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I'm selling off my 120 gallon setup. If someone is interested in the entire setup, contact me on pricing. No equipment will be shipped until all livestock is sold. Please contact me via email : jimvrana (at) gmail (dot) com Equipment EV180 skimmer $272.00 250 W heater $16.80 tunze 6060...

Very uncool. Mr. Anemone was pulled through the screen on the overflow inlet. Who knew that he'd fit through there. I did get him out by pulses of flow through the overflow. But now he's in rough shape. It appears that the suction through the screen almost ripped him in half. I'm...

...so, i need some info on them... the good the bad and the ugly here's what i've got: yellow tang 2 percs green chromis skunk cleaner fire red 4 peppermint 2 pistol 1 mantis :) green bta plenty of snails and hermits frogspawn torch coral galaxia ricordia green button polyps some shrooms...

I just added a bubble tip anemone to my tank. It was opening up very nicely until a peppermint shrimp went over and started ripping it up. Is this typical? Jim

Out of curiousity, are there other metals that are bad for inverts? Nickel? Stainless Steel? I'm in the heat exchanger business and i'd like to use a nickel brazed unit. If not, then I'll have to try and get my hands on a completely titanium unit. Jim

I decided to install a sump into my stand and used the z-flow setup mentioned in this forum. It turns out that there are some unmentioned variables in the z-flow setup. The vacuum release hole size is very important in controlling waterflow. The height of the tee in relation to the water...

My toadstool isn't opening up. All other corals are doing great...hammer, frogspawns, greenstar polyps, torch and galaxy. It seems like it partially opens when i wave to get rid of its excess skin and then retracts the polyps. But it hasn't fully opened yet. any ideas? Jim

I have a hammer coral that's about a month old and the a section of die-off is slowly propagating. All of my other LPS are doing great with visible new growth. Should I just keep treating the hammer with Kent Tech-D ? thanks in advance Jim

Yesterday my cleaner shrimp, who is about 2" long" jumped onto a 3/4" chromis. It was the funniest thing. Both of them were swimming like mad to keep at the same level in the tank. I attempted to take a picture but my batteries were shot. They did this several more times. It was very...

We have two posibilities here: 1. someone was snackin on my nudi 2. i accidently cut him in half when some rocks shifted So here's my question. I saw the half a nudi floating around. I caught him and placed him on a patch of algae. He was dead to the world for a few hours. Then he...

materials: 2 maxijet powerheads 1/2" OD clear vinyl tubing (length of tank + depth 2 1/2" quick connect couplings 2 maxijet tank hangers these fittings fit directly onto the outlet of a maxijet 1200 powerhead. The vinal tubing can be drilled in 6" increments or so. The tank hangers pin the...

name that coral :) Thanks Jim

here are my two, are they two kinds? Thanks Jim

Is there any type of epoxy that will work well for attaching a frag to lr underwater? I'm hoping to just get something from HD. JBweld? thanks Jim

just in case anyone else was asa confused as i was seeing every item on the wish list. Jim

I currently have a 55 gallon tank with 80# live rock and 60# base. Inhabitants: 2 false percs 1 yellow tang 1 firefish goby 1 cleaner shrimp 5 peppermint shrimp 1 mexican turbo 10 turbo snails 15 blue leg hermits 3 scarlet hermits (most killed each other) 1 lettuce nudibranch 1 hammer coral...

I've been trying to raise my Ca unsuccessfully. I'm using Kent Tech CB A & B. I have my alk just where i want it, but the Ca will not go up above 400 according to the red sea test kit. I'm about to try what the kent site recommends: Jim

I'm unsure as i haven't seen any pictures before and I haven't seen my hammer coral do this. Also, this is the most he's been out since i got him last friday. it probably helped that I got the alk over 10dKH, up from 8.

I finally got a good picture of him: Any ideas?

Is it typical for a cleaner shimp to get very excited every time something new is put in the tank? Mine runs right over no matter what it is. If i stick my hand in, he's right on it, picking away. When i put my corals in, he had to visit each one almost as though he had to approve its...

I have 3 corals in my 55 Gallon tank; a hammer, torch and frogspawn. I purchased them on saturday and they haven't fully opened. They have all been placed in the upper 1/3 of the tank under 2x96W PC. Here are the water stats: pH: 8.1 (working on increasing this) ammonia: 0 nitrite: 0...

Here's another hitchhiker He's almost doubled in size in the last few weeks

anyone know what kind this is: Thanks Jim

here's a couple pics: it looks almost like some sea apples i've seen pictures of. This LR is amazing. New living things appear every day. Jim

Last night I was doing my nightly isopod check, I haven't seen any in a few days so that is a good thing, and I saw an anemone in the back of my tank on the LR. Well, as soon as I turned the lights on, all of the tentacles slowly curled up and retracted into the rock. The tentacles have...