Recent content by flounderer

Check out this link http://www.uncw.edu/nurc/research/spotlight_on.htm I work on a dive boat on weekends and unfortunatly we are seeing these guys with increasing frequency on our offshore dives. Local divers are telling others to kill them on site because there possible impact on local...

I just put a new 250 w MH over my 29g (switched fron NO flo.) and 3 of my 7 snails found nice high points on the LR and started blowin' out sperm. I'm not talking a few minute thing, they sat there for 4 hrs, siphon held high and started to smoke. My whole tank turned into a vat of milk. I'm...

They sell plastic shims used for leveling toilets at Home Depot. They are short and stubby but can probably do the job.

They sell plastic shims used for leveling toilets at Home Depot. They are short and stubby but can probably do the job.

I'll be there for Aquaculture 2004. Do you know if one registration allows attendace of both conferences? They seem pretty closely linked.

Got ya. From what I've been reading and researching there is no one answer to lighting quesitons. I'm poor so I'll probably end up with the 250 mogul and no food for a few weeks. Thanks for the responce. Pat

I'm going to buy a new MH light set up soon (if The Man does not take all my tax's and I get a return) and my question is: I've got a 29 g I'm considering either a 250 w of a 150 HQI. I've read all over this board that the 250 HQI is close in output to the 400 w. Does the same hold true with...

I haven't looked in two or so years, so that would be news to me. They had a great heat pump but a lousy business so it wouldn't suprise me.

I've worked with Aqualogic (San Diego CA) chillers and heat pumps ranging from 1-4 hp and everywhere in between. The new temp controller that comes with it keeps the temp within 1 C. All of mine are outside and during the summer chill the water down 15 C below ambient so they definetly get the...

I would by a larger aquarium fill it full of money, burn it, smash it, urinate on it, then smile. It would probably cost less and be prettier than my hair algae and cyano display tank now, but I love my ugly money pit.

The most practical way to remove CO2 in an aquarium is to add vigerous aeration to strip it out. Water can hold several thousnd times more CO2 than air so CO2 will diffuse from a high concentration (water) to the low concentration (air) and will slowly reach equalibrium. High dissolved CO2...

Marine Biologist

I'm two months in on a new tank and my rock looked about the same as your pics, a nice coating of short hair algae. A few days ago I added 4 snails and 3 hermits (in a 29g w/35lb rock) and they knocked out the problem pretty quickly and are staying on top of it for now. Now the cyano is...

My live rock (35 lb Lalo) cured in my new tank about a month ago. I'm going thru the typical algae cycles now, which the clean up crew is handling nicely. The rock looks "dead" with respects to inverts. When can I expect to start to see all the random growth of worms, copepods, etc.... The...

hdtran thanks for the encouragement with the lights and the additive info. I've done the reef thing before with the same lights and had wonderful results. I've just never done the DSB and didn't want to screw it up before I really even started. As for the water quality test kit I have access...