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Johno, it really depends on what kind of critters you plan on keeping, and how you aquascape your tank. You might want to consider a closed loop with a Oceans Motion squirt, which would give you both alternating flow, and four directions of flow to play with. The initial cost would be higher...

A trigger would quite rapidly outgrow a 30H, if it didn't flat out die of stress. You would be much better off looking at the fish in the liveaquaria marine fish for nano aquariums section. Marine fish require a lot more space than freshwater, and you definitely can't stock a tank like you would...

You can quite easily and successfully run a sps tank on T5 only. Actually, right now, the big debate is whether or not T5's cause bleaching from too great a PAR jump between MH to T5. I personally like the shimmer effect of metal halide, but I'm currently trying to decide between switching...

You would lose some CO2 without the glass canopy, I don't think it would be a huge concern for people with pressurized systems, but then, I've never ran CO2 on my planted tanks. It would make for an interesting experiment though. On the other side, I know that switching to open top on my...

Glass DOES cut down your lights, quite a bit. Par can be reduced by as much as 20% from CLEAN glass, not to mention what happens if the glass gets dirty and crusted. Sorry, I've lurked for months, but just thought I'd stepin here with two cents. I have reef tanks as well as planted, and in...

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Okay guys... gotta thin out my softy stock. All pictures here are all the animals I'm offering up, but some I'll be breaking into smaller pieces, because I want to keep for myself at least one of every kind of...

Okay guys... gotta thin out my softy stock. All pictures here are all the animals I'm offering up, but some I'll be breaking into smaller pieces, because I want to keep for myself at least one of every kind of ricordea. The zoos are ALL going away though...

Overdo it? Hah! I laugh in the face of overdoing live rock! Seriously though... If you're talking about what is marketed as Maiden's Hair in my area, (seeing as we all know names are abused in the pet trade) Maidens Hair does NOT do good in a high nitrate environment. Maidens Hair is a...

Due to having a small kiddo in the house, buckets are avoided like the plague in my home. (when I was little my babysitter's daughter drowned in a mop bucket and I'm still freaked about it) So we use those big 7 gallon emergency water supply jugs you can buy at walmart or bimart or survival...

It should be noted that sun polyps and carnation corals are both non photosynthetic, low light, low water flow corals. They usually require deep caves with slow circulation to really thrive, and it helps to take a jar with food in it, invert it over them, and then shake it gently so that the...

Nah, not overweight, just a normal healthy mandarin. If you see them smaller than that, they're suffering from malnutrition. An interesting note... this guy now eats from the water column. When I drop in frozen, he comes up and snatches it with the rest. Started with mysis and now he even...

Thought this guy was toast when I got him at the LFS. First two pics are him on arrival... last ones are past couple months to now. This is in my 58 oceanic w/20gal sump/fuge and 180lbs rock mixed softy-n-montipora reef. Just goes to show smaller can be just as nice when properly managed...

That's a heck of a way to get a remodel!!! Glad it turned out well. If I were you, I'd invest in some sandbags. Maybe a levee. (J/K)

Having done both the wild indo rock and the aquacultured... here's my .02 cents... Aquacultured has a wild variety of hitch hikers and a better survival rate of them... incredible colors on the corralline too, but, it's very dense. I like that on one hand, it makes a great foundation for...

LOL. Same story in my household. My partner is from Czech, so he really never saw marine aquariums until he got to the states. We went from "Oh my gosh, that fish cost you HOW MUCH?" to "When can we change the circuit breaker box for the new aquarium?"

Honestly, for a ten gal, a countercurrent air stone powered skimmer would be just fine. Actually, they have better results than the Aqua C's after you've got it tuned, and it really isn't that much hassal. It's just FINDING one that's the hard part.

The two returns in back are going to be down in the rock work, and the one on the far rear left and right will also be jetting through the rockwork to a good extent. I also intend to have the entire rockwork suspended on pvc racks for two reasons... I like having caves, and I like having the...

Here's the plan for the 135... in topo format. The arrows are flow from the two closed loops, each side (ie left/right front/back) is going to be alternating from the opposite side so that it'll get flow front to back and long ways. Since the overflow is on the end, I think that'll work...

Changing over salt really isn't a factor unless you did a 100% water change... and even then, it's more the loss of beneficial bacteria than the salt brand. Well... there are ph and calcium factors, but I've never had any issues do to that, and I did a lot of musical chairs with my tank before...

There's two reallly good reasons to never use hot water while mixing your salt... Copper and Lead. In older houses, the hot water pipes often contain lead. And all hot water heaters have copper cores and copper plumbing. Copper being very inimical to your fish, of course. And no, an RO/DI is...

When was the last time you changed your bulbs? As in... lighting. Four months... that's about the "good life" for most flourescent tubes. And depending on your halides, that's nearing the useful stretch on some of those. Conversely, if you just upgraded your lighting, the increased intensity...