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Title: Trio Living As One Main Picture: Rose BTA & Mated Maroon Clowns Background Items: Frogspawn, Mushrooms and Long Polyp Leather Coral, all on Fiji Live Rock Location: 75gl Reef Tank Photo Equip: Sony Cyber-Shot DSC Photographer: Evan Spiegel

On my first tank I had a small skimmer that was powered by a RIO 600. It would slowly start performing worse and worse. The problem was simple to correct with regular maintenance -- The Rio for skimmer use has two black rubber air hoses. One is the long one that hangs outside the tank/sump to...

I created a shelf riser system for my LR in order to allow much increased circulation and no dead spots at all (plus less live rock needed) -- it has worked very well for me. Basically, I took a sheet of clear acrylic, about 2/3 the length of my tank and about 1/3 the depth (and cut it into 2...

I use both B-Ionic and Kalkwasser drip in my 75gl. For the kalkwasser, I keep a 2.5gl water bottle with the kalkwasser in my stand connected to a litermeter doser that runs 24/7. A litermeter can be set to drip a maximum overal amount in a 24hr period, besides being set for amount per minute...

Even if he refused to accept a late shipment, he should still be entitled to a full refund b/c he purchased the product under the terms and express statement to IPSF that he could ONLY ACCEPT THE PACKAGE ON SATURDAY. IPSF's position appears to be that the only way a refund would be given is...

Like I said above, the LR from Aquarium Arts was incredible. LR from certain on-line sources can be better than anything locally and for a better price. For example, Aquarium Arts guarentees that is is fully cured and can go into an established tank w/o issue. They pack it very well...

You cannot beat the quality of live rock from Aquarium Arts! http://www.aquariumarts.com Their live rock is guarenteed to be fully cured for a minimum of 30-60 days and can go into an established tank withou any ammonia spikes, etc. None of the junk and dying stuff that is straight from the...

One thing you may need to also consider - Are your MH's on an electronic ballast? If so, you may not be able to plug your MH's into a GFCI outlet. Anyone have this issue: After setting-up my new system recently, in which I have 2 175w MH's on an electronic ballast from Hamilton Lighting, I...

Sorry to hear about your flood. Aside from the flood and problem in the basement, you should be concerned even after the weather warms and you place the hose back into your flowerbed -- I'm no expert, but based on something that happened to a co-corker, that much water adding up week after week...

Thanks for the input, but a remote chiller is not an option for me (and for many people), which is why I am trying to get first-hand info from users of these various chillers as to noise level since it must be near the tank. Noise is all the really matters to me. Performance isn't much of an...

King Jason, I was interested in which LFS in Huntington Beach are stocks the Arctica chillers? I'm in Santa Monica, so if I cannot find anyplace closer to me, maybe I'd take a drive down there some Saturday to check the unit out. Do you (or anyone reading this thread) know of any So.Cal place...

I have also seen information on the Arctica chiller from JBJ Lighting and I am very interested (especially since it is much less espensive than the Teclima chiller), but the specs don't include sound dba level info, as with the Teclima chillers. The sales info only states "You will be amazed...

Anyone with experience on the sound/noise level of the Fritz Teclima series chillers (specifically the CA680 and CA240), which are advertised to be extremely quite (42 dba), please tell me about them. Also, if you have knowledge about how they compare versus other 1/5 to 1/3hp chillers on the...

I'm looking for info on people's experience on noise levels of various 1/4hp in-line chillers. I have a new 1/5hp Aquanetics Slimline that is extremely loud and not quite powerful enough for my system -- on to often for to long and working to hard to keep the temp down. When the chiller is on...