Recent content by wseaton

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That some of you sleep with your VHOs. I'm also wondering if "advisors" are normally this rude? Like many hobbies I've learned that when a small majority uses a specific product (VHO's) it suddenly becomes superior to the more mainstream (PC's). VHOs also emit special tachyons and photons with...

And I prefer PCs for my viewing pleasure, but I'm used to the "VHO is better than anything else" philosophy by now. As I just stated, VHO offers a greater variety of bulb types over PC because they aren't as difficult to manufacture being a more conventional tube size, and that means a greater...

Some coral banded shrimp won't bother other inverts. Others are a real terror because once they learn the others make a good meal, they will never stop pursuing them. Coral banded shrimp aren't the fastest predators, but they can move pretty quick for the first few inches, and that's all it...

I have (approx) 4" sand bed with fine grain ooltic sand in my FO 55. I over feed, and I rarely do water changes on that tank other than top-offs. Nitrates are 0, and have been since about 3 months after the tank finished cycling. Adding a plenum would only decrease the volume of space in the...

As water evaporates in your tank the density slowly increases because most of the salt stays in the tank while H20 evaporates. When you suddenly add several gallons of fresh water the density then drops to where it was before - come on guys, wake up. A density drop like that won't kill a...

Contrary to some of the responses above, there's little difference in the spectra in VHOs vs PC vs T12s vs T5's, ets. They are all florescent tubes that use the same industry phospors. There is one big advantage that VHO's and the other bulbs have over PC's, and that's variety. With PC's you...

Although I tend to avoid products with the name 'Euro' in it, the Euroreef gets my kudos because it uses a needle wheel to get around the venturi/bubble problem. In this respects it's light-years ahead of the Seaclone and other simple powerhead based skimmers that I wouldn't pay a dime for. A...

I like the idea of the two 120mm fans sitting behind the lid and tilted blowing inward under the lights. Tilted slightly downward they'll also ripple the water under the MH's, and we all seem to like that effect. A bigger problem would seem to be mounting those 120s in a way that prevented them...

I agree with fishfreek. I used to keep LR free tanks years ago, and encountered far *higher* incidents of death and disease than my current LR stocked tanks. I was *never* able to keep angels before I started using LR. While I agree that LR does incur a greater degree of variables upon setting...

He beat me to it - exellent stuff. Angel's that are pigs are also healthy angels.

I can't, and as far as I know there's been no real side by side study on the issue other than some quasi quantified extrapolation. Basically it's common sense that you really can't have a sand bed too deep, but it's possible to have them too shallow, and that the denser the packing of substrate...

The aqua cultured rock tends to lack a lot of the bio diversity of wild rock, but because of it's more controlled 'upbringing' it's more consistent and less of a risk in terms of hitch hikers. I knew the Fiji thing was coming. Only a matter of time.

I agree, but this doesn't prevent Eheim and others from mass marketing cannisters that have special 'bio chambers' and special, scientifically designed media with 100 billion times the capacity of bio-balls to fill them. Gee, maybe they'll next come out with LR that can be used for mechanical...

LoganJ called it. Go U-tube.