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Sorry, technically they're all restaurants anyway.

Once in a while my cat does scratch the acrilyc a little bit. But it's easy to buff the scratches out. The nose prints and paw prints are more annoying.

I'm interested. Also I'd be glad to host the meet at my place. I'm just off the Harlem exit of 290. Additionally there's a couple of bar's and restaurants nearby. Here's my e-mail. atodnem@earthlink.net

You can purchase a scoop of live sand from an lfs. Or you could buy a rock with some zoo's or shrooms on it. Also there are places online that sell pods. Google detrivor kit.

It's not essential, but it's still a good idea to use one. If you don't you should be real careful about your bioload. Also, you'd need to be religous with your water changes.

Congratulations j21kickster.

Why do you want to get rid of them?

Fighting.

Wouldn't DI water have a pH of 7? (H2O stripped of all its H ions would be Oxygen). So even adding that would raise his pH a little.

Where did you get your avatar?

I think it's actually a rhodactis (Hairy mushroom). You can feed it if you want, but they spread and grow pretty fast on their own.

Here you go Lefty. This is a 29 gallon with 22lbs of rock and 35 pounds of sand.

Those are beautiful pictures. Great job.

IMO, and others, there's a couple of problems with long term use of carbon. It might work too good and remove some desirable trace elements and nutrients. Also, eventually, it needs to be replaced and or cleaned. The charcoal has such a high surface area that a lot of the beneficial...

Those are all great looking tanks. But my favorite has always been j21kickster's tank.

Generally, in a reef tank you don't want to use a sponge or any other type of filter material. You want the bacteria to grow on the rocks and sand. I do run carbon once a week, but only for a couple of hours. Other people run it 24/7. But you need to be careful when doing it that way.

fyi cyanobacteria does not need nitrates or nitrites. So those measurements are irrelevant regarding a cyano problem.

Are you using live rock and sand in your tank?

Looks like a tunicate to me.

What is wrong with distilled water? If it's done properly wouldn't it be as close to pure h2o as one could get. Why is ro/di better?