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red horned starfish my red horned starfish spends hours on the glass at the water surface with two arms upside down as if eeling the surface of the water . does anyone know why he may do this

. yes both tanks have heaters but i was just working on the basis that a large volume of water stays warmer longer than a small volume , so if you had both of them linked heat wise , they would help one another stay warm even though one is salt and one is fresh , just thinking of ways to...

. Probably your Nitrate levels are too low to provide food for Algae

Hey I just watched the vid at the top of this page about making your own rocks from a crushed oyster shell / concrete mix. They look good but it said at the end of the film that the rock needed to be soaked in fresh water to get rid of the lime before puting in a tank. however it didnt say how...

Hiya, hey I have just been sitting looking at my tanks and an idea just popped into my head. I have a five foot marine tank on the top and another five foot fresh water tropical underneath. it just made me wonder if there would be any saving of power in heating , if I used one of my existing...

??? Cant be the same species of Bristle worm that I know then , these have hairs like rose thorns and live in holes in the rocks, not burrowing in the gravel, they will also kill a fish if the get one at night when its dark and the fish park up for the night , especially sea horses

only a warning, when they get to around 5 or 6 inches long in your tank, I used to be a diver on the oil platforms in Nigeria and these things were all over the reefs an the sandy bottom. we had a few people in sick bay caused by rubbing against them. just a little care is all im saying

Your Worms when the bristle worms get larger DONT touch them with bare hands. The bristles will go in your skin and go septic. Take care with them. I usually get rid of them with tweezers when I see them. you only need to move a bit of rock sometime with one on it that you dont see and your in...

Hi , does anyone know a safe acrylic resin that can be used in marine tanks, I have taken some really good latex moulds from tufa rock and now want to join these together and make a 4 foot long rock wall for the back of my tank. I was planning to make it about 2 inches thick (not including the...

ok well thanks, you see i have my tank on a large cabinate with a cupboard underneath which would easily take a 3 foot tank inside it, I thought i might make that into a sump filter but obviously need a pump to send it back up again. thats why i wanted to know about lighting it cos the doors...

ah yes i see. do you think a power head would lift water up about 3 feet

?? whats a refugium ?

Hiya, I joined yesterday, just getting back into the marines again, ( fish not army ) , used to keep marines 39 yrs ago, when everything was in its infancy, now there is so much technology to make it so easy . Anyway what I would like to know , if anyone can help is , when you set up a sump...