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Stanlalee, I have a question for you. I use CC in my tank. I have reduced it to 1" or less to try to reduce my nitrates. Currently my readings stay around 15 ppm. Do you use the CC that is about the size of a dime (or a little bigger) or do you have the stuff that is crushed up a lot finer...

I work for the County Recreation department and we see this stuff all the time. A lot of parent's don't want the game to be fun. They want the kids to win. That is all that matters. If a kid strikes out, a lot of the parents just want to blame the umpires. A lot of parents think that their...

Correct. It has a life cycle that it goes through and must have a fish to host it or it will eventually die off in 4 weeks or so.

Stress. When a fish becomes stressed, it's immune system weakens and is not able to fight off ich.

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The sand on the beach has a lot of contaminents in it. You may pollute your water by using it.

CC allows a lot of detrius material to settle deep with in the cc bed, where the clean up crew has no way to get to it. There it turns to nitrates and create water problems. For a CC bed to work properly you don't want it to be any deeper that one inch and you should vacuum it when you do...

Thanks guys. I was curious whether the copper wire would leach into the water or not. I'm just cheap and hate spending money when I can find a more inexpensive way. Beth you are right though, it will be one of my cheapest investments for my tank. I can deal with $15, lol.

Wow!! So young too! What happened?

If that is the max size of the hermit, you should be fine. I have blue leg and scarlet hermits and they don't bother any of my fish. They don't even bother my little neon goby.

Anthony, glad to see you tang is doing better. Hopefully mine will do the same soon. As far as a grouning probe goes, can I just take a piece of electrical wire (like used in houses) and run it from the water into the ground hole on an outlet?

I agree, metal halides will be the best you can get. They cost more than the VHO, but in the end you will probably be better off and can have just about any coral or anemone that you want. ...wish I had gone with metal halides.

A lot of times your lighting can give off a lot of heat. That may be something to look at and add a fan if that is the case. I think the temperature swings are what you need to be concerned about. The temp in the tank shouldn't rise or drop but about 2 degrees during the course of the day.

You may know this already, but keep in mind that you have to have a VHO ballast if you plan on using VHO bulbs. They won't work with normal flouresent lighting.

I bought one when I lost all my fish due to Ich. It made me feel more secure knowing that my fish would be better protected when I restocked my tank. It has now been broken for about 2 years and I haven't had the first ich out break. In my opinion I would just quarentine any new fish you...

I run VHO in my tank, but I don't have any corals or anemones right now. From my understanding, you can keep things like mushrooms, zoo's, bta's, etc. You CAN"T keep the more light demanding corals and anemones.

VHO= very high output. It is a lot stronger than Normal Output flourescent lighting.

There is one in Buckhead that is pretty good, but I can't remember the name of it.

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