Recent content by yonkers1

im a sercher pratt i know from experience some hard corals such as montipora capricanis don,like strong light ,hopeing someone has found others.fellow reefers vin singapoe and south africa did try to help.guess i,ll have to go it alone,as usual. try to learn from others,but no luck.thank you...

how i don,t run a rref imbarrie,i donot run my reeftanks, mother nature does.she has had 4.3 billoin yrs of treil and error to leard how to run a small tidal pool or the pacific ocean.my 60 odd yrs is nothing compared to that.so i let the expert run my reeftanks.i am just the enabler,i add...

thy for the luck quote

i am ahead of the science curve,i know of no one who can teach you how to cultivat barnicals,sea pansysor med. fire coral.some one has to pioneer.give me some time and i can at least tell you what not to do.

josh,you keep a reeftank becuse of the pioneering work of robert warington.he killed many fish and inverts developing it.if you want to save fish and inverts leave them in the ocean-take up photography or stamps.

really thanks for the advise.i am well aware of mr lees work,i read it in 1961.i follow robert warington balanced aquarium more.he developed it in 1849,published in1850 or anna thyms,who in 1846 kepy corals and seaweeds alive for three yrs.i do use jubards deep bed,and by placeing low light...

test the limits imbarrie,i never ment to infer anyone should do what i do.but i want to teast the limits in my tank.who said we have to stack rubble from the ocean(live rock)then put corals on it to hide the ugly things.mr lee chi ing said to use live rock,but not how much to use,the sailsmen...

how to imbarrie how do i start a reef thred?im 68 and not good on computers.

thy for the well wishes guys.in just over a year you could visit once and check out my minimal reef.dre i did not say i used no macines in the other reef.i did use powerheads, heaters,some macines are useful.my tank has arrived.two limestone blocks 20"longx14" highx3 quarters wide have been paid...

edison good invention is 1 percent insperation 99 persent persperation josh thats exactly what freind said when i turned off my skimmer.what do you think they did before robert waringtons tests to develope his balanced aquarium system.people just killed fish and inverts.didn,t you ever wonder...

my apologies folks,i guess you don,t agree with what im going to do--ok,different strokes---i just want to test the limits. from an earlier tank i i know that i don,t need to run the reef,mother nature can do a better job then i can. i know i don,t need sewage pumps(wet dries) skimmers etc,now i...

thy folks

thy lenny as i stated i know how to keep a reeftank with halon lighting question is can i do it with bright flourecent lights.i know it sound impossable,but as the seabees say the diffecult we do right away--the impossable takes a little longer.hope i never reach the point where im so know it...

so lenny can you answer my simple question?

differanc of opion thanks for trying but i don,t need excess macines to keep a reef.you do need them for fishtanks--not reefs.i ran a reef for 17 yrs,no wet dries(sewage pumps)skimmers etc. .i am also old enought to remember older techniques for keeping tanks.some cnilarias like...