Recent content by grimes135

I have a 36 watt on my 180 gal and love it. Is it a cure-all, of coarse not, but I feel that there is a place for it in my tank.

I have a 6 gal Eclipse tank as well and i am setting mine up as a mantis shrimp tank. You need a lot of filtration and keep up on your water changes. As long as it is acrylic you should be ok. be prepared though, you may have to upgrade to a larger tank as the mantis grows but they are very...

Thanks ziggy, I was also planning on an orange spotted goby to help sift the sand. is there anything else to help aid this, like a sand sifting starfish, that works well?

Thanks for your kind works about my setup. This new tank has only been set up for about 3 months now, but everything out of it came from my established 135. as far as the clean up crew goes i new mine was lacking. i definitely want to get some hermit crabs and i assume i need more snails, what...

Well i have decided to make the transition and convert my current FOWLR tank to a reef tank. Before i start anything, i just want to make sure that nothing is over looked. My current equipment is as follows... Tank- 180 acrylic (6x2x2) Sump- 45 gal Refugium- 35 gal with macro and 3 mangroves...

one thing that i have noticed when using a refug. is that if you had a phosphate bloom and it was absorbed by your marco algea it may be slowly releasing it back into your system, kinda like what carbon does if you leave it in for too long. might consider giving your marco a trim to stimulate...

hi all, as some of you know my 135 gal tank broke last week ( the cause is still unknown) anyways i am going to be upgrading to a larger tank. i am concidering going with a 360 gal tank made out of acrylic. the measurements are 8' long 3' deep and 2' tall. i have all tools available and i am...

oh i defintately agree, i am particulary impressed with many of the members reef tanks, and they are something that i one day wish to acheive.

yeah i know what you mean mel but i have already spent many hours admiring those tanks and i was just seeing if you guys knew of any other place for inspiration. the 850 gal tank at oregonreef.com is amazing and it is fun trying to see how i can incorporate his idea into my setup.

I have been trying to find amazing home aquariums on the internet with little success. it is always nice to have something to aspire to. one site that i have found that it absolutely amazing is www.oregonreef.com. This guy is a genious with nearly all tasks being completely automated. anyways, i...

wells the unthinkable happened, my tank broke. just a little background information on my situation, i live on the second floor in an apartment. my tank was 135 gal with a 45 gal sump and 35 gal refugium. how the break occurred is still unknown, there was no rock on the glass and the tank was...

yeah from my experience, tanks in front of window are always having phosphate problems resulting in constant algea blooms like mel said. i would find an alternate location for the tank.

that makes sense.i also though about setting up three differnt quarantines. just go to petsmart and get 3 ten gallon aquariums and some crappy filters and set it up that way. my lfs will quarantine fish for me and they have so many tanks that they could quarantine them all seperatly, would that...

I feel that three yellow tang would be a nice addition to my tank, and i also understand the importance of quarantining your fish. However, from my understanding the three yellow tangs should be introduced simultaneously into my 135 gal. however how would i quarantine these fish together when my...

when i picked him up there was live rock in the tank and when he tried to catch him it scared him and he thrashed through some of the rock work. that is why i am leading towards it being scratches of abrasions as opposed to mhlle. if it turns out that he will only eat live what would be the...