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Well a guy at work is closing out his tank so that he can move. I bought 440w of VHO from him a couple weeks ago, this time i got probably a 100lbs of liverock from him. The rock is still all live, but since itw as kept in "storage" with no lighting all the coraline algea is gone. I think the...

Just thought i would post this pic of my ongoing struggle. Alot of people here are complaining that they have microbubbles. Well i figured id chuck these two pics of my problem :( I have SO many bubbles that when my pump chops them up even worse it leads to foam nearly on the top of my water...

When i got up this morning I saw this interesting sight in my tank. Apparently one of my Zebra hermits had gotten bored with the idea of walking around the tank on its own and decided that hitching a ride on the Queen Conch was the better way to move around the tank. I believe it paid its fare...

Okie im getting my Little Giant pump on Monday and i would REALLY like to use it for my returns. This will free up my Mag7 to use on a skimmer. I had planned on buying a Kent Turbo Educator ( this pump was mentioned specifically) but i was hoping to save some $$ and make one myself. It will...

Okie, i finally got the digital camera going and found some webspace to hook up some photos on. So lemme know what ya guys think. IM still learning on using the camera so its not the greatest yet, but it has great potential i think. Hopefully these will work.. so lemme know what cha think.Anyway...

I just got an Olympus d-250. Its a 2MP camera. takes nice pictures but im still trying to figure out how to get the nice macro shots. It will do a 1200x1000 shot, but i cant figure out how to work it to really get the nice crisp pictures close up. Any tips at all would be MOST appreciated.

OK last week i got my girlfriend a few shrooms for her Nano tank. They are not really smooth looking like some of the ones ive seen. They have small bubble tips all over them in kinda concentric circles. Is this a hairy mushroom? If so how do we feed it. WHAT do we feed it. Its attaches to a...

Just got back from a LFS here in Houston. I bought a small chunk or rock with 3-4 mushrooms on it for 10 bucks. We now have it in the nano tank and are waiting for things to take off :) I have the Kent Liquid Calcium.. would the B-ionic be a good purchase come next payday or is the liquid...

I got 3 Green Chromis yesterday and they have been in the tank maybe 36hrs or so. They have started to venture out more in the tank. However they tend to hide back in the liverock whenever they feel threatened. Most of the time however they stay within about a foot or so of the rock. I have...

Well i got my pump and piping up and running and now finally have water circulation. But its LOUD. The tank is in my bedroom so it needs to be fairly quiet. I have tried making a stockman standpipe and not had much luck. The tank either overfills if i try it one way and with the other the water...

We just added a Peppermint Shrimp to the 2.5g nano tank. The hope was that it would eat detrius off the sand and rocks. So far no good. Hopefully it will do that when it feels more comfortable. But in the meantime what and how do we feed it? I have some shrimp pellets that the ghost shrimps and...

We think we may have identified the coral in the 2.5g tank. It looks like it might be a galaxia. There is some life on it as the coral is coming up out of the top of the skeleton and spreading downwards on the outside. Is this coral a filter feeder or a photosynthesizer? What action do we need...

Well today (after the hood melted last night..100w bulb in 15w socket..bad story.. DONT DO IT) i bought 3 gallons of salt water, 1 pound of live sand( from the bottom of a LFS tank) and 3 lbs of live rock. The rock is just awesome! One of them has numerous empty barnacle cavities on it. The...

My girlfriend is thinking about a Orchid Dottyback for a Nano Tank. We are thinking of this fish due to its coloration( she loves the purple hue) and its fairly small size. Supposedly this fish grows to a max of 3" which would be perfect in the 2.5g bowfront

One of the LFS out here says they will sell me an Ice cap 660 for roughly $185. This is just the cost for the ballast itself. The end caps are $11 each for the waterproof ones. I didnt look at his bulb costs. Is this a decent price locally? I know ---- is tons cheaper, but this way theres no...

Since a Quarantine/medical tank is such a necessity and the ability to get it up to speed fast is so critical, what about running a feed from your drain line to feed the tank. Attach a ball valve on it and then you can close it off when needing to be quarantined. This way it would be immediately...

Ok.. stupid question time :) When they say a tank is 100g for example, is that based on the OUTSIDE dimensions or the inside? My tank is easily 100g on the outside (60"x22"x18").. however due to the thickness of the glass its NOT 100g when measured on the inside. Is this normal? The main...

I have been unable to locate any Southdown here in the Houston area. I did have an idea however. If someone who can get Southdown from Home Depot could get me their SKU# for it, I could get my home depot down here to order some based on that. I figured having Home Depots own product number might...

Ok, I have been to Fish Ranch over off the SW Freeway, City Pets (where i bought my tank) off Bissonet, and i have gone often to Aquariumworld off 290. I havent been really impressed with any for the selection of equiptment or fish. Is there a great place in town that I am missing? I am looking...

Ok, I am over the next several weeks going to be collecting the equiptment for my new 100g tank. I am using a 15-20g rubbermaind container to act a s a refugium. Both the tank and the refugium will have a dsb and liverock. What I want to do is have the pods in the refuguim be picked up and...