Pet Forum / Aquaria / Marine Reef / July 2006

I have a 90 gal. glass tank with corner overflow.  The overflow is 3" X 6"
made of glass plates with a plastic weir on top.  There are 2 - 1 1/2" holes
in the bottom of the tank leading to the sump.
My problem is that with my Little Giant pump, supplying return through 4

Hello All and thanks for reading this, I just moved from Long Island NY to
Port Richey FL. I had  300 gal reef tank 10 years ago and i am also  a ham
radio operator. so now im retired and need to get back into my two best
hobbies. ham radio and fish. and good place to buy all the EQ ...

Are there any ballasts at any of the chain hardware stores that will work
with PC lighting? I have seen old posts about 'Advance' ballasts, but have
not found any. I'd like to run 2 55 or 65 watt PC.
Thanks,

Hi ... I have a 20g microreef in the office, and would
like to ge a protein skimmer for it. I used the Prizm
in the past, and was not happy with it (it started
leaking, not a good thing for a tank in the office!).

I recently added some new fish to my tank. 2 Yellow gobies and a FoxFace. I
was able to find out the goby diet is mostly brine shrimp /mysid shrimp. The
LFS guy also said I can also feed them flake. ( is this true?)  The foxface
I was told likes seaweed and is pretty much a ...

Hey guys I just posted a picture of one of my tanks, It is a 75 gallon
reeftank with Dual 250 HQI Radiums Stocked with SPS, LPS, And Zoa's  Most
are unussual frags:) It's posted on my Blog, and has more tnak info there
also. Hope you guys like it!!

Hi, I am setting up a 22  inch tall temperate seahorse and seagrass
tank.  I was worried about te heat from the MH lights and planned on
getting a chiller.  If the LED's would be acceptable for the grasses,
they would be much cooler, and I could buy a smaller chiller (I still

http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g167/kr-yppy/13832d6d.jpg
Found two of them today. I'll bet they are going to eat my coral. :)
Hey, I found them on the web. Flamingo Tongue. Looks like I need to
feed them gorgonians. They never live long in my tank anyway...

I recently purchased 2 sally lightfoots for my 75 gallon tank. Coral an
fish combo. But one has lost a pincher and the other was torn apart.
do have a large green brittle star. But I have never seen it go afte
anything. The wife feeds it by hand. Help in whats hurting the crabs?

What would happen if someone used  calcium supplements intended for human
consumption to dose for calcium. I can envision Caltrate tablets slowly
releasing Ca++ into the water, but I guess someone would have already
started doing this if it were possible. I guess Ca++ has to be ...

Just wondering if the plankton in Kent Marine's bottle is alive or dead.
Seems if they are dead then the contents would stink. OTOH, if they are
living, where are the nutrients and O2 coming from. So there are two other
possibilities. 1) they are in suspended animation, 2) they ...

I purchaced a small piece of Pulsing XENIA a few months back. It is
beautiful and quite wonderful to watch ....however it seems to be on a
forced march to cover as much as the tank as I will alow !. Can someone
tell me the best way to remove or trim it to keep it under control ? My

Don't post pictures to this newsgroup. This newsgroup is
not for the posting of pictures. Post pictures to a web
site, and then place the web address in this newsgroup.
Wayne Sallee

I'm having trouble with a Yellow Tang who is exhibiting signs of HLLE.  Any
favorite treatments?  TIA, Andy