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Just got "The Conscientious Marine Aquarist" by Rober M. Fenner. It's a great book with beautiful colour pictures on every page. Definitely worth buying and available in hard or soft cover.

Thanks Anthem! My LFS quoted me a tank which they can drill the bottom vs a predrilled brand. If the LFS drills the holes, would it come with an overflow chamber? Is it better to have the overflow chamber? Thanks!

Just wondering if a tank says it comes with an overflow, does that just mean it is predrilled through the bottom? Or is this a compartment inside the tank which leads to the predrilled hole in the tank? Thanks! :)

I would like to use this sand for a DSB as well after reading the previous post on the look of the black sand with the blue starfish :D Just wondering: 1. A few posts from the archives mentioned that dirt shows up quite quickly on the surface. Anyone else have similar experience/comments...

My interest started when I was introduced to snorkeling. :cool: We would vacation in the Caribbean and chose our destinations with the best snorkeling. I fell in love with fish! My favourite sitings in the wild have been of rays, sharks, turtles, a school of blue tangs, a scorpion fish, an...

I'm a little confused as well about the sump. Is a trickle filter a type of sump? I picked up a catalogue from our fish store and there's nothing that says "sump". The only thing that sounds like your descriptions is the trickle filter. What is LFS by the way? Thanks! <img...

First of all, this is such a great site and thank you to everyone for your help! I hope one day I can provide as much help as I've been given here. Ok, I was originally aiming for a 90g bowfront, fish only setup with live rock. With all of the information here, I will also have a deep sand bed...

Thanks for your advice Will. There are so many choices to make before I start up and with zero experience in an expensive hobby, it's overwhelming. Not sure how I will make my final decision on my setup.

I don't have a tank yet and am in the researching stages for a fish only tank. I've read a lot about the benefits of live rock so I'm set on having this in my future tank. I didn't read much on live sand but found it mentioned here a lot. Originally I was going to get gravel. One of the...

Hi, I'm totally new to this hobby and am going to setup a fish only tank. I am thinking of the following setup: a 90g bowfront, protein skimmer, cannister filter and a lot of live rock, probably an agressive tank (zebra eel, puffer, lion fish, clown/picasso trigger). After reading through many...