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Has anybody here ever gone through all the work of cooking their live rock? Or does anybody have any thoughts on this? I came across this idea yesterday as I was just browsing some fish sites. This is what you need and how it works...(clipped from other site) The purpose of "cooking" your...

I was on a different message board and saw that Randy Holmes-Farley is working on a product to increase the growth rate of corals. It seems interesting and I asked him if I could post it here. He said no problem. Here are a few things he has said about the possible product" "I'm trying to gauge...

Well, I was just doing my weekly water change and cleaning my Euro Reef skimmer. Well, when I looked down the neck of the collection cup as I was bringing the thing to the bathroom I noticed I had about ten cap snails (stomatella varia) in the clean inner-neck part!! :eek: I couldn't believe...

I have a traditional glass heater in my QT. I just took it out and noticed some stuff floating around in it. Should I toss the thing? They are suppose to be sealed right?

Well, I just read a new article by Dr. Ron questioning the idea that Live Rock really does much bio filtering in our tanks (or as much as is commonly thought). I guess Dr. Ron and Eric Borneman will actually be examining several types of live rock to find out how much life actually is in these...

I am wondering if it is a bad idea to put two different MHs over the same tank. With more than one MH I always see people getting the same in wattage. Is it a bad idea to get one 400w and one 250w or 175w (at the same K to avoid different colored water)? That way I could have some really...

Well, I just fed my emerald crab and I see that he has grown some feathers. About a month ago I had a real big explosion of those feather dusters that have the hard tube in a tiny little curl. Well, my emerald crab got a quite a few on his exoskeloton as well. He now has feathers!! It was so...

Well, I just opened and took my new PHosBan Reactor 150 out of the shipping box (man was that thing in there tight...I had to CUT the shipping box off of the box the reactor comes in). I thought I would pass some info about the thing on after reading the instructions and specs. Capacity: min...

Kip, This may be a bit of a dumb question, but I was wondering where you got you Alk/Ca balancing table? I find lots of info on were Alk and Ca should generally be kept, but nothing as precise as your table. I have foud it very helpful now that I keep track of my Ca and Alk as I prepare for my...

Has anybody used SeaChem water tests? I want to test my water for it's Mg level. I can't keep my Ca or Alk levels up and I really don't have anything beyond Coraline algae to absorb it. Plus, I think it is preciping out...aka a dust storm in my tank. I was able to initially raise my Ca very...

Ok, I recently posted this pic of 40 gallon tank that I took with a disposable 35 mm camera...not very good. I just borrowed my dads camera to see what I could do with it. It is a Minolta 3xi with a standard zoom xi lense and a telephoto (Macro?? I guess it says that on the lens) lense. It...

All right this is a horrible picture taken with a disposable 35 mm camera, but it is the first to ever document the existence of my tank...so I thought I would put it up. This is a 40 gallon breeder with... 60 lbs. of live rock 90 lbs. of live sand 32 gallon sump/fuge csl 192w light hood...

I just read an article from Advanced Aquarist about the possible idea of dosing Iron. The main interest to me is that it talks about dosing Iron to allow the Macro algae to "out compete" the micro algae for nutrients. I have a small sump/fuge that has a bit of chaetomorpha in it, but A LOT of...

I currently have PC lighting and am looking into getting MH some time in the future. I was thinking of a system of 2 175w Mh and 2 96w Actinic 03 PC (PC because I already have those). In my tank it is 13 inches to sand bottom. Would this be enough? Should I go with 2 250w or would that be...

Did I screw-up? I went out and got some B-ionic a while ago after measuring my alk (which was all right at 3.6 meq/l) but with Ca at only 290. So, I proceeded to only add the B part (Ca) and have done that for a few weeks. I am now at 3.66 meq/l Alk and 430 Ca. What worries me is that the guy...

I currently have a 40 gallon breeder tank with a 32 gallon sump/fuge. The refugium currenlty only occupies about a square foot of space in the sump (which is a tall tank). I was thinking of converting the current sump into a sump only (which would give a lot of space for evaportation (meaning...

Does anybody use Selcon regularly around here? I just purchased the stuff and have used it to soak my food in for 3 feedings. I just noticed that I think it really kills the foam my skimmer is trying to make. I feed about two hours ago and there still isn't any foam in my skimmer. I have a...

Anybody who has power compacts with Ultra Actinic lightbulbs by CustomSeaLife NEEDS to switch to true actinic 03!!! I read from other posts that there is a difference and that CustomSeaLife lies when it says they are the same. I just got around to switching (put the bulb in a few minutes ago)...

I was wondering about what would be a good selection of fish for my 40 gallon breeder tank? It has been up and running for about 6 months now and is still decent. I just added a sump (to accommodate a new Euro Reef skimmer and a refugium (for some Chaetomorpha macro and a good deep sand bed)...

All right. It isn’t the end of the world as the sump is still not putting any bubbles in my tank, but I have to fix them before I can start putting anything in the fuge part of the sump. I was wondering about reinforcing them. Currently I have 1/8th inch acrylic baffles in an old aquarium that...