Recent content by yanek

Ok, here's the situation. My parents went away on a week's vacation, and... they left the keys to the brand new porsche... oh wait... wrong forum and decade. Ha. Right. So I'm planning out a 90G sump/refugium for a 180G in-wall tank. What I hope to get out of the refugium is nutrient...

Home Depot Lowes etc. Right next to ceiling tiles usually. There's both plain white and silver. Dunno how safe the silver stuff is to use around salt though. I hang it around my RO system to keep the cat away from those nice soft chewy airline tubes. -Yanek.

SO. A call for help. Anyone who's done an in-wall aquarium in the CORNER of a room so that it's visible from other rooms on 2 sides? I'm trying to figure out exactly what it will take to frame out around the corner properly...

I need a 75G tank. Acrylic would be preferable, but glass will do. I'm doing some odd tank juggling and I need it for temporary storage. :-\

What a great link; I'll check that out. I'm starting to talk to contarctors how about doing the dirty work. I'll probably go 3x400W plus a pair of SmartLamps.

I had a major cyano problem a couple of weeks ago. The following was my non-chem method of removal (75G) bought about 20 assorted snails (astrea/nass/marg), 2 mexican turbos bought about 20 blue legged hermits, 5 striped hermits, 5 red legs Returned my fish (clown, 3 bluegreen chromis) to the...

When I rebuilt my tank, I had it cycled after 11 days. I used a spray (not a whole lot -- 5 llbs) of existing live sand, some existing live rock, a lot of new live rock, and some existing water (20 G?) for my 75G. Monitored closely every day, performed water changes and ran my skimmer. I...

So I went down to my tank the other day, heard a strange noise before I even got there. My first squishy step into the fish room made it clear there was a problem. So I've got a small 15G or so sump; pump is on the left and what would be the wet/dry part is on the right. I had a fairly fine...

One fine day, my pinpoint ph meter went out. Low battery; oh well, my ph had been steady at 8.2 for quite a while so I wasn't worried. Everything in the tank was happy as can be. Then, another fine day my skimmer pump went out. Took me a week and a half to get it replaced. By that time, my...

Well in general it's best to use two heaters not one. As yet I have no experience with anything but Visi-Therm heaters ... the one I have (300W) has been super reliable for five years now. I just ordered a new one... http://www.marinedepot.com/md_viewItem.asp?idProduct=WB1317 (oh crap, I...

low maintenance 29G saltwater ... that's a tough thing to do! As far as anemones go, many like ample light, and they're adamant about water quality. Mine likes a sand bed at least 5" deep (mine's 6").

Seeing as I was out of town; replying was difficult... heheeh. Still reading through the thread. Definitely the sessile snails. It looked like a feeding frenzy, but it was odd... Betcha it was detritus being stirred up in the sump and blown back about the tank.

So I've had a reef tank for about five years now and have moved it from one house to another. So I'm not a n00b, but at times I wish I could just slow down and think more. I'm decidedly lazy. So much so that I do water changes in my 75G about once a month... sometimes it's gone two months or...

Well I'm still confused on this. I've been reading and reading and having used PCs for 5 years I still don't get all the differences in MH bulbs. I don't want to spend an arm and a leg if I can help it, and it looks to me that I will need at least 3 400W MH bulbs and perhaps I can use a pair...

Well the trouble I'm trying to solve is that my tank ends up with some more "reddish" spots and some more "bluish" spots with all 4 PCs on. I was going for more even color distribution. I do dawn and dusk with a pair of lights (1 10k, 1 actinic) and then bump it up to two pairs for full...