Recent content by mattf0124

the top of the doser is going to be sealed, but it still wouldnt be good if it got knocked off, thanks for the warning

thanks, I'm planning on cleaning the valve with every refill, though it'll probably end up every other,or every other other, I figure this will be a cheap easy solution, I'm also hoping that the bucket on the canopy will keep the damn cat off the canopy. I'm only going to fill it half way, and...

It seems to be doing fine, doesnt like to come out with all the lights on though, when its just the actinics he's all over the place, I've seen him picking on the rock, and he's eaten some baby brine quite readily, I've never kept one of these, I'm not fond of wrasses in the reef as I was once...

I'm going to make a 5 gallon gravity fed doser from an instant ocean bucket with the twist top, it should work just like the kent aquadose, only a whole lot cheaper.I lose roughly a gallon a day on a 65 high no sump, I do know enough not to make the rate faster than my evap rate, but what is...

in a foam box, I'd say it was out of the water for no more than 20 minutes, too bad it wasnt a carpenters, I've been planning on getting one of those

thats the one, I have a canopy and have a strip of window screen about 3" wide across the exposed back

I recently bought some live rock from a friend that was breaking down their tank, I've had it for a few weeks, and just this morning noticed that I'm an unsuspecting owner of a a small, 1&1/2" yellow wrasse, it seems to only come out when the actinics are on, and stays hidden when the halide...

Well, most of the corals died from the overheating, about two weeks ago I placed a healthy frag of zoos in the infested area, now its a frag of feather dusters, and the zoos are just a solid mass,like a pice of stepped on chewing gum, except for 3 or 4 polyps that arent covered with the worms...

They are there as stated in my first post due to a massive tank disaster resulting in about a 90% loss, then several months of neglect, as I was thinking about just tearing it down. I literally had to scrape off solid sheets(only three, the front was one sheet,and the two sides) of 3" thick hair...

they too dense, and it looks tacky to me, and I would end up having to mount sps dircectly in the midst of them, wich I really dont want to do. Also they arent completely harmless, they've choked out two zooanthid colonies so far and overtook a small frag of montipora

they also eat just about everything else too, I'm looking for something a little more reef safer

I've had good luck with xms, another thing you might consider is your ballast, a friend of mine was having your problem, all of his bulbs either started yellow, or changed within days. I gave him an old xm 15k, that burned a nice bluish white for me, it was yellow in his rig, I put it back in...

think I need to get into the fire place biz

During the summer my ac went out for about a week while I was out of town, and I'm sure everyone here knows what I came home to, its was about a 90% loss, out of frustration I just let it be for several months , topped off the water and that was it, I'm getting it back on track now and slowly...

For the past several weeks, I've been having terrible algae problems,couldnt shake it,the other day a friend of mine was giving me a buch of his stuff cause he's moving, and he had a screwed up twister, the scraping pad was partially removed,and there's a big hunk of metal behind it,took my...