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Reefforbrains, it is "Inigo Montoya" and on that vein..."Mawwiage is what ings us hewe today..."

socal, If I had to cover all the affected areas with cloth, then I may as well dismantle it. The algae is just covering way too much. Skimmer is also working fine. Kelly, the bulbs are 175 watt, 10,000 k I believe with the 03 actinics. They are the same bulbs that were in previously, but I...

I replaced my metal halides and had a huge algae bloom. I took out many of the rocks and scrubbed off the algae with a toothbrush, but I could not remove it all (At least not without disassembling the WHOLE tank) So the algae came back as hairy as ever. I did try keeping the lights off for...

How about pseudanthias squamipinis? (Not positive about the spelling) You could get one male and two or three females. They are such beautiul fish.

Just had to update this. Just so happens that I was able to remove and replace the broken part. As soon as it was plugged in, it started foaming like crazy. So it DOES work, just make sure you are careful and don't break any parts. Debbie G

They're sort of like shrimp. I marinated them in vitamins before I gave them to my lion, so that helps the nutrional value of them too. Debbie G

I hate it. It started working the first few days. And never again. A very tiny but crucial piece broke. I could never get it fixed with any type of glues, tapes, etc. I tried. To order the part and put it back on would mean taking apart just about everything because it is all siliconed or...

Has anybody seen this? It is a tiny piece of equipment that resembles a sea swirl, but you simply attach it to the outlet of your powerhead instead of your return. It oscillates back and forth, but appears to have no outside power from electricity. Rather, the force of the water seems to make...

Okay, here's the outcome. The first rock that stayed in the fridge for 24 hours - all coralline algae gone, one aiptasia has come back. The second batch I put in the fridge for 36 hours, also lost all coralline algae but no aiptasias survived. All in all, I'd say that I would do this again to...

Weapon, Like Thang said, it probably has chemicals in it, so I'd be careful with that one. Thank you for all your comments. I now have 3 larger rocks in the fridge. I'll let you know if I get the same results. As far as the coralline on the one I returned to the tank...it still looks like...

I performed this 24 hour experiment on killing aiptasia and it worked! I had one particular rock that had several (maybe 20) aiptasia on it. I took the rock out, put it in a bowl with tank water just covering it and put the whole thing in the fridge for 24 hours. I just took it out and voila...

No, I haven't tried a credit card, mouse. I still wouldn't be able to reach the bottom. (I'm vertically-challenged :) ) Beth, I DO use a stool and still can't reach. (Why couldn't my mother have been a tall woman?) And dirtee, I suppose I waited too long for the mag float to work cause now...

Hey, just wondering if anyone has come up with a better idea for scraping algae near the bottom of tank. I have a bowfront so the conventional scraper, being flat edged only works when you can run the razor horizontal. Near thebottom of the tank, I can't reach down far enough to do that so now...

No, Antron. I'm the OTHER famous Debbie G :) How's this for a new one? The guy at my LFS said that one of his customers put a aiptasia-infested rock in a pot full of tank water and put it in the fridge overnight. The next day, all the aiptasias were on the bottom of the pot and all was well...

If I gave my live rock a freshwater dip, would it kill the coralline algae? I'd like to see if it would kill aiptasias that have taken over about 3 or 4 of my rocks. (I have about 300 lbs of rock, so I'm not worried about killing off too much life on 4 of the rocks) Thanks. Debbie G

I also have the problem of not having anyone to take care of pets if I go away. (Four dogs, a 175 gallon, a 55 gallon, and a bird). I'm just curious as to why you are not worried about topping off...does your tank not evaporate that much water? I have to put about 2 or 3 gallons of top off a...

Hey Melbourne, did you get your kit yet? I received the elbow that was missing. Got it together. Found out I didn't need to spend the extra money on the sumpless kit, but too bad for me because I already broke it. That little sucker got EXTREMELY HOT! So be careful when you get yours going...

The elbow was missing from the terminator itself. It appears very generic to me, but apparently, having threads on both ends is the unusual thing about it. At any rate, I emailed the company that makes it and they said they sent the elbow out to me. Hopefully I'll have it tomorrow. Can't...

Hmm, I do not think mine said anything about terminator "2". But I did get the sumpless kit. Now here's the problem...I went to all the stores I could think of to find that stinkin' elbow that was missing from the kit. No one has it! So yesterday evening I emailed the company that made the...

Hiya Melbourne, Thanks for the response. As you can see, no one had any info on it for a while so I went ahead and ordered it. I just got it yesterday. The instructions are absolutely horrible. Somehow I got it together though. They gave me a wrong elbow so I have to run over to Home Depot...