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The Large one is the female the smaller the male. Yes it is a courtship dance. You may see them biting/cleaning rocks creating a nesting site where they will/may lay the eggs. The female may move up and down in the water column very fast and other very strange behaviour. A good sign that...

I've done that. The tingle gets worse the more things you plug in just as the volt meter shows. It is not a single piece of equipment. A tank plug into the same circuit not even near my system has the same problem. When I unplug things on my system the tingle decrease in a totally different...

Thanks for the info, I'll have to look up the principle of induction. So is a grounding probe the answer? FB

It was felt on a small cut on my finger and only that finger. Red in the water Black grounded to the earth. I get no voltage with both probes in the water like I did when my pump went. FB

The sump sits on the concrete floor and has a Octopus 200 skimmer which I got last week. It has a Mag 9.5 return pump and 3 300W marineland glass heaters. Anyway starting a couple of days ago when I stuck my hand in the tank I could feel a tingleing in my fingers. Having felt this before on my...

Here is a pic with the fish in the tank. The seoncd bulb has not been installed yet.

Very interesting findings http://www.advancedaquarist.com/2008/7/aafeature1

I recieved my shipment from JLAquatics on Monday night. The shipment included a 250W IceCap ballast, reflector and XM20K bulb. 2 Phosban reactors, 1 mj400, Carbon and opti-phos. I have since installed the 2nd light and the Phosban reactors. So the current setup is as follows. 2 X 250W MH...

My tank paramets were as follows two days ago. Temp 81.8 Salinity 1.024 PH 8.1-8.2 Alk 11.2 Cal ? PO4 < 0.03 Nitrate 5. I have to calcium test kit currently and when I got my order they were backordered. I am targeting an alk of 10. I started at 7.3 with the calcium reactors set at 1 CO2...

My overflow return to the sump was really loud as the water entered the sump. I had chosen a MAG 9.5 as my return pump and it may be a little much for my sump to handle. Here is a pic of the water flow. I went out and purchased another ball valve and put it on the return side to dial my...

I was not planning on moving the fish into the tank for another day but my blue tang's black stripe had turned almost white and was really stressing in the rubbermaid. I started to acclimate the fish and finally moved them to the new tank. The tangs stripe turned back to black in almost 15...

Once the tank was almost full I added several heaters, 2 Koralia 4's and 1 Seio 620, to help get the temp up. My 30 gallon tank inhabitants awiting transfer to the new tank. Here is a pic of my Calcium Reactor setup. I had orginally bought the 500 gallon CR at Big Als Tent sale which they...

I setup my tank last weekend here are some pics of the build. After being shocked twice with my old tank and never being able to reach the plug I took this opportunity to put in a GFCI :D We had to take the back board off the stand to get the sump under the tank Here is the tank on the...

I cover the sides of the tank with cardboard as they can be attracted to light, then I put Phyto in the tank to make the water green. This helps keep them off the sides of the tank and in the water column to search for food. FB