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you are frobably frustrated at the darn thing for not staying adjusted right (i sure was!) KEEP the turbo venturi attachment when u pitch it i did and when i modded my current skimmer i did the needle wheel mod to my mj 1000 the turbo venturi works GREAT this skimmer (modded) is just pulling...

to day i got one of those reef starter kits (iodine calicium, molybidium and strontium) today i put the recomended amout in (1 1/2 cap fulls into the tank of all 3) how often should i dose ? 2 weeks ? 4 weeks?

is a leather about 1.5 inches in the way home the bag leaked but luckily i was close enough to my mothers house to put it in a container even after it fell off its rock is was on and after 1 day it is still retracted oh it dropped on the ground going to my car (about 3 feet- thats how the bag...

ne1 mod thier mj to use as a needle wheel pump? i did. i was a bit frustrated at the performacne of my (modded) mj setup (drilled 2 holes in the side of my hv1 excalibur skimmer preskimm box put mj to suck preskimmed water into pump then force it thru a 90 degree bend into the skimmer) now i...

will a snowflake eel peacefully coexist with a blue hippo tang yellow tang flame angel false perc b/g chromis (3) royal gramma i want to get one i have a 90 gallon

ne1 have trouble with gobies jumping out of the tank i bought 2 diamond gobies in about 1 week the one that i put in first committed suicide by jumping out of the tank and landing on the glass and died by baking under the lights today the second goby did the same (jumped out and died from...

ne1 know of a good company to visit i have been to tenecor , mca (midwest custom aquariums) i live in pa so ne1 know 1 in the general driving area? (pref 100 mile radius)

ne1 know of a web site to help me mod my excalibur protien skimmer? the rio 800 broke and i would like to boost the output and get it to work better.

ne1 got 1 (digital balast) i would like to get one for my soon to be mh setup mainly because you can supposedly dim these ballasts

i have decided on my next upgrade a 180 bowfront acrylic reef tank setup have some general ideas fo the equipment i will need how bout some advice? filtration : berlin style reef tank (ls and lr about 400 pounds) skimmer : turbo flotor 1000 or aqua c remora plus / urchin pro lights...

i found out that the brown fuzzy covering on my rock sand and glass is hair algae thank goodness thought it was cyno (again) my tang is working on it ,doing a good job so i havent feed her any nori in about 4 days also the critter cage mini fuge is doing good, got some calupera poking out...

how long would it take? i will be getting some base rock (100 pounds or more) i will put it in a clean new garbage can with a pump and heater aafter i put in the live rock (10 pounds or so) i would like to have an idea of how long it would take the lr is fully cured already

ne1 got any i got 2 for my 90 gal they are in my qt right now what i did was put about 1 inch of playsand on the botom added water from my main tank then put in fresh saltwater that i had aging for a little more than a day then added a cup of live sand from my main to start a cycle

i added some caribisea live reef sand to my tank at the time i had diatoms from recycling my tank (had a massive cyno outbreak - shocked the cyno and killed it all (check - how i killed my cyno easily)) now i had diatoms -normal looking - after i added the new live sand about 2 hrs after...

i came up with an idea i'm tring out i was in a lfs that had new stock that was acclimating new specimens in those small plastic kritter cages so i thought "how bout a mini fuge IN my tank" so i got a 1 gallon round plastic kritter cage drilleda few holes , put some macroalgae(calupera)...

ne1 got 1 ? do u like it better than glass? i heard that acrylic tanks are far superior to glass tanks (more durable ,clearer, lighter, thermaly more efficent (better controls tem swings) ) and they hold their value better than glass i"m asking this because i am considering one for my next...

ne1 got 1 ? i heard/read that this algae will not be eaten by tangs or other invertabrates because they dont like the taste of it any truth to the matter?

ne1 got one i'm considering one for my next upgrade tank maybe 175-200 gallons with a black back panel and rounded corners and a bowed front maybe 72"w 24" d 24" h

i killed off all of my cyno in about 1 week ! (sounds interesting huh?) first let me say this : my tank was overrun by cyno big time and i was at the end of my rope i finally decided to do the full teardown and start again from scratch (note my skimmer was busted -rio 800 was broke and...

hi all my question is this on my system (1500 gph pond pump and scwd closed loop system) i'm getting flow only out of the left side (very little on right side) i took it out and back flushed it with warm water ,shook it out and replaced it it worked fine untill i shut the system down last...

does any one know whee on the net to get those black pvc ball type pipes u see in your lfs tanks to point it where u want it to go right now i just softened some pvc and squeezed it to make a wide jet type of fitting but will be a royal pain to try to position it after it has bees put in place

i saw a uv sterilizer at lowes in the pond section that will treat up to 800 gallons for $99 could i use it in m tank? seeing that im using a pond pump (quiet one 6000 - 1500 gph) i think im getting about 1200 gallons at a 4 foot height into my scwd (8 sec per side)

hi all im gonna redo my tank with white sand (cant find any aragonite white sand anywhere) the closest i can come is yard right white playsand up here in pa at k mart so when i get it how do i keep my tank ph buffered since the sand will not fizz when i put vinegar on it? thanks

i was thinking of doing a system that would use a manifold (1 for scwd 1 for skimmer 1 for filter was thinking maybe a mag 24 and a backup pump hooked to a manifold so that the pump would feed all three systems and have only 1 return pipe (1 intake 1 return through my scwd any...

ne1 have this pump? seems to me it runs a bit hot running it externaly (no sump)