Pet Forum / Aquaria / Marine Reef / February 2006

Does anybody know a decent marine/reef oriented LFS in Portland area
(within 50 miles or so)?
I'm having second thoughts about the ones I've been using.
Thank you

How do you put a coral in your tank? Sounds dumb I s'pose but I bought a
 leather coral a couple of months ago (only coral I've bought so far)
and it came attached to a stupid little round rock that I hate. If the
rock were a living thing then I'd have killed it by now.

I want to light a 3ft deep tank. I estimate that it holds about 280 gal of
sea water. Is there any sites that I can use to calculate the ammount of
lighting I need to illuminate this? It will hold priomarily fish.
Thankx

I am starting a Deep Sand Bed fish only Salt water aquarium.  I have a
sand bed around 4 to 4.5 inches deep, plus I have about 65 lbs of live
rock.  What I was asking is a skimmer really  needed to keep just fish?
Or will the Deep sand bed and live rock be good enough.  I would

Does anyone know where I can purchase a small leopard shark? I mean
around a foot in length. It seems the
liberal state of CA passed a law that they can't be sold for aquaria
unless they are over three feet in length.

Hi folks!  Bought a used 75 gallon tank that I'm planning on transferring my
fish, inverts and corals into.  I currently have a 46 gallon and a 29 gallon
tank set up that I want to combine into the 75 gallon.  Now my
question...Anyone have any suggestions on what the best process ...

I have a bristle worm problem in my reef tank: there are at least two
larke worms that are hunting my hermit crabs. Ove time my crabs have
been disapearing and empty shells apearing around the tank and I saw a
3" long worm capture one of them twice already.

I am using Coralife's salt and was getting Calcium readings of 600,
Phosphates of 0 and KH of 5 using RO water mixed to a SG of 1.023. The
RO water is made from creek water and has a pH of 7.5 but mixes up to
8.4 with the coralife salt.

Does anyone know where I can purchase a small leopard shark? I mean
around a foot in length. It seems the
liberal state of CA passed a law that they can't be sold for aquaria
unless they are over three feet in length.

I purchases Rose BTA last Monday. It was a tank raised "split" about 3"
in diameter. Appered to be in good health etc. Two days later it went
missing, and I found it on the substreate behind the rockwork in
relative darkness yesterday. It crawled on a small piece of rock and

Ok, this one is a bit odd but I am hoping someone might have run into
this issue.
I have a 3 year old Nemo (ClownFish) that has a cold sore on the bottom
of his mouth. Its a brown looking scab that has been around for about 2

I've been lurking here for a few months so thought I'd introduce myself.
I live Buckinghamshire in the UK and set up a 100 gallon reef tank just
before Christmas, I've had tropical freshwater fish for the past 30 years.
The bed of the tank has a couple of inches of coral sand ...

I'm setting up a 135 gallon reef tank.  I get the tank from a friend
and it is not set up for a sump.  Oceanic recommends agains drilling it
as well.  I had planned to set it up with a plenum as I have read many
good things about them.  Is there a better way to go?

I dont seem to be getting enough circulation in the substrate. The
patches of blackened sand that pop up from time to time is telling me
this I beleive after all I could be wrong. I am not the most
experienced salt water hobbist but working on it.  The Nitite and

I found what appears to be one of these
Tritonia pickensi
http://www.divebums.com/FishID/Pages/tritonia_pickensi.html
Keep or toss? I have a 66gal tank with lots of corals...