Pet Forum / Aquaria / Marine Reef / June 2006

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I live in the Orlando area and need someone to check my tank.  Is there
anyone out there that do water analysis and a system check?  Doing it myself
hasn't been successful.
Again, if you know of anyone that do home visits to check saltwater tanks

My tanks been setup for about 6 weeks and the cycling process hasn't even
started.  I've got LR, LS, 2 fish, and 20 hermit Crabs in there, they have
been there for about 5 weeks.  Every thing I've read says it should be done
cycling at about 6 weeks.

One of my cleaner shrimp has developed some very dark black spots over
his back.  I noticed them a few days ago and took this picture
(warning, it's a 1.4M file):
http://www.papercanary.org/blake/fishy/cleaner_spots.jpg

Hey guys my girlfriend and I are thinking about getting a clownfish for
our aqaurium. At the moment we have only had goldfish and the like, but
he have a 10 gallon aquarium that was recently vacated by the loss of a
baby chameleon (long story that involved us being ripped off by an

Our house has an odd plumbing issue. Someone in years past set it up so
that a certain amount of hot water is fed through the cold water pipes,
apparently thinking this would keep the pipes from freezing in cold
weather.

I have a very strange acting clown fish.  He is just a regular false
clown who I bought at the LFS a month ago.  The first day he ate a few
bites of plankton.  Since then he will not eat flake, dried bloodworms,
or any of the San Francisco Bay Brand frozen foods.  This includes the

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I am very new with marine tanks.  I have a Coralife protein skimmer
that tends to overflow whenever I add new water to the tank (to replace
evaporated water).  I am using tap water, with a standard water
conditioner.

I wanted to have a bubble wand or two in the back lenght of the aquarium for
the effect.  I was told by one person that bubbles in salt aquarium lead to
the salt collecting at the top glass, above water level, where the bubbles
"pop".  I assume this also leads to lower salinity ...

So, I finally got my light kit and built a box and hung them from my
ceiling.
Setup:
2 X 250 Watt Metal Halide 10,000K

I read  a while back that you can run a mag 3 pump on the remora pro. I
tried it and it over flowed. Doe's anyone have a better way of running the
remora pro than using the RIO that come with it ?
Harry

Any of you had livestock sucked into your powerhead?  I've read about it a
bit and am looking to be proactive.
Any ideas on what I could buy or make to surround the powerhead to prevent
accidents?  I have a small Rio800 btw.

    I have a new Coralife Deep Six hydrometer that I've been using for the
past year or so.  But over the weekend I sorted through my trash can
full of aquarium supplies, and found my old "The Original" Seatest
hydrometer that I've had for probably 20 years.

It's an old problem I know, just got a lovely light green bubble tip
anemone, but he cause trouble on his first night in the tank.
Currently he is sitting bang in the middle of a bunch of pulse coral
heads, and you can tell the coral is not at all pleased with the