Pet Forum / Aquaria / Marine Reef / October 2006

I have a problem... in my huge wisom I have covered a side wall
of the fishtank with a mirror-foil. Just to cover the unpleasant view
behind of the tank... and to get some more light reflected back.
Today I let the fish in this new tank...

I picked up a floating hydrometer and I'm wodering if they are affected by
barometric pressure? When I float it in RO water it reads 1.004. Since I'm
located in Iowa, which is above sea level a bit, will this affect the
reading a bit?

I'm in the process of downgrading to a fish only tank from a reef tank for
various reasons.  My questions:
1 - Can I keep a cleaner shrimp in a FO tank given that I won't be using RO
water and my water quality may not be quite as high as it was in my reef

I have a serious problem in my 55g reef. This tank is about 5 years
old, and is well established. I've kept reefs for about 15 years, so
thought I'd seen everything, but this has me beaten.
The symptoms are that everything is covered in brown algae, which is

Getting back in the hobby after several years out and am currently planning
a reef in my new house. We really did not plan the house with a reef in mind
so we have some obstacles. One, the sump will have to be quite always away
from the tank (1st Floor tank and Sump in the ...

I know the reef community preaches RO/DI.  I'm wondering if anyone on this
forum has had any personal experience with the Kold-sterile filtration
system.  I just don't like having my water being wasted making RO/DI.
I only find some old articles/forums about this product.  Sounds ...

I have a beautiful piece of pulsing xenia that grows vigorously. Every
month of so I cut it back to try and control it. Sometime little pieces
of it fly loose and set hold on my live rock in places where I do not
want it to grow.

I'm thinking of buying a Tunze 6060. Anyone out there have one? How much noise
do they make?
George Patterson
     All successes in conservation are temporary. All defeats are permanent.

Does anyone here use mangroves in their sump or tank?
Cindy

I'm about to move my 40 gal reef (Fri) to set it on a new stand. As long as
I'll have almost everything removed, I wonder if anyone has any good
guidelines on aquascaping. I know that all should "firm" so things don't
tumble (like they do now). I want to maximize the number of ...

Now that I have loads of pods in my cycling tank, I`d like to keep the
population going. What do they eat?
I guess once I get predatory fish in there, I`m gonna see a lot less pods.
Is there something I can do now within the tank itself--(IE: NOT separate

Interesting...just found this today
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a high flow pump.
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I've been using the Hagen test kit from the start and was sure that my Cal
levels were properly read.  Then I ran out of KH solutions and not being
able to buy refills for this parameter, switched to Salifert.
Well, using Hagen I was getting low Cal levels and low KH.  Used ...

Can aiptasia anemones stink adjacent coral?

What does it mean if the Skimmer is not producing foam? (Its not
broken,sometimes it does,sometmes it doesnt.)
Does it mean that at that particular moment there is very little
free-floating dead organic matter in the tank?