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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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...

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...

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...

Well, here's some more pics. the 58 is doing great, I had to get rid of most of my hairy mushrooms, they killed a beautiful montipora and seriously damaged some of my ricordeas. I can't wait until the big project is finished, but in the meantime, I'm fragging like crazy. I'm thinking of...

Just a question. How many of you run your halides with a uv filtering glass lens/plate/window/etc between your lights and your tank? And if you run them in a canopy, how exactly are you accomplishing this?

Finally got off my butt and took some recent pics. Here's a couple of my 58. As you can see, I really dig ricordea and odd colored mushrooms. The lighting on this is 1 250w 20k bulb, it has 180lbs live rock in the main tank, another twentyish in the 20 gal sump, my macros are gracilaria and...

Well, I picked up the pumps for the 135 set up today. I got a good deal on some factory refurbished Gen X's, a PCX70 and two PCX55's. And I think I settled on the basic principles of how I'm going to plumb it. I was going to do a Dolphin Amp Master for the closed loop, but decided that would...

So I had the two tanks running... the 55 reef and the 58 reef. Well, the 55 reef was bought from some lady who "Lost interest" and let the fish degrade terribly. So when I sold the 55 reef, after cherry picking the corals out for the 58, I didn't sell the yellow tang with it, because it was...

Okay... here's the tank and the question... Should I patch the bottom and drill new holes in the side for a closed loop, or go with the bottom holes?

Okay, so I did it, I got mad at all the little tanks (the 55, the 58, the 38) running on one system, and I bought a used 135 gal acrylic and a 75 gal acrylic long and I'm building one big system with the 135 on top and the 75 sumped as a combo sump/mud mangrove/and sand/macro refugium. The 135...

Okay, so I got this really good deal on this 55 gal reef tank... but it's not drilled. I only have worked with built in overflows, and this hang on the back stuff is giving me heart attacks. I've already overflowed it twice, and I just can't figure it out. I got a (quickly purchased) small...

I'm adding a second aquarium to my living room, a 55 gallon reef, and I was wondering... anybody on here have any idea how much juice is too much? Am I in danger of flipping breakers or burning my house up? Anybody have their house specially wired for aquariums? I'm going to be running both...

I've got this 125gal or so acrylic aquarium floating around my storage unit, it's a little scratched but not deeply, and I was kicking around what to do with it. I'm not really so hot on acrylic reef tanks, because of the whole scratching thing, but dang! 125 gal! Vs my 58 gal Oceanic! Why...

okay, so the overflow built into my aquarium isn't staying full, it just dumps right into the sump. Should my return pump be bigger? is this a result of leaving the 4 gallon wet dry and going to the 20 gallon sump/refugium? The noise is drivin me nuts.

My last (famous last words) shipment of rock came in, 70lbs keys and 10lbs coral. Now I have 120lbs of rock in my aquarium. I really like a lot of crannys and pathways so I have it scaped like a maze. My favorite part is the big cavern under the branch rock, will take better pics of that for...

I picked up a used 20long acrylic from the lfs for $30.00, got a new hole drilled and precut partition pieces from a local plastics shop, plus 6oz weld on 3 and an applicator for 24$ total. Four hours of tweeking with it all and I have a sump+refugium. Tomorrow is the water test. I put the...

Anybody have any experience with these? Good, bad, indecisive?

Saw a couple at the LFS, asked the guy how big they got and he said 8" and that they would do great in my 58 gal reef tank, that they're mainly algae eaters and very peaceful, leave coral alone. Anybody here have anything to add to this? Dispute about this? Beautiful fish, I'm looking at...

I just turned on the lights to my aquarium and saw HUNDREDS of tiny shrimp swimming around. Wow.

So tax return season is on me, and I'm wondering, what makes a good protein skimmer?

I got my shipment on the 22nd, and the things that are coming out are just fantastic!!! My ammonia is now 0 after a brief spike to .25, my nitrites are now 0 and nitrates between 0 and 5. Here is the new mystery critter:

I got my shipment on the 22nd, and the things that are coming out are just fantastic!!! My ammonia is now 0 after a brief spike to .25, my nitrites are now 0 and nitrates between 0 and 5. Here is the new mystery critter:

I just got my new compact flourescent lighting in, (Thanks Captive Reef!) and when I took the old NO fixture off, I noticed black scorch marks all along one half of the fixture... I had thought I smelled burning wire the night before but I have a cold and hadn't really investigated when it faded...

Finally got the much awaited for shipment! These guys are awesome, Mike was wonderful, Liverocks.com has the best customer service, and I am so escatically happy with the order I got. Right from the start, the order was well packaged, styrofoam box inside carboard box and lots of water and...