Pet Forum / Aquaria / Marine Reef / October 2004

Eight days ago I added about 80 Lbs. of Marshall Island rock (uncured)
to my new 75 Gal. Not being too familiar with liverock, I wasn't too
sure what to expect. When I opened the boxes, I got a slightly
unpleasant whiff and proceded to pick off any obvious dying stuff

heres the link
http://community.webshots.com/photo/134129570/134131124MadBBQ
I'm thinking about buying this guy.
I posted on RC but no response. Time to bust the brains of the old school Guru's

I have a 20gl nano reef established for 2 months now with a combined 130W of
PCs 1000K and actinics running. And it seems that most things are developing
fairly OK. I started seeing some life emerge from the LR and I have just
added a small favia frag.

Recently started a new aquarium hobbiest community and am looking for
members to join and help get it started. Also looking for admins to
maintain it.

  I am hoping to get some advice. I want to add a lot of light to my 44 gal
reef tank. I currently only have about 48 watts of light on it. I have a
glass canopy and looking for a good light fixture that would get me up to
around 150 or 170 watts?

I have been reading that I can save money by making Kalkwasser from lime I
can buy at a hardware store. I was wondering if anybody was doing this
successfully and if so what brand of lime are they using...or does it
matter?

I'm back again with my next glitch *sigh*. I'm getting a large amount
of microbubbles back into my display tank. I have baffles installed
after the skimmer section and before the return section. See pic
http://www2.cecomet.net/sgrien/sump1.jpg

I've been reading up on benefits of using live plankton (phyto & zoo) to
feed inverts, and would like to start experimenting with growing my own
cultures.
Any first-hand feedback on whether it's actually worth while?

I have a question: Do red leg hermit grabs shed their body shell? I had a
single one in a nano reef and one day I saw his remains on the sand all
eaten up. I figured the crab died till a day or two later where there he's
in his shell bigger than ever.

75 gallon (US)
20g sump w/15lbs LR, DSB and macro (bubble caulerpa and halmeda)
crushed arag sub
powersweep for circulation in addition to return diffuser

I have hundreds of these guys in my 80g low-population reef.  Hundreds.
They don't bother waiting for lights out to come out to play and are
starting to get curious about the Mushrooms...getting v-e-r-y curious.
Having been inspired by Marc I am about to tear it down and slide it ...

My sinlge 175w MH ballast fried out last night.  I want to replace it
with a blueline e-ballast. I was thinking of upgrading my system to a
dual 175s, but just wasnt planning on doing so right away. I would
like to but a dual ballast and run only one bulb on it for the time

Hi, My 6 year old reef, has gotten a bad slime problem lately, since I
added a sump and changed proein skimmers.  I had a hard time getting the
skimmer dialed in.  I have added my Remora Pro back to the system to try
to get things under control.  I have added a UV sterilizer.  I ...

I have a 75 gallon reef that is running 390W of Power Compact lights.
I'm going to upgrade to Metal Halide and have decided on 2 - 175W 10K
bulbs.
There seem to be various types of sockets for bulb out there (i.e.

        anyone knows about plate anenomes, my lfs just got in about 4
of them-- they  said it cant move in tank cause  it doesnt have foot.
they showed me underneath of it looks like a solid base. also would 3
stripe clown host it. dont want my corals to get stung by this thing if