Recent content by RobertoVespucci

I cannot imagine building such a structure from plywood. You would all but need to reinforce every few inches with solid oak timbers . . . . Like 7e said, metal frame and fiber glass. Have you considered what this would do to the ground you'll set it on? You're likely to need a specially...

Nope, because I read before I buy. http://www.reefs.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=88859&highlight=mandarin http://www.reefs.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=90429&highlight=goniopora For starters.

Good. That way you can carpool them both back to the store, because those with both slowly starve to death and die in your tank. One month after setup is way too soon for either of those, and 54g is certainly too small for the fish. But, if you don't care about that, I hear they both make...

#1 Take it back. #2 Get a refund. Goniopora don't do so well in captivity. Most of the people that have had one grow (not just waste away over 2-3 years) are very experienced and admit to being quite lucky. Seriously, you've just bought an invertabrate mandarin. If you insist on...

I had good luck with my queen conch. It seemed to like it. I'm waiting for my LFS to get another.

These things are like a child's mobile, if you push on one part after a while other parts will move, too, but if you do it right there will be some balance. For the softies you have in there, that is enough. With a 6-8 hour photoperiod, you will see growth from year to year, but you shouldn't...

Is this some secret level of balance I've never heard of before, or a personal preference/compulsion?

I'm using the remora. I made my own surface preskimmer box. I think it rocks. I've not had the problems jmurri has. I have heard something similar about their larger skimmers. In that case, I would simply stop up the "optional fitting" and when the skimmer cup fills it will drain back into...

A guy in my reefclub has one on a 125. He loves it. His tank looks good.

I think it depends on how the pump is constructed. The impeller type do well with a little backpressure since they can slip.

Seagrass and one of those box wavemakers. Add a mangrove, a couple pipefish, cleanup crew, and some feeder rotifers and mysids. You know you want to do it now.

There is a reef club in arkansas. I wanted to add it to the list, but the email is dead. The website is http://www.razorbackreef.com

I'll trade my sister for a frag.

I find the energy figure they give suspect. Maybe we can pry Sanjay away from his new setup (yeah right) to do a quick watts in vs lumens out.

You'll have to pay for electricity for the LED fixture, too. You can't really figure that in on the savings side. And aside from a couple white LEDs that got invented in the last year or so which I highly doubt have made it to appliances, metal halides produce more lumens per watt at the...