Pet Forum / Aquaria / Marine Reef / November 2004

I have a young reef tank.  It consists of about 55 lbs. of Fiji rock
in about a 32 gallon tank.  It's recently through the amonia/nitrite
cycle... ended about five days ago.  I got two big turbo snails around
that time to tame a little algae growth.  One of them ate a little,

I have two tanks and we are getting ready to buy a house.... so I thought I
might offer the 125gal up for sale.  I have close to 8 grand invested in it
so far, however, I will not be parting with the live rock, stock, or cal
reactor.

I found a page that you put in how big of a tank you want and it gives the
dimesions and directions.  Does anyone know what I am talking about?
Like I want 96" L
30" wide

My lad kept pestering me for the "cool" arrow headed crab he admired
whenever we visited the LFS. I eventually relented and ask the LFS
assistant if it was safe (she is normally pretty good with advice).
She said yes and assured me that it shouldn't bother fish, corals or

For all those involved in the "Stupid Americans" thread, check out the
following:
1) Go to www.google.com
2) Type in "weapons of mass destruction" (DON'T hit return)

I am mixing 1 teaspoon of pickling lime with 15 ml of white vineger.  Then
diluting it with 1 quart of saltwater.  Then I drip it in to the tank (1
drop per second).  Now I was figuring my calcium would go up.  It was 200
now the drip has it up to 300.  I was told the alkalinity ...

I'm starting my tank up again after a wipe out six months ago. I'm only just
cleaning the filter after its been sitting for that time switched off. It
smalls extremely bad of rotten eggs! Like my wife and kids want to move out!
The bucket of crushed coral is the same when I dig into ...

<brief history of my LFS/pet store experience>
My girlfriend wanted a veil chameleon, so I finally snuck off to the pet
store one day and bought one for her with everything (cage, food, etc.).  I
bring it home to an excited yet concerned woman.  She tells me that

Do invertebrates such as the Stenopus hispidus count towards the total
number of fish when stocking a new marine fish tank?  For example if based
on tank capacity you can stock 20" of fish, would that need to be reduced if
adding the Stenopus Hispidus.

New to the group AND marine fishkeeping!
I had a fairly small marine aquarium installed about 45 minutes ago, the
local fish shop installed and filled with water, added the salt and setup
the filter etc.  I am hoping to find someone to maintain on a monthly basis

I have two new clowns that were paired at the store. I've only had
them two days. They seem to be doing bizarre bobbing up and down
behavior. At first, I thought that this was because of wrong specific
gravity. But, I added some salt to the tank and got it up to 1.021

I have a question about setting up a new saltwater tank.  I have a 46 gallon
(bowed front) tank that I had been using at a freshwater cichlid tank.  I am
converting it over to saltwater and still using the penguin 400 fresh/marine
bio-wheel filter and I bought a new skimmer (that is ...

I've read it, I've even bookmarked the page... just wanted to see if anyone
has done it, and if there was any success with it?
Seems like a not so bad idea.... but could be 'too frugal' of an idea too...

I have had my reef tank set up for about 3 months. With the live rock came
an orange starfish which has been doing great and seemed very happy. In the
last 3 days his "bumps" have turned dark, he's not moving around much and
two of his "legs" are curled at the ends. Is he sick? Is ...

I have a mega gree hair algae problem in my 6ft reef tank, i've checked/done
so far:
phosphates and they are nil,
nitrates are nil,