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Originally posted by Thomas712 Yeah, Happy Halloween to eveyone. The part I hate is how very, very, very commercal this day has become, I just can't believe the stuff they sell for this one day. I understand the costums, pumkins, carving kits and all, but 6 foot holloween trees? strands of...

Originally posted by RobChuck Well put j21kickster I don't frequent the board as much as I used to, but I must say that the information I have learned from members who share their vast experience of the hobby here has been the primary reason my tank is flourishing today. yup! :cool: same...

Do you mean the HOB overflow? The overflow is what gets the water down to the sump. You don't connect the sump to a HOB skimmer. It is a pain in the neck to remove a UGF once you've got stuff sitting on top of it. I had to tear my entire tank down and build it back up again. Luckily I had no...

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LOL great drawing! Can you do one of your new ride :) :) What is with everyone buying sports cars? Get yourself a TRUCK. Nothing more american than a tried-and-true pickemup truck WOO HOO! BTW- glad to read you aren't getting rid of your TRUCK. hee hee sorry I can't help it.. i love trucks. :D...

Originally posted by Dacia time I would cycle with a cocktail shrimp so you wouldn't stress out your fish and inverts. They live longer and healthier lives without having to survive a cycle, which many of them don't. Yeah I meant to mention something along those lines... you are very lucky...

Get a magfloat or something similar... they are the best. Some places you can find a pack with assorted sized magnets so you can get to 'problem' areas easily. I think they are much easier than the algae scrubber thingies with the handles. HTH

Mike: No problem! If you want to start keeping corals and other high-maintence stuff (not saying that fish are low maintence or anything) then consider getting the tank drilled and adding a sump and such. But for a fish only with some live rock you don't need to worry about that. I noticed in...

I had a small box of IO do that once.. luckily it wasn't one of the big mutha buckets I usually buy! :D

Did your trates peak at all? You may have missed testing the trate peak... give it another couple of days and retest... if all your levels are still around zero you may be finished.

Give your skimmer time to break in... usually takes about a week or so...has it been pulling out any gunk? If it is the first time you have run a skimmer then two days isn't enough time IMO to judge the effectiveness of it... after a week of running my skimmer I woke up one morning and a cloudy...

Yeah if your hermit(s) are devouring 10-20 bucks worth of snail then I'd get em outa there! :D

yup that is a good idea! Southdown at the HD near me is about 1.25 a bag (yes a buck twenty five!, they may have been running a special when I bought it but I didn't much care about that:) ) it is by far the only cheap thing that I have found for my tank! As far as this site carrying it I think...

Shipping costs for that kind of weight is outrageous when you don't have some sort of bulk shipping discount or some other means of shipping the stuff... that is why I posted the shipping estimates :) (go on usps or ups website and double check for yourself! it is insane!) I used to sell really...

I'd be willing to do it but shipping and the box alone will run close to $50 for one bag with USPS (they only accept up to 70 pounds a box) if you want to do more w/ UPS it'll cost near 100 bucks for shipping. I've got the stuff at the local home depot for 1.25 a bag so that isn't a problem as...

Nassarius snails rock. :D

If that is the case then a sump/refuge type setup is not really needed, you can save yourself the cash and spend it on some more rocks :) I'd stick w/ powerheads the cannister and a HOB skimmer and you will be golden for a FOWLR. Have fun!

agreed w/ above. i think it would be best to restate your intentions for short / long term use of the tank. My fish only tank has been running for just under a year w/ a cannister and skimmer only (no sump or refuge) with no major problems.

Originally posted by mike19881956 well i m having a fish only with live rock. I think wat ill do bc everyone is saying it is. Cycle it w lr and canister and undrgrvl(bc it may not do much but i can still run it wo hurting anything.) then run tank like normal wen its dun cycling . When funds...