Pet Forum / Aquaria / Marine Reef / January 2005

I've noticed a LOT of miniature snails in my SW tank. The tank hasn,t
even cycled yet. I think the snails may be from live rock I purchased.
How can I control them? Is there a predator I could introduce?
The snails seem to have that little snorkle thing..

I have a refugium with about a 5" bed of live sand, skimmer, and about
55 lbs. of LR in a 30 gal tank.  But there's still a lot of green
algae that grows on the LR.  Seems the coralline can't quite grab a
foothold and spread throughout the tank.

As a followup to my previous post, what is the best anti-parasite
treatment for fish in a reef tank.  (And HEY, I'm not saying hot sauce
WON'T work... they jury is still out!)
Thanks,

I know that this is obviously opinion driven, but what is the best place
online to purchase livestock? please give specific sites, and resons to why
you think they are the best. Is anyone site better than another for specfic
purchases ex:live rock, or fish, or coral

Do these do better in medium to low light?  I have some in my reef.
They're about 12" down from the surface, about 14" below my power
compact flourescents.  None of them are opening up, except for the
ones in the back which seem to be getting a little shade from an

I'm going to be switching over from a canister filter to a wet/dry filter in
my 46 gallon reef/fish tank and was wandering what the best way is to get
the siphoning action going in the over flow box once it's all set up??
Thanks--Susan :)

I'm an American living in Germany and I'm looking to start working
with acrylic for a new marine aquarium.  In the U.S. I can readily get
a acrylic solvent called Weld-On 3 from the company IPS.  Unfortunatly
for me living in Germany IPS doesn't sell their products here.  I've

  how do i get rid of this stuff? my tank was fine 4 the longest, it is
now all over rocks,overflow, etc. i have snails, hermits but they seem
more interesrted with algae on glass, gravel. i have etss skimmer, drip
kalk, use ro/di                               any thoughts.       ...

I'm ordering a red black sea star (formia milleporella) from liveaquria.com
and was wandering if anybody has any experience with these in a reef/fish
tank?  I have a scallop and am getting a Derasa clam and was wandering if
this little guy will be compatible?  I tried to look up ...

It's been a few years since my last reef tank. I must admit I cut many
corners wich turned out ok , but if left unchecked things would and could
have gone way bad...Anyway I'm thinking about a 90 gal. reef ready tank. I
want to see if there is any truth to the LFS guy or is he ...

This is unreal.  I hope I'm wrong about this...
I go the the LFS tonight to buy some reef-safe anti-parasite medicine
for the parasite-ridden fish they sold me.  (Fish = $12.  Medicine =
$15.)  I persuaded them to give me a $5 discount on the medicine,

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I'm having trouble with my protein skimmer that I bought a while back &
was wondering if anyone can help me figure out what's wrong with it.
I'm getting columns of bubbles running through the output tubes causing
a massive amount of microbubbles. Also, the skimmer cup is overflowing

I bought a box of Salifert test kit for phosphate, and I have already lost
the instruction sheet. Does anyone know the proper steps for running the
tests? I found my 5 year old version, but they've change the contents. I've
tried the website, but that it's not a good reference...

I once found a web page that told about reef safe materials on how to make
archs and different formations. Anyone know of a good diy web-site that
breaks this down, and what cement type mixes are actually reef safe?