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How many of you get frequent reinforcements of baby snails. Every now and again, I have 10-20 little clear eggs on my glass. Within a few weeks they disappear and within a week or so I have 30-40 new baby snails in my tank. This happens 2-3 times a year in each tank. I usually let them grow...

Isn't it a damn shame when you have to say "natural sea water is too polluted to use, better off using your own" <img src="graemlins//dead.gif" border="0" alt="[dead]" />

I really don't think that this is a food problem. Unless you got a bucket full of skunky blood worms, simply feeding them wouldn't kill everything. I've never seen the nutritional breakdown of blood worms, but I've never read that they can be harmful, even deadly. I mean, my dry food has...

What kind of water are you using. When I first started I used a DI unit that I bought on sale. Right after I used it, everything in my tank died. Right after I bought an RO/DI unit, that way I know that they aren't getting anything but H and O. I don't know very much about toxins in the...

I'm no SWF guru, but I think that the problem was one other then your CC. Like I said, I have three tanks, each with CC, and my nitrates are 0. As far as a DSB being a better filter then a LR, you can have a tank with nothing but LR as a filter. I have friends with smaller tanks that use no...

I have 3 clams in each of my 3 tanks. I have 6 110w VHO in my 120 and 90gal and 4 110w VHO in my 75gal. They are on the very bottom of the tank. I think that people get a little too freaked out about the lighting with clams. A few of mine are over 5 years old. I have never had one die and...

I have 3 clams in each of my 3 tanks. I have 6 110w VHO in my 120 and 90gal and 4 110w VHO in my 75gal. They are on the very bottom of the tank. I think that people get a little too freaked out about the lighting with clams. A few of mine are over 5 years old. I have never had one die and...

I have it on my back glass (front and side if I didn't scrape it off), on my LR, on my CC, on my power heads, on my clams, on my return pipes, on the cords going to my power heads, on my snails, on my crabs, in my eco-systems, on my macro-algae in my eco-systems. I think I found some in my...

2 quick things: I have 9 clams and probably a million bristle worms (?) and have never had a problem and make sure that you take your wife out of the nylons before you put them in the tank or try to cut off the foot.,

Free T-shirt? I'm buying the wrong kind of salt.

I use CC in each of my three tanks. My nitrates are near 0 in each one. It takes me about 5 minutes every month to vacuum each one. After reading so many things about DSB, I was considering changing over a year or so ago. My LFS showed me 5 studies showing the benefits of each, so there was...

Broomer5 posted a study a few weeks back breaking down each salt; from pH to Ca to Mg. It proves scientifically which one has the most trace elements. Well, actually, most isn't the best. It proves which one most closely resembles natural sea water. All of them are basically the same, it...

I had a bunch of that on some new LR that I bought a while ago. My blue leg crabs ate it all in about a week and I haven't seen any since

I don't think that the ammonia came from the distilled water. The boiling point of ammonia is -33C. That's less then the freezing point of water. I don't know about commercial applications, but in a lab, there is no valve to release the 'ammonia steam', because there simply isn't any. I...

Quick question. How can there be dissolved anything in distilled water? If you have ever taken organic chemistry in college, you remember distilling everything in lab. The reason that you distill is to remove all of the impurities. They boil the water and collect the condensed vapor (steam)...

My lfs guy believes that clams are the best filter that money can buy. I have seen TV shows where they put a few clams in a tank full of very cloudy water and the water was clear within about an hour. I have no data to back it up, but I think that clams provide great filtration. They don't...

You can get pH monitors for pretty cheap, but monitors that read nitrates are pretty $$

You don't need to grow it in bulk. It grows so fast, you will have more then you need within a couple of weeks. You can get just a handful and have a tankful very quickly

Sadly enough, I don't know what the names are. We go our lfs, my wife and kids find what is "pretty" and we buy it. I have VHO lighting in each tank. Every now and then one of them will go for a walk to find a better place to live. They are like a clock hand. You can't see them move if you...

Be careful when you goto sleep at night, it might end up on your face :)