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That some of you sleep with your VHOs. I'm also wondering if "advisors" are normally this rude? Like many hobbies I've learned that when a small majority uses a specific product (VHO's) it suddenly becomes superior to the more mainstream (PC's). VHOs also emit special tachyons and photons with...

And I prefer PCs for my viewing pleasure, but I'm used to the "VHO is better than anything else" philosophy by now. As I just stated, VHO offers a greater variety of bulb types over PC because they aren't as difficult to manufacture being a more conventional tube size, and that means a greater...

Some coral banded shrimp won't bother other inverts. Others are a real terror because once they learn the others make a good meal, they will never stop pursuing them. Coral banded shrimp aren't the fastest predators, but they can move pretty quick for the first few inches, and that's all it...

I have (approx) 4" sand bed with fine grain ooltic sand in my FO 55. I over feed, and I rarely do water changes on that tank other than top-offs. Nitrates are 0, and have been since about 3 months after the tank finished cycling. Adding a plenum would only decrease the volume of space in the...

As water evaporates in your tank the density slowly increases because most of the salt stays in the tank while H20 evaporates. When you suddenly add several gallons of fresh water the density then drops to where it was before - come on guys, wake up. A density drop like that won't kill a...

Contrary to some of the responses above, there's little difference in the spectra in VHOs vs PC vs T12s vs T5's, ets. They are all florescent tubes that use the same industry phospors. There is one big advantage that VHO's and the other bulbs have over PC's, and that's variety. With PC's you...

Although I tend to avoid products with the name 'Euro' in it, the Euroreef gets my kudos because it uses a needle wheel to get around the venturi/bubble problem. In this respects it's light-years ahead of the Seaclone and other simple powerhead based skimmers that I wouldn't pay a dime for. A...

I like the idea of the two 120mm fans sitting behind the lid and tilted blowing inward under the lights. Tilted slightly downward they'll also ripple the water under the MH's, and we all seem to like that effect. A bigger problem would seem to be mounting those 120s in a way that prevented them...

I agree with fishfreek. I used to keep LR free tanks years ago, and encountered far *higher* incidents of death and disease than my current LR stocked tanks. I was *never* able to keep angels before I started using LR. While I agree that LR does incur a greater degree of variables upon setting...

He beat me to it - exellent stuff. Angel's that are pigs are also healthy angels.

I can't, and as far as I know there's been no real side by side study on the issue other than some quasi quantified extrapolation. Basically it's common sense that you really can't have a sand bed too deep, but it's possible to have them too shallow, and that the denser the packing of substrate...

The aqua cultured rock tends to lack a lot of the bio diversity of wild rock, but because of it's more controlled 'upbringing' it's more consistent and less of a risk in terms of hitch hikers. I knew the Fiji thing was coming. Only a matter of time.

I agree, but this doesn't prevent Eheim and others from mass marketing cannisters that have special 'bio chambers' and special, scientifically designed media with 100 billion times the capacity of bio-balls to fill them. Gee, maybe they'll next come out with LR that can be used for mechanical...

LoganJ called it. Go U-tube.

I'm hearing a lot of differing opinions on the newer 20,000k Metal Halide bulbs. Are the people using them supplimenting them with actinics, or using them solo without florescent suppliments? Considering the extreme differences in visible appearence I've seen between 10,000k MH's (ranging from...

Live sand *is* a ripoff in terms of it's marketing in a biological sense. It's only real benefit is it's very stable upon adding to water. i have set up 2 tanks with playsand so far and both have been clear after about 3 to 4 days Which about how long it takes for your tank to clear if one...

How can you create a plenum without a DSB may I ask our resident experts? I don't think you'll find a lot of disagreement on this board that DSBs do the job. About our only debate on the topic is how deep they actually have to be to get the low oxygen, nitrate reduction effect. Personally I...

High water density makes it tougher for fish to breath for the worst part and helps parasites such as ick. Thats' why FO tanks can't be kept at salinity of much less than .020 and the fish do fine, if not better. A rapid change of any water parameter isn't good for any marine life, but it's...

...Which is why I tell people to use dry sand when they first lay down their DSB as the major layer and then dump a few bags of bagged (wet) live sand on top of it as a stabilizing layer. Dry sand such as playsand or straight ooltic while be a mess for *weeks* if not a month or two after fresh...

I primarily use Coralife PCs and have never seen any documentation that shows any particular advantages/disadvantages over any mainstream high output florescent tubes vs the other.

I doubt if it's a ballast problem with such a straight forward bulb. If we were trying to drive a T5 with a 24" PennPlax hood I'd say otherwise. A 10K T12 is not going to be a very bright bulb in the first place. I'm also not sure why Coral-Life gets all the bad press either. The major bulb...

The biggest problem with the standard 125 is it's a long tank to illuminate. If you prefer to concentrate your lighting in the center of the tank the WPG spec drops dramatically, if not in half, but that's your choice. 2x96watt power compacts will grow coralline in this tank if the lights were...

I agree the clowns are a good idea, but I disagree about the Longnose. This butterfly in my experience among the least demanding and would be quite happy in an established and stable 75gal. I'm actually more fond of the Longnose than the yellow tang, which I've always found often quarrelsome and...

I think I see what you are doing. Basically your overflow would dump into your skimmer intake, and your skimmer sits on your sump and dumps into that. Right? This really depends on your skimmer. The vast majority of skimmers work in a 150-300gph range and most overflow systems crank a lot more...