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so i want to start to produce my own live sand and sell it to the lfs. ive been keeping severaly large (700+ gal) saltwater aquariums but i can never find cheep live sand. recently i whent to the local sand and gravel company and found really nice bright white sand. and i have one of those...

so hears the problem. a cupple of weeks ago the amount aptaisia in the 700 gal that i take care of was amazing. so much that i had no clue how to get rid of it. then about 2 weeks ago it all started to shrink. then i replaced all the gravle in the display tank with crushed coral (the amount of...

when i set up my fug, i put it right next to the tank at the same level and had one 1/2" pvc pipe overflow conecting the two, the water would flow from the pump into the fuge then overflow to the tank. well i didn't feel safe with just 1 over flow so i built 3 overflows out of 3/4" pvc. no...

so i dont think ive said anything but i recently got a job working for an aquarium matnence buisness. its really small scale(sorta im the only emplye and ill soon be buying out the buisness) theres only 7 tanks. 5 are 5 gal nanos and one is a 300 gal surge aquarium(it has a laptop conected to a...

so i used to have just 2 small 1/2 inch overflows but they wern't going fast enough for me so i decided to build a 3/4 inch overflow out of pvc and i had some pipe left over so i built 2 more, and im shure glad i did. for some odd reason(they work fine now) 2 of them decided to stop working. if...

i have two tanks that sit right next to eachother so for an overflow i just have pvc conecting the two as an "over flow" well, i didn't want to use pvc cement and air kept getting in through the conectors so i made my own bent pipe. i took a length of pvc and put a cap at one end. i then filled...

sory but i have no pic. there are three small little things growing out of my live rock. they look exactly like pink daisyies. they are light pink, have a white dot in the center of the "flower part" and they have eight little pink pettels. the intire think is pink exept for the white middle...

not really but i was close. this morning i woke up to the sound of pump trubles. i ran to the tank and noticed that it was halve empty, it would have been worse if the pump had been lower in the water. along with a lower water level in the tank, i was standing in a puddle of water in my room. it...

so i have had a nice looking soft coral that came with my live rock. its been doing very well. gotten at least twice as big of a colony as when i got it. and i just found out today that it was striped pulsing xenia(although ive never seen it pulse). so far i has just been spreading on the rock...

so yesterday i set up my diy c02 reactor(i got the design from shamutt(i think thats how you say it)), and today i went to the fish store and came home with $50 dollars worth of preasonts. i got kalkwasser, carbon, a calcium and co2 test kit and some other stuff. i get home and i test the c02...

so i just wanted to share some ideas that i recently built. first of was my buble lader, its actualy more of a buble defuser. what i did was take a lenght of 1/2" pvc pipe and put a grate on each end. then i filled the pipe with cut up peices of air line tubbing. then i drilled a hole in the...

so for some reason i prefure to use hot glue on most of my diy projects. i find it easyier to work with and enjoy its faster hardaning time. is there anything wrong with putting hot glue into the tank?

so i know that theres a whole topic dedicated to avatars, but nobody lookes at it any more and i really wanted to show off my new avatar. i spent an hour making it, and i personaly think its just about the coolest thing ever. (note that the thing the diver turns into is a fish and not a submarine)

so a month ago i got 20 lbs of live rock from liveaquaria.com and it looked really bad. so bad that i just put it into the fuge. it had this weird covering on it that was a redish brown crust on parts of the rock. i didn't think to much of it then to day i decided to find out if anything was...

so ive heard alot about water conditioners but im still alittle fuzy about the subject. is it something i need, or can i do with out. is it a "use it when you need it" or a "use it every day" kind of thing. im really confused as to what it does and what it is. i went to the lfs the other day to...

so heres the story of my mid cycle retrofitting for a fuge. so to start off, i was in mid cycle of my 25 gal salt tank with 20 lbs of live rock (ugly stuff) with a cpr bak pak. i really wasn't happy with it at all. i didn't like how the lights looked. i didn't like how the rocks looked. i didn't...

so i heard from a notable sorce that adding a small amount of white kitchen vinegar to your kalkwasser right when you mixing it will help elimenate the participate you find at the bottom, as well as make it so you dont have to wory about the amount of C02 in the tank nessasary to combine with...

while looking for sand, i heard a rumor that pool filter sand looks really good and fit well. is this true? could it harm anything in my tank later down the line? thanks

ive had some bad run ins with play sand. along time ago i went to home depot to get some of the nice white tropical play sand. they didn't have exactly what i was looking for but they had something like it so i decided to get it(its 3 bucks for 50lbs. whats the worst that could happen) so when...

so im still in the process of setting up a 25 gal salt water reef tank and i have a 9 gal tank just laying around. i was wondering if it would be a good idea to add it on the side of my main tank with an overflow. im running the berlin method so ide probably just put some live rock in it...

so im setting up a 25 gal salt water reef tank. i have a cpr bak pak but im not planing on using the filter part and going with the berlen method. i have a small unergravle filter lying around that would fit nicely covering about halve the tank. i was wondering if it would be a good idea to...

so i want to get a refugium (is that how you spell it?, im bad with spelling). they all seem pritty expensive for a small acryllic boxes, so i decided im going to build my own. i was planing on using the out flow from my cpr bak pak and then just having an overflow go back to my tank. but thats...

early today i came to my 25 gal salt water tank to empty the collection cup on my cpr bak pak. to my dismay one of the filter pads i had put in it had been blown up into the overflow back to the tank and cloged it, therefore making the waterlevel in the back pack overflow onto the hard wood...

i just set up a 25 gal salt tank with a cpr back pack and it was my first time using play sand instead of crushed coral. i heard that you didn't need to wash it seeing as it was steralized so i just put it in and know my water is very clowdy. its been 4 days and there hasn't been any...

hey every one. im starting a new 30 gal tank and my biggest desicion sofar is the skimmer. i was thinking about the cpr back pack, but its still pritty expencive. i found a cupple of small hot skimmers on ebay and i was wondering if anyone has had any bad/good experiences.