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check the price, you can get Natures ocean cheaper online, even with shipping, than at your LFS. My oppinion is you need both. Th LS for the bacteria and the Detrivore kit for the critters. If you dont get LS, you might try Wonder Mud.

jimi, i dont really understand what you mean. basically a tube inside a tube???

the red sea turbo upgrade kits are less expensive than a mag 7 pump and have an air injection system. you might look into getting one. mine ran about 65.

from what ive heard, one nick of the fin will put you on your but and in the hospital really quick!

mmmmmmmmmmmm.........escargo!

if you get one of those, you are wasting the money you spent on the DSB. might be ok for a shallow sand bed, but it feeds off of all the good stuff in the sand. I dont recommend them, regardless of how cool they look.

flame scallops are nice, but in a young tank they will die. you might try to feed it phytoplankton.

kimmisue: a white sand sifting starfish will slowly DESTROY your DSB as it eats all the little critters that make the DSB work.

Terry B and Beth, There has been an ongoing discussion in the reef section on ridding a tank of curing LR of about 30 or so visible flatworms. Some have suggested a FW dip of the LR, yet others have said not to. This really isnt a disease question, but I thought with your knowledge on tank...

nickbuol, you might want to go to the disease treatment forum and talk to Terry B about this, he seems to be well educated on hypo/hypersalinity. he may put some of your concerns at ease.

btw, do these things slide across the rock and glass and resemble a gost? something like a snail without a shell.

I would try my worst looking rock first and wait a week to see how it fares if you are skeptical. that way you can judge for yourself with minimal risk. if the flatworms explode, I would venture to say that so would your tube-worms, amphipods and copepods.

ok, because the pictures from the instructions i have show NO bubbles in the second tube, i thought that was my problem. but I guess not. another thing I think I may have done wrong is using the pvc tubing instead of the hard plastic pvc pipe. maybe i should get a couple of elbows and just...

anyone???

the prices i quoted were from NY to LA, so thats prolly right nickbuol

i originally wanted a small puffer for my reef, they are cool fish, but are not reef safe. I took the advice of pufferlover and others and decided against it. You might check the agressives page as there has been discussions on this topic over there.

does the coralline scrape off with your fingernail? what color is it? how fast did it bloom? what did you do to make it bloom? the reason i ask is, are you sure its not cyanobacteria? I may be wrong, but i have never heard of coraline blooming and being "all over". the algae i have is...

bristle worms are good. they are detrivores and stir the substrate.

fedex ground would run about $30 give or take for 1 50lb bag. UPS ground will run you about 42.00

OK, I followed you all's advice, and got the turbo upgrade kit to go with the used berlin classic skimmer I got off of ----. Now the fun (and wet) part. I plumbed up the intake from the pump to the bottom inlet. I also plumbed the two ports on the top as returns. Is this right??? The reason I...