Recent content by qwit10

Thanks for the replies. I have found one source in Maine that supplies research specimens- www.gulfofme.com. I had found a supplier a while back in northern CA, but I haven't been able to find it again on any search engines. They were located somewhere around Monterey.

Hey, Does anybody out there have a temperate marine tank? If so, I am interested in setting one up and need to find a source for livestock. Any info would be appreciated.

I agree with the www.reeftopia.com suggestion. They have some great (if not best) deals on the Atlantic critters. You'll have to go somewhere else to get big mexican turbos and other things like that. I like dealing with the people at www.PetSolutions.com. There are lots of vendors out there...

I have removed the scratches with one of the kits you can buy. It is really just a process of sanding them out with progressively finer sandpaper (really fine). You can do it when there is still water in the tank as i believe the particles that are sanded off are inert. I would defintely perform...

Thanks for the reply. I put the layer of bioballs below the cc to prevent it from falling through. It's kind of a screen effect more so than for the bio filtration. I put the cc in the sump because I figured that it would be much more porous and therefore have a much larger area in which...

Just for clarification, I have about fifty pounds of Gulf-View live sand in the display tank. The sand is great! I have some olive snails as well that live in it and stir it around. My sump has one layer of bioballs covered with about five inches of crushed coral. Do you think nitrates are...

I put the yellow tang in in hopes he would help reduce algae. The Kole and him seem to have different enough shapes that they are not being aggressive. I have a 100 gal fish only tank if they begin fighting. I have been trying to mechanically filter out as much detritus prior to it hitting the...

My experience is that check valves are another piece of equipment that can fail. I had my sump overflow because the ball inside the valve accumulated a small amount of algae. The algae made it not seat properly and water was slowly siphoned into the sump. I think it is best to set your return so...

Sorry for laggin' on getting back to you all. The tank has been set up in it's current configuration for about sixteen months. I am running a turboflotor skimmer with a wet-dry and crushed coral as a medium. I have fifty pounds of carribean live sand and about eighty or so pounds of mixed live...

Sorry for laggin' on getting back to you all. The tank has been set up in it's current configuration for about sixteen months. I am running a turboflotor skimmer with a wet-dry and crushed coral as a medium. I have fifty pounds of carribean live sand and about eighty or so pounds of mixed live...

I am having the worst possible time with green hair algae. I have been phosphate sponging, polyfiltering and trying hair algae remover. My water parameters are all great. Whatever nitrogen compounds I have are barely showing up when I test. I think they must be locked up by the algae. It seems...

Thanks for the reply. I thought it may be from residual transport stress as well. As far as starvation goes, I would think that they have an abundance of algae to eat. My tank has been set up for about fourteen months now. I am currently on the winning side with a hair algae bloom that started...

I have been losing snails in my reef for some inexplicable reason. My water quality has been fine. Today my ammonia and nitrite reading were higher than normal. Ammonia has risen to 0.05 mg/l and nitrite has risen to 0.02 mg/l. I think that is due to some decaying snails that the hermits don't...

I have tried Linkias on three different occasions. All unsuccessful! Two of those times they suffered from the same affliction that you are writing about. It seems as if that is the beginning of the end. The ends of the rays start to rot away and eventually they end up expelling their guts. I...

I got a few new maxima clams. I had to put them in a 55 that contains a lunar wrasse overnight. I had to break down my reef today and move it to a new stand. Anyhow, I awoke to find one of the clams on it's side and I caught the wrasse biting at it's foot. Now he is retracted his foot in his...