Recent content by Taruk

I believe that if you place sand over a CC bed, the CC will eventually migrate to the top and your back to square 1.

Quick, kill it while you have time! 8O Seriously, it looks nice. They are very entertaining to watch IMO. I have some myself, but beware, they grow like weeds.

Make that 3 for (2) 03 actinics and (2) 50/50's.

Yep that looks like what I have. Glad to hear they aren't pests, because I can't imagine how to remove those guys without a total tank tear down. Thanks for the replies.

nope, just an engineer. :D

length (in) x width (in) x height (in) ----------------------------------------- = gallons 231 or length (ft) x width (ft) x height (ft) x 7.48 = gallons 231 cubic inches/gallon or 7.48 gallons/cubic foot

I don't have a picture, but I will try and describe it. I have some critters that hang out in my LR and send out long, clear, stringy tentacles. These tentacles collect sand grains to build tube-like structures. I haven't actually seen one, just the tentacles. I have a couple of books on...

So, I was using tap water for top off. However, last week I had the algae bloom from hell and decided that I need to do something. I can't fork out for an RO/DI unit at the moment. So in comes Plan B: buy RO water from the store. I found some for $0.50/gal. OK, this will work until I can...

Berlin Classic is so so. From what I see on the boards, it doesn't do as good a job as other, but it does alright for now until I can buy a better one.

OK, so I have my first mushroom rock (had it about 2 weeks now). It has 12 mushrooms and the larger ones kind of cover part of the small growing ones. I am thinking that maybe I should relocate the larger ones to another rock to allow the smaller ones room to grow. How do you separate and...

I know I was trying to quite mine for weeks until I found a post here on how to fix it. I am glad that I could help a fellow reefer.

If you have a reef ready, check out Durso's solution http://www.rl180reef.com/frames.htm Look at the standpipe link. If you have a HOB, the U-tube type, check out this solution: http://home.att.net/~rstockman/overflow.htm I have a HOB type, and the latter works like a charm. Also, if you...

Hey fish, I have a Berlin Classic also. I was driving it with a Mag 7 and switched that to a Mag 9.5. I still do not get very much foam production, except when I use some stresscoat as spawn mentioned. Then it goes nuts bubbling up foam. I was also wondering if there was something wrong...

No corals yet. Going to be switching from CC substrate to a DSB this weekend, so will be redoing tank layout. Hence no pictures available atm. Just trying to get ideas on where to place them when I redo it. What I was wondering about is: do you try to get a circular counter-clockwise (or...

I live in New York. HD stocks Southdown only in stores in the NE.