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My feet still sore today....wore the wrong shoes for runnin A bag of 13 yellow lab fry A book ...The Consciences Marine Aquarist Some reef chemicals

Just rinse it off and add it thats all I do

I bought a frozen block of it at Big Al's

Post date buy beer and pizza they will come.....Aquarium Illusions used to rent out suction cups to move big tanks....they may even move for a $

Any saltwater?

Had them quite a few years ago ..........boring as heck always hide in the top corner freak out when you walk in the room pretty cool when they eat though

Do not go through UPS...... go through USPS (US postal service) flat rate on brokerage fees usually real cheap less than $20 UPS charges are ridiculous. I paid $96 for $42 quad parts....real bargain huh??

I have angels, bolivian rams, rainbows, a colony of kribs, cories and 3 BN plecos.....no problems even between the rams and kribs

Nice pics Henry....what camera did you get?

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Since I cannot view the pic at work I am assuming it is a Crinoidea starfish which shoule be left in the ocean. They do not survive well in captivity they are found between 100-500 feet and are heavy filter feeders they like dirty high flow water

Should be able to make it

I got as a pm

I'm assuming you are talking about leafy sea dragons which are the same family as sea horses and pipe fish Oh if flash photos aren't allowed you can still take a video :thumbs:

A lot of guys run Aqua Controllers by Neptune http://www.neptunesys.com/ or the Reefkeeper series by digtal aquatics http://www.digitalaquatics.com/saltwater/RKE they can be hooked up and run from your computer

I have used eggcrate and pvc pipes to build up rock to give the illusion of more rock and it gives more hiding room for fish.

Lol I Dont Have The Spare Cash Too Go Buy Up Complete Setups .... I Gotta Buy Things A Few At A Time .... And I Was Thinking Of Only Starting Out With A 5 - 10 Gallon Tank So I Dont Get Myself In Over My Head And Be Killing Innocent Fish ....Lmao .... Thats is a little small to have no experience when things go wrong they go wrong in a hurry in something that small http://www.nano-reef.com/forums/ probably has the best reading for nano tanks

I started with a 20G tall 22lbs of live rock 1 bag of live sand 2X65W PC lights 2 powerheads and a heater. Had 2 clowns, a firefish a cleaner shrimp and a bunch of hermits and snails. It was bullet proof could grow lots of mushrooms and zoos even grew some LPS but they had to be high in the tank. Outside of a heater, salt and hydrometer this is all pretty much all you need to start......but beware you have been warned...it's highly addictive :thumbs:

Since this thread started I have had 2 that started to grind and howl tomorrow gonna try replacing the shafts they feel pretty rough. This i might chase a drill bit up the impeller hole also to try to smooth the surface down also

Gieseman lights are very nice. All depends on what you are going to do open top get a nice 1 piece enclosed system BUT I think they only go up to 6' lenth so if you go with a topper go retro fit, or 2 smaller pendants. I use a PFO 2X250W with hamilton bulbs and 2 actinics driven by an icecap ballast over a 4' tank that has been bullet proof over the last 5 years. If Gieseman is in your budget that is the way to go IMO in a 7'-8' tank I would probably go at least 3 MH 4 might be overkill but at least 3 Almost forgot there is also LED out there less power and no bulbs http://www.eco-lamps.com/pdf/KR92%20leaflet.pdf

Maybe the proposed river valley aquarium will have it? :thumbs: http://rivervalley.ab.ca/media/pdf/rva-area5.pdf http://rivervalley.ab.ca/map/

It all depend what you are going to do if your going reef tank then MH and T5 actinics, if FOWLR then just T5 is plenty but on the tank that deep you are going to need MH to get light to the bottom. I run MH and T5 actinics for me it works to best. I like the shimmer of the MH and you can grow anything under them with now worries ...unless something low light up high in the tank. If I was to do it all over again this would be the only way I would go again. IMO if the extra $15 a month in power is a concern maybe saltwater is not the way to go. To set up a SW that size starting from scratch you looking at $6000+ without fish or corals so the extra power per month is nothing in the big picture.

I have a small rubberlip pleco >3" in with big Mawali's 5"+ for about the last 3 years if he is out during the daytime they might give him a peck but he is a lot faster than them and takes off

Well I made it and joined ....walked away with some NLS and sword plant :thumbs:

He is in there he's just hiding. Last week my wife found a peppermint shimp in my tank that I put in a year and a half ago and he was huge has to be 8" from from the tip of his antenna's to the tip of his tail. I'm still have hope for a yellow watchman goby I put it a year ago