Pet Forum / Aquaria / Marine Reef / April 2005

I;ve recently set up a refugium and put a "wad" of Chaeto in it. I am using
a 19 watt 5100k flourescent lamp about 1 foot away. The plant is full of
bubblesat the surface and below, but the area near the surface is turning
brown. Is this normal? Too much light? not enough water ...

Howdy !!! :)    I have had a couple of large and small aquariums going
over the years that have consisted of strictly freshwater setups. As most
aquarists,  I had always wanted to try something different. I am much more
interested in starting a brackish tank rather then a full out ...

Freshwater keeper for many years, wanting to move into salt water,
haven't got huge piles of money but I love the shrimps and hermit crabs.
My question is this, has anybody ever kept a tank with some live rock,
and shrimps, hermit crabs and snails but no fish or coral ?  Are these ...

I've had red-legged hermit crabs in my 55gal tank for at least a year
now ... this is my second batch but these guys have been in there for
at least half a year.
Today I see one of them crawling up the side glass of the tank.  This

Hey, I have a 55g saltwater tank.  I am fairly new to tanks so I dont
know much about pumps and such, I have 2 whisper 30-60 powerfilters and
2 powerheads hooked to my undergravel filters.  Currently I have been
using a python to take the water out of the tank, then use it to fill ...

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Anyone have any idea how long it should take to cycle with just rock and
sand?  I started a 75 gal. tank about 3 weeks ago and am still waiting for
the nitrites to register. I've got about 40 lbs of well cured live rock and
20 lbs of sand.  I'm moving from a 29 to the new 75 and ...

I have a 29G with 1 Strawberry Dottyback, 2 clown fish, a pumping Zenia, sun
polyp and 2 feather dusters.  My clownfish won't eat flake food, marine one
pellets, frozen marine one, mysis shrimp or brine shrimp.  I almost gave up
until I shared my talapia dinner with them and they ...

Hi, all
I've used a RO unit about three month.
It has three gallon tank. At the beginning, this tank was fully filled with
RO water. However, it's just filled a third of the tank capacity. I changed

Anyone ever experienced shopping with Rosemarine ? Made a nice order...
one of them came DOA but refused to provide credit. Even after
providing photo of it. I had ordered from many online stores before and
had never experienced this kind of customer service. It is a shame.

I have added some new fish to my tank -- Flame angel. While watching, I
noticed my 6 line wrasse that I've had for about 2 years "CLEANING" my
yellow tang and the new Flame. I didn't know 6 line wrasse were known for
this behavior. Is this correct?

I just set up a refugium ( 18") on my 75 gallon FO tank. I have other
filtration also. I bought a handful of Cheato and placed in about 1" of my
existing sand from the tank. I imported some amphipods living in my Emperor
400 filter. My question is this:  I bought a 19 watt 6500K ...

I have 10 red mangrove babies that need me to learn how to care for them.
Right now I have them in a 10 gal. aquarium full of fresh water.  I have no
experience in saltwater tanks, I thought the mangrove would do well in
either fresh or salt water.

Long time reader, first time poster
I'm in the flint MI area and am interested in doing an acrylic tank and
sump, have you had luck locating these materials at local stores(homedepot,
lowes) or do you mail order this stuff. Also, if  i'm after a good adheasive