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Originally posted by goldenboy What kind of magnet were you using? It's a magfloat. We think a little metal filing got onto it. There was a lot of welding going on in my house a few months ago when the tank was set up (we're the Under the Sea episode of Monster House) and the magnet might...

My really helpful husband decided to clean some of the algae off the side of our acrylic 250 with the magnet. Before I had a chance to say, "wait, watch out for scratches!" he'd already swept the thing back and forth twice, several feet, leaving a nice scratch on the outside from who knows...

My 250 divides the living room and dining room, so you can see it from both sides.

How about a turtle instead? I got dimestore turtle when I was 5. My mother took over caring for it, and eventually moved it outside to a big kiddie pool where it lived on a rock for years, eating lettuce and cocktail shrimp when it wasn't hibernating. 20 years later, a guy came to take a...

Wow, RyeBread, that's huge! Did it outgrow your customer's tank? Would a grouper grow that size, and be comfortable in a 250? Pongo is my favorite fish, so he can have it for himself at that point. Hi Carole!

I hear that Panther Grouper grow quickly, and that they grow very big. But I never see pictures of big ones, or hear of people who have them. Does anyone have a big panther grouper? Mine is about 6 inches. He lives on about 10 frozen krill a day (in 2 feedings) and will eat nothing else.

My flame hawkfish started doing the same thing just a few days ago. I even posted here because it was really strange for him--he's done nothing but skittle around on the rocks for the two months I've had him. I still don't know what is up exactly. He was even doing it last night after the...

I don't have any crabs that I know of! But I found this claw sitting between two big pieces of live rock last night. I've had an awful lot of small fish disappearing in the 10 weeks I've had the tank. Can this crab have been the culprit? If it doesn't show well in the photo, the claw is...

I considered seahorses too, but the idea of 100's of fry getting sucked into the filter on a semi-regular basis scared me off--and the idea of trying to grow them out in a nursery tank scared me even more!

Help-my flame hawkfish is acting weird! This morning, he is swimming in the tank, up and down in the corners, and long distances against the glass. My tank is 10 weeks old and up until now, he has just skittled around on the rocks, only occasionally leaping up to get a bite of food. Is this...

Originally posted by Aggie05 Too bad there isnt a "monster aquarium" show on discovery.:p That's for sure! I'll tell you, when I sat outside all week and watched them carry steel beams into the house, and concrete, shoring up the house, and then the huge Catalina Saltwater tanker truck...

I'm thinking turning my FOWLR over to reef in the coming months, but I have a 5" panther grouper I have become attached to. If there were no fish small enough for him to swallow whole, and no shrimp like those krill he loves so much, would it work? By the way, since the tank was given to...

Originally posted by Buzz I was wondering when they were going to do something like that. I wish I owned my house. I was actually thinking if I did I would apply and do some ocean theme to get them to build tanks in my house. Congrats! A guy I work with was on Monster House not too long ago...

Maybe I oughta be a fish guy! That isn't my house. I think that is just from shots of other stuff he's done.

Being a newby, I may not know all the details, but I will tell you what I can. First, he used the natural seawater, if that makes a difference. Then he used all sorts of extra filters above and beyond the norm. He also seeded it with bio balls from a client's established tank. Down in the...

That was the second week of school, Sept 15 to 21. The complicated part was keeping everybodies' school uniforms and homework in order. Also it wasn't easy packing 4 lunch boxes in an RV with no counter top! The water was from the Catalina Water Company. They collect water off Catalina...

This is my fish guy's website. He has a whole series of photos of the building process that is not shown on the episode, plus he mentions some specifics of the equipment. Just scroll down past the brochure shots and you will come to the shots of my house...

I don't want to clog up the board--but there is a fairly recent shot in the other Monster House thread in this forum. Just scroll down aways.

But a lot of my fish did not die from lack of cycling. The little blue guys disappeared without a trace. We suspect they were eaten. Other than that, we lost a lyretail wrasse very suddenly, with no sign of disease, about 2 weeks in. The fish guy was there that day and all tested ok. He...

Originally posted by mike19881956 What happen to the racoon buttefly angel (not sure) i swear i saw it on the show. Anyway what a beautiful house. Did u take down some of the decor after they left , what do u use that observation tower for? What a beautiful tank. The tank, as shown on TV...