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so last night at work i picked up a new pinpoint ph monitor, it will be used with the Ca reactor. but any way, i hooked it up and calibrated it and all and set it in the tank. how low dose your ph get at night? mine is reading 7.46. i know there will be a dip but man that is a big swing. i...

well i have been takeing more pic of the tanks. let me know what you think. 1st post is from the 30 cube.

i just made a donation to the web site but forgot to put my AA screen name on the comment form paypal. is there a way i can still get the Aquarium Advice Alumni and all that gose with it? thanks

i was messing around with the cameria today and i took some nice pic. the tank is only like 2 weeks old. it was hooked up to my other reef tank for like 6 months so the cycle was really fast. tell me what you think.

in the august/september issue of "coral" they talked about this really rare serranidae but acts and looks more like a hawk fish. well the guy wo dose the ordering for my LFS found one and got it in. it is really cool but really $$$$ i can get it for $70 because i work there. i have tried...

i was digging around the web site the other day and found this pic of my tank. it was dated jun 21 that would make the tank about 6 months old. then the 2nd pic is the tank a few weeks ago. now the tank is almost 1.5 years old. wow what a difference

well i have no posted here for a long time. i work up at a world of fish. i am there just about every night. i have 2 reef tanks up and running right now and that is what i know the most about. if you guys are in need of any thing order, send me a pm and i will talk to the right people to...

ok so i want to know about this skimmer. we have thme at work and they are not that $$$ and it helps that i get it at cost. i think it is the 1000. it will be going on my 46 gal reef tank, in the 20h tank fug. is it worth bringing home? the other skimmers that we have at work are the red...

ok so i was driveing around the town today and found an glass tank 58 gal and it is the old ones that do not have the center brace. the lady was asking for $75 for just the tank and she did not have a stand for it. is that a good deal.

ok so i had this guy come in to the lfs today. we were talking an i guess he had a reef tank 20+ years ago and he had a carpet anenomy in it. but he just had the stock light on the tank. and once a week he gave it a gold fish to eat. he said that this thing was liveing for 1 year +. now why...

so some one came in to work todya (lfs) and asked if we had the new nano cube. i guess the new one has 2 24 watt pc in it. it is the same as the 1st one but with 2x the lighting. i think i am going to have to find one and order it. hmmm maybe i can not have some small clams or some thing...

so i was at work tonight (at a lfs) and a guy come in to the store he wonders around the store for some time and i go up to him and ask him if i can help him with some thing. he asked me how much force it would it take to shatter a 55 gal tank. i ask why and he said that he would like to put...

well i just got a job at the lfs , and i have been there 3 times in the past week to work and every day i have been thinking about the stuff i want. at my store you buy things on credit and it comes out of your pa check. and i get things at cost, well last night at work i was looking at the...

so me and snapcrackler did some frag trading last week. this is what i got. loved tradeing with him he was very nice and i would love to trade with him again. the rock has tons of them growing all over it. i think i might have to start fraging it and move it around the tank...

ok so i have had this lta for about a month now and when i first got him the lady was not very nice about getting him off the rock. she might have hurt his foot. i put him in the tank and he found a spot on the rock and stayed there for a few days. then he kind of fell off the rock. i left...

ok so now that the hood is done i am looking to make me a 20 gal sump/fug for the 46 gal reef tank. i was going to use a 20 gal high tank for it. and i will need a new skimmer becasue the one i got now is in the sump (aqua pro 75 or some thing like that. is was a wet/dry but i took every...

ok so i just got the pistol shrimp for the watchman that i have had for some time. and man they are so funny to watch. in the first 10 min they had found each other. and he started to dig. a few months back i switched out the cc with some ls. well now that the pistol is digging he found the...

well so today i finished the hood. here are some pics. but now what is the best paint to use? all of the wood is 1/2 in berch plywood. and i had to use some oak 1x2 in to get it to sit on the tank right. the outside i would want to paint black and the inside just the wood color or white...

ok so i was feeding the lta and i saw this big crab going for the food. well i trye to trap him and then could not wate any longer so i reached in there and got him with my hand. he is the size of a quarter and i would like to know if he would be worth takeing to the lfs or just putting him in...

so i ahve this lta. i got him on sunday and put him in the tank. he was doing fine for the first few days he moved and found a new place that he liked and stayed there for some time. then it looked like he wanted to move. but i think what it was was his foot lost a hold of the rock. and now...

ok so the tank has been up for 7 months now and i would like to add some more stuff. i right now have some corals and a yellow watchman goby, 1 clown fish percula and 3 chromes, and a cleaner shrimp. well i would like to get one more cleaner shrimp and 2 more chromes (so they school) and i...

i have some red mushrooms and some finger leathers fraged right now that i really dont need. i will be willing to trade them for some zoo or some starburst polyp coral and i would want it to be green. or if you dont really have any thing to trade i would eb willing to sell them. i have pic but...

ok when i got mine yellow watchman i was told that they were not sand shifters. well what is when i had cc in the tank. now that i have sand in the tank that is all he has been doing. did the lfs just tell me wrong. there is nothing that can go bad if he dose right? he dose not dig deep or...

ok so i was takeing out the last of my cc in my tank and putting in the sand. and i found this thing. it has no eyes and only has like 3 brown bands on it. when i found it it was about 1 in in lenght. and i thouhgt it was dead. but then it grew. it can get about 3" long and really skinny...

well just got back from the lfs and found 2 new corals for the tank. i got some shrooms and some cool new zoo all for $120. they have only been in the tank for about 3 hours so they are not all the way open yet. will post back in a few days when they are all the way open.