Pet Forum / Aquaria / Marine Reef / January 2006

I wondered if anyone can help me with this question:  I have a 30G
aquarium.  I have 3 small fish, a 3" mushroom, a 4" diameter rock
covered in white star xenia and a small ricordia.  10kg of living rock.
All water parameters are excellent, the tank is skimmed and I use

I bought a leather coral on the 6th December and it keeps opening and
closing a lot. Sometimes it is open for days and then closed for days
and at other times it is open during the day and closed at night. It has
shed a mucous type stuff a few times which sort of looks like when ...

How good are 4x65w power compacts for a 55g. tank.. 2x65w actinics and
2x65w 10k. I plan on running them on this schedule: actinic on @ 0700,
@ 0900 both on untill 2030(830p)then actinics untill 2200 or so...Any
ideas?  any experience with PC lights and coral? i know MH are better

Hey all, i need some help...again! I just purchased some LR from my LF
and it came with some "creatures" im not too sure what they are. Mayb
some of your expertise can help me.  I attached the photos on here, s
i hope this works. If not, ill have to find another way to show u th

As I mentioned in a post earlier this week my new 65g marine tank is in
its second week of cycling. I've got 90# of live rock in it and have had
the lights running on their timer ever since I set the tank set up and
everything in the tank (and I do mean everything) is covered in ...

I have recently received a new 50 gallon glass tank for Christmas.
Merry Christmas to me. I have kept smaller saltwater tanks for several
years (3-12 gallon Eclipses) and have had great success. However, I am
lost with this newest endeavor. I have read volumes of information now

I have a CPR SR in sump skimmer. It skims very well as long as there is
sufficient air getting to the pump. The little elbow fittings seem to
clog easily, and I want to replace the Rio pump with a maxi-jet 1200.
According to one website, amekaaquatics.com, you can get a venturi

I'm attempting to determine the flow rate of an overflow box for a new reef
tank which is in the design stage. I have a formula provided to me by a
civil engineer that I think is applicable, but would like to know how others
have gone about determining their overflow rates.

Hi, I plan to put "Outer Orbit" fixture over my 50 gallon tank:
http://www.drsfostersmith.com/Product/prod_display.cfm?pcatid=12779
All-Glass Tank dimensions are as follows: surface 36"x18", hight 18".
It will be DSB setup, so the water column will be only 14" high.

Placed an order for livestock from liveaquaria.com on Dec 26th.  Waited for
the order and called them several times to see why I hadn't received it.
The last time I called them they said due to them not getting the ball
rolling on the order that Dr Race Foster wanted to give me ...

Anyone have any opinion on or experience with GARF's "bulletproof
reef"?  It's a very simple, low cost system--uses a plenum, 3-4 tubes
of NO flourescent lighting, no sump, no skimmer even for six months.
It seems like a nice alternative to some of the setups you see

Happy new year first of all. My wife and I have decided to set up a new
salt-water tank in our living room. Since I'm totally new with the marine
tank, I have some questions and hopefully you pros can help me out.
1. Petco is selling a 12 gallon tank complete with all the salt-water

I live in Scotland, East Coast (near border) 80 miles North of Newcastle.
Wondering if any fellow seahorse keepers would be interested in swapping fry
or even selling fry or adult seahorses to me. I have been keeping the
Estuary Seahorse, a Kuda species, sometimes also know as ...

Here is a question for us all - what do you consider to be the perfect sized
tank?
Is bigger always better?  Most people i chat to always want bigger tanks...
~m

I have a 75 Gal tank for the past  4 years or so. I have FOWLR  and a few
fish. This morning everything was hunky dori, this afternoon, Its starting
to get cloudy. The only thing I did to the tank was a partial Water change
about 7 days ago, nothing since then. Can anyone help?