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Search online for a vendor. Go with koi or pond supplies etc instead of aquarium supplies and equipment. A lot of pond equipment vendors have sales this time of year. There is a few out there that have very good prices opn Danner as well as other brands of pumps like Sequence etc....

Kent is part and parcel of the same conpany that has Instant Ocean. There is nothing wrong with IO salt. ITs perfect as is out of thre package for a FO tank, and other than the need to adjust cal for reef its still a fine salt. Oh and there is yet another company that is owned and in there with...

The "computer" fans are technically called muffin or pancake fans.......and yes they will work, but are seriously over priced if that is important to you. For what you pay for one of those fans you can buy 3 or 4 of them from an online vendor. These are the fans that are typically used, and...

If you have to spin it to start it, it sounds like you have a capacitor in it thats not hooked up right (wire may have come off) or capacitor is bad, or the pump motors shaft is in a bind. I have seen pumps get twisted in a bind with ridgid plumbing attached and the pump bolted to a fixed...

Originally Posted by 1knight164 Great setup! I was referring to the "Mag-Drive" brand. When I went to read the description on them online, it said not recommended for external use. What pumps are those? I'm looking 600+ gph with 6' delivery head. Supreme Mag Drive, or Pond Masters are all the...

I think he suffers from OCD. He sets there and every tme a snail comes within his predetermined rage he shoots out and grabs it and carries it into his lair. The snails are those tiny snails that are about as big as a pea and resemble a nassarius.....the entire nbottom of my tank was full of...

I have a bunch of them running externally so I do not add any additional heat to the tanks. I have 6 of them on various tanks of 55 gal up to 110 gal which I used to use to hold small bream and catfish fingerlings and also gold fish and koi fry ouside under a shed. Temps outside got to well over...

It is possible the seals are stuck to each other if it has been setting for any length of time, I have that problem on occassion with the Sequence pumps I have on my numerous koi ponds. As to the leak about all you can do is remove the fitting or whatever is attached and redo the connection...

The perfect example to always use two heaters that equal up to what the wattage is on the one larger single heater, or use a Ranco temp control which costs about $100... There is a good chance your shrooms will be ok. Sorry about the loss.

Shrooms, zoos some leathers.....there really is a lot that can be kept under that wattage. I bet a fungii would do fine as well.

Any fans that blow across the water will help cool a tank, however home depot does not sell the typically used muffin type fans usually found on hoods. They can abe ordered formn various places online cheap or you can pay through the nose at an LFS or radio shack. Checkout some online...

I heard thru the grape vine that once the fellow that used to do all the coral propagation and fragging etc left and started his own business, there wa a tiff between those that were left. They then stopped accepting checks and credit cards and now only take cash. I found that quite...

As for providing a place for benefical bacteria etc live rock will do just as well in pitch black as it will under MH lights. However foks also like to see coraline algae etc grow so therefore you do need somewhat decent lights and in most cases a regular NO flourescent light of proper...

Yea I guess your one question keeps getting evaded. PODs are a source of food for other critters, plus they help in terms of keeping the tank somehwat cleaner with them eating certain things of which I really do not know what they actually eat. But in all reality NO yu do not have to have pods...

I know I am in rthe minority here but I have had a Spotted mandarin in a 10 gal tank for over a year now.I do not propose anyone going out and doing it though. I ha d a 10 gal tank with 2" sand bed lots of chaeto and Calurpea in it as well as it was just about packed solid with live rock in...

PVC glue also bonds by melting the surface. Look at a label on reg. damproof and heavy duty PVC. It clearly states the heavy duty stuff gives longer evaporation time in the joint so a deeper bond can be attained, and to get a deeper bond that means it as to melt the PVC. Normally pvc has...

Yep, what you see is ABS not PVC. Just get a can of Krylon Fusion paint and paint the elbows. Thnat is what that paint is intended to be used on PVC items, and no it will not hurt anything once it is dry. You can also use ABS fittings with the proper glue however I doubt you'll find it in...

In this area you usually see the white lunar being used on fresh water tanks more than saltwater. I prefer blue myself. Also blue on a marine setup makes certain items standout and flouresce, where the white does not.

I have been feeding every other day or two for years now and my fish show no signs of being underfed or mal nourished.

I really find it ironic one can make a decision as to what unit to buy and bump specs of all together when one doe snot understand what the abbreviations mean. Check out a Water General sold at filterdirect dot com for a lot less money than any of the ones thats mentioned. Made in the USA, and...