about 350lbs of live rock.  The majority of the fish
population is at least 2 years old, and the LPS, and SPS have been

Hi - i'm wondering if anyone knows of a good way to interface the cold
side of a peltier unit efficiently into the aquarium water?
I'm planning to build something a little beefier than the 50W Ice
Probe/Microchiller units that are out there  (

I have two dehumidifiers in the basement that produce a couple of gallons of
water a day that I poor down the drain.  Does anybody know the purity of
this water and the advisability of using it to top of my 120 gal reef tank?
Thanks,

I seem to be getting the unusual behaviour of low PH and high dKH
600 litre tank using RO water
PH 7.9 - 8
dKH 18

I saw a link to a supplier of reef janitors a while back.  I beleive the name
was Saltwater Solutions in the Chicago area.  Bought some blue leg crabs and
was very happy with the price and service.  Their link no longer seems to work.
Is anyone familiar with this company?

All,
I previously posted a note to ask what all these ghost like pieces of 'skin
like' material were floating around in my tank.
I now know what it is, as I saw my lionfish last night shedding his skin! he

The hurricane Francis message is back up and the site is
down.....bother.

I'm still here.  :-)
I went to town (Pensacola) for the storm and the roof of the house
I was staying in came down in about 70% of the house, miserable
for the last week, no power, no water, no A/C yada yada still..

my autotopoff stuck open dropped my sg from 1.024 to 1.004 in about 12
hours.  Huge mess in the front room  Fish lived however it looks like all of
my corals died.  It has been two days and nothing is open Devils hand is
collapsed and small, green star poyls have not opened and the ...

I am hooking up a CA reactor, and it says to have the outlet flow set to 1-2
drops a second. What would this calc to oz per hour or gallons per hour? How
much is a "drop"?
Thanks,

I'm going to bail off the island in the AM.
(Pensacola Beach on Santa Rosa Island, 7 miles
off the coast on a narrow barrier island)
Me and my gang were just on CNN!! LOL All lit up and ranting,

My Turbo Snails seem to have other much smaller snails on there shell...
At first I though they were babies as they seem to multiply all the time in
my tank but there a much whiter colour than all the babies on the glass and
there a much slimmer shape (like hermit crab shells).