Pet Forum / Aquaria / Marine Reef / July 2005

This NG used to be packed with a few hundred new posts every day.  Now
there is hardly anything going on.  Did everyone move on to a web
based forum and if so which one.
Phatty

Following a Memorial day long weekend trip in which my main pump shut
down, and I lost all the fish and the majority of corals in my beloved
reef tank, I have been pondering the modifications that I could make to
prevent such a disaster and others from occuring in the future.  My

   I have a dog face puffer that is extremelly mellow.
Today he started freeking out.He wont look at me,and is running back and
forth at the sides and back of the tank. He's also browner.This happened
once before and i moved some things around in the tank and he stopped ,but

You ever let your fish watch that Shell V-Power commercial?
Well, take it from me, Don't!
I did, and now they all want guitars. Especially the young ones...(and
the ones going through mid-life crisis, of course).

I have a 75gal tank with about 50lb live rock, 10 fish, a few small corals
and about 3 in of aragonite gravel.  Should I regularly vacuum the gravel or
is whatever is in the gravel part of the biofilter?
Brian

I am currently struggling with Velvet in my tank.  I have been dosing with
something called 'heal all' but it does not seem to be working well enough.
My midas Blenny is civered and after dosing with Heal All he started to
clear a little at his gills and head but he has not made ...

I just had my email program collapse a couple of days ago after years of
 daily abuse. LOL  In resetting it up, I can't remember the binaries
group we use for posting images.  Can someone help me?
Marc

I am in the process of upgrading my 58g Oceanic Reef-Ready to an
Oceanic 215 RR that will be built into a wall in my new house.  I am
constructing a stand and would like to pre-drill the overflow holes in
the counter prior to the arrival of the tank.  I have not been able to

I set-up my marine tank about 3 months ago.  I still have a brown algae in
there that covers everything and I have to brush it off every 3 days.  What
am I doing wrong?
~m

Does anyone here have a pet squid/octopus/cuttlefish? It requires plenty
of commitment, so most of us won't ever keep one--like to share your
experiences? Biologists say cephalopods are the smartest invertebrates
and it's rather interesting.