Recent content by jsteinman

Ok, this will seem odd, cause it did to me. I was just looking in my tank and say my Mandarin's belly is HUGE! It was originally paired with another, but he passed about 6 months ago. Is it possible that she is pregnant? Could some other fish in the tank have accosted her and reproduced with...

ASctually on Delta I have taken several trips to FL and had small styro boxed corals and taken them through Xray. They survived fine. But then again I could imagine the hassle I would have to go through now a days, not to mention the prolonged exposure tehy would recieve from Security running...

Just for clarification... Linking the two chains together is more of a bridge between the two pully systems. It makes it easy to use one hand to pull down on the bridged chain and then hook it underneith the pot holder attached to the wall. This raises and lowers the fixture evenly.

Is it a vaulted ceiling, thus creating the inablility to hang it? If so I have a work around. I hung my Hamiltons from a vaulted ceiling using some small black chain and a couple of pully's that I spray painted black. I bought these at Home Depot and I think my total cost was $15. Basically you...

I've read this post thread with interest. If I may contibute something. If you can regulate licensing with AIR. Then why not with SALT. No salt, no tank, no sale! So we legislate the regulation of salt sales and tie licensing to it. If you mess up and recieve multiple violations, you lose you...

Sorry. I now noticed the "refugium" and though it was a new micro-reef. My bad. Is it lighted? Are the bubls old. I noticed after I replaced my PC's on my sump, things got better.

Do a complete water change with salt and RO/DI or filtered water from the store. Siphon out as much of the algea during the water change as you can. Are you adding additives? Stop. Do you have fish? How manya nd what is your feeding like. Feed light. With a tank that small it is necessary to do...

I used 45 gallon tuft garbage cans. Pun the sand and LR in one. I then got a $61 power converter from Home Depot and pugged it into my lighter plug and hooked up a powerhead in the trash can. Cut a hole in the lid and then run the powerhead through it. This should reduce the possibility of...

John, I ran the same setup on my 90 for about a year. You may want to check you Phosphate Levels with a Salifert kit. What type of Caulerpa are you using and how long has the tank been established? Some forms of Caulerpa can cause problems. Are you using RO/DI top off water? Have you checked...

Jason, Thank you for the acknowledgement and I have to agree with Tangirl. I should never have brought this up on a message forum. I was fustrated adn wanted to see if anyone else had run into the same thing that day and it kinda grew out of proportion from there. I tried calling on Monday, but...

Thanks Dan. The ride there was actually fun, but the moment she realized we could have been doing something else together as a family and not sitting in a car for a long drive, she was upset. It doens't help that she is 7 months pregnant either. I will definately wait until after the baby is...

Try running some Activated Carbon and of course the unsaid siphon/water changes. Do you have a sump? What size? Do massive activated carbon, don't get the cheap kind and buy a good amount of it. Then change it every 72 hours. Make sure it is in a high waterflow area, preferable in your sump by...

I had mine for about two years. He's name is Austin Powers, cause he looks so psychedelic. I put him in about 3 months after setting up the tank. I was running a Ecosystem Sump for a long time that had plenty for him to eats. He still seems to be ok, now that I am using a useless built in sump...

Dont' know if this will help, but I had my Alk inthe 18-19's and did one half gallon with 15 ml of 5% Vinegar and the next day it was down quite a bit. It may be work a try. On another note: How do you fit all that light into your tank? I am currently running 8x 96 w PC's and am going to...

Also for those advocating calling first... It takes two and half hours to drive there, if I'm not slowed down by traffic or weather. If they open at 12:00 pm (not central as their site says, but EST) then how would I get there in time to actually buy anything, if I hit I'm slowed down on the...