Pet Forum / Aquaria / Marine Reef / January 2005

I just got a 29 gallon tank and set it up for salt water, however
after I did the leak test I conditioned the water and stupidly pour my
substrate into the water (20 lb of aragonite).  Should I let the
particles settle naturally or should I run my filtration system

Do arrow crabs and Peperment shrimps hate each other?

Anybody has here yellow sea cucumber in his/her tank?
I have two, purchased last Wednesday form a LFS...
I noticed mine stay closed during the day, with their
crowns retracted into their body... They open during

I have a serpent star that is missing all of it's legs.  It only has about 1
inch left of all five.  I have other stars in the tank and they are all
fine.  I have checked my prams and all are with in limits.  Could a hermit
crab be sniping them off?  What should I do?  Will the ...

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Marc

Hi All,  I am new to the group.
This is my second reef tank. The first, of 15 years ago, I took all the
wrong short cuts, and had all the bad advise one could gather.
Today, I think I'm going it right.  75 gallons, adding live rock slowly,

I have a 44 Gal tank right now with 42 lbs of love rock and only 2 fish
in it, I am moving to a 75 gal tank with any luck before June 1. My
question is I want to get a refugium that I can keep live rock and macro
algae in that is a size that I could transfer from my 44 gal to the ...

Well, the good folks in the DIY forum at ReefCentral have not come up
with anything ... so I'll coming back to the good ol' usenet :)
I've got a used tank, it's a 75G AGA with the corner overflow. It's got
the bits punched out for the returns on the side. Now, I'm going to use

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Can I use a mag 7 pump on a AquaC-EV120?  recommened a mag 5 but i have an
extra mag7

Hey guys, I just inherited a 65 gallon rectangular aquarium and it was
filthy.  I used a whole bottle of Lime-Away to rid it of its stains
and such, and now its sitting on my porch filled with a water/bleach
solution.  My question is how long should it sit like that?  My next

I have two Florida originated sea cucumbers, similar to "tiger tail"
but all dirty-yellow color. They are happy in my tank, sucking the
dirty sand and spitting it out on the other end, cleaned...
Recently I noticed it was changing color to worse, more dirty yellow,

I have an established tank thats been running for over a year. My tank is 75
Gal with 25 lbs of LR.
I just purchased 25 lbs of cured rock from Ebay. My question is this: Can i
just add the rock, or is there something I nee to do before adding it, if so

I am setting up my first SW tank after ten years of FW. I am switching a 55
gal. over, and right now it's just sand and water, haven't even started
cycling yet. I've been working with the skimmer, a Prizm Deluxe, to see if
I can adjust the flow properly, and getting very wet foam ...

Good afternoon,
I'm a SW newbie.  My wife has talked me into setting up a 10g nano.  We
started with about 10lbs of LR and waited for a couple of weeks.  We were
away for the second week of its young life.  We haven't seen any ammonia or