Recent content by jarrette

Thanks for the advice Kurt! I actually got my wife to do a water change for me last night.

I've been running my 75gl tank with no filter for about 4 years with no problems. All I run two power heads, a bakpak protein skimmer, and about 90lbs of live rock. Water tests come out clean, etc. I do a 10gl water change every month until recently since I injured my ankle pretty bad to the...

I was sick of never finding a really good, all-in-one reef reference site when I bought new corals. I'm a web developer, and I figured I could build something that everyone could centralize reef info on. It's not totally finished yet, but I need people going to the site and adding new corals...

Is this stuff ok to have in my tank? To be more specific, the pink and yellow sponges. They just started growing in there.

I just "surprised" my tank in the middle of the night while the moonlights were on with my regular den light. I looked inside and in my biggest hunk of live rock were a bunch of little termite like/insectish bug things running in and out of the the small holes in the rock! They were brown in...

are there any good online guides to making a diy sump/refug?

hrmm, looks like it's time for DIY MAN! hehe, need to do some research on refugiums i guess, I think i'll go ahead and get a PS too. screw the sump hehe. As far as lighting though, are there bulbs that I can get that will be effective enough for coral? I have 2x 24" bulb fixtures...one on...

Hi guys, I am fairly new to salt water and have a basic starter tank atm with about 30 lbs of live rock, 1 damsel, and 3 astrea snails. I am getting a rather large check next week and I'm thinking about really getting my tank some upgrades. My tank is only running an emporer 400, but from...

do i have to get a sump? What's the drawback in not having one? doing it slow is a great idea, that is cool to know that I can do that. I will move my LR to the back of the tank now, thanks.

ouch, so another 100 bucks on live rock? :cry:

you guys think this is enough rock to filter this tank(55gal)? Any suggestions for me? I plan on getting my first bubble coral in two weeks from today and then adding my first fish in another couple weeks. Just want to make sure I have enough rock, but that stuff is so damn expensive! I have...

... better than tampa bay saltwater?

really? that warm? That's like what I run my tropical tank at.

I have a 10 gallon tank with 14 lbs of live rock and 3 Astral(sp?) snails. What temp should I be running it at for the snails to be comforatable? thanks in advance.

I've had a parrot cichlid now for about 2 months. I got him as a juvenile and now he's completely lost all his fake color(he was green when i bought him) and now he is a pale yellow color. Are there certain parrots that are yellow or will he turn the dark blood red color i saw at the lfs the...