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a 20l is definitely big enough to be partitioned...when i had mine i actually only had it separated into 2 sections--one with the overflow from the main tank, the refugium, and skimmer and one with the return pump. they were separated with only eggcrate lined in fiberglass screen. for me the...

Hi, welcome to the board! Definitely doable. 50-90 gals would be a great size for an office tank. As they get smaller, they get more difficult--especially being gone 48 hrs every weekend you need to be more on the ball with a small tank. Live sand and live rock actually make a tank easier to...

if you want clams you're gonna need serious lighting. for that tank i'd say that's a minimum of 2x250 watt metal halides with some vho or pc actinic supplementation. i don't think you could do it with one metal halide, even if it's one of the 400 watters. in a 3 ft long tank, 2 metal halides...

wow, sounds gorgeous! if i were you then, given that lake and the stairs, i would definitely buy a boat, but not until after I built the dock!

if you're not planning to have corals then you're pretty flexible in the lighting you could get. if you are intending to keep live rock i wouldn't get totally junky lighting however, cause you may have some interesting things (that need light to survive) hitch-hike a ride into your tank on the...

You'd have to park it in the backyard? You don't have a dock with this lot on a lake? In that case i'd definitely rent not buy--just too much hassle.

It all depends on what you're looking for...my boyfriends boss lives on a lake and has a boat and 2 jetskis. We were at his place for a 4th of July party and the jetskis were by far the most heavily used. If you want all 6 of you to be able to go out cruising then yes, a boat would be the way...

have you thought about jet skis/personal watercraft? Can be quite fun on a lake so long as there's little enough traffic and the drivers are intelligent enough not to be safety hazards. Some of 'em are so overpowered these days you can still tow lil kids in inner tubes. You're not gonna...

Yeah, i got a great boat--portable, economic, trusty, plenty of space for two people, my dog, and a cooler...perfect for fishing off of...it's specific model is referred to as a "canoe" :D

it's a common part of the cycle (cyano algae)...if however your tank is older and established and you're getting cyano it can be due to a number of things including 1) excess phosphates (best cured by adding a refugium) 2) too much light (best cured by shortening light cycle) 3) too little...

hey, i just remembered, also for what you're looking for you may want to look into another system that's out there. ooh...just found the thread with it in it...go to the thread entitled: "2.5 Can it be Done?" and look at the tank pictured by plhsurfer

you got mail :) and i'll get some pics for you. it's not too exciting looking right now as all it has in it are caulerpa, one snail, one mushroom, and a bit of cyano :rolleyes: but really, it's not hard to do--i'm one of those theoretical engineering types who's more likely to set the building...

it was fairly simple--i think it was 3 screws to remove the old light from the hood--a little measuring to make sure everything would align right when reassembled--3 holes to drill in the eclipse hood for screws to attach the new ballast. glued the reflector to the ballast. popped in the bulb...

I recently set up (about 2 weeks ago) a lil nano tank in a 3 gallon eclipse. I retrofitted in a 13 watt powercompact bulb so it's got plenty of lighting for low/moderate light corals... I bet that kind of setup would work well as a lil nano xenia tank! If you want to be able to keep a fish...

Originally posted by Leviwin did a search on coke bottle trap and didn't have much luck do you have any idea how it works? that's odd...when i search under 'coke bottle trap' i turn up 33 threads. this is cut and paste from one of my previous posts on the subject (turned up from that...

work sometimes--often you catch what you don't intend to catch--search for "coke bottle trap" and it should turn up a ton of input for you!

Also, the FAQ you seek can be found by going to the Disease and Treatment forum--there is a thread at the top entitled "Sticky: Basic FAQ" it talks all about quarantine tanks, hyposalinity and ich. Cleaner shrimp are a great thing to have in a tank--if only for the fact that they reproduce...

I'm talking about the type of brittles/serpents you purchase (6 inch armspan-ish)--not the lil hitch-hiker guys that are an inch in diameter.

Leave the dead shrimp in there a few days...don't add damsels. Invest in a test kit--when ammonia and nitrite are both zero (and nitrate is very small) then you can add livestock. if you want damsels do it then--but any hardy fish will be fine. (this could take as little as a couple weeks or...

they'll do it night or day, but more at night--it can be quite loud--loud enough to hear over water flow down the hall and in another room--though it may sound like a mechanical pump type click. when you hear it it may be them killing something--but it may also be the sound of them...