Recent content by morg59

I second the maxijets .. I have a set that have run for over 10 years

Does anyone have a link somewhere that can show me the ricipe for mixing up my water. Currently I am ploping in a heater and once my RO/DI water reaches the temperature of my tank I start adding salt and powerhead and adjusting it slowly to where my tank is. Isnt there some recipe for example 3...

I have a pistol shrimp that has been sharing bunks with a yellow watchman goby for over a year. The goby really does watch out for the shrimp and seems to try to protect it. My shrimp however has obsessive compulsive tunneling disorder. Each day I watch the shrimp work relentlessly to build...

is that a 75 gallon tank? and what do you have for lighting?

How does the auto temp calibration feature work? I have always used a hydrometer and wanna upgrade.

I want to buy a refractometer and found 2 of them online and was wondering what one is the better unit. Contestant number 1 is the captive purity refractometer that marine depot has for sale. Contestant number 2 is the Premium Aquatics Refractometer that they sell on their web site. The...

What are the advantages of putting the skimmer before the fuge?

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I am going to build a new home and the plans have the master suite and the family room sharing a wall. I came up with this idea to have a tank in each room but plumb them together. Here are my plans for 2 75 gallon tanks in 2 different rooms using one sump and one pump. Please give me your...

I have had that webbing thing happen in my tank from time to time also. It seems to come out of a few small holes in my live rock.

The green hair seems to build up on only 2 pieces of live rock in the thank over the course of a month. At that point I usually remove the rock and squirt it off real quick in the back yard to remove the algae buildup then place it back in the reef. It only grows on these 2 pieces and never...

This is actually the setup I am currently running. I have had it setup for a year and a half. I have had the bio balls in there for years and never washed them. For lighting I have 4 110W VHO Flourescents and 2 40W normal output actinic. I am currently keeping frogspawn, various polyps, devils...

Here is a drawing of my setup. Anyone have any comments or suggestions on how I could do something better or different? Examples are am I ok having the bio balls in there? In the overflow I have them in there to quiet it down. The tank is a 75 gallon tank and the sump is a 35 gallon tank that...

I already tried doing a search and could not find any info... Anyone have any idea of what I should use in the search field to get the results I need?

This year has been a bad one for spiders and other insects entering my house. My wife is at the end of her rope so I need to have someone come and spray or something. Is there anything that I need to consider or be aware of before I have this done? I dont want any harm to come to my little...