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I've been reading about changing-out substrates etc and a question came to mind which has always been lurking......... "what" is the difference that separates "live" sand from any other ?? I assume that my substrate "had-to'have-been' live at one point,due to the years and love put into the tank...

My clowns have eggs attached to their little (dead) coral area !!! What do I do now !!?? .... Leave 'e there and section off a part..."THEY RE " part of the tank...with screening or something simular...??? Or pull them...and their little brood out and set up another quarenteen (sp?) tank.(I...

We went to the LFS over this past weekend...becuse we were gonna be of the mountain anyways (+) I wanted to question the owner about lighting/corals/etc. While there we went ahead and bought a yellow Tang...somewhat hastily.(I have'nt done any previous research on these guys...and...

We have a 100gal...(plus 30(+or-)sump.( a hand-me-down rescue project). It came with an antiquated ( 48" long)4 flourescent tube lighting system...complete with faulty ballist and all. After having the ballist repaired...at no small cost I'm discovering that theres all sorts of problems in the...

When I first started this 100gal rebuild it came with this huge dinosaur-4 florescent tube monstosity which has (twice) been cooking ballasts(probably due to shorts in the system)..... Sooooooo I've been taking my time researching options and looking closely at the possibility of rebuilding...

Here's one for the head scratchers. In the processes of rebuilding my 100gal SW==restocking livestock phase we bought a goby..coupla damsels and a CUC of 5 nasurius (sp?) snails and 5 hermitts. Upon introducing everybody to their new home one of the crabs had APPEARED to have NOT made it through...

I am @ the stage in my rebuild of upgading lighting and restocking LR's and corals...so gots lotsa Q's:ex. should aneminies be mounted to LR's ??Would it be safe to say that a good layer of LR's would be a good 'next-stage' direction to lean towards??

http://i563.photobucket.com/albums/ss72/HarryGross/SDC10009.jpg Experimenting with LEARNING to send photos from my camera to the A/A site....how am I doing so far ???

Recently introduced a Crowned Spotted Goby to the project.Whatta little workhorse at sandsifting!!! But what about after he gets it all cleaned up ?? Should I occasionally throw some pellets (formula 1)...in there?? If so....how many....?? How often ??

Recently rebuilt and rescued a 100gal salty.Although the tank is back up and running...w/new living inhabitants ALL of the origional coral and rocklife died (at the hands of the previous owner).So I'm somewhat hardpressed to begin restocking/rebuilding the coralbeds.Along with the display(+) I...

Hi Guys !! Theres been alot of progress in the area of my 100gal-salty. First and foremost we just bought a digital camera so from now on any Q's I may have which require a visual example.>>...we-can-do. Secondly we went to our LFS yesturday....and after a great deal of what I call "hitch hike...

http://i563.photobucket.com/albums/ss72/HarryGross/SDC10008.jpg Well at last we've got a camera and am able to sendout some flix of my little project.(embarrassed about how dirty the bottom has gotten insuch a short period)...but we're off to LFS in the a.m. for snails etc."More to follow.

As I'm rebuilding what was once a completely neglected 100 gallon SW reef I'm now at the stage of rebuilding the lighting system....learning things like>the 4 flourescent tubes were'nt the correct ones...which probably caused the demise of ALL corals...They ARE all dead !! I am currently using...

OK....while looking at alot of the tank photos posted throughout the A/A I've noticed that some of these BIGGER tanks have LESS lighting than mine !!(???) I currently have a 100 gal which is sporting 4-4' long 40 watt bulbs in the top. Lately there have been some ballist problems ( the new...

I'm still cycling this 100gal...have been for a coupla weeks now. If my last readings hold true it appears as though the cycling may be at its last stages. I've been doing alot of reading lately on every-stuff you guys are discussing...most recently>>>fishtank stocking (ig) what types of...

I was also given brineshrimp.....for to go in the (lower) brine tank.......at some point. Currently having just rebuilt my tank.....and monitoring-waiting for the cycling process to play itself out.............................................. "WHEN" should I concider is a good time to introduce...

Hello, I have some new readings...it may be too early...since the last readings were taken...(??),,but being as how I can't recall exactly WHEN the last ones were taken...I did it again today...and dated this reading so I can keep better tract.(yes ??) Any how...the GOOD news is that...

Okay....back form the fishstore and I have an API ammonia testkit....(drops not paper)....it tested the ammonia @ 0.25.......I gather that a 0 is preferrable...?? (so do I need to bring it DOWN...?)...if so HOW ?? and will changing it effect my other readings ?? "OR" with an...

Okay folks.........here we go. (for those of you who have'nt heard anything form ME as of yet: > I've just recently acquired a 100gal. salty which had been extremley neglected...therefore needed to be completely stripped down and rebuilt from scratch.-it was very dirty.) So.......now that...

Real quick-like.................I just wanted to jump out there and say "THANK YOU" to those of you who've spoken up to me to try to help me w/my problems learning to negotiate this A/A. Computers and I are basically inna love/hate relationship ! I love the amount of access to the world at...

My clownfish...who are temporarily being housed inna 10gal..while the 100 cycles through for a while.....have started digging a sort of nest in the sand at the back of the tank.....also....I don't know if its merely my imagionation....but it seems that the smaller of the two is growing somewhat...

Somehow or other I posted "my latest"....which is an update on the progress...(thus far) of rebuilding a 100 gal. salty....in the 'lounge' section of this chatroom. That was NOT what I wanted to do !!! Becuse I was hoping to get a certain few ....( goisles 1.....bawel...and...and especially...

Hello Everyone, I've learned abit more about "WHAT" I actually HAVE here...inna much more precise way. I HAVE A "CORALIFE" SuperSkimmer Protien skimmer.Theres also a intank circulation pump as well as the sump within the brine tank ( 10 gallon ) The brinetank also has an automatic-calcium...

Well hello everybody !! Its been a coupla' days since I've thrown anything out there so I figured to post alittle to get everybody up to speed.> K ? So far...(after having tore -comepletely-apart my recently acquired 100+gallon salty and scrubbing down every piece of it)...it and I have...

Hello everyone...................... My name is Harry.I am a new owner of a 100 gallon selfcontained saltwater coral reef. Its my first SALTY.( I've owned numerous freshwater tanks in the past which were quite spectacular in and of themselves,but......) This particular tank has a few issues...