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Here are some pics of a tank I set up at the local hospital. It's a Glasscages 180g reef ready glass tank with twin overflows. It's been running for about a month and a half counting cycle time and fish/corals are being added slowly. Lighting is 3x250w MH pendants from CoralVue using 14k bulbs...

Moved this tank not too long ago and changed it's theme from african cichlids to tropicals. Right now it has a school of rasboras, some zebra danios, and angelfish. Had a long battle with cyano than I'm finally winning...I think. Lighting is a pair of 32w T-8's @ 6500k. The tank is a little...

One of the tanks I set up and maintain. This tank recently crashed due to a power loss over the weekend, but it's on the way back.

I stopped by the LFS here in Dalton today...with no intention of buying anything of course...and, as I always do, checked out the WAY overpriced corals they have for sale. I noticed, written on the front of the tank, "Frogspawn $15.99". OK, so I couldn't pass this up. After searching the...

Has anyone had any experience with the Ecosystem filters developed by Leng Sy? I'm thinking about trying one soon.

I maintain a 150g African Cichlid tank at a medical center. It currently has a 2x96w PC setup on it with 10k bulbs. The tank looks good, but it's a bit bright. I was thinking about changing the bulbs to 50/50's. I'm sure these will be a little dimmer, but do you think the actinic will bring...

OK, I've posted about this before and didn't get much in the way of feedback so I'm going to try it again. I'm going to start pulling samples from the DSB in the 180 reef and sending them to Analytical Labs in Cleveland, TN. What, in your opinion, should the samples be tested for? I'm going...

I'm thinking about setting up a 40g breeder as a fuge. I want to use a DSB in it and plant it heavily with turtle grass instead of macro algae. I know we have had several threads about DSB's so far and how they may or may not become nutrient sinks as they age. My question is: Do you think...

Here's a few updated pics of the 180 that I did the buildup on several months ago. The first one is when I first put it together...taken on 4-16-2003. Next pic was taken on 5-15-2003. Last pic was taken on 3-3-2004. It's getting there :) .

I have been asked to do a quote for a 125 gal reef at the local hospital. I came up with the following stock list and would like your opinions on it. Have I mixed fish that won't get along? Am I overstocking the tank? 125 gal reef that is 6' long and 18" wide with 200lbs of LR, a sump, a Aqua...

One of my customers has a 75g FOWLR tank with a small maroon clown and a small yellow tang. She wants more fish and asked me to come up with some options. She has no clue about aquariums...I maintain the tank for her. Other inhabitants include a serpent star, a sally lightfoot, several...

I'll check with my suppliers and see if I can get one for you. This is the first I had heard of this ballast...guess I should spend more time on the manufacturers sites :oops: .

I got up this morning to find what looked like clumps of snow in the yard...the WHOLE yard! I later found that it was the stuffing from a sleeping bag that one of the kids had left on the front porch. Do you have any idea how far you can spread the stuffing from a sleeping bag?!? I'm not sure...

I am getting my but kicked by an apparent bacterial bloom in a FW 55g tank. The tank has been up and running for several years with an Emp 400 filter. It has 2 gouramis, 2 large rosy barbs, 3 giant danios, and a pleco. This tank has been the definition of stable for as long as I've been...

I just looked at a 55 gal reef that I may start doing maintenance on. It has about 1" of what looks like Carib Sea Seaflor Special Grade. I know this is a large grain size for a DSB, but I wonder if you could make it deep enough to get any nitrate reduction? These folks previously had sand in...

Here's a few of the zoos I'm working on fragging. As soon as I get the big zoo tank ready, there will be plenty of room for them to spread out. The first ones are new arrivals and haven't quite decided if they're happy here or not. The second pic is actually (I think) palythoa...some of these...

Here are some not very good pics of the 180 featured in the "180 gal buildup" posts. Should have some more recent ones very soon. The top was taken on 4-16-2003. The middle was taken on 5-15-2003. The bottom was on 9-29-2003.

Picked up a 180 gal Clarity Plus acrylic tank the other day. Free 8O . Just one small problem...it got dropped out of the back of a pickup truck. As you can probably guess, acrylic tanks, especially heavy ones, don't take very well to this sort of treatment. The top was badly damaged and...

Here's a not too great pic of the little eel that hitchhiked in on some LR. Strangely enough, the piece of rock ended up in the eel tank after being in a 20g reef for about 6 months. Now I know why I could never keep a peppermint shrimp in there for more than a week. They just kept...

Does anyone know the incubation period for nassarius snail eggs? Mine have laid eggs all over the glass in my 20 high. I haven't been cleaning the glass because I didn't want to damage the eggs...now it looks awful! These are little clear bubbles about 1/8" across and each one looks to...

Ok, you may have read the post about my new snowflake moray that has been added to the puffer tank. I added a bunch of LR to the tank earlier...all this rock came from my other tanks and has been in there for at least 6 months. So, I'm feeding the puffer and offering the snowflake a piece of...

I have been keeping a Green Spotted Puffer in salt water for several months now on the advice of the folks at pufferlovers.com. He has done well and is growing like a weed. I recently overhauled his tank...got rid of the gravel and clay flowerpot and added about 50lbs of LR and a sand bed...

Here's a few pics of the 20g. Still have the same crappy camera so you still get the same crappy pics. These tanks seem to evolve continuously. Nassarius snails are breeding in this one now...noticed this a couple of days after I ordered a hundred of the little buggers.

I recently ordered a refractometer from Tim Crowley on ebay (moneyreapertc is his ebay user name) for $45 including shipping and ins. It arrived today. Seems to be a good one so if anyone is interested in buying one of these, you might contact this guy. Anyway, after calibrating it, I...

I know the GSP (green spotted puffer) is considered a brackish fish, but on advice from the good folks at pufferlovers.com, I have mine in full salt. About 1.024 with a Deep Six hydro. He is doing great and growing like a weed! I am going to change the substrate to sand and add some cured...