Murminator

Sorry to hear of your loss

Here is some advice on your intake tube drill a small hole about 2" under the water surface and just turn the hole towards the glass so no plecos or snails get sucked into the hole. Then if your filter decided to dump everything on the floor again it will only drain to the hole then it will suck air and stop pumping saves a lot of problems with wet floors and dead fish

When did the ACE meetings become clothing optional???

I noticed in this months Aqua Babble under Calendar of Events it asks you to "Please remove clothes at the door" should make for some interesting meetings.......just sayin

Always liked this one....

Big rubbermade tote add a heater and filter they will be fine

Is anyone running metal halides over a planted tank? After 10 years my reef tank is really starting to tick me off might scrap it a do a planted tank. Would the plants melt? it is currently running 2X250W over a 90G so 5.5w per gallon too much? I haven't heard of anyone running MH over planted just wondering if it can be done

Well couple weeks ago pulled out the sand and added another bag of flourite. The bag says no need to rinse....BS... the tank looked like a mud puddle couldn't see an inch into the tank no way could put fish in there so I had an old 33G collecting dust set it up real quick with the used water and filter from the original teardown. After 2 days of no circulation or filter you could turn on the lights and almost make out the outline of the driftwood this is ridiculous at this rate it will take a month.....Siphoned all the water out down to the substate rinsed everything down a sucked out pure mud. I had a 5G bucket of natural fine gravel added about 1/2 inch of gravel to the top of the substrate to cap it off. This is the trick that worked filled the tank up and it was cystal clear..yay... drained a couple buckets of water so I didn't drown (31" tall tank and short arms) added a handful up plants waited a few days added the fish now couple weeks later everything is doing good plants are growing well but I did lose a couple black cories in the shuffle but the rest of the cories are fine.

If otto's get to the BN eggs they will eat them

Ok once again I'm trying a planted tank the tank has been running for about 5 years. 3 weeks ago tore it down saved most of the water left a dirty filter took out the rocks and gravel substrate. I added all new substrate about 1.5-2" of flourite and about 1-1.5 inches of silica sand, and I am aware the flouite will eventually push it's way up and mix. I have read a few articles where people did the exact same substrate and thats the only way they do it.....I talked to the plant guy at a LFS and he tells me it doesn't work better to have gravel on top for various reasons. I trolled around the interweeb and read why it is bad...crushed roots build up of gases...etc

Just curious is anyone else is running this substrate? What are the experiences? Good? Bad?

Thanks for the heads up

I just bought a 88 pound bag of sil 7 sand blasting sand from sil silicates in east edmonton for $10 sand blasting sand has no dust and all the grains are the same size 88 pounds puts about 2.5- 3" of sand in a standard 90G and dirt cheap too

yeah i was going to say you must be a stronger man then me to carry around 10g pails of water.....water is acually 10 pounds per gallon unless your from the US than it's 8.35 pounds per gallon..... I couldn't swing around a 100 pound o water

I got sore feet from running! I should know better than to work the whole day like that, but it is fun to be a part of things and feel like you are contributing. The best part about being a runner though is getting an up close look at all the fishies!

Thats 2 of us my feet were little sore also ......Got a bag of guppy/endlers with a bonus shrimp for the office tank and a bag of corries i didn't need ....but wanted

A shout box works alot better that a chat room....a shout box posts will always stay there for everyone to see and everyone to contribute whenever. a chat room unless 2 or more people are actually in there at once you usually just talk to yourself for no one to ever see

I will take a stab

1) I'm assuming the piece in focus in the middle surrounded by aptasia looks like it might be a cactus coral

2) Halimadia

3) Red coraline

4) Bi valve

5) Calupera or grape algae

6) Vermetid snail

7) pistol or mantis shrimp tough to tell from the pics may even be a crab

Diatoms often apear in a tank that has not fully cycled / new tank syndrom ... It will go away soon

Yup went for xmas came back to a nice clear tank green algae started to pop up dumped all my fish in all is good

800 gph is not too much flow in a reef tank. I'm running just under 2000 gph in a 24 gal. It is not excessive. Try using two or three outlet points back into the tank, should create nice flow throughout.

If you want to throttle the pump back put a ball valve on the outlet side (not the suction side) and set it wherever you want. A smaller pump will be more economical in the long run.

Bosshog is correct, and I missed something....3000L/H, not gph. So yes, 800gph should be fine for you.

Nah the LPH is Fine I run a 950GPH return and a 1200 PH and thinking of adding 1 more for dead spots on a 90G .....what worries me is you say a pic of a pond on the box?......pond pumps don't usually work on reef tanks there is sometimes non stainless screws or metal shaft that will rust is SW

I going through the same after re-setting up my tank

http://saltaquarium.about.com/cs/algaecontrol/a/aa091100.htm

I run a couple sumps and I love them great place to hide equipment easier to clean I would like to drill holes in all my tanks.....damn tempered glass....

He's in love.....

Congratulations on your purchase of the swords! I had hoped to bid on them myself, but we had to leave before they were up! I had never seen a pair so large and colorful before. If they have babies, would you be willing to part with a few? Haven't seen swords since I was a kid LOL! by the by, how much did they go for? Had $15 set aside for them LOL

The auction was super fun as usual! A little bit too long, I was ready to crash by about 4pm. I was surprised at the prices. Things were going higher then I expected. I was hoping to get some good deals on cheap plants towards the end but they were still going for $10-20+. Good for the seller in me but bad for my now empty tank:(

I picked up a pair of lemon swordtails, some assassin snails,some java moss, and a metal framed tank I don't know why i bid on(anyone want it for free?). I also got some Crystal red shrimp and some Crypt parva off some AA members. Thanks!

Definitely had a fun time :beer:

Only cost $2 to bump them up next for the next thing to auction doesn't matter what table what item :thumbs:

......and the endlers I bought the girls at work noticed 6 new babies today

Medhat was right good for fish not much for coral dump the 6700K way to yellow will make your tank look like pee actinics will enhance the colors a bit corals don't color well under 6700. I would say minimum 10K. I'm a MH guy and I always go 14-15K with suplimental actinics I want the colors to pop. But like MMax said it all depends what you want to do if your throwing together a tank for a couple clowns, a firefish and goby it will be fine for coral a big old sun coral http://www.melevsreef.com/suncoral.html would be good you can grow them in the dark....but need to be fed everyday. Some corals will live they will not grow or reproduce but the will live.

My feet are sore today from all the runnin yesterday I went to the auction with intent of coming home with a male albino bristlenose long finned woulda been awesome, and assassin snails.....and came home with neither. But I did come home with 4 albino eureka reds and a bag of endlers.

.....and everyone that bought the assassins when they run outta food I have plenty for them

PS...who brought the ramshorn snails?......I was waiting for them to sell cause if they made money I was going to be a rich man next auction :drool:

I've been noticing these strange looking polyps growing and multiplying on one of my top rocks. This is one of the rocks I got from an established tank so it could be anything. Whateber these polyps are they are definately hardy because I'm currently cycling and I have been dosing the tank with lots of ammonia. I will try and post a pic or a link so please let me know what you think these are.

http://johnnyreeftank.tumblr.com/

Cheers

Looks to be palys there fine

Leave the bristle worms they good to have the crab I would "rock" him and feed him to the fish the aptasia I use a syringe full of vinegar and zap em....don't let them get outta hand I had over a 1000 of them and took a filefish 6 months to clean it all up. The white inch worms worries me the most of all could be flatworms can you get a pic of them?