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I see a lot of white pvc plumbing set ups. Is that just a coincidence or is there some sort of bacteria that likes white plastic instead of black?

Ok to clear things up I have a 140g tank that needs approx 1400gph total. If I have two return pumps that pump 710gph each thats 1420gph. OR I can have one pump that pumps approx 1500gph. The reason I'm considering two pumps is in case one fails, I will at least have one pump that will be...

I'm at the point where I'm going to look for pumps and was wondering if I should get two pumps for redundancy if one breaks I'll at least have one pumping. I'm aiming for 1400gph which is a pair of MD 40 710gph pumps at $80/ea *** Do not post links to competitors sites -Sep or one blueline 70...

Do they have a chance surviving with a V. Lion, huma huma, and a snowflake eel? The wife really wants one. She misses our old one. It was about 5" long!

I'm planning my next tank and now I'm into the lighting part. The tank I have is a 72" long tank (140gal). I'm thinking of only getting four t5 HO lights. Is that going to be enough for a fowlr? Or do I need more watts by adding more t5's or go MH? thanks

I'm trying to come up with a way to make my water changes as easy as possible. When I used to have my 65g this is what I did: 1) Turned off the main pump power but left powerhead going. 2) Siphoned out the old water into a big rubbermaid tub which always turned out to be heavy, then dumped it...

Great thanks for the info guys. Sure saved me a couple of bucks! I think eventually I'll add some softgoods but thats awhiles down the road. I'm thinking since the tank is approx 72" long I could install four 36" t5's. two on one side and two on the other.

Going by the general rule of thumb of 3-5w per gallon, I'd need about 420-700w! That sounds like a lot to me. That means I need 8-10 54w T5's? Thats $136-$180 in just t5 lights not to mention the ballasts and reflectors that are needed. Is my math about right?

awesome great tips guys. I might go with the rubber mat deal. I never thought insurance would pay for a fish tank leak. I'll check into our policy. We are putting it in the living room which has carpet on top of a concrete floor, at least I think its concrete. We dont have a crawl space.

I have a 140 gal that I'm going to be putting together real soon and was wondering what I can put underneath the stand in case of leaks. I dont want to ruin the carpet if something does decide to leak. I had a 65g at one time and we just put painters plastic underneath it. It didn't look that...

So I'm desperately looking for another large saltwater tank on cragislist and came up with a few, but I'm still up in the air about what to stock it with. I used to have a 65g w/ gs marron w/ white bubble tip friend, black/white damsel, yellow tang, yellow/blue damsel, and various shrimp and...

ok...really wierd. it's not completely split yet. It's been about 2 days, and its practically split but they are still attached on 2 sides by about an eighth of an inch. I'll try and get more pics.

www.craigslist.org and search in your area. I got my 65gal ready to run w/ skimmer, sump, refugium, 50lbs LR, couple of fish for $400!

I'm only a month into it and don't regret too much. I'd definetely say buy used! Everyone is always upgrading to something bigger and better, and sell their stuff for super cheap. Might not be the best in the world, but if you are a "do'er" then it's nothing a little elbow grease can't help...

Take some of those puppies to the LFS and trade it for some supplies!

The lighting doesn't look too bright in the pictures because I set that way on the camera, and it came out darker than I thought because of the low battery. Anyways, I have four 55wat PC lights. I dont remember the type of output they are though. I ran all 4 and it made the anemone kind of...

Mine does the samething. I usually feed it when its doing that because its easier to get to the mouth. So far so good. Mine is a Maroon BTA.

check it out...sorry about the bad pics...camera battery was running out. Its kind of hard to see the splitting of the bta...but its certainly splitting. I can see it a little bit more now. I think it got stressed when my return started blowing bubbles...oops i guess i need to...

Cool another person in Sac. There are a couple of fairly good aquariums. Capitol Aquarium: Huge koi in the front pond. Nice selection of SW fish. Prices are normal. Not too many coral or anemone. O street aquarium: Small but again a pretty good selection. They have 2 pretty big sharks...

Hi all, great forum you have here. First post. I just got introduced into this hobby about a month ago and bought an established 65 gal tru vu, 20 gal sump, berlin PS, quiet one 4000HH pump, with about 30lbs LR a maroon clown, striped damsel, yellow tang, a couple of hermits and a brittle star...