Recent content by lesbill

Thanks, It turned out great. I sanded and coated it with polycrylic Sunday and put everything together. Looks great. The reason I did the inside is exactly what luminary said...protection and cleaning.

"Shrimp"...right

PS If the seafood you're using smells bad enough to bother you I'd look for a different store as I wouldn't feed it to my fish either

I make food with a few pieces of fresh seafood from the local supermarket...a few shrimps, piece of fish, a little squid, etc. add some dry fish food, Kent Reef plus, zoe, chromaplex or whatever you feed your tank nowblend it up with a small food chopper that I purchased at Macy's for $10, I...

A friend just made a red oak hood for the 20 gallon tank I'm setting up while he was home on leave. I am putting a 250 Metal Halide with reflector in this hood and I'm curious of opinions as to whether or not Minwax Polycrylic (this is the water based stuff as opposed to the poly urethane), is...

If I had it to do over I'd have gotten rid of my Black Neon Goby (about 8"long) and a coral cat (about 5" long). I kept them 'cause I'd had them for so long and they always kept the crushed coral clean when I had the UGF. Now with a DSB it sure is clean but it gets landscaped constantly and...

Purchased my first metal halide retro today. It's a 250w setup and I borrowed a bulb from the store until I figure out what I want to run. I'm leaning toward the 10k venture as I will not be using supplemental light. This is going on a 20 gallon tank so there's not enough room for...

'Kay first...this post seems lost in political directions from which it did not begin...I have confidence in Bush and his policies thus far and couldn't stand the morale decapitation of the presidency by Clinton so I guess I'm kinda biased... As for the actual topic of this post I...

B-ionic from ESV is what I use in my wife's 7 Gal bowfront at her office. I send in children's medicine syringes 2 or 3 times a week and test her water. It has been staying around 480 on calcium unless I skip a week and it drops fast. KH was 120 this week when I tested it.

A similiar thing happened with the pump that came with my CPR Backpack about 1 year after I started using it. I cleaned it out real well (so I thought) and it started working so, so. A few months later I took it apart and dug out all little pieces I could get to with the end of a paper clip...