Interesting article from today's NY Times: http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/05/a-tale-of-two-flagella/?hp

can someone explain to me what actinic light does or does it do anything other than light up the tank. How do i get the neon colors in my tank pop are there different moon lights that do that or are there different actinic lights that do that??? I know this may seem dumb but i really do not...

Coralife 36 Inch Aqualight W/ 2-96W Sq. Pin Base And 2-3/4W Lunar Blue-Moon-Glow LED Lamps Lunar Aqualight Deluxe Series - Double Linear Strip 96 watt 10,000K and 96 watt True Actinic 03 Blue square pin base compact fluorescent lamps Two 3/4 watt Lunar...

http://www.drsfostersmith.com/Product/Prod_Display.cfm?pcatid=3865 or http://www.drsfostersmith.com/Product/Prod_Display.cfm?pcatid=13976 The 12 gallon one or http://www.drsfostersmith.com/Product/Prod_Display.cfm?pcatid=10677 12 gallon with regular canopy or what ever? Which would be the best...

hello, as stated before i am new to salt tanks and am trying to sort out a proper feeding schedule to keep everyone growning, and to keep the tank from becoming polluted. in my fresh water tanks i throw a couple pellets in there about 2 times a day and my oscars gulp them down, after 5...

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looking for input and advice on running a wet/dry filter with my reef tank and live rock. if not what should i do to filter my tank????

So I will have guests basically all day on Christmas day. Of course I want to show off my tanks. I run 7 hours on the SPS tank w/ 2x250w MH and 9 hours on the softie tank with 130w PC. Will running them for 12 hours or so (10:00am to 10:00 pm) for one day cause any problems?

Well I thought I would ask all of you before contacting the company or returning the skimmer (Aqua C ev120). I just can’t get any skim mate out of it. What I do get seems really dry almost like smelly chunky syrup. I have had it about a month, and have tried everything I could think of, then...

AS some of you know, im in the process of setting up a highly advanced Filter Feeding Non-Photosynthetic tank. but i have set it back due to the lack of interest by fellow reefers world-wide. & i started thinking..if i were to put ...2 thousand into a system, spend hundereds on foods &...

As of today at 3pm I am now the supervisor for fish dry good at the biggest pet store in the country That Fish Place. Well I think it is the biggest I have not ever seen one close. Anyway I needed a job to fill my day after my classes are over at 1pm. So I talked to Harry the GM of That Fish...

I have been buying marine snow from a certain LFS for 6 months now & its been excellent, but i recently started buying it else where, & it is horrible ! they said they just got it in last week & i treated it as i always did, but its clumped up & looks like giant blobs of green snot !! what...

How to reduce flow in the big canister filter, change the impeller for the one from the lesser flow model, or cut the blades? Guessing here. I have Fluval 404, 340gph of the really high flow, more, than Seio's 600 gph, was used on 90g FOWLR. Now toying with an idea to make the nano...

The question (tough or moronic - for you to decide ;) ): Given the 5-6g tank with non-photosynthetic corals (babies Scleronephthya, chilis, gorgonians: Diodogorgia, Siphonogorgia, Swiftia kofoidi, Anthogorgia, Guaiagorgia, and babies Tubastrea). Available feeding (and the Golden Pearls people...

I thought i was getting rid of them, but there back :mad: i do not want to dose flatworm-exit into the main system. & my LFS is having probs getting a wrasse fish, is there anything else i can do to rid these things, i was thinking some kind of dip, that would not hurt the coral, & not have to...

I need to build a database of all known filter-feeding Non-photosynthetic corals, so that i can begin a personal library for my study & research on these corals, there dosent seem to be much in any books or reef communitys so i want to build my own databank, if anyone can help with...

Is sun coral and dendros arent the same are they? I know they look generaly the same, but I think there different. Especially when you can buy a colony of 20 polyps of sun coral for about $40 and one polyp of dendro is usualy around $40 or so.

Hello, I’m considering getting back into Salt Water tanks after about a 20 year break so I’d like a bit of advice to get myself off on the right foot. I plan to setup a 90 Gallon tank (48”L x 18”W x 24”H) as a reef tank. It seems like there has been quite a few changes since I was in to...

I am finally getting on top of a hair algae outbreak. Got a new cleanup crew and cut fish feeding in half. Remaining question is whether coral foods such as Microvert encourage the algae? I also have a tuxedo urchin that I think keeps eating the cleanup crew. Should it go back to the LFS?

i want to set up my 10g hexagon tank for raising a colony of chili coral...no lighting..will be using rock, some sand...& 10 gallons of water from my current system...will this cause a fast cycle ? how should my filtration be.?. & advice on water changes...i tried this tank as a nano before &...