Marcin

To be honest I know of at least one person who brought home a rose tip anenome (I believe thats the name) from the ocean. It lived in his tank for 1.5 years (tropical tank at 25 degrees C). The only reason it died is because of a tank crash that was a result of an unrelated matter. Many of these animals can acclimate and get used to different temperatures of water.Therefore I would say if you find something nice why not try. Its not like they are endangered. Thats just my opinion. Good luck.

Frogspawn, mushrooms, kenya tree and aptasia LMAO! j/k From what I heard the HO T5 with individual reflectors are really good- dont give off too much heat can be close to the water. I believe the unit is called sun pod or sun tek. Just make sure they have individual reflectors. I think its something like 8 bulbs x 54 watts in the setup and it costs around 500 online. Also MH would work too. I have a 55 gal with 2 pendants ( 150watt double ended HQI bulbs.) I can grow anything and it has nice color. They dont give off much heat compared to the single ended MH bulbs I have seen. Mine are 5 inches above the tank with no fan. I ordered online and paid 150 for 2 pendents, 2 ballasts and two bulbs. However they arent CSA approved and one of the ballasts broke 5 months later. You might be able to get away with less light but if I were you I would just get more than I need so you wont have to upgrade much in the future(bear in mind "more than you need" isnt me suggesting 400 watt MH's since I believe no tank really needs that much.).

Unfortunately because of the small size of this thing my camera cant focus on it. Or I dont know how to make it focus( I believe I have a pretty good camera 5.0 megapixel)

Hey everyone. So I found this hitchhiker in my tank a month after it has been running. Basically when it closes up it looks exactly like a zoo polyp. It seems to be growing very fast and is very sensitive( I simply walk near the tank and it reacts). Now you may all be thinking its a zoanthid. The thing is it has many tentacles which appear to look almost identical to hammer coral tentacles. It seems that in the very center there are no tentacles. Its coloring is basically almost orange at the tips (hammer shaped tips) and brownish the rest of the way down. The orange coloring is very faint. Anyone know what I might have here?

Hey. I tried my hand at flounder. Did all my research had a suitable tank for it. Maybe I was unlucky but the thing wouldnt eat and finally died within a week. I found if you are into the flat stringray type looking animals you can go for hillstream loach. They look really cool but they are very hardy as opposed to the flounder. Thats my experience at least.

Well a filter is not really necessary its just there to take larger particles out of your water so they arent floating around making your aquarium look bad. As for the ceramic rings if they work for you then go for it. Reason I suggested bioballs is that I bought ceramic rings and they said on the box that they dont melt or whatever but once I had them in my 27 degree tank water they kinda started dissolving a bit- which I didnt really like so I went for the plastic bioballs but both works fine. The powerheads I have Im not sure how old they are but I just bought them off a person on canreef except I decided I was going to just use the ones I had. The powerheads I believe are maxi jets or something like that. Depending on your tank length you may be able to get away with one and a filter on the other end of the tank but its always better to have to facing eachother to create current going different ways rather than the same way(I guess thats better dont ask me why ) Anyway in regards to the skimmer it just makes water changes less frequent but like I said personally I dont think its necessary since more frequent water changes are a good idea. But its all up to your budget if you can afford it then why not have it right? Cant hurt. Placement I would place the powerheads so they create a sort of cross current like I said above. Also as for the brand of the powerheads I took a look at them and it says Powerhead 402 and on the side it says Askoll- made in italy so I assume it is an Askoll powerhead. One of the powerheads has been sold (the larger 802) so if you were interested there is only the 402 size left.

Hey. Basically you salt(50-60dollars for 5 gal bucket) a powerhead-I got one rated for 55 gal tank for 25 dollars at www.ilovemypet.com. Live Rock- about 20 lbs you may want more-the more the better( I have 30lbs in my 10 gal) I would suggest you check these forums out for it(Lfs gives you crappy rock for a high price)also might want to check out canreef.com lots of people selling Live rock for like 4-5 dollars a pound. You will need some live sand or just sand(can be other substrate like crushed coral but you should use special marine sand that acts as a calcium buffer-raises calcium and ph) again you can ask someone on the forum i mentioned above and most likely they will give you some or sell it to you for cheap. A bag in stores is usually 30-40 dollars. If you want to keep a reef tank then you will need a good light. Might want to look into metal hallides depending on if you want to grow stony corals or just soft corals like zoanthids, mushrooms, and green star polyps. Dont get me wrong the soft corals grow like crazy in MH light and it is better for them. If you are on a budget you can always get Power compacts. I have 105 watts of power compact light in my 10 gallon. You may also want to put a simple HOB filter on just for removal of large particles to keep your water clearer. (do not use carbon it can become toxic to saltwater inhabitants.) I use 3 foam inserts in my aquaclear mini but bioballs are acceptable too. Other than that you dont need anything else except a heater which im sure you know. If you do go with the metal hallides you should get fans in your ballasts or near your tanks because they produce lots of heat. Also just to let you know 105 watts of pc lighting cost me 100 dollars. When you set your tank up put LR and LS in and then let the tank run for a month. Once every 4-5 days add some food like mysis, brine shrimp or other meaty food so the critters in the tank dont die and have something to feed off. If you decide to make a reef tank watch your tank closely for any crabs that may hitchhike on your rock and get him out of the tank. 99.9 percent of the time hitchiking crabs are bad for your tank. They may eat or destroy your corals and if the opportunity presents itself will kill your fish. Once the tank has been running for a month check your levels ammonia, nitrate, nitrite and if it is stable you can add a hardy fish like a damsel or clown. Then if you decide to have corals a week later you can start adding a few corals at a time. I personally have done it the other way around and added corals before fish, but its up to you. Also keep in mind that city water may have ammonia in it. For example in edmonton our water has 0.5-0.75 ppm of ammonia which is pretty high so you may have to use a product such as PRIME water conditioner which will remove it. The trusty aquaclear water conditioner we used for freshwater doesnt do jack. I learned a few days ago when I asked an experienced reefer why my tank water never goes below 0.25 ppm ammonia. This was the reason and PRime sure enough removed the ammonia. If you plan on keeping a reef tank I recommend you keep snails and hermit crabs out since they like to knock things around which will be a real pain when you have to put them back in place every day. Just use the old glass cleaning magnet. But if you decide to put invertebrates in I suggest you get only 1 turbo snail which will clean all your glass. I made the mistake of putting them in 1 month after my tank was set up (4 snails, 5 hermits in a 10 g) and they cleaned the tank up in 2 days but later began slowly starving to death which made me give them up to someone(20 dollars down the drain). Hope this helps. By the way if you want coral frags later on I sugget going to canreef.com lots of people are selling or giving away frags for cheaper than stores. You can also get LR and LS from people on Canreef and many may even give it to you for free.