Pet Forum / Aquaria / Marine Reef / June 2005

For all you clever people out there.... Have any of you ever tried
making a peltier pump cooler for your tank? If so how did it go?
I'm making one today from some bits I have lying around... It works ok
on the bench...

29 G tank
Ammonia - 0
Nitrites - 0
Nitrate - 2.5

See here:
  http://www.benslade.com/pictures/2005/jun/reeftank/
for a picture of an unknown critter found in my reef tank June 05 (click
on the image to see a higher resolution version of the photo).  I've

Hi I`m looking a cleaning robot for aquarium widows maybe somebody knows who
make this equipment
thanks

Hi I`m looking a cleaning robot for aquarium widows maybe somebody knows who
make this equipment
thanks

I wondered if anyone can give me advice on the following?  We have a
small kitchen and my RO unit takes up a lot or working surface space.
It's therefore better to make lots (relatively speaking) of RO water in
one go and pack everything away than make a small amount every

How do I keep it alive, new to saltwater, live rock with lots of it and
it seems to be turning white, is this a lack of calcium ?

Well I got back from my Memorial Day holiday, and smelled the sort of
sweet-putrid smell of decaying marine life.  My five-year old 150
gallon reef tank showed no fish life.  The pump was off.  I was able to
look at the graphs recording on my aquacontroller showing the rising

Animal advocacy groups are campaigning to free a lonely dolphin with
failing health who has been kept captive inside a huge shopping mall and
forced to perform for the public every day for the last 23 years.
http://www.anc.org/wildlife/wildlife_article ...

I have a 29gal tank fishless cycling with LR and LS for a week now.
The 20lbs of LR I got from the dealer are from an old tank thus
Coraline algae (the purple algae) already established therefore I
don't know if the cycle timeline on my tank will remain the same, 4