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I need to figure out what is happening to my fish. I have kept a 30 gal cube with a 15 gallon sump for a couple of years now. I let the tank go a little over a year ago because of some changes in my life. I stopped adding anything and just left it with the Single Royal Gramma in there with...

Let me know how their customer service was? I didn't have such a great experience with them. http://www.reefs.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=90756&start=40

trido I took my salinity up to 1.025 today. DKH is about 8 (point something) today and Cal levels are still around 490. I thought a High DKH and High Cal level were good? I have seen Calcium reactors telling folks that it could keep DKH up around 11 8O So does my DKH need to be higher...

Thanks, Yeah, the clown has a Green BTA that is about 9 inches across, and he loves the thing. It's hard to get him to go anywhere else in the tank. I have never seen him in the Colt, but stranger things have happened. I am thinking since all of the softies are having the same problems, it...

I just got back from a trip yesterday and noticed that my Colt which usually is about 10" high and feathery, now looks like Cauliflower and is about 4 inches tall. All of the polyps are closed so tight, they are almost black. The trunk is all wrinkled and shriveled. I pumped about 2ml of DT's...

Why the heck would anyone buy a BlueRing octopus ?? I think some people get a kick out of owning something dangerous and forbidden.. Different strokes for different folks.

Is it illegal to collect inverts from Florida Waters? My wife's grandfather lives on the Banana River in Cocoa Beach, I went out and searched around the mangroves and found tons of stuff. Horseshoe Crabs, puffer fish, something that looks like a goat fish. Whelks and some type of algae...

Not yet. I am so slow getting things done this weekend. I have to leave on a business trip on Tuesday and will be back on Friday, so it may be a bit.

OK< so I took it apart to see how it works. I will post some pics later. Crabs are out. I would never want anything motile in there... so Crabs are out. I am thinking mushroom, or maybe a Majano anemone... I will charge ahead and we'll see what happens.

For Christmas I got one of these little tanks. It is sitting on my desk right now at work, and only has fresh water in it. The instructions suggested putting a drop of dish soap in there, but I have been mulling this idea over in my head, and didn't want to contaminate it with soap...

Well, I went to the LFS and they had a replacement impellar for my pump (believe it or not :D ) I will put it in tonight and we will find out if there is any change in noise. I am hoping for the best. It's a 5000 I am sure. I have the box still in my Tupperware tub-o-fish stuff. Maybe I have...

That would be awesome, except that the Quiet One family of pumps is not listed :cry: I used the Dolphin AM 1200 though sice it's specs are close. It came out 680 GPH. 9.6 head feet.

My skimmer is/was full of limpets. When they get too big I remove them and drop them into the tank. They usually live. I killed about 100 of them when I cleaned my skimmer during the tank switch. :( There was no way to get them out of the skimmer since it was such a tight squeeze.

Well, to be fair, I technically do not know how much total head feet I have between the tank and sump. I can guesstimate. Lets see... 1 foot of vertical flexible tube leading from pump to the outside of the sump. Then, it changes to PVC of the same ID for another foot. It then goes through a...

I need something that pushes about 1300 GPH and maxes out at 14 head feet The Eheim I tried was QUIET but was also much less flow than I need. As it turns out, i do not need any other pumps for flow, I get plenty of movement with just the return pump. It didn't look like much whn I was...