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Anytime you buy a supplement, buy the test kit to match. I wouldnt worry about supplelemnting calcium just yet. Most salt mixes will give you a calcium level of 400. Do a water change and then test your water for calcium. If it is still low, wait a few more days and then do another one. I dose...

I agree with Bang, I keep my Cal between 400 and 450. 300 is pretty low. It could have been because you put all those coral frags in at once. Sorry to hear about your accident, hope youre OK.

Originally Posted by sign guy maybe what dose this box do? Its the metal box that the ballast components are mounted in.

I have a few metal halide transformers and capacitors that I am going to use to build a metal halide ballast but I cant find any metal boxes to mount them in. Does anyone know of a source where I can buy the empty ballast boxes?

I have a seperate DI unit on my system. Instead of a replacable filter cartridge, the cartridge is refillable. I replace the DI medium in the filter. The way it works is that when the DI medium turns from green to brown, then I know it is time to change the medium in the DI cartridge.

Whoever wrote the maps arent the brightest people in the world. For fun one day, I asked for directions to my neighbors house who lived next to me on the right. The directions told me to go out my house , make a left and then proceded to tell me directions going around the block. LOL

Check out these videos http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SD_3i2ALjDo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvtAvnBb_wWg I was at this guys house yesterday and traded him some Xenia for some of these mushrooms. This is a 120 gal tank. The videos dont do it justice. There is one mushroom 6" in diameter.

Originally Posted by ifirefight Yes,Thats who IM talkin about,....Is there another Pistol Pete??? Well I was just letting you know that there are others who know who he is, he is not forgotten yet. Although I have to agree that most people here on these boards peobably dont know who he is. LOL

If you want some Pink Coraline just come and get it. LOL Im serious. I have these little plastic dishes that I use to grow out small frags. The dishes keep the frags from being blown all around the tank. Anyway, the dishes are covered in coraline and whenver I squeeze the dishes, huges flakes of...

Redirect your waterflow so that the surface is broken up more.

Originally Posted by ifirefight e-mail sent to pistol pete. I love it!! Im sure most people wont know who pistol pete is,,,,LOL. Are you talking about Pistol pete Maravich?

It wasnt the Pets Plus on the Blvd was it?

Originally Posted by Adairable Yea I have been looking for one for awhile....finally I found one. They wanted like $35 for him and I wasn't going to buy him. Then the guy was like, alright I'll give him to you for like $20. So I got him...its been really active ever since I put him in the tank...

Because the ocean has waves that constantly wet the surrounding area. The ocean also does not have walls like our tanks do. Also the water level in the ocean goes up and down every day, the tide comes in and the tide goes out.

How far are you from Philly? I have Xenia frags. email me at trainfever at comcast dot net

Any chance you could be overfeeding?

Do you have pics of it?

Originally Posted by Adairable ****New CORALS!**** I am so excited, I just got a bunch of frags from Bonebrake! He hooked a sista up! :jumping: All I need to know now is what they are....(psst I forgot to get a list!) I took pictures but of course nothing has opened up yet.... Anywho, I will...

You can use your existing trash cans to hold water but first line them with a new clean trashbag.

Yes but get two of them so you can wire the second in case the one gets stuck on. The second would be an emergency shut off.