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do you know if it is true actinic 03 or if it is 'actinic' but really just a bulb with blue glass?

tell your wife she's lucky--most of us would use that leak as an excuse to buy a 180 :D seriously though, glad the transition went well and that you were able to diagnose and fix the problem before it became catastrophic!

Wow...that's a great post--i was unsure as to how much cycle to expect if doing that sort of swap--good info--thanks for bumping it!

alicia your cat and mine are twins! good afternoon :D

Sounds mantis like. Do you find any cracked shells around the tank? Do you hear clicking ever? The coke bottle trap has been known to catch a mantis--but mostly, it seems that the easiest way to remove a mantis is if you can confirm that you have a mantis--then find the rock it burrows...

Sweet :D Ya know, I've been wondering, and buzz perhaps you can help me out here...are you putting the 100 in the same place as the 60 was? If so how'd you do it logistically? did you move the 60 away from the wall, set up the 100 against the wall start it cycling and just leave the 2 systems...

i totally agree--shrimp pellets have been essential for me to keep mine fed! good one to point out plum (and tiffster)! the claw--sounds like you've got some very healthy and happy stars :) (and some less happy corals :p)

Cool--thanks for the tips. Nah...I was actually interviewing with Schlumberger--very interesting company--awesome people--sometimes regret not going to work for them--if I'd have taken any job then it would've been with them but I chose to come here for grad school instead :) And a clean fish...

Hey--yeah, peppermint shrimp are terrific lil aptaisia munchers. Once you get to move the shark I'm sure they'll fix up the problem quite well. Seahorse tank would be sweet. I wanted to do a lil office nano for them but found feeding the dwarfs to be too daunting. I wish I could do a big...

There have been a lot of threads lately on spotfeeding serpent/brittle stars or other similar lines and I just thought I'd pass on a bit of encouragement. When I first got my serpent stars I had a ridiculously hard time target feeding them. I never knew where they were or when to feed...

if only you lived in michigan...

Eggy--don't worry--full grown can be one-many feet long :) in all liklihood you still have a relatively weeny one :D Stillfrodo--also don't worry. Manti come in as hitchikers on a lot of quality rock. It's just a part of the hobby--and they're really not nearly as bad to track down and remove...

oh, i rigged one of the 13 watt pc's into it...not enough light for sps or clams (as i'd originally hoped)...but works good for shrooms and caulerpa. i've had caulerpa in there for a week and just yanked out a handful an hour ago for my tang...put a shroom in there this morning so we'll see how...

nope, unfortunately, i keep getting tied up on fri/sat/sun...wish they had some weeknight hours! i think you should build a sunroom with a solid foundation--no basement under it--and put the 600 in it and invite all us michiganders over to visit it :D (wow is it easy to spend other people's...

he he...unless he's huge the worst he'll do is a nasty cut to the bone type thing--nothing a few stitches wouldn't fix up. and i definitely found mine to be nearly as scared of me as i was of him... :p

why's it gotta be in the basement?

No not me--I'm super tough... yah right I first called my boyfriend and pleaded with him to leave work and remove the rock for me. I then called the fishstore and he told me I'm a silly girl. Not to be outdone by that comment I used 2 nets to remove the rock. Thank goodness it was pretty...

if you use lr/ls the biowheel will be fine (and likely even unnecessary except for extra flow). i like having a skimmer but there will always be people going skimmerless...i'd suggest he use maybe 40 lbs ls (depending on the footprint of the tank, enough to give him a 4" dsb) 25-35 lbs lr, and...

yeah, once you find out which rock it's in the rest is pretty easy--you just really want to figure out which rock it is--i caught mine as i saw it bolt out of the rock in the light of day to grab some bites of frozen plankton! (scared the bejezuz outta me!)

yep the bargaintrader one...if you get it can i come visit :)