Recent content by daveb

The snails in that Chaeto are Collonista snails. If they start prolifterating for you, they are the best. If they get like they are in my tank, you will have hundreds of them, and will not need those great big , KNOCK things over Turbo Snails in your tank. They keep everything very clean...

Go to a hardware store, you will find all sorts of shapes and sizes of ducting for air conditioning in homes, you can fabricate something that will work just fine, I promise. Dave

If your tank is tempered at all, it is only tempered on the bottom, not the sides, but you can check with the manufacturer to be sure. Dave

If you are going to have it in a wall with both front and back viewable, then you can drill the side panel that is going to be in the wall. Dave

Exactly, just duct it to the cabinet.

Sure I will sell you as much as you like.... I harvest a five gallon bucket every week. Dave

You can go buy a small 5000 btu window AC unit for less than a $100 almost anywhere. Set it up so it blows cold air into the cabinet where your sump is. I have had a setup like this now for over 8 months. Works great. I did buy a Medusa Temperature Controller to control it, but even before I...

Do a search and you will find this same thing for $69.96 at another site.

I am currently harvesting a 5 gallon bucket every two weeks of Chaeto from my refugium and had no idea it sells for that much. I would be glad to sell some of it off as I harvest it. If anyone is interesed you may email me at dbrader "at" charter.net... Actutally it is not just Chaeto...

Everyone feels that way I am sure. But actually it is not very difficult to make your own power strips to the specs you need them to be.... or an electrical panel of sorts with timers and switches to control everything the way you want to. A piece of paper, a pencil and a limited ability to...

Ok, last night I was looking at my tank, and noticed something very small moving on some Montipora that I have been watching for growth. It was very tiny, but as I watched, I could see that it had the shape , legs , and movement exactly like a full grown Emerald Crab. My question is pretty...

These Float Switches are inexpensive, and are therefore perfect for a redundant system. I use them for several applications. I have two for my auto top off. One that turns the pump on when sump level drops and needs water, and one that will turn it off if sump level is too high just in case...

It is a website you can buy those switches from. Water can be all around the switch. If the switch is floating , it shuts off the circuit, if it is not, it opens the circuit.... Sometimes, I intentionally overfill my sump, so that it has a day or so before the auto top off has to start...

I was watching my tank and all of a sudden, there was this burst of what I thought were bubbles that shot out of my Eheim Wet Dry discharge.... but, it was not bubbles, those things started swimming like crazy.... the fish went wild eating them up as fast as they could... does anyone have an...

When drilling a one inch hole, I used the round diamond bit for the Rototool and then followed a jig to cut out the one inch hole. When drilling larger holes I used a diamond hole cutting bit, and set up sideways drill press type setup using some clamps and a roller skate, believe it or not...