FishyFishy!

Is it tough and not slimy? If so it is Cladophora. Pretty easy to get rid of, water changes and more circulation usually cures it

Yeah it's like hair under water. I haven't even tried picking it off yet. Already done some water changes. I'll remove the fake plants and get it off.

I have a small 10 Gallon thats in my bedroom. Recently it has started to grow this odd grey hair like algae. I assume some sort of hair algae, but would like some confirmation.

BWs in a SW tank are a lot like snails in a FW tank - they eat the leftovers. If the population is exploding, it means there's too much food in there. I've gotten rid of BWs by dipping the LR in FW for a few seconds - the worms come running out as fast as they can!

+1

You can also try 6 line wrasse. I have two that gobble bristles like crazy

Use a razorblade to take the paint off (very, very easy), and use Krylon fusion paint.. If you want blue they have blue. You have a nice project going on there, but if it were me.... that background would drive me insane the way it looks. Might as well spend the 30 minutes it would take to strip that paint and do it right before the tank is set up and in its final place.

Is that electrical conduit your using instead of PVC? If so, its not food grade, and will not work long run in an aquarium.

I would also turn that ball valve on your overflow away from the tank for ease of access.

Nice start to a nice project! Keep on truckin... but remember... patience is key. Take it slow.

Good actinics are the only way to get good glow out of any corals. You can also try good blue LED's to make colors pop. Any corals with neon tips will glow nicely. I have an awesome glow with frog spawn, hammer coral, torch coral, candy canes, and bright colored zoas/zoos. Pretty much anything with a neon glow in your LFS will be good under the right light.

That is pretty normal in my expreience (5 salt tanks). I use a surface skimmer attachment on my filter that works great. I would try that.

I also have a sweet Jardini for sale you should check out for cheap too!! :thumbs:

So i'm building a 5.5 Gallon Pico Reef system from the ground up, and I'm now at the canopy/lighting stage.

I'm looking for higher powered actinic screw in bulbs, no longer than 6". Anyone know where I can get true actinic bulbs? I have 2 10,000K day bulbs already, and thus far, can only find the coralife 50/50 bulbs, which don't give me the actinic glow that I was looking for.

Anyone seen some actinic screw ins around Calgary?

Thanks

Mike

haha thanks for the tip!! This will be exciting...lol

I am making an overflow and chambers in a Pico Reef tank i'm building out of acrylic. I hear everyone on forums talking about "Weld-on # 4" as their acrylic cement, and that its the best/safest one to use. I can't find it at any normal store like Home Deopt or Rona. Anyone know where to get this stuff in Calgary?

Nice Work! I like seeing other people who give their bettas glorious homes insted of the confines of a tiny bowl with no flow. Well done.

I'm in desperate need of a couple of aquaclear 110 parts. Does anyone know a store that would sell Motors or lids in or around Calgary?

Any help is appreciated, as I don't have the time to wait for something to be shipped here off the internet.

Thanks

Mike

Hey! I have lots of saltwater in my house, and I only use RO water. I always have perfect perams. Your discus will appreciate the RO water!

I recommend this company. www.purelyh2o.com

The shipping was awesome, fast, and the customer service was really good.

I bought my system from them, they are extremely cheap, and they have a tonne of different accessories to get along with the RO\DI systems. I purchsed the 4 stage RO system with the dual DI unit add on, the TDS meter add on, the auto shutoff/float kit, and the pressure guage kit. I hooked all of mine up to a large food grade rubbermaid with a heater, airstone, powerhead, and a submersable pump connected to 50 ft of hose in there for storage of the water.

I also have a rig that re-uses the waste water from the unit to use as my washing machine water! Easy setup.

I recommend RO water any day.

Let me know if you have any other questions. I can walk you thtough any install too.

Yes, I plan on keeping the back clean of coraline for sure. Don't like the look of it on glass.. Just rocks!

Hey all! I need some help. I've been toying on which background to use on my 50 Gallon Reef tank.

This picture is crappy cell phone pic, and the back glass has since been cleared of any algae.

Help me by voting!

Thanks

FishyFishy!

120 Gallon Marineland Tank with matching stand

Fluxal FX5

Aquaclear 110

2 X Fluval E300 Digital heaters

Koralia Powerhead

Homemade 48" T8 Shoplight (Dual tubes)

36" 'All Glass' T5HO light

3 Marina Lunar blue LED's with switching hub

Tetra Whisper 100 Bubbler w/ bubble wall

Custom made 2.5 Gallon feeder fish keeper (own lights, filtration and heat).

Livestock:

20" Jardini Arowana (now in 250 gal)

2 Tiger oscars

1 common pleco

110 Gallon tank with corner over flow

50 gallon 4 chamber sump

Dart water pump (3600 GPH!!)

RedSea Berlin X2 Protein Skimmer

Phosphate/Calcium Reactor

2 Large Koralia powerheads

Fluval E series 300W heater

1 48" Coralife - 4 X 10,000K daylight bulbs, 6 lunar LED's

1 48" Dual bulb 'All Glass' Actinic Light

80 Lbs Live rock

60+ Lbs live sand

Livestock:

1 Naso Tang (Large!)

1 Clown Trigger (new!)

1 Foxface (Large!)

1 Dwarf Lionfish

1 Radiata Lionfish

1 Juvi Koran Angel

1 Copper Banded Butterfly

1 Cinnamon Clown

1 Purple Sandsifting Sea Star

1 Chocolate Chip Sea Star

1 konch

1 large blue legged hermit crab

Here are the details about my 50 Gallon (Breeder) Reef tank setup! I absolutely LOVE this tank! I can watch it for hours upon hours.

50 Gallon Breeder tank

Fluval 405 canister filter

Current USA Metal Halide/Actinic/Dayglow/Lunar light combo light fixture

250 Watt Jager Heater

Tunze 9002 Protien Skimmer

2 Hydor Koralia Powerheads

70 Lbs of well cured rock (Nice purple)

40 Lbs Live sand/crushed coral substrate

Corals:

One large Feather Duster

Many tube worms

Green Trumpet Coral

Green Star Polyps

2 Torch Corals

Red and Green Candy Cane Corals

Lots of Frogspawn

Lots of green/purple mushrooms

Kenya Tree (Nephthea)

Yuma Ricordea

Bubbletip Anenome

Blue Sea Sponge (recently added, not pictured yet)

Red Brain coral

Toadstool Leather (recently added, not pictured yet)

Zoanthids

Lots of different polyps

Livestock:

1 Blue Tang

1 Two Barred Rabbitfish

Breeding pair of Ocellaris Clowns

1 Sailfin Blenny

1 Blue Reef Chromis

1 Domino Damsel

4 Stripe Damsel

2 Yellowtail Damsels

2 Gold Banded Coral Shrimp

1 Peppermint shrimp

1 Emerald Crab

4 Blue legged Hermits

1 Blue Linckia Sea Star

1 Sand sifting sea star

1 Black Fancy Brittle Starfish

Dozen or so snails (2 Super Tongan Nasarius, 8 Spiney Star Astraea's, 2 Banded Trochus, coupla' turbos too.)

Sorry for the crappy cell phone pics! I'll get some better ones up asap.

Color realistically comes with age. The older they get, generally the better looking they get. You can try "color ehancing" food, but realistically... has anyone actually proved that they work? I sure haven't seen any results from color enhancing food.

Another easy trick is good lighting. A high output T5 lighting system with 6000-10,000 K lights will enhance the color of the Taiwans easily. I find a combo light with an actinic light works the best (this is what I run on most of my tanks, freshwater or salt)

Other tricks include using dark colored backgrounds/substrates/decore to "trick" the eyes, and make them stand out better.

The bottom line is that there isn't much in the way of additives or chemicals that will actually "enhance" the color of fish.

Hope this helps

I think a tank in every room (like my house) is borderline rediculous. Anything after one tank per room and you're getting into the obsession type stuff... oh wait... 3 of my rooms have more than one tank.... OH NOOO... :chair:

Hey everyone! My friend has recently decided to add a Motoro Ray to his indoor freshwater pond. The pond is a 500 Gallon, with a glass bottom.

I have searched high and low on google, and once again, come up with a contradictory set of information. As I have only used pool filter sand with my ray, I'm not sure what to tell him regarding the bare bottom. Are they ok with bare bottom tanks? I know they like to burry themselves in my sand, but at the same time bare bottom tanks are 90,000,000,000 times easier to clean.

Any thoughts?

The kribs will get along just fine with just about any pleco. Pleco's are rarely the ones getting beat up in any community tank. Just make sure that your plecos aren't really really small pleco's like juvi bristlnose's.

Ok, so I don't have my hospital/quarantine tank up and running yet (have yet to find the right one..)

My poor yelow boxfish has ick. He needs to be isolated quickly as I do not want to have this stuff spread to my more expensive fish.

Does anyone have a quarantine tank up and running that I could 'rent' for a while until he gets better, or until I have mine setup and running? Preferably in the southeast/southwest so that it would be easy to come over and visit/medicate.

Let me know!

Thanks

Mike

They have spread, but only on his body, not to other tank members? I'll still quarantine him.

I ended up doing BioMax in all three trays with the blue polishing pad in the bottom tray. Seems to be working awesome! I love these filters.. You can't even tell its on!