Pet Forum / Aquaria / Marine Reef / October 2005

Has any one ever had a mandarin eat himself to death.  Mine got so fat he
could barely swim, then disappeared.

Is there any place that sells weedy seadragons??

I recently switched to RO water after using tap water. I have begun adding
B-Ionic to keep ph/Ca up. When I add the #1 component, I get little white
chunks of precipitate which seem do dissolve again within 30 seconds or so.
Is this common, or is there something in my tap water ...

test

Just trying to get some advice.  Planning on doing some maintenance on my
unit, which has never been backflushed in the three years I've had it.  and
since this unit doesn't have a backflush kit available, I was wondering if
it is possible to  pull the membrane out of its housing ...

1.  I have Caulerpa Nummularia growing on one of my rocks in the back of my
tank.  How much of a nuisance is this algae? (29G tank)
2.  When blue leg hermit crabs molt, does it look just like a hermit crab
minus it's shell?

Most of online LR vendors I see sell in 25-30-50lbs boxes, I'd like to
diversify a rocks a bit, for example: 20lbs fiji, 15 tonga, 10 something
else, etc.....  Even base rock, I definitely do not need 50lbs for my 55G
tank :)   I'd go to LFS, but they sell only fiji for $8/lbs -

Recently we have been worried about reefers using and assuming that the refracts that ever
one has been using in this hobby should be off - 1.5 ppt or -.15 % or - .0015 SG. We have
been telling people in short to raise the seamix "15 units" higher to  = 35 ppt ( to read
36.5), 3 ...

Which lights the 10,000k or the Actinic blue would cause green hair
algae growth?
I only have the GHA growing along the front portion of the tank, not in
the back...

You might want to make an import / export feature, using
simple text files, so that people can export, and import
orders. Often when upgrading to a new version, it erases
the current orders. It's time consuming to write down the

Last week I was given about 70lbs of Fiji live rock from a friends tank that
has been turned off and ignored for approx 4 months. This friend shut down
his tank completely leaving the rock at approx 68 degrees with no light or
skimming.

I would realy like some help to how you square acrylic. Tried a few things
with clamps and such but I can't get a 90' out of it. I know you have link
or something like it.
And I would JUMP UP AND DOWN for it.

Can anyone point me to the best online forums for marine / reef aquaria??
Thanks

Ok...I'm new.  Got a fire shrimp..red and white...got a couple of
clowns...spike boys..(2 cm spikes coming out of their backs, orange &
beige) got some crabs, small and two...well one... well 3/5 of
one...star fish.  My orange star (starry) got dearmed, one by one.

Okay, so I didn't get the lid on my salt bucket tightly, and now it's
hardened into a lump. Can I just break this up and still use it?
Thanks,
Mark